

Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.
Practical Effects
Scrat's silent comedy rivals classic Looney Tunes.
Writing
Diego's heel-face turn hits harder than it has any right to.

Director
Chris Wedge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Scrat was originally a one-off gag but test audiences lost their minds, so Blue Sky built the entire franchise marketing around him.
The 'dodos preparing for the ice age' sequence is a sly jab at Y2K prepper panic that aged weirdly well.