No Time for Nuts

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No Time for Nuts
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Chris Renaud
Mike Thurmeier
Story byChris Renaud
Produced byJohn C. Donkin
Lori Forte
Starring Chris Wedge
Edited byJames M. Palumbo
Music byChristopher Ward
Production
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Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date
  • November 21, 2006 (2006-11-21)
Running time
7 minutes (Original version)
12 minutes (4-D version)

No Time for Nuts is a 2006 American animated short film from Blue Sky Studios, starring Scrat from Ice Age . Directed by Chris Renaud and Mike Thurmeier, it was debuted on November 21, 2006, on the DVD [1] and Blu-ray [2] release of Ice Age: The Meltdown . It follows Scrat on a pursuit after his acorn, which accidentally sends forward in time by a frozen time machine. No Time for Nuts was nominated for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and also won an Annie Award. [3]

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After the events of the second film and before the events of the third 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 human time 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 the Middle Ages, where he finds the acorn wedged under a large rock. Scrat sees Excalibur, 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 the Coliseum during Ancient 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 his crotch 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 triumphant gladiator, proudly holding up his acorn. Then he hears the growl of a big cat coming from the large tunnel behind him. He fires the time machine again before the big cat attacks him, and lands on an ice field. He is overjoyed, thinking he is back home, but he soon sees the RMS Titanic appear out of nowhere, heading straight towards him; he is actually on April 14, 1912, A.D. and on the frozen North Atlantic, the time and location of the ship's sinking. Scrat gets pressed into the iceberg that sank the Titanic 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 of the 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 future Scrat. Shortly after, future 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 launching Saturn V rocket during the Space Race, in a dark, modern-day jewelry 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, a guillotine in the French Revolution, during Benjamin Franklin's kite flying experiment, in the path of a wrecking ball demolishing an old brick building, in front of the Hiroshima bombing, in the path of an oncoming steam locomotive in the Wild West, and in front of the groin of Michelangelo's David (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 a wormhole along with his acorn and the time machine.

Scrat awakens in front of an enormous oak 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 a commemorative 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 and despair, ending the film and the forever-lost acorn ends up floating behind the credits.

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Ice Age: No Time for Nuts 4-D

In 2015, an extended version of the short, featuring new extended footage with Scrat ending up in the Mesozoic era, an American Museum of Natural History in 2015 A.D., and then in the year 2552 A.D. was remade by SimEx-Iwerks into a 4D film, titled Ice Age: No Time For Nuts 4-D. [5] Since then, the film has been shown at the San Diego Zoo, The Adventuredome in Las Vegas, NV, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, Ohio, [6] Kennywood in Pittsburgh, Detroit Zoo in Michigan, Alton Towers (2015 - 2016), the Central Park Zoo in New York City, and somewhere in Fleetwood 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 at Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. [12]

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