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Ice Age is a feature-length computer-animated film created by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox in 2002. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge from a story by Michael J. Wilson. The upcoming sequel is called Ice Age: The Meltdown
(2006).

Characters

The characters are all prehistoric animals with the exception of some non-speaking early humans (who bear some Neanderthal-like facial features, but are technologically much more sophisticated). The animals can talk to and understand each other and are voiced by a variety of famous actors.

Manfred (mammoth) - Ray Romano
Sid (sloth) - John Leguizamo
Diego (smilodon) - Denis Leary
Soto (smilodon) - Goran Visnjic
Zeke (smilodon) - Jack Black
Scrat (squirrel-rat) - Chris Wedge
Smilodon - Diedrich Bader
Carl - Cedric the Entertainer
Frank- Stephen Root
Female sloth - Jane Krakowski
Female sloth - Lorri Bagley

Plot

After an attack by a pack of saber-toothed cats (Soto, the leader, with Diego, Zeke and two others) a camp of hunter-gatherer humans try to protect their women and children. Jumping into a raging river with her baby, one woman is dragged downstream. She manages to place the infant on an embankment but is too drained to climb out of the water herself. Soto orders Diego to find the baby and bring it to him alive.

Meanwhile the animals are all trying to avoid the coming ice age by retreating to warmer climates. Left by his family, Sid, a clumsy Sloth, is rescued from two rhinoceroses by Manfred, one of the last remaining mammoths. Not wanting to be alone Sid follows Manfred, much to the mammoth's annoyance.

Sid and Manfred spot the baby on the side of the river and decide to return it to its tribe, but when they get there the humans have already left. Diego, still trying to snatch the baby, convinces the pair that he knows where the humans are going and begins leading Sid and Manfred to find them.

The trio take the baby across an assortment of different terrains and into several comedic situations. These include an army of dodos trying to escape extinction by eating watermelons; the trio venturing into a series of ice caves where they discover all sorts of odd things including a frozen Tyrannosaurus Rex and even a UFO. In the end, Diego learns that it is wrong to harm a child and helps Manny and Sid help the baby back to his father. We also learn that Manny does not trust humans as they killed his wife and child.

At the end of the film, Diego, Manny and Sid battle Diego's pack and manage to return the baby to his father, before heading off to escape the Ice Age.

Alert viewers will notice the plot has some similarity to Disney's animated version of The Jungle Book
(1967), though it also has a lot of themes and jokes from Three Men and a Baby.

Scrat

There is also a subplot where an animal named Scrat (compare a and ), makes many comical attempts to bury his beloved acorn. His misfortunes include getting chased by an enormous glacier, being struck by lightning, and later getting cryogenically frozen in an ice cube along with a nut. 20,000 years into the future, the ice cube washes up on the shore of an island. The sun slowly melts the cube, thawing Scrat and the ice surrounding his acorn, which is barely out of reach, and ends up being removed from the ice cube by the tide. Scrat then explodes in anger and hits his head on a tree, which drops a coconut. 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 acorns, but in the process causes a volcanic eruption.

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