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''Scrat's Continental Crack-up'' (2010, directed by [[Steve Martino]] and Mike Thurmeier): originally released before ''[[Gulliver's Travels (2010 film)|Gulliver's Travels]]'' in theaters<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slashfilm.com/ice-age-short-film-scrats-continental-crackup-attached-gullivers-travels/|title=Watch: Ice Age Short Film ‘Scrat’s Continental Crack-Up’|publisher=[[Slashdot|Slashfilm]]|date=2011-01-06|first=Peter|last=Sciretta|accessdate=2011-08-09}}</ref> and is included as an extra feature on the [[Blu-ray_Disc|blu-ray]] release of the Blue Sky movie [[Rio_(film)|Rio]]. |
''Scrat's Continental Crack-up'' (2010, directed by [[Steve Martino]] and Mike Thurmeier): originally released before ''[[Gulliver's Travels (2010 film)|Gulliver's Travels]]'' in theaters<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slashfilm.com/ice-age-short-film-scrats-continental-crackup-attached-gullivers-travels/|title=Watch: Ice Age Short Film ‘Scrat’s Continental Crack-Up’|publisher=[[Slashdot|Slashfilm]]|date=2011-01-06|first=Peter|last=Sciretta|accessdate=2011-08-09}}</ref> and is included as an extra feature on the [[Blu-ray_Disc|blu-ray]] release of the Blue Sky Studio movie [[Rio_(film)|Rio]]. |
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| Ice Age film series | |
|---|---|
| File:Ice-age-complete-dvd-box-set.png Ice Age Collection R2 DVD set with all three films | |
| Directed by | Carlos Saldanha Chris Wedge (Ice Age) |
| Written by | Michael J. Wilson (story, screenplay, Ice Age) Ice Age\Dawn of the Dinosaurs Michael Berg Peter Ackerman The Meltdown Peter Gaulke Jim Hecht Gerry Swallow (also story) Dawn of the Dinosaurs Mike Reiss Yoni Brenner Jason Carter Eaton (story) Gerry Swallow |
| Produced by | John C. Donkin Lori Forte Chris Wedge |
| Starring | Ray Romano John Leguizamo Denis Leary Chris Wedge Queen Latifah Seann William Scott Josh Peck |
| Music by | David Newman (Ice Age) John Powell (2 and 3) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | March 15, 2002 — present |
Running time | 265 minutes |
| Country | Template:FilmUS |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $229 million |
| Box office | $1,925,331,574 |
Ice Age is a series of animated films produced by Blue Sky Studios, a division of 20th Century Fox, and featuring the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge. Three films have been released in the series thus far, Ice Age in 2002, Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009. The series follows a group of mammals surviving the Paleolithic ice age.
The fourth film in the series, Ice Age: Continental Drift is being produced for a July 13, 2012 release.[1]
Films
Ice Age (2002)
Sid, a sloth who never stops talking is left behind sleeping while everyone else begins the journey to the south. Awaking, 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 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, one of the tigers that attacked the humans, comes also claiming the baby.
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. 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: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (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: Continental Drift (2012)
A fourth film was announced by Twentieth Century Fox on May 5, 2010 with the tentative title Ice Age: Continental Drift. It is scheduled to be released in 3D on July 13, 2012.[2]
Short films
Gone Nutty
Gone Nutty (2002, directed by Carlos Saldanha): originally released on the Ice Age DVD.[3]
No Time for Nuts
No Time for Nuts (2006, directed by Chris Renaud and Mike Thurmeier): originally released on the Ice Age 2: The Meltdown DVD[4]
Surviving Sid
Surviving Sid (2008, directed by Galen Tan Chu and Karen Disher): originally released on the Horton Hears a Who! DVD.[5]
Scrat's Continental Crack-up
Scrat's Continental Crack-up (2010, directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier): originally released before Gulliver's Travels in theaters[6] and is included as an extra feature on the blu-ray release of the Blue Sky Studio movie Rio.
Scrat's Continental Crack-up - Part 2
A sequel to Scrat's Continental Crack-up titled Scrat's Continental Crack-up - Part 2 was released on November 16, 2011, on iTunes. It was again directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier, and it features voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Chris Wedge, along with new voices of Peter Dinklage as Captain Gutt, Jennifer Lopez as Shira, Aziz Ansari as Squint, Alain Chabat as Silas, Jason Fricchione as Crab, and Nick Frost as Flynn.[7]
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas is a 26-minute TV special that aired on FOX on November 24, 2011,[8] and was released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 26, 2011.[9] The special was directed by Karen Disher, and it features all the regular voices: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary, Josh Peck, Seann William Scott, and Chris Wedge. The new cast includes Billy Gardell as Santa, Ciara Bravo as Peaches, T.J. Miller as Prancer, and Judah Friedlander as Head Mini-sloth.
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 the 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 safety, arrive to North Pole, they must come together and save Christmas.[10]
Cast and characters
- Manny, the Woolly Mammoth
- Sid, the Megalonyx, a giant ground sloth
- Diego, the Smilodon
- Ellie, the mammoth
- Crash and Eddie, the Opossums
- Scrat, a sabertooth Squirrel
- Scratte, a female sabertooth squirrel, both Scrat's love interest and rival
- Buck, the Weasel, helps the gang along their journey in the third film
- Peaches, Manny and Ellie's daughter, born in the third film
| Character | Ice Age films and shorts | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Age (2002) | Gone Nutty (2002) | The Meltdown (2006) | No Time for Nuts (2006) | Surviving Sid (2008) | Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | Scrat's Continental Crack-up (2010) | Scrat's Continental Crack-up - Part 2 (2011) | A Mammoth Christmas (2011) | Continental Drift (2012) | |
| Manny | Ray Romano | Ray Romano | Silent cameo | Ray Romano | Ray Romano | |||||
| Sid | John Leguizamo | John Leguizamo | Silent cameo | John Leguizamo | John Leguizamo | |||||
| Diego | Denis Leary | Denis Leary | Silent cameo | Denis Leary | Denis Leary | |||||
| Scrat | Chris Wedge | |||||||||
| Ellie | Queen Latifah | Queen Latifah | Queen Latifah | |||||||
| Crash | Seann William Scott | Seann William Scott | Seann William Scott | |||||||
| Eddie | Josh Peck | Josh Peck | Josh Peck | |||||||
| Buck | Simon Pegg | |||||||||
| Peaches | Silent cameo | Ciara Bravo | Keke Palmer | |||||||
| Scratte | Karen Disher | |||||||||
Reception
Box office performance
| Film | Release date | Box office revenue | Box office ranking | Budget | Reference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Foreign | Worldwide | All time domestic | All time worldwide | ||||
| Ice Age | March 15, 2002 | $176,387,405 | $206,869,731 | $383,257,136 | #155 | #153 | $59,000,000 | [11] |
| Ice Age: The Meltdown | March 31, 2006 | $195,330,621 | $460,057,537 | $655,388,158 | #121 | #50 | $80,000,000 | [12] |
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | July 1, 2009 | $196,573,705 | $690,112,575 | $886,686,280 | #120 | #22 | $90,000,000 | [13] |
| Ice Age: Continental Drift | July 13, 2012 | |||||||
| Total | $568,291,731 | $1,357,039,843 | $1,925,331,574 | — | — | $229,000,000 | — | |
Critical reaction
| Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Yahoo! Movies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Cream of the Crop | |||
| Ice Age | 77% (163 reviews)[14] | 82% (11 reviews)[15] | 60% (31 reviews)[16] | B- (9 reviews)[17] |
| Ice Age: The Meltdown | 57% (143 reviews)[18] | 57% (7 reviews)[19] | 58% (29 reviews)[20] | B- (14 reviews)[21] |
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | 45% (156 reviews)[22] | 64% (11 reviews)[23] | 50% (25 reviews)[24] | C (13 reviews)[25] |
| Ice Age: Continental Drift | ||||
Video games
- Ice Age was released in 2002 by Ubisoft for Game Boy Advance
- Ice Age 2: The Meltdown was released in 2006 by Sierra Entertainment for Wii, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Xbox, and PC
- Dawn of the Dinosaurs was released by Activision, and released on June 30, 2009, for PC, Wii, DS, PS2, PlayStation 3, PSP, and Xbox 360
Video games allows characters to play as Manny (all games), Sid (all games), Diego (all games), Scrat (second and third movie game), Scratte (debut in third movie game), and Buck (debut in third movie game).
Live shows
Ice show
A live arena ice show titled Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure is slated to premiere in November 2012 at the Wembley Arena in London and continue with a five-year world-wide tour visiting more than 30 countries. The show will combine ice skating, aerial arts, puppetry and film, and will be based on a new story from the Ice Age world. It will be produced by Stage Entertainment Touring Productions, and directed by the director of Cirque du Soleil productions, Kà and Dralion, Guy Caron.[26]
References
- ^ Barnes, Brook (January 10, 2010). "Blue Sky Studios Takes Aim at Big Names in Animated Film". New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
- ^ McClintock, Pamela (May 5, 2010). "Fox sets 3D 'Ice Age' sequel". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
- ^ Fretts, Bruce (2002-11-29). "Ice Age DVD review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
- ^ "No Time for Nuts". Blue Sky Studios. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
- ^ "HORTON HEARS A WHO Special Edition DVD Review". Collider. 2008-12-14. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
- ^ Sciretta, Peter (2011-01-06). "Watch: Ice Age Short Film 'Scrat's Continental Crack-Up'". Slashfilm. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
- ^ Gonzalez, Sandra (November 15, 2011). "'Ice Age' star Scrat gets into more acorn-craving mischief -- EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
- ^ "New Ice Age, Charlie Brown Specials from for Thanksgiving". FOX via Animation World Network. September 19, 2011. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|newspaper=(help) - ^ "Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special ~ Blu-ray & Digital Copy & DVD ~ Widescreen". Fox Connect. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ^ "Ice Age - Mammoth Christmas (TBA): DVD". DVD Warehouse. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ^ "Ice Age (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Box Office Mojo, LLC. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)". Box Office Mojo. Box Office Mojo, LLC. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Box Office Mojo, LLC. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age (Cream of the Crop)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age". Yahoo! Movies. Yahoo!. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: The Meltdown". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: The Meltdown (Cream of the Crop)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: The Meltdown". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: The Meltdown". Yahoo! Movies. Yahoo!. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Cream of the Crop)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs". Yahoo! Movies. Yahoo!. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ^ "Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure is Coming in 2012". Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products via Comingsoon.net. December 1, 2011. Retrieved December 1, 2011.
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