There are no oak trees to be found in this movie, or indeed much of anything in the way of vegetation. My hope is that it survives long enough for evolution to produce oak trees, although don't get me started on which came first, the acorn or the oak. For that matter, even this acorn is never eaten just as well, because I for one would sorta miss it, after all it's been through. If it takes Scrat that long to secure one acorn, one wonders how many eons it took him to discover he liked to eat acorns in the first place. If this is the same acorn we first saw Scrat pursuing, it is a remarkable nut indeed, having survived a decade's wear and tear. This is no time to start putting the series to the test of realism.Ī pre-title sequence, which I vaguely recall appearing in an earlier film in the series, puts the blame for the continental breakup on Scrat the squirrel, who you will recall is obsessed with an acorn. Our planet's original great big single continent began to break up and drift apart into the modern continents a few hundred million years before any of these creatures evolved, but never mind.
This fourth installment in the ' Ice Age' series continues its hopeless confusion of geological time on Earth.
