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Ice Age

Theatrical release poster

Directed by

Chris Wedge

Co-Directed by

Carlos Saldanha
Don Bluth
Gary Goldman

Produced by

Lori Forte
David Kirschner

Co-Produced by

Hans Bauer

Screenplay by

Michael J. Wilson
Michael Berg
Peter Ackerman

Story by

Michael J. Wilson

Studio

Blue Sky Studios
Fox Animation Studios (in credited)

Distributed by

20th Century Fox

Release date

March 15, 2002 (2002-03-15)

Running time

81 minutes

Country

Language

English

Aspect Ratio

1.85:1

Rating

Budget

$59 million

Box office

$383.3 million

Preceded by

Titan A.E. (2000)

Followed by

Robots (2005)
Ice Age: The Meltdown

Ice Age is a 2002 American computer-animated comedy adventure film directed by Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge from a story by Michael J. Wilson. It was produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Chris Wedge and was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards for best animated feature. It shows the adventures of a sloth named Sid, a mammoth named Manny and a few other animals when the Earth was being flooded with glaciers.

This film was met with mostly positive reviews and was a box office success by grossing over $383 million, starting the Ice Age franchise. It was followed by three sequels, including Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, and Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012. A fifth film, Ice Age: Collision Course was released on July 22, 2016.

Plot

Spoiler Warning: The following contains important plot details of the entire film.

A saber-toothed squirrel (known as Scrat) is trying to find a place to store his prized acorn. Eventually, as he tries to stomp it into the ground, he causes a large crack in the ground that extends for miles and miles and sets off a large avalanche. He barely escapes, but finds himself stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals. The animals are trying to avoid the ice age by migrating south. Sid, a clumsy ground sloth left behind by his family, decides to move on by himself but is attacked by two Brontops whom he angered. Sid is soon saved by Manfred ("Manny"), an agitated mammoth who fights them off and is heading north. Not wanting to be alone and unprotected, Sid follows Manny. Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of a Smilodon pride, wants revenge on a group of humans by eating the chief's baby son, Roshan, alive. Soto leads a raid on the human camp, during which Roshan's mother is separated from the rest and jumps down a waterfall when cornered by Soto's lieutenant, Diego. For his failure, Diego is sent to find and retrieve the baby.

Later, Sid and Manny spot Roshan and his mother near the lake, having survived her plunge. The mother only has enough strength to trust her baby to Manny before she disappears. After much persuasion by Sid, they decide to return Roshan, but when they reach the human settlement, they find it deserted. They meet up with Diego, who convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the humans. The six travel on, with Diego secretly leading them to his pack for an ambush.

While having small adventures on their way, they reach a cave with several drawings made by humans. There Sid and Diego learn about Manny's past and his previous interactions with the human hunters, in which his wife and son were killed, leaving Manny a cynical loner. Later, Manny, Sid, Diego and Roshan almost reach Half-Peak but encounter a river of lava. Manny and Sid, along with Roshan, make it safely, but Diego struggles, about to fall into the lava. Manny rescues him, narrowly missing a fall into the lava himself. The herd takes a break for the night, and Roshan takes his first walking steps to Diego.

The next day, the herd approach the ambush, causing Diego to confess to Manny and Sid about the ambush, and he tells them to trust him. The herd battles Soto's pack, and a short fight ensues. As Soto closes in for the kill on Manny, Diego leaps and stops Soto, who wounds Diego in the process. Manny knocks Soto into a rock wall, causing several sharp icicles to fall on Soto, killing him. The rest of the pack then retreats. The group then mourns for the injury caused to Diego. Soon, Manny and Sid manage to return the baby to his tribe, and Diego rejoins them, as the group begins to head off to warmer climates.

20,000 years later, Scrat, frozen in the ice, ends up on the shores of a tropical island. When the ice slowly melts, the acorn is then washed away. He mistakenly triggers a volcanic eruption, while stomping the coconut into the ground.

Spoiler Warning: All spoilers have been stated and have ended here.

Similarities Used

Tongue Stuck
Adventure Ride

Cast

The characters are all prehistoric animals. The animals can talk to and understand each other and are voiced by a variety of famous actors. Like many films of prehistoric life, the rules of time periods apply very loosely, as many of the species shown in the film never actually lived in the same time periods or the same geographic regions.

Manfred "Manny", a woolly mammoth, is voiced by Ray Romano
Diego, a Smilodon, is voiced by Denis Leary
Sid, a giant ground sloth, is voiced by John Leguizamo
Scrat, a "saber-toothed" squirrel, is voiced by Chris Wedge
Soto, a Smilodon, is voiced by Goran Višnjić
Zeke, a Smilodon, is voiced by Jack Black
Oscar, a Smilodon, is voiced by Diedrich Bader
Lenny, a Homotherium, is voiced by Alan Tudyk
Carl, a Brontops, is voiced by Cedric the Entertainer
Frank, a Brontops, is voiced by Stephen Root
Rachel, a female giant ground sloth, is voiced by Jane Krakowski
Jennifer, a female giant ground sloth, is voiced by Lorri Bagley

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+|director = [[Chris Wedge]]
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-| producer       = Lori Forte
+|producer = Lori Forte<br>David Kirschner
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+|co-producer = Hans Bauer
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-'''''Ice Age''''' is a 2002 American computer-animated adventure comedy film created by [[Blue Sky Studios]] and released by [[20th Century Fox]]. It was directed by [[Carlos Saldanha]] and [[Chris Wedge]] from a story by Michael J. Wilson. The story follows three [[Paleolithic]]al mammals attempting to return a lost human baby to its parents. The film stars [[Ray Romano]], [[John Leguizamo]], and [[Denis Leary]].
+|rating = {{PG}}
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+|preceded = [[Titan A.E.]] (2000)
+|followed = [[Robots]] (2005)<br>[[Ice Age: The Meltdown]]
+|border = yes
+|screenplay = Michael J. Wilson<br>Michael Berg<br>Peter Ackerman
+}}'''''Ice Age''''' is a 2002 American computer-animated comedy adventure film directed by [[Carlos Saldanha]] and [[Chris Wedge]] from a story by Michael J. Wilson. It was produced by [[Blue Sky Studios]] and distributed by [[20th Century Fox]]. The film features the voices of [[Ray Romano]], [[John Leguizamo]], [[Denis Leary]] and [[Chris Wedge]] and was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards for best animated feature. It shows the adventures of a sloth named Sid, a mammoth named Manny and a few other animals when the Earth was being flooded with glaciers.
-The film was met with mostly positive reviews and was a [[box office]] success, starting a [[Ice Age (film series)|series]] with three [[sequel]]s, ''[[Ice Age: The Meltdown]]'', ''[[Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs]]'', and ''[[Ice Age: Continental Drift]]''.
+This film was met with mostly positive reviews and was a box office success by grossing over $383 million, starting the ''Ice Age'' franchise. It was followed by three sequels, including ''[[Ice Age: The Meltdown]]'' in 2006, ''[[Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs]]'' in 2009, and ''[[Ice Age: Continental Drift]]'' in 2012. A fifth film, ''[[Ice Age: Collision Course]]'' was released on July 22, 2016.
 ==Plot==
-The film begins with a saber-toothed squirrel (known as Scrat) who is trying to find somewhere to store his prized acorn. Eventually, as he tries to stomp it into the ground, he causes a large crack in the ground that extends for miles and miles and sets off a large avalanche. He barely escapes, but finds himself stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals. The animals are trying to avoid the [[ice age]] by migrating south. Sid, a clumsy ''Megalonyx'' sloth left behind by his family, is attacked by two ''[[Brontops]]'' whom he angered. Sid is soon saved by Manfred ("Manny"), an agitated mammoth who fights them off.  Not wanting to be alone and unprotected, Sid follows Manny. Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of a ''[[Smilodon]]'' pride wants revenge on a group of humans by eating the chief's baby son, Roshan, alive. Soto leads a raid on the human camp, during which Roshan's mother is separated from the rest and jumps down a waterfall when cornered by Soto's lieutenant, Diego. For his failure, Diego is sent to find and retrieve the baby.
+{{Spoiler}}A saber-toothed squirrel (known as Scrat) is trying to find a place to store his prized acorn. Eventually, as he tries to stomp it into the ground, he causes a large crack in the ground that extends for miles and miles and sets off a large avalanche. He barely escapes, but finds himself stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals. The animals are trying to avoid the ice age by migrating south. Sid, a clumsy ground sloth left behind by his family, decides to move on by himself but is attacked by two ''Brontops'' whom he angered. Sid is soon saved by Manfred ("Manny"), an agitated mammoth who fights them off and is heading north. Not wanting to be alone and unprotected, Sid follows Manny. Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of a ''Smilodon'' pride, wants revenge on a group of humans by eating the chief's baby son, Roshan, alive. Soto leads a raid on the human camp, during which Roshan's mother is separated from the rest and jumps down a waterfall when cornered by Soto's lieutenant, Diego. For his failure, Diego is sent to find and retrieve the baby.
-Sid and Manny spot Roshan and his mother near the lake, having survived her plunge. The mother only has enough strength to trust her baby to Manny before she disappears. After much persuasion by Sid, they decide to return Roshan (nicknamed "Pinky") but when they reach the human settlement, they find it deserted. They meet up with Diego, who convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the humans. The four travel on, with Diego secretly leading them to his pack for an ambush. While having small adventures on their way, they reach a cave where Sid and Diego learn about Manny's past and his previous interactions with the humans, in which his wife and son were killed, leaving Manny a cynical loner. At one time the group passes a [[flying saucer]] frozen in the ice, while Sid comes upon a display showing the evolution of sloths.
+Later, Sid and Manny spot Roshan and his mother near the lake, having survived her plunge. The mother only has enough strength to trust her baby to Manny before she disappears. After much persuasion by Sid, they decide to return Roshan, but when they reach the human settlement, they find it deserted. They meet up with Diego, who convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the humans. The six travel on, with Diego secretly leading them to his pack for an ambush.
+While having small adventures on their way, they reach a cave with several drawings made by humans. There Sid and Diego learn about Manny's past and his previous interactions with the human hunters, in which his wife and son were killed, leaving Manny a cynical loner. Later, Manny, Sid, Diego and Roshan almost reach Half-Peak but encounter a river of lava. Manny and Sid, along with Roshan, make it safely, but Diego struggles, about to fall into the lava. Manny rescues him, narrowly missing a fall into the lava himself. The herd takes a break for the night, and Roshan takes his first walking steps to Diego.
-At the end of the film, Diego, Manny and Sid battle Soto's pack and a short fight ensues. As Soto closes in for the kill on Manny, Diego leaps and stops Soto, who wounds Diego in the process. Manny, in vengeance, knocks Soto into a rock wall, causing several sharp icicles to fall on Soto, killing him. Manny and Sid manage to return the baby to his tribe, and Diego rejoins them, as the group begins to head off to warmer climates.
+The next day, the herd approach the ambush, causing Diego to confess to Manny and Sid about the ambush, and he tells them to trust him. The herd battles Soto's pack, and a short fight ensues. As Soto closes in for the kill on Manny, Diego leaps and stops Soto, who wounds Diego in the process. Manny knocks Soto into a rock wall, causing several sharp icicles to fall on Soto, killing him. The rest of the pack then retreats. The group then mourns for the injury caused to Diego. Soon, Manny and Sid manage to return the baby to his tribe, and Diego rejoins them, as the group begins to head off to warmer climates.
-===Scrat subplot===
-There is also a subplot where Scrat the squirrel makes many comical attempts to bury his beloved acorn. His misfortunes include getting chased by an enormous [[glacier]], being struck by [[lightning]], attempting to thaw out the acorn by using a fire, but roasting it too long, causing it to turn into a large [[popcorn]] kernel, and finally getting frozen an icecub along with his much sought after nut. In the epilogue, 20,000 years later ([[the present]]), Scrat is frozen in an ice cube that washes up on the shore of a tropical island. The sun slowly melts the cube, bringing Scrat back to life but the acorn, which is just out of his reach, ends up being washed away by the tide. Scrat then explodes out of the ice cube in anger and hits his head repetitively on a tree, which drops a [[coconut]]. Believing it to be a giant acorn, Scrat's anger immediately turns to glee at this new find. He tries to pack it into the ground as he did previously with his other acorns, but in the process causes a large crack in the ground that makes its way up the side of a volcano and causes it to erupt, mirroring the opening scene when Scrat causes a break in the ice with an acorn.
+,000 years later, Scrat, frozen in the ice, ends up on the shores of a tropical island. When the ice slowly melts, the acorn is then washed away. He mistakenly triggers a volcanic eruption, while stomping the coconut into the ground.
+{{Spoiler-end}}
+==Similarities Used==
+* Tongue Stuck
+* Adventure Ride
 ==Cast==
+The characters are all prehistoric animals. The animals can talk to and understand each other and are voiced by a variety of famous actors. Like many films of prehistoric life, the rules of time periods apply very loosely, as many of the species shown in the film never actually lived in the same time periods or the same geographic regions.
-{{Main|List of Ice Age characters}}
-The characters are all [[prehistory|prehistoric]] animals.  The animals can talk to and understand each other and are voiced by a variety of famous [[actor]]s.  Like many films of prehistoric life, the rules of time periods apply very loosely, as many of the species shown in the film never actually lived in the same time periods or the same geographic regions.
 * Manfred "Manny", a woolly mammoth, is voiced by [[Ray Romano]]
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 * Sid, a giant ground sloth, is voiced by [[John Leguizamo]]
 * Scrat, a "saber-toothed" squirrel, is voiced by [[Chris Wedge]]
-* Soto, a ''Smilodon'', is voiced by [[Goran Višnjić]]
+* Soto, a ''Smilodon'', is voiced by [[Goran Visnjic|Goran Višnjić]]
 * Zeke, a ''Smilodon'', is voiced by [[Jack Black]]
 * Oscar, a ''Smilodon'', is voiced by [[Diedrich Bader]]
-* Lenny, a ''Homotherium'', voiced by [[Alan Tudyk]]
+* Lenny, a ''[[Homotherium]]'', is voiced by [[Alan Tudyk]]
-* Carl, a ''Brontops'', is voiced by [[Cedric the Entertainer]]
+* Carl, a ''[[Brontops]]'', is voiced by [[Cedric the Entertainer]]
 * Frank, a ''Brontops'', is voiced by [[Stephen Root]]
-* Rachel, a female sloth, is voiced by [[Jane Krakowski]]
+* Rachel, a female giant ground sloth, is voiced by [[Jane Krakowski]]
-* Jennifer, a female sloth, is voiced by [[Lorri Bagley]]
+* Jennifer, a female giant ground sloth, is voiced by [[Lorri Bagley]]
-==Reception==
-===Critical reception===
-''Ice Age'' was released into theaters on March 15, 2002 and got a 77% approval rating on the film review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 164 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "Even though Ice Age is treading over the same grounds as ''Monsters, Inc.'' and ''Shrek'', it has enough wit and laughs to stand on its own."<ref name=RT>{{cite web|title=Ice Age (2002)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ice_age/|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=October 18, 2012}}</ref> Similar site [[Metacritic]] had a score of 60% out of 31 reviews.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/ice-age| title=Ice Age | work=[[Metacritic]] | publisher=CNET Networks, Inc | accessdate=2009-07-23 }}</ref>
-The film was nominated for [[AFI's 10 Top 10]] in the "Animation" genre.<ref>[http://www.afi.com/drop/ballot.pdf AFI's 10 Top 10 Ballot]</ref>
-===Box office===
-The film had a $46.3 million opening weekend, a large number not usually seen until the summer season, and way ahead of Fox's most optimistic projection of about $30 million. ''Ice Age'' broke the record for a March opening (first surpassed in 2006 by its sequel, ''[[Ice Age: The Meltdown]]'') and was the then-third-best opening ever for an animated feature—after ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' ($62.6 million) and ''[[Toy Story 2]]'' ($57.4 million).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,218397,00.html|title=''Ice Age'' enjoys mammoth opening weekend|work=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=2002-03-18}}</ref> ''Ice Age'' finished its domestic box office run with $176,387,405 million and grossed $383,257,136 million worldwide, being the 9th highest gross of 2002 in North America and the 8th best worldwide at the time.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=iceage.htm | title=Ice Age (2002) | work=[[Box Office Mojo]] | publisher=Box Office Mojo, LLC | accessdate=2009-07-23 }}</ref>
-==Production and development==
-The film was originally to be directed by [[Don Bluth]] and [[Gary Goldman]], and produced in traditional animation by [[Fox Animation Studios]], but the rise of CGI animation and the failure of ''[[Titan A.E.]]'' destroyed Fox's traditional animation division; hence, Bluth and Goldman transferred their duties for Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha from Fox's CGI division Blue Sky.{{Citation needed|date=October 2012}}
-==Video game==
-A video game tie-in was published by Ubisoft for the Game Boy Advance, and received poor reviews.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/gba/iceage| title=Ice Age (gba) reviews | work=[[Metacritic]] | publisher=CNET Networks, Inc | accessdate=2009-07-23 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gamerankings.com/gba/546916-ice-age/index.html|title=Ice Age for Game Boy Advance|publisher=[[GameRankings]]| accessdate=2009-07-23 }}</ref>
-==Sequels==
-* ''[[Ice Age: The Meltdown]]'' was released on March 31, 2006. The film focuses on the melting of a dam (due to, as Sid puts it at the end of the first film, [[global warming]]) and the impending flood.
-* ''[[Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs]]'' was released on July 1, 2009. The film focuses on dinosaurs being discovered underground.
-* ''[[Ice Age: Continental Drift]]'' was released in July 13, 2012. The film focuses on the continental drift on Earth.
-==References==
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-==External links==
-{{wikiquote|Ice Age}}
-* {{Official website|http://www.iceagemovie.com/}}
-* {{Allmovie title|258954|Ice Age}}
-* {{bcdb title|27937|Ice Age}}
-* {{IMDb title|0268380|Ice Age}}
-* {{rotten-tomatoes|ice_age|Ice Age}}
-* {{metacritic film|ice-age|Ice Age}}
-* {{mojo title|iceage|Ice Age}}
-{{Ice Age}}
-{{Blue Sky Studios}}
-{{DEFAULTSORT:Ice Age}}
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