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Revision as of 03:36, 21 June 2020
- For other uses see Ice Age (disambiguation)
Ice Age is a popular computer animated movie franchise, created by Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge of the comedy genre. Set in the ice age, it follows the adventures of fictional mammals consisting Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-tooth tiger, Ellie the woolly mammoth, Crash and Eddie the opossums, Peaches the woolly mammoth, Scrat the saber-tooth squirrel, and Scratte the saber-tooth squirrel (as well as other characters).
All movies and shorts have been produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The franchise has received PG rating for peril and mild language, reviewers from critics have been mixed, some claiming the movies lack storytelling and are merely journeys from A to B, while others have praised the animation[1][2] The films have met financial success, grossing over $1,900,000,000 worldwide in their theater run.
(From left to right) Sid, Manny, Diego, and Scrat, four of the main characters
Plot Summary
Ice Age
- Main article: Ice Age
In the ice age period, three animals, Sid the sloth, and Diego the saber-toothed cat go into an adventure to return a baby to a human tribe that has left for their campsite; however, Diego had been sent secretly by Soto, the sabers' pack leader, to bring the baby and mammoth to a place known as the Half Peak so they can ambush them and kill them.
Ice Age: The Meltdown
- Main article: Ice Age: The Meltdown
Global warming affects the environment and an immense amount of water threatens to flood the valley our heroes are currently living at.
They have to go to the other side of the valley, where there presumably is a giant tree that can act as a boat to save them.
Meanwhile, Manfred is teased about being the last mammoth, but he finds Ellie, a female mammoth, who thinks that she's a possum.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Main article: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Manfred and Ellie are waiting their first baby while Diego wonders if he's becoming too soft lately and decides to leave the herd.
Sid grows jealous of Manny and Ellie and adopts three apparently abandoned eggs that hatch into T-Rex baby dinosaurs.
The next day, a T-Rex takes the babies and Sid and the herd follow them, getting into an underground world where dinosaurs lived secretly for millions of years.
Meanwhile, they meet a one-eyed weasel named Buck, who's been living underground for some time and helps them on their way.
Ice Age: Continental Drift
- Main article: Ice Age: Continental Drift
Sid is reunited with his old family.
Manny, Sid, his granny, and Diego all meet pirates and battle until Manny gets home.
Ice Age: Collision Course
- Main article: Ice Age: Collision Course
After the release of Ice Age: Continental Drift, John Leguizamo, the voice of Sid, said of the fifth installment in the Ice Age film series: [3] On December 20, 2013, 20th Century Fox has scheduled the film for July 15, 2016.[4] When a cosmic threatens Earth, Manny and his friends are forced to leave behind their home. On their journey, they discover the exotic Shangri-La, led by its spiritual leader Shangri Llama.
Possible Sequels
On A Possible Sequel, Galen T Chu Said There Is Some Ideas For The Next Installments.
Scrat
Scrat at the beginning of Ice Age: The Meltdown
- Main article: Scrat
Movies have a subplot, where an animal named Scrat makes many comical attempts to bury his acorn, which he loves a whole bunch. Scrat's misfortunes include getting chased by an enormous glacier, being struck by lightning, trying to thaw out his acorn by a fire too long so that it accidentally took the form of a kernel of popcorn, and finally, getting frozen in an ice cube, along with his much sought after nut 20,000 years into the future.
Main Characters and Cast
- Manny - Ray Romano
- Sid - John Leguizamo
- Diego - Denis Leary, Rick Pasqualone (Ice Age: The Meltdown (video game))
- Ellie - Queen Latifah
- Peaches - Ciara Bravo (Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas), Keke Palmer (Ice Age: Continental Drift)
- Crash and Eddie - Seann William Scott (Crash), Josh Peck (Eddie), James Patrick Stuart (video games {Crash}), James Arnold Taylor (video games {Eddie})
- Scrat - Chris Wedge
- Scratte - Karen Disher
- Buck - Simon Pegg (films, shorts), James Patrick Stuart (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (video game))
- Momma - Frank Welker (uncredited)
- Rudy - Frank Welker (uncredited)
The only character seen on all Ice Age films and shorts is Scrat.
| Character | Ice Age films and shorts | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Age (2002) | Gone Nutty (2002) | Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) | No Time For Nuts (2006) | Surviving Sid (2008) | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | Scrat's Continental Crack-up (2010) | Scrat's Continental Crack-up Part 2 (2010) | Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2011) | Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) | Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (2015) | Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (2016) | Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) | ||
| Manny | Ray Romano | Ray Romano | no speaking role | Ray Romano | Ray Romano | |||||||||
| Sid | John Leguizamo | John Leguizamo | no speaking role | John Leguizamo | John Leguizamo | |||||||||
| Diego | Denis Leary | Denis Leary | no speaking role | Denis Leary | Denis Leary | |||||||||
| Scrat | Chris Wedge | |||||||||||||
| Ellie | Queen Latifah | Queen Latifah | Queen Latifah | Queen Latifah | ||||||||||
| Crash | Seann William Scott | Seann William Scott | Seann William Scott | Seann William Scott | ||||||||||
| Eddie | Josh Peck | Josh Peck | Josh Peck | Josh Peck | ||||||||||
| Buck | Simon Pegg | Simon Pegg | Simon Pegg | |||||||||||
| Scratte | Karen Disher | Karen Disher | ||||||||||||
| Peaches | no voice actress | Ciara Bravo | Keke Palmer | Keke Palmer | ||||||||||
Various Information
Basic Info
| Movie | Release Date | Running Time | Director | Music by | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Age | March 15, 2002 | 81 minutes | Chris Wedge Carlos Saldanha (co-director) | David Newman | $59 million |
| Ice Age: The Meltdown | March 31, 2006 | 91 minutes | Carlos Saldanha | John Powell | $80 million |
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | July 1, 2009 | 94 minutes | Carlos Saldanha Mike Thurmeier (co-director) | $90 million | |
| Ice Age: Continental Drift | July 13, 2012 | 88 minutes | Steve Martino Mike Thurmeier |
$100 million | |
| Ice Age: Collision Course | July 22, 2016 | 94 minutes | Galen T. Chu (co-director) Mike Thurmeier |
John Debney | $105 million |
Box office statistics
| Movie | Opening day | Opening Weekend | Domestic Gross | Foreign Gross | Worldwide total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Age | $13,468,085 | $46,312,454 | $176,387,405 | $206,869,731 | $383,257,136 | ||
| Ice Age: The Meltdown | $21,788,862 | $68,033,544 | $195,330,621 | $465,610,159 | $660,940,780 | ||
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | $13,791,157 | $41,690,382 | $196,573,705 | $690,113,112 | $886,686,817 | ||
| Ice Age: Continental Drift | $16,728,341 | $46,629,259 | $161,321,843 |
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| Ice Age: Collision Course | $850,000 | $21,373,064 | $63,871,492 | $340,458,906 | $404,330,398 |
Critical reaction
| Movie | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Yahoo! Movies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Cream of the Crop | |||
| Ice Age | 78% (164 reviews) | 79% (32 reviews) | 61 (33 reviews) | B- (10 reviews) |
| Ice Age: The Meltdown | 57% (143 reviews) | 60% (27 reviews) | 58 (29 reviews) | B- (14 reviews) |
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | 45% (159 reviews) | 34% (33 reviews) | 50 (26 reviews) | C (13 reviews) |
| Ice Age: Continental Drift | 37% (131 reviews) | N/A | 49 (29 reviews) | N/A |
| Ice Age: Collision Course | 13% (102 reviews) | 34 (27 reviews) | ||
Shorts
There have been several released short feature films, in which Scrat has been the main character (expect for the third, which focuses on Sid).
- Gone Nutty - Ice Age VHS and DVD
- No Time For Nuts - Ice Age: The Meltdown DVD and Blu-ray (re-release)
- Surviving Sid - Horton Hears a Who! DVD and Blu-ray
- Scrat's Continental Crack-up - Gulliver's Travels and Rio Blu-ray and DVD preview
- Scrat's Continental Crack-up Part 2 - Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and We Bought a Zoo Blu-ray and DVD preview
- Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe - Released with The Peanuts Movie
Merchandise
Varied Ice Age merchandise, including a puzzle (left top), a Diego plush doll (left bottom), and a Scrat action figure (right)
The Ice Age series has had a variety of merchandise, including video games, Pez dispensers, plush dolls, action figures, and puzzles for small kids.
Trivia
- As suggested by the first film, the movies take place around 18,000 B.C.
- The original movie was originally intended as a drama, but Fox would only accept it as a children's comedy.
- Chris Wedge, the director of Ice Age, is the voice of Scrat. The name "Scrat" is a combination of the words "Squirrel" and "Rat," as Scrat has characteristics of both species.
- At some point after the Ice Age movies (as shown in the epilogue of the first movie), Scrat was frozen while in pursuit of his acorn and thawed out 20,000 years later on a tropical island. However, he lost his nut again.
- The Ice Age movie series always has traveling to a certain place as a part of the plot, but the main characters have never actually reached their destination.
- They gave Roshan back to his father at Glacier Pass and never got a glimpse at the human settlement.
- They survived the flooding of the Great Valley, thanks to Scrat, but they never actually reached the Boat.
- Sid was rescued at the Lava Falls and he was brought back by Buck and Crash and Eddie while Ellie was giving birth, with Diego and Manny's help.
See also
- List of Ice Age characters
- List of songs featured in the Ice Age films
- List of Ice Age video games
- Ice Age in popular culture
- Ice Age epilogue
References
- ↑ 'Ice Age': The search for a plot - Philly.com - Access date 23/Feb/2010
- ↑ Critic Reviews for Ice Age: The Meltdown at Metacritic - Access date 23/Feb/2010 (section The Globe and Mail (Toronto))
- ↑ An Interview with the Incomparable John Leguizamo: Ice Age’s Sid the Sloth
- ↑ Ice Age 5 Set for July 15, 2016, Anubis Moves to 2018
External links
| Ice Age |
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| Films |
| Ice Age (2002) • Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) • Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) • Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) • The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022) |
| Characters |
| Scrat • Manny • Sid • Diego • Ellie • Crash and Eddie • Buck • Peaches • Granny • Shira • Zee |
| Shorts |
| Gone Nutty (2002) • No Time for Nuts (2006) • Surviving Sid (2008) • Scrat's Continental Crack-up (2010) • Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2011) • Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (2015) • Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (2016) • Scrat: Spaced Out (2016) |
| TV Series |
| Scrat Tales (2022) • Buck Wild (TBA) |
| Other clips |
| Lost Historical Films during the Ice Age period • Falling for Scratte • Unearthing the Lost World • Buck: From Easel to Weasel |
| Video games |
| Ice Age • The Meltdown • Dawn of the Dinosaurs • Continental Drift |