| No Time for Nuts | |
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| Directed by | Chris Renaud Mike Thurmeier |
| Story by | Chris Renaud |
| Produced by | John C. Donkin Lori Forte |
| Starring | Chris Wedge |
| Edited by | James M. Palumbo |
| Music by | Christopher Ward |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 7 minutes (Original version) 12 minutes (4-D version) |
No Time for Nuts is a 2006 American animated short film fromBlue Sky Studios, starringScrat fromIce Age. Directed byChris Renaud andMike Thurmeier, it was debuted on November 21, 2006, on theDVD[1] andBlu-ray[2] release ofIce Age: The Meltdown. It followsScrat on a pursuit after hisacorn, which accidentally sends forward in time by a frozentime machine.No Time for Nuts was nominated for the2007Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and also won anAnnie Award.[3]
After the events of thesecond film and before the events of thethird film,Scrat is trying to find a place to hide his acorn after he got it back, but ends up digging up a buried time machine over an ice-encased skeletal body of a humantime traveler. The machine activates, stating the date that Scrat is in May 26, 20,000 B.C. While sniffing around the machine, he accidentally presses a button on it, and the machine powers up and then zaps the acorn. Scrat snarls and tries to beat up the time machine, but it zaps him too, sending him to theMiddle Ages, where he finds the acorn wedged under a large rock. Scrat seesExcalibur, the sword in the stone, and decides to use it to move the rock and get back his acorn. He pulls out the sword but then finds himself under attack by a group of off-screen archers, and uses the sword to block the arrows fired by the archers. He accidentally frees the acorn but gets his tail stuck in the process and takes it and the time machine and races off to find cover, only to hide in the barrel of a lit cannon. The cannon fires him into the path of hundreds of incoming arrows. The time machine zaps the acorn mid-flight and Scrat narrowly manages to activate the machine again for himself.
He materializes in theColiseum duringAncient Rome. Scrat reaches for his acorn, but is dragged off when his tail is caught by a passing horse-drawn chariot. Scrat tries to pull his tail off, and begins to enjoy the ride just as hiscrotch bashes against a rock. He then finds his acorn just as a fanfare sounds. He thinks it is victory music and introduces himself to the crowd like a triumphantgladiator, proudly holding up his acorn. Then he hears the growl of alion ortiger coming from the large tunnel behind him. He fires the time machine again before the big cat attacks him, and lands on anice field. He is overjoyed, thinking he is back home, but he soon sees theRMSTitanic appear out of nowhere, heading straight towards him; he is actually on April 14, 1912, A.D. and on the frozenNorth Atlantic, the time and location of the ship's sinking. Scrat gets pressed into the iceberg that sank theTitanic by the ship's bow, and the time machine zaps Scrat and the acorn as they fall from the iceberg, taking Scrat to the time ofthe first film, where he encounters his past self, and the two Scrats fight each other for the acorn (Manny, Sid, Diego and Roshan appear standing in the background watching the two fighting). The time machine is caught in the fight, and it zaps the acorn out of sight yet again, much to the distress of both past Scrat and present Scrat. Shortly after, present Scrat also gets zapped after past Scrat angrily kicks the machine.
Scrat is then sent into many dangerous places where he would have been killed if he had not activated the time machine in time; under a launchingSaturn V rocket during theSpace Race, in a dark, modern-dayjewelry store where he sets the alarms off when he mistakes a diamond for his acorn, in a girl's locker room in the present where he gets hit with a roller brush, aguillotine in theFrench Revolution, duringBenjamin Franklin's kite flyingexperiment, in the path of awrecking ball demolishing an old brick building, in front of theHiroshima bombing, in the path of an oncomingsteam locomotive in theWild West, and in front of the groin ofMichelangelo'sDavid (this does not threaten him, but he is rather embarrassed). Concerned, Scrat punches the machine, which sends him into a strange dimension of various timepieces. Scrat spots his acorn but briefly gets split into clones by a clock and grabs it just before being drawn into awormhole along with his acorn and the time machine.
Scrat awakens in front of an enormousoak tree. Overjoyed at the sight of so many acorns, he tosses away his own acorn, which lands on and almost causes the time machine to fire again, but not before Scrat pulverizes it. Scrat tries to remove the nuts from the tree, but is unable to and soon discovers that it is only a monument of some sort, with acommemorative plaque on it reading "Here Stood The Last Oak Tree"; Scrat is in the distant future, where oak trees, and thus, acorns, are extinct. He realizes that the acorn he brought with him is the only real one around. He makes a dash for it, but the time machine somehow fires one final time, transporting the acorn right out of his paws right before the time machine collapses into pieces. Stranded in the acorn-less future, Scrat lets out a scream of frustration, ending the film. The forever-lost acorn ends up floating behind the credits.
In 2015, an extended version of the short, featuring new extended footage with Scrat ending up in theMesozoic era, anAmerican Museum of Natural History in 2015 A.D., and then in the year 2552 A.D. was remade bySimEx-Iwerks into a4D film, titledIce Age: No Time For Nuts 4-D.[5] Since then, the film has been shown at theSan Diego Zoo, TheAdventuredome inLas Vegas, NV,Columbus Zoo and Aquarium inPowell, Ohio,[6]Kennywood in Pittsburgh,Detroit Zoo inMichigan,Alton Towers (2015 - 2016), theCentral Park Zoo inNew York City, and somewhere inFleetwood cinema[7] in the United Kingdom,Gardaland Park in Italy,Madame Tussauds Shanghai,Movie Park Germany,[8][9]Futuroscope in France,[10] and İstanbul in Turkey.[11] Also, the movie is being screened atMaritime Aquarium at Norwalk.[12]
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