Surviving Sid

Surviving Sid
Directed by	Galen Tan Chu Karen Disher
Written by	John Vitti Mike Reiss Yoni Brenner
Produced by	John C. Donkin Lori Forte Chris Wedge Carlos Saldanha
Starring	John Leguizamo - Sid the Sloth Chris Wedge - Scrat Emily Osment - Claire Paul Butcher - Molehog Boy
Music by	Michael A. Levine
Production companies	Blue Sky Studios HiT Entertainment
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	United Kingdom October 20, 2008 United States December 9, 2008
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English

Surviving Sid is a 2008 computer animated short direct-to-video short from Blue Sky Studios (20th Century Fox Animation) and distributed by HiT Entertainment, starring Sid the Sloth of Ice Age and a cameo appearance by Scrat. It is the third in the series of Ice Age short films, the first being Gone Nutty released with the Ice Age DVD in November 2002. The second being No Time for Nuts on the Ice Age: The Meltdown DVD in November 2006. Unlike the first two Ice Age short films, Surviving Sid focuses on Sid the Sloth and a small group of camping children. This is opposed to the first two movies where Scrat the Saber Toothed Squirrel was the lead role. The direct to video short was and still is a cult favourite.

Synopsis

Sid, the Sloth, takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that in typical Sid style, he is not a very good guide and the children he takes with him don't have a very good time. Scrat makes a small cameo appearance in the short, he has swallowed his nut and is struggling to keep it down, in true Scrat style he coughs it up and it is stolen from him. The camping trip leaves some of the children somewhat traumatised. Sid tries to pick a flower, but somehow this has led to a tree falling, which then hits a rock, which causes a chain reaction and hits a series of larger rocks, until eventually hitting a large iceberg. The iceberg then carves out a u-shaped valley, which Sid later names the Grand Canyon. Afterwards the kids get so annoyed with Sid that it ends with them tying him up. At the end of the short movie (20,000 years later in the present day) it shows a father and son beaver looking over the Grand Canyon with the son asking who made it. The father replies "Nature or a being with infinite wisdom."

Release

The short film was released with the Horton Hears a Who! Blu Ray and DVD, which was released in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2008, and in the United States on December 9, 2008.

As of July 2009, it is also available as a free "Video Podcast" in the USA iTunes store, and on the PlayStation Network.

Sequel

A fourth Ice Age short, The World According to Scrat, is going to be released with Gulliver's Travels on December 26, 2010. It mainly features on the Ice Age world from Scrat's point of view.