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Ice Age
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Title Ice Age: The Ice Age (Spain)
Ice Age (Hispanoamerica)
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Address
Chris Wedge
Carlos Saldanha
Production Lori Forte
Catherine Winder
Production design Brian McEntee
Screenplay by Michael J. Wilson
Michael Berg
Peter Ackeman
History Michael J. Wilson
Music David Newman
Assembly John Carnochan
Protagonists Ray Romano
John Leguizamo
Denis Leary
Goran Višnjić
Jack Black
Cedric the Entertainer
Stephen Root
Diedrich Bader
Alan Tudyk
Chris Wedge
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Data and figures
United States
Year 2002
Premiere Flag of Mexico March 14, 2002
United States Flag March 15, 2002
Flag of Venezuela March 20, 2002
Flag of the Dominican Republic March 21, 2002
Flag of Peru March 21, 2002
Flag of Brazil March 22, 2002
Flag of Colombia March 22, 2002
Flag of Jamaica March 27, 2002
Flag of Chile April 4, 2002
Flag of Uruguay June 21, 2002
Flag of Argentina July 4, 2002
Flag of Spain July 12, 2002
Genre Animation
Comedy
Childish
Duration 81 minutes
Classification Flag of the United States PG
Flag of Argentina ATP
Flag of Spain T
Flag of Chile TE
Flag of Mexico AA
Free Brazil Flag
Flag of Peru PT
Flag of Australia G
Language(s) English
Companies
Blue Sky Studios
Distribution 20th Century Fox
Study 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Budget $59,000,000
Collection $383,257,136
Saga Ice Age
Ice Age Ice Age: The Meltdown
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Ice Age (titled Ice Age: The Ice Age in Spain and The Ice Age in
Hispanoamerica) is an American animated film from the year 2002 created by
Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Chris Wedge and
Carlos Saldanha. It was released on March 15, 2002.

It was projected alongside the previous short Gone Nutty (translated as Acorns),
featuring a small saber-toothed squirrel thief named Scrat who
searches for and obsessively stores acorns, and that will also appear in the rest of
movies of the series.3?

The movie was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature,
the first Blue Sky Studios movie to be nominated in that category.

Index
1 Argument
2 Dubbing
3 Awards
3.1 Oscar Awards
3.2 Annie Awards
3.3 BMI Film & TV Awards
3.4 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
4 Animals that appear
5 References
6 See also
7 External links
Argument
The movie began a long time ago, during the ice age, showing Scrat,
a small sabre-toothed squirrel, a thief of nuts and acorns that searches for a
place to store its acorn. Upon finding it, it tries to protect it in the
ground but ends up forming a crack that will trigger a catastrophe that by
little ends his life. Upon leaving there, Scrat is happy that he is.
return with her acorn, but then ends up being crushed by a woolly mammoth.
this part shows the title.

The movie begins with a gigantic herd of various animals from the era of
ice, like Macrauchenia, Glyptodon, Palaeotherium, Megacerops, Anteater
They head south during the winter, to warmer lands. Without
embargo, Manfred, another Woolly Mammoth (the one at the beginning that steps on Scrat, it is not known
who is or what happened to him that lives isolated in his solitude, goes in another direction,
grumpy, for not doing what everyone else does. Shortly after, he meets Sid, a
clumsy lazy, chatterbox and joker, who flees from two prehistoric rhinoceroses,5?
an Embolotherium named Carl and a Megacerops named Frank who want to kill him
after ruining his lunch (a dandelion salad). The mammoth decides
save Sid, because according to his own words, he hates animals that kill for
Pleasure. Once saved, Sid decides to stay with Manfred, whom the sloth...
decide to call "Manny" to escape from the threatening brontotheres.
far away, even though Manny insists that she leave him alone. Meanwhile, a
sinister saber-toothed tiger named Diego, has the mission to steal a baby,
Who is the son of the human hunter who killed half of his pack? Diego continues.
Orders from Soto, the leader of his pack, who wishes to take revenge on humans. The tiger
chases the child's mother to a waterfall, where she jumps in to save her.
life of his baby, and Diego decides not to jump due to his fear of water. Soto, angry,
he orders to find the baby and take it to his hideout located in the 'half peak'
(a distant mountain) or I would kill him.

By accident, Manny and Sid find the creature and its mother on the shore of the.
The river flows under the waterfall. The woman pushes the baby towards them, who are looking at him.
astonished until they realize that their mother has disappeared dragged by
the river. The sloth takes the initiative to return it, to which the mammoth refuses and
only follows it to mock its attempts to climb the hill towards the camp
from the humans. A little while later, Diego appears, claiming the baby as his own,
but Manny refuses to hand it over, as he senses the true intentions of the
tiger

Finally, Manny decides to help Sid return the baby to keep it away from the tiger.
but Diego convinces him that without a signal and his tracking skills, they would never find it.
the humans' camp at the glacier pass. Manny then decides that Diego
be the guide, a thing that terrifies Sid, since just before leaving, the tiger him
threatens to kill and devour him after returning the baby. Here begins his
journey in search of Bodoque's family (nickname given to him by Manny),
going through different adventures that unite them more as a "pack", in an attempt to
to obtain food for the human baby, they stumble upon an army of Dodos, which according to
they are preparing for the ice age, the mammoth asks them for a watermelon to
feed the baby, but the birds refuse and begin a fight that Sid,
ends up finishing victorious. When night falls and Sid and Manny are asleep,
Diego tries to steal from the baby, hears something in the nearby bushes and proceeds to
attack, realizing that they are the members of his pack, who demand that he presents himself.
with the baby, since Soto is impatient, to which he responds that in addition to the baby
he will take a mammoth, and he tells them to return with Soto to have everyone ready for
the slaughter.

The next morning after a stumble with 2 attractive Megalonyx and with the
the aforementioned rhinoceroses embark on a journey full of wonders, finding
beautiful and wonderful places, like Stonehenge, geysers, and enormous forests
wonderful mountains. At one point, the group meets Scrat and Manny tells him
ask for directions to know where the humans are. Scrat does not know where they are.
but knows about the saber-toothed tigers. Although Sid and Manny try to figure out about
what Scrat intends, the animal points to Diego referring to his
species, but the tiger pushes it so that the squirrel stumbles in the snow
forming a gigantic snowball. Upon reaching a hill already affected by the
In the ice age, Diego spots the humans, and to distract Manny and Sid, the
leads them down another path; it takes them to a giant cavern, where Sid, at
separate from the group for a while, find prehistoric fish, a Tyrannosaurus
frozen rex, an evolution composed of several animals frozen in the ice
ancestors of Sid, and even a frozen UFO; later Bodoque falls into a cave
from ice to what others come to help him, but they end up performing a
small race to rescue the child. Scrat accidentally enters and upon finding
a good place for his acorn is run over by Sid. Scrat, upon leaving, finds his
acorn on a wall, but turns out to be a painting and ends up knocked out. Upon finishing
they find a room with cave paintings of other animals, such as antelopes and
prehistoric horses, Macrauchenia, wolves, Bison latifrons, lions, hyenas and
other saber-toothed teeth, but in one of these paintings Sid finds a mammoth that
He is happy with his family (a baby and a female), and Manny, upon seeing that painting,
realizes that he is, demonstrating why he is so bitter and lonely, since some
hunters murdered his family years before. Then the baby interjects, and the
Mammoth observes him with affection, to proceed to hug him, as he is leaving the
Cave Manny and Sid, Diego stays for a few seconds watching the painting with sadness.
Manny with his family.

On one occasion, while crossing a river of lava, Manny saves Diego's life.
surprise of this. The next day, when they were only a few meters away from arriving
At the halfway point (Soto's lair), Diego can no longer bear the guilt and tells them the
truth about their intentions, regretting and seeking a plan to get rid of
of the other saber-toothed tiger. The group sets its plan in motion, to attract the
tigers with Sid as bait for Manny, who is waiting to knock them down with a log,
Only three of the tigers are defeated, but Soto is ready to attack.
Manny; for a few seconds it seems that Diego has allied himself again with Soto, but
defends Manny. Soto is willing to fight both, since two of the tigers
they regained consciousness and are ready to kill. Soto starts the fight with
Diego, but Manny, trying to help, is attacked by the other two members.
Diego is knocked out when he slips, Soto heads towards Manny to kill him, ready to.
jump to his neck, to which Diego jumps to receive the attack for him. The tiger
falls injured to the ground, while Sid passes by with Bodoque unaware of what is happening.
happening. Soto is ready to attack, but Manny strikes him, launching him away.
hits against some stones, and icicles fall on Soto, killing him, to which
the rest of the tigers escape in response.

Diego is seriously injured and cannot continue advancing, Sid approaches Diego.
to assist him along with Manny, but he insists that they continue, as if not
they keep advancing they will not reach the group of humans. Everything indicates that Diego
he/she is agonizing from his/her wounds.

Manny and Sid find the group of humans and deliver Bodoque to his father in a
emotional scene, because he believes he will be attacked. The animals say goodbye to the
humans and they ask the child not to forget them because they will never forget him.
When the humans disappear under the glacial passage, Manny and Sid turn around and
come to Diego, alive and recovered, although very weak and hurt. This arrives just at
time to say goodbye to Bodoque, who waves at him from afar.
Finally, Diego decides to leave with his new friends, and together they head to the
In the end, 20 thousand years later, Scrat appears, frozen in a block of ice.
He arrives at a deserted island, waits until the ice thaws to
to reach his acorn, but the acorn ends up leaving the island. Scrat, enraged,
hits his head on a palm tree and finds a coconut (thinking it's a
, it puts it on the ground but creates another crack causing an eruption.
volcanic, leaving Scrat nervously smiling at the end of the movie.

Dubbing
Character Actor original Flag of the United States Voice actor Flag of
Mexico Voice actor Flag of Spain
Manfred "Manny" Ray Romano Jesus Ochoa Ricky Coello
Sid John Leguizamo Carlos Espejel Aleix Estadella6?
Diego Denis Leary Sergio Sendel Oscar Barberán
Scrat
Chris Wedge
Roshan
Tara Strong
Soto Goran Visnjic Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza Luis Marco
Dodo Chris Wedge José Antonio Macías Eduard Doncos
Carl Cedric the Entertainer Rubén Moya Gonzalo Abril
Frank Stephen Root Gerardo Vázquez Rafael Calvo
Ken Tim Mykes Moisés Iván Mora Jorge Castro
Awards
Oscar Awards
Year Category Nominated Result
2003 Mejor pel cula animada Chris Wedge Nominada
Annie Awards
Year Category Nominated Result
2003 Best Animated Film Ice Age Nominated
2003 Best Director in an Animated Film Chris Wedge
Carlos Saldanha (co-director) Nominated
2003 Best screenplay in an animated film Michael Berg
Michael Wilson
Peter Ackerman Nominee
2003 Best Soundtrack in an Animated Film David Newman Nominated
2003 Best Character Design in an Animated Film Peter DeSeve
Nominee
2003 Best Character Animator Mike Thurmeier Nominated
2003 Best Production Design in an Animated Film Brian McEntee
Nominated
BMI Film & TV Awards
Year Category Result
2002 Best Soundtrack Winner
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Year Category Result
2002 Best Animated Feature Winner
Animals that appear
Woolly Mammoth
Megatherium
Smilodon
Rheithrosciurus
Glyptodon
Neanderthal Man
Dodo
Palaeotherium
Macrauchenia
Platybelodon
Tyrannosaurus
Eurotamandua
Embolotherium
Arsinoitherium (Possibly)
Moeritherium
Terrible Wolf
Musk Ox
Unidentified Spinosauridae (Possibly Suchomimus or Baryonyx)
Gigantopithecus
Prehistoric Northern Elephant Seal
Palaeolagus
Sloth (Folivora)
Unidentified prehistoric armadillo
Unidentified prehistoric remains
Synthetoceras
Gastornis
Baptornis
Chalicotherium
Deer
Moeritherium (Identified as Palaeotherium)
Anteater
Procoptodon
Dung beetle
Unidentified shark
Unidentified prehistoric piranha
Giant crab
Argentavis
Unidentified prehistoric vulture
Dakotaraptor (Possibly)
Ankylosaurus
Chasmosaurus
Unidentified prehistoric weasel
Iguanodon
Archaeopteryx
Parasaurolophus
Brachiosaurus
Pteranodon
Pachycephalosaurus
Metridiochoerus
Quetzalcoatlus
Guanlong
Strange ichthyosaur based on Metriorhynchus
Unidentified strange pliosaur.
Kentrosaurus
Troodon
Prehistoric Lamini
References
Ice Age Movie Review
Consulted on January 7, 2018.
Ice Age Movie Review. pluggedin. (in English). Consulted on January 7, 2018.
Ice Age Review. empireonline. (in English). Consulted on January 7, 2018.
Ice Age: Production Notes. [Link]. (in English). Consulted on January 7.
2018.
The Chatty Cathys of the Prehistoric World. The New York Times. Review by A. O.
SCOTT (in English). Consulted on January 7, 2018.
File of Aleix Estadella
Also see
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Ice Age: Collision Course
Ice Age franchise
External links
Official website
Dubbing in Mexico
Movies in English, Movies from the United States, Movies from Blue Sky
Studios Animation Movies Comic Movies Children's Movies Movies
Directed by Chris Wedge Movies directed by Carlos Saldanha Movies from 20th
20th Century Fox Children's Movies
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