Ice Age (Franchise)

Ice Age is a computer animated film franchise produced by Blue Sky Studios, a division of 20th Century Fox. The series follows a group of mammals surviving the Paleolithic ice age and features the voices of Ray Romano as a wooly Mammoth named Manny, John Leguizamo as a sloth named Sid, Denis Leary as A Saber tooth Cat named Diego and Chris Wedge as a saber tooth Squirrel named Scrat. It consists of Four films: Ice Age (released in 2002), Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (released in 2006), Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs (released in 2009) and Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (released in 2012). A fifth film, titled Ice Age 5, is set to be released in 2016.

Movies

Ice Age (2002)

Ice Age, the 1st film in the franchise, was released in theaters March 15th 2002. Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo), a sloth who never stops talking is left behind sleeping while everyone else begins the journey to the south. Awaking, he meets Manny (voiced by Ray Romano), a mammoth who travels to the north, and decides to follow him. When a humans camp is attacked by tigers, a woman takes her baby and jumps into a river and falls off a waterfall. Before she disappears, the baby is rescued by Manny and Sid. The two animals decide to search for the father and return the baby to him. Diego (voiced by Denis Leary), one of the tigers that attacked the humans, comes also claiming the baby to give to his boss, Soto. The movie also features Scrat (voiced by Chris Wedge), a sabre-toothed squirrel trying to get his acorn to safety.

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (2006)

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, the 2nd film in the franchise, was released in theaters March 31st 2006. Manny, Sid, and Diego are currently living in a large valley surrounded by an enormously high ice wall on all sides. When a water park begins to form, the trio discovers that the ice wall is actually a wall that is barely holding a massive body of water that could flood the valley to nearly a mile underwater. A vulture tells them that there is a boat at the other end of the valley that may save them all, but they only have 3 days to make it or die. Manny is having trouble facing the fact that he may be the last mammoth left. Along the way, they meet Ellie, a mammoth who thinks she is a possum, and her possum brothers Crash and Eddie. As they begin to travel together, Manny learns, with help from Diego and Sid, that having this new mammoth with them, may not be as bad as Manny makes it out to be while they try to escape the oncoming and continually threatening flood. During their journey, Scrat the sabre-toothed squirrel has his own adventures that eventually leads to something else entirely.

Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs (2009)

Ice Age 3: Dawn of The Dinosaurs, the 3rd film in the franchise, was released in theatres and 3D July 1st 2009. Life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid becomes jealous of Manny and Ellie and begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with an insane one-eyed weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently.

Ice Age 4: Continetnatl Drift (2012)

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift, the 4th film in the franchise, was released in theaters and 3-D July 13th 2012, ten years after the rlelease of the first film. Continental Drift was directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier - the first time without Carlos Saldanha, and beside the regular voices it features many new celebrities, including Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Lopez, Wanda Sykes, Drake and Nicki Minaj. The film takes place years after the events of the third film, with Peaches in her teenage years. Scrat's never-ending pursuit of acorns has world-changing consequences, separating Manny, Sid and Diego from the rest, forcing them to stand up to a pirate gang, led by Captain Gutt.

Television

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas