Gone Nutty

Gone Nutty (2004) is a short animated film from Blue Sky Studios you can watch online on iFILM. Director Carlos Saldanha delivers five minutes of pure slapstick built around Scrat — the acorn-obsessed squirrel from Ice Age.

Scrat has a stash. An enormous, lovingly organized stash of acorns crammed into what amounts to a nuclear bunker for rodents. One wrong pull and the whole system goes catastrophically, gloriously wrong. No dialogue, no plot twists — just Chris Wedge performing a masterclass in physical comedy through animation, with increasingly unhinged consequences.

The short earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film. At five minutes it's over before you know it — which is exactly the point. Watch Gone Nutty (2004) online on iFILM.