Ice Age is a media franchise centering on a group of mammals surviving the Paleolithic ice age. It is produced by 20th Century Fox, and featuring the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge. Five films have been released in the series thus far with Ice Age in 2002, Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012, and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016.
Film series[]
Ice Age (2002)[]
Sid, a talkative sloth, is left behind by his family and the herds of mammals journeying to the south. He meets Manny, 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 over 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, one of the tigers that attacked the humans, comes also claiming the baby, and the trio form an uneasy alliance during their journey to the humans.
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)[]
Manny, Sid, and Diego are currently living in a large valley surrounded by an enormously high ice wall on all sides. However, 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 three days to reach it or die. Manny is also having trouble fearing 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 he must move on from his past. During their journey, Scrat the sabre-toothed squirrel has his own adventure.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)[]
Manny and Ellie are expecting their first child, meanwhile Scrat falls in love with fellow squirrel Scratte. Meanwhile, Diego is anxious about settling down for a domestic life with Manny's new family. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him. The herd also meets an insane one-eyed weasel known as Buck who aids them on their quest.
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)[]
Taking place several years after the events of the third film, with Peaches now a teenager, Scrat's pursuit of acorns has world-changing consequences, separating Manny, Sid and Diego from the rest of their group. As they try to return home, they come into conflict with a pirate gang led by Captain Gutt.
Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)[]
Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat's pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth aboard a UFO, where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet. To save themselves from peril, Manny, Sid, Diego, and the rest of the herd leave their home and reunite with Buck, who leads them on a journey to find a way to save the planet.
Untitled sixth film[]
20th Century Studios confirmed that a sixth Ice Age film is currently in development, with Jim Hect writing the screenplay. Whether or not it will be the series's return to the big screen is currently unknown.
Spin-off[]
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022)[]
Buck, Crash, Eddie and Buck's love interest Zee must stop a megalomaniac dwarf talking Triceratop named Orson from ruling the Lost World.
The trailer was revealed on January 2022, with the title being revealed as Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild. The movie will focus on Crash and Eddie going back to the Dinosaur World to live a life of adventures like Buck only to being forced to help him to defeat some rogue dinosaurs led by a talking megalomaniac Triceratop named Orson. Meanwhile Manny, Sid, Diego and Ellie go in the underground world as well to bring the two back to home.
Television series[]
Ice Age: Scrat Tales (2022)[]
First television series of the franchise. It focuses on Scrat fighting with his young son for the acorns. It premiered on April 13 2022 on Disney+. Chris Wedge reprised his role of Scrat while Kari Wahlgren voices his son Baby Scrat.
Ice Age Babies[]
A second television series centered on the characters of the franchise as babies was announced shortly after the success of Ice Age: Scrat Tales. The release date of the show is currently unknown but it's expected to be produced by 20th Century Animation and distribuited on Disney+.
Short films[]
Television specials[]
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas[]
In the middle of decorating for the holiday season, Sid accidentally destroys Manny's favourite decorations. Sid, convinced by Manny that he is now on Santa's naughty list, takes off with Crash, Eddie and Peaches for the North Pole to get back on the Santa's good side. When on the North Pole, Sid and his crew accidentally destroy Santa's Workshop. When Manny, Ellie and Diego, worried over Peaches's safety, arrive at the North Pole, they must come together and save Christmas.
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade[]
The special centers on a harried prehistoric bird mom who entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbors—a condor mother, Cholly Bear and Gladys Glypto—business booms at his new egg-sitting service.
However, dastardly pirate bunny Squint, who is seeking revenge on the herd, steals, camouflages and hides all the eggs. Once again, with Squint's twin brother, Clint, assisting, Manny, Diego and the rest of the gang come to the rescue and take off on a daring mission that turns into the world's first Easter egg hunt.
Cast[]
Feature films[]
Short films[]
| Characters | Gone Nutty (2002) | No Time for Nuts (2006) |
Surviving Sid (2008) |
Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (2015) | Scrat: Spaced Out (2017) | Scrat Tales (2022) |
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| Scrat | Chris Wedge | |||||
| Sid | Silent cameo | John Leguizamo | ||||
| Claire | Emily Osment | |||||
| Cindy | Maria Lark | |||||
| Manny | Silent cameo | Ray Romano | ||||
| Diego | Silent cameo | Denis Leary | ||||
| Scratazons | Karen Disher | |||||
| Baby Scrat | Kari Wahlgren | |||||
Television specials[]
| Characters | A Mammoth Christmas (2011) |
The Great Egg-Scapade (2016) |
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| Manny | Ray Romano | |
| Sid | John Leguizamo | |
| Diego | Denis Leary | |
| Scrat | Chris Wedge | |
| Ellie | Queen Latifah | |
| Crash | Seann William Scott | |
| Eddie | Josh Peck | |
| Peaches | Ciara Bravo | Keke Palmer |
| Santa Claus | Billy Gardell | |
| Prancer | T.J. Miller | |
| Ethel | Taraji P. Henson | |
| Squint | Seth Green | |
| Clint | Blake Anderson | |
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