Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Simon Pegg, Vincent Tong, Aaron Harris, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Justina Machado, Sean Kenin DIRECTOR: John C. Donkin MUSIC: Batu Sener PRODUCTION: Bardel Entertainment, Walt Disney Pictures

Box Office Performance

Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

Franchise: The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild is part of the Ice Age Collection.

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Casting

Simon Pegg reprised his role as Buck from Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Ice Age: Collision Course, having been confirmed to when the film was announced. The rest of the principal characters were recast.

▸ Music & Score

Batu Sener composed the musical score. The soundtrack was released on January 28, 2022, by Hollywood Records and Walt Disney Records.

Sener's score was nominated for Public Choice Award at the 2022 edition of World Soundtrack Awards.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Summary: 1 win & 3 nominations total

Additional Recognition: Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Non-Theatrical Animation at the 2022 Golden Reel Awards.

CRITICAL RECEPTION

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 19% of 37 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of . The site's critical consensus reads, "Suffering from subpar animation and a dull story, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild is missing virtually all of the ingredients that made earlier installments enjoyable." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 30 out of 100 based on 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Courtney Howard of Variety gave the film a negative review, saying how the story's focus is on the major characters of the previous Ice Age films, rather than solely on the titular Buck. She also points out the problematic disability representation and how the animation is "akin to a late-stage pre-viz pass", ending the review saying that the film "should've remained on ice." Natalia Winkleman of The New York Times said that she was disappointed to see the film replace almost all of its celebrity voices and stated that of all the "sins" in the movie, the omission of Scrat was unforgivable. Laura Millar from The Michigan Daily wrote that she was somewhat disappointed in the cast change and the "elementary plot", but said that she was most upset that the film was not made for the same audience as the past Ice Age films. Johnny Loftus of Decider complimented Simon Pegg's performance, but said the world depicted across the movie appears empty and generic, and found the appearances of several characters uninteresting, writing, "The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild feels like a tangent, or perhaps a try-out pilot for a small screen Crash & Eddie ‘toon. What it doesn’t feel like is a feature film."

Jennifer Green of Common Sense Media rated the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote: "Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild [...] has frequent animated action involving perilous situations and some mild language.