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
Ray Romano
Manfred 'Manny' (voice)
John Leguizamo
Sid (voice)
Denis Leary
Diego (voice)
Goran Višnjić
Soto (voice)
Jack Black
Zeke (voice)
Cedric the Entertainer
Rhino (voice)
Stephen Root
Rhino / Start (voice)
Diedrich Bader
Saber-Toothed Tiger (voice)
Alan Tudyk
Saber-Toothed Tiger / Freaky Mammal (voice)
Lorri Bagley
Female Sloth (voice)
Jane Krakowski
Female Sloth (voice)
Peter Ackerman
Dodo / Freaky Mammal (voice)
P.J. Benjamin
Dodo (voice)
Josh Hamilton
Dodo / Aardvark (voice)
Denny Dillon
Glypto (voice)
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.
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