Gone Nutty

Gone Nutty (also known as Scrat's Missing Adventure) is a 2002 American computer-animated short film directed by Carlos Saldanha for Blue Sky Studios. The short features the character Scrat from Ice Age, who is yet again having troubles with collecting his beloved acorns. It was released on November 26, 2002 on the Ice Age DVD and VHS.

Gone Nutty: Scrat's Missing Adventure
Film poster
Directed byCarlos Saldanha
Produced byJohn C. Donkin
Written byWilliam H. Frake III
Dan Shefelman
Moroni Taylor
StarringChris Wedge
Music byMichael A. Levine
Edited byTim Nordquist
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • November 26, 2002 (2002-11-26)
(VHS/DVD release)
Running time
4 minutes, 31 seconds
LanguageEnglish (Dialogue not language specific)

The film was nominated for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[1]

Plot

After the events of the first film and before getting frozen for 20,000 years, Scrat (Chris Wedge), after having found a new acorn, discovers a huge tree hollowed out and filled to the brim with acorns. There is one more empty spot in the middle of the acorns where Scrat tries to stuff the last acorn he brought with him (he first tries to put it in the same way he had done in the opening of the first film, but he seems to remember what would happen if he did, so he gently screws it in instead). However, it pops back out when his back is turned and after two more tries at getting it in place—both with the same result—Scrat gets frustrated and stomps it into place, unwittingly causing all the acorns to fall out of a hole in the tree. The avalanche of acorns sends Scrat sliding down the side of a mountain. The acorns and Scrat then go into free fall.

A short musical scene follows (to the tune of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Waltz), with Scrat collecting acorns as he falls. Eventually Scrat collects and forms a 3-D sphere with the acorns, but then (with Scrat on top of it) it tilts upside down so Scrat and the acorns finally land hard on the icy land down below. There is one lone acorn left in the atmosphere (presumably the one he was trying to stuff into the tree). Scrat, stuck in the snow, is only able to free his arms before the acorn impacts right between his eyes with the force of a rifle bullet. The extreme force with which the acorn hits the ground results in a great big earthquake, shaping the Earth's continents (probably Pangaea) into their present-day form and trapping Scrat on the original spot from the center of the impact. When Scrat digs out the acorn, he finds it has been charred and thus crumbled into ash. Disappointed and defeated, he turns to the camera, sighs and puts on the remaining acorn cap as a beret.

Voice cast

References
  1. "The 76th Academy Awards (2004) Nominees and Winners". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. February 29, 2004. Archived from the original on September 29, 2012. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
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