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Ice Age Th4w, Ice Age: The Th4w, Ice Age Thaw, Ice Age: The Th4w, Ice Age 4 have all been thrown out there. |
Ice Age Th4w, Ice Age: The Th4w, Ice Age Thaw, Ice Age: The Th4w, Ice Age 4 have all been thrown out there. |
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Rumors started on the internet just before Dawn Of The Dinosaurs was played in movie theaters. The story line is supposed to be more modern. The Sub-Zero Heroes had been frozen and thaw out in a modern day museum. [[Manny (Ice Age)|Manny]], [[Sid (Ice Age)|Sid]], [[Diego (Ice Age)|Diego]], [[Ellie (Ice Age)|Ellie]], Peaches, [[Scrat]] and [[Scratte]] are supposed to be returning for this sequel. |
Rumors started on the internet just before Dawn Of The Dinosaurs was played in movie theaters. The story line is supposed to be more modern. The Sub-Zero Heroes had been frozen and thaw out in a modern day museum. [[Manny (Ice Age)|Manny]], [[Sid (Ice Age)|Sid]], [[Diego (Ice Age)|Diego]], [[Ellie (Ice Age)|Ellie]], Peaches, [[Crash and Eddie (Ice Age)|Crash and Eddie]] [[Scrat]] and [[Scratte]] are supposed to be returning for this sequel. |
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Revision as of 15:28, 5 December 2009
| Ice Age film series | |
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| Directed by | Carlos Saldanha Chris Wedge (Ice Age) Mike Thurmeier (Dawn of the Dinosaurs) |
| 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 |
| Music by | David Newman (Ice Age) John Powell (2 and 3) |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | 2002 – 2009 |
Running time | 265 minutes |
| Country | Template:FilmUS |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $229 million |
| Box office | $1,827,502,939 |
Ice Age is the name of a series of animated films produced by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox. The plot of the movies follows a group of mammals surviving the Paleolithic ice age.
Characters
- Manny the Wooly Mammoth, voiced by Ray Romano
- Sid the Sloth, voiced by John Leguizamo
- Diego the Smilodon, voiced by Denis Leary
- Ellie the mammoth, debuts in the second film, voiced by Queen Latifah
- Crash and Eddie the Opossums, debuts in the second film, voiced by Sean William Scott and Josh Peck, respectively
- Scrat, a sabertooth Squirrel, voiced by Chris Wedge
- Scratte, a female of Scrat's species, both Scrat's love interest and rival, debuts in the third film, voiced by Karen Disher
- Buck the Weasel, debuts in the third film, voiced by Simon Pegg
- Peaches, Manny and Ellie's daughter and Sid, Diego, Crash and Eddie's niece, born and debuts in the third film
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 on a river. 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 hilarious 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.
To celebrate the release of Ice Age 3, they opened a walkthrough attraction at Beanoland at Chessington World of Adventures from 20th June to the 31st August 2009.
Ice Age: Th4w (2012)
Ice Age Th4w is the rumored fourth sequel in the Ice Age series. No official announcement of the production of this movie has been made yet. Though it is widely believed to be some time in 2012. There have been many variations of the name, but all keeping with the same theme. Ice Age Th4w, Ice Age: The Th4w, Ice Age Thaw, Ice Age: The Th4w, Ice Age 4 have all been thrown out there.
Rumors started on the internet just before Dawn Of The Dinosaurs was played in movie theaters. The story line is supposed to be more modern. The Sub-Zero Heroes had been frozen and thaw out in a modern day museum. Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie, Peaches, Crash and Eddie Scrat and Scratte are supposed to be returning for this sequel.
Reception
Box office performance
| Film | Release date | Box office revenue | Box office ranking | Ref. | ||||
| Worldwide | United States | United States | Outside U.S. | Worldwide | All time U.S. | All time worldwide | ||
| Ice Age | 2002 | March 15 2002 | $176,387,405 | $206,869,731 | $383,257,136 | #130 | #118 | [1] |
| Ice Age: The Meltdown | 2006 | March 31 2006 | $195,330,621 | $456,568,661 | $651,899,282 | #99 | #35 | [2] |
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | 2009 | July 1 2009 | $194,700,000 | $670,200,000 | $864,900,000 | #101 | #17 | [3] |
| Ice Age film series | $566,418,026 | $1,333,638,392 | $1,900,056,418 | |||||
Critical reaction
| Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Yahoo! Movies | |
| Overall | Cream of the Crop | |||
| Ice Age | 78% (161 reviews)[4] | 77% (31 reviews)[5] | 60% (31 reviews)[6] | B- (9 reviews)[7] |
| Ice Age: The Meltdown | 57% (139 reviews)[8] | 62% (26 reviews)[9] | 58% (29 reviews)[10] | B- (14 reviews)[11] |
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | 45% (137 reviews)[12] | 37% (27 reviews)[13] | 50% (25 reviews)[14] | C (13 reviews)[15] |
Video games
A Game Boy Advance game by Ubisoft released as a tie in for the first film. In 2006, Sierra Entertainment released a video game based upon the second film for Wii, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Xbox, and PC. Dawn of the Dinosaurs was made into a video game by Activision released June 30th, 2009 for the seventh generation systems (Wii, DS, PlayStation 3, PSP, and Xbox 360) besides the PS2 and PC. Video games allows characters to play as Manny (all games), Sid (all games), Diego (all games), Scrat (second and third movie game), Scratee (debut in third movie game), and Buck (debut in third movie game).
References
- ^ "Ice Age (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Box Office Mojo, LLC. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)". Box Office Mojo. Box Office Mojo, LLC. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
- ^ "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Box Office Mojo, LLC. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
- ^ "Ice Age". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age (Cream of the Crop)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age". Yahoo! Movies. Yahoo!. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age: The Meltdown". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age: The Meltdown (Cream of the Crop)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age: The Meltdown". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age: The Meltdown". Yahoo! Movies. Yahoo!. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Cream of the Crop)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs". Yahoo! Movies. Yahoo!. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
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