Buck Wild: Legend of the Lost World

Buck Wild: Legend of the Lost World is an American computer-animated adventure comedy-drama film produced by 20th Century Animation and distributed by 20th Century Studios. The film is a spin-off/prequel, the second installment in the trilogy of Buck Wild films after The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022), and the eighth installment overall in the Ice Age franchise. It is directed by Donnie Long, who also directed Ice Age: Scrat Tales, written by Michael Berg, Yoni Brenner and Edgar Wright, and produced by John C. Donkin. The music for the film was composed by James Newton Howard.

In the film’s ensemble voice cast, Simon Pegg and Justina Machado reprise their respective roles as the titular character and Zee, while they are joined by Nick Frost and Andy Serkis, who voices new characters introduced in this film.

The film’s plot follows the origin story of Buck Wild on his adventures in the Lost World years before the events of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Accompanied by his ambitious recruits Zee, Lloyd, and his brother Ray, they must learn to work together as a team to escape the rouge albino Baryonyx Rudy, who’s planning to hunt down Buck, while going through dangerous obstacles and encountering vicious dinosaurs as they embark on their toughest mission yet.

The computer animation for the film was provided by DNEG, who had also provided animation for 2021’s Ron’s Gone Wrong and 2023’s Nimona.

Originally planned to be a sequel to The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, it was later scrapped in favour of a spin-off prequel that mainly focuses on Buck, due to the film’s poor critical reception and audience viewership and how it lacked the primary focus on the titular character.

The film was released on the Disney+ streaming service and received positive reviews from critics and audiences, with Rotten Tomatoes calling it “an Ice Age spin-off centered on Buck done right”. Many praised the animation, Pegg and Machado’s performance, action sequences, and musical score, and deemed it a significant improvement over the 2022 film.

Cast

 * Simon Pegg as Buck “Buckminster” Wild, a one-eyed fearless weasel who is daring, adventurous and a little eccentric.
 * Justina Machado as Zee, a sarcastic yet compassionate zorilla who is Buck’s love interest.
 * Nick Frost as Ray “Raymond” Wild, a dimwitted yet optimistic weasel who is Buck’s brother. He previously voiced Flynn in Ice Age: Continental Drift.
 * Andy Serkis as Lloyd, an elderly cranky yet goodhearted weasel.
 * Frank Welker as:
 * Momma, a female Tyrannosaurus.
 * Rudy, a rouge albino Baryonyx.
 * Dee Bradley Baker as:
 * Poppa, a Tyrannosaurus and Momma’s husband.
 * Juniper, a Compsognathus and Zee’s canine companion.