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Gone Nutty: Scrat's Missing Adventure
Film poster
Directed by	Carlos Saldanha
Written by	William H. Frake III Dan Shefelman Moroni Taylor
Produced by	John C. Donkin
Starring	Chris Wedge
Edited by	Tim Nordquist
Music by	Michael A. Levine
Production companies	Blue Sky Studios 20th Century Fox Animation
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	November 26, 2002 (2002-11-26) (VHS/DVD release) June 11, 2004 (with Garfield: The Movie)
Running time	4 minutes, 31 seconds
Language	English (Dialogue not language specific)

Gone Nutty (also known as Scrat's Missing Adventure) is a 2002 American 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 acorn. It was debuted on November 26, 2002 on the Ice Age DVD and VHS. This film was shown in theaters with Garfield: The Movie in 2004. The film was nominated for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Plot

After the events of the first film, Scrat 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 of which end up with the same result, Scrat gets angry and stomps it into place, causing all the acorns to fall out of a large 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 CGI 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, who is still 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 causes a great big earthquake, which shapes the Earth's continents (probably Pangaea) into their present-day form, taking all the other acorns with them and trapping Scrat on the original spot from the center of the impact. When Scrat digs out the acorn that hit him, he finds it has been charred and thus crumbled into ash. In disappointment and defeat, he turns to the camera, then sighs and puts on the remaining acorn cap as a beret.

Voice cast

• Chris Wedge as Scrat

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.
2. Saldanha, Carlos (2002-11-28), Gone Nutty (Animation, Short, Adventure), Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Animation, Twentieth Century Fox, retrieved 2023-02-08

External links

• Official website
• Gone Nutty at IMDb

• 2002 films
• Ice Age (franchise) films
• 2002 computer-animated films
• 2000s American animated films
• 2002 animated short films
• American animated short films
• 20th Century Fox short films
• Computer-animated short films
• Blue Sky Studios short films
• Films directed by Carlos Saldanha
• Animated films without speech
• American comedy short films
• Animated films about squirrels
• Acorns
• Films scored by Michael A. Levine