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This article is about a film. For information on continental glaciation, see Ice age.

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. Image File history File links Ice Age DVD cover Source: Amazon. ... Image File history File links Ice Age DVD cover Source: Amazon. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ... Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Blue Sky Studios are an Academy Award winning computer animation studio who specialise in character animation with all the characters being goober-eyed. ... 20th Century Fox logo Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Characters

The characters are all prehistoric animals with the exception of some non-speaking early humans. The animals can talk to and understand each other and are voiced by a variety of famous actors. Prehistory (Greek words προ = before and ιστορία = history) is the period of human history including all previous history before humans which is prior to the advent of writing (which marks the beginning of recorded history). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

• 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
• Rhinoceros - Cedric the Entertainer
• Rhinoceros - Stephen Root
• Female sloth - Jane Krakowski
• Female sloth - Lorri Bagley

Species Mammuthus columbi Columbian mammoth Mammuthus exilis Pygmy mammoth Mammuthus jeffersonii Jeffersonian mammoth Mammuthus meridionalis Mammuthus primigenius Wooly mammoth A mammoth (from Russian мамонт) is any of a number of an extinct genus of elephant, often with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. ... Ray Romano Ray Romano (born December 21, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an Italian American actor and comedian. ... This article refers to the South American mammal. ... John Leguizamo (born July 22, 1964) in Bogotá, Colombia), is a Colombian-Puerto Rican comedian, actor and producer working in the Hollywood, film industry. ... Species Smilodon californicus Smilodon fatalis Smilodon gracilis Smilodon populator Smilodon (Greek: Knife-Tooth) is an extinct genus of large machairodontine saber-toothed cats that are understood to have lived between approximately 3 million to 10,000 years ago in North and South America. ... Denis Leary Denis Leary (born August 18, 1957 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an actor/comedian/writer/director, whose father immigrated to Worcester from Ireland. ... Goran Višnjić (born on September 9, 1972) is a Croatian actor. ... For other persons named Jack Black, see Jack Black (disambiguation). ... Diedrich Bader (born December 24, 1966) is an American actor. ... Species Ceratotherium simum Dicerorhinus sumatrensis Diceros bicornis Rhinoceros unicornis Coelodonta antiquitatis (extinct) A rhinoceros (commonly called a rhino for short) is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulate in the family Rhinocerotidae. ... Cedric the Entertainer (born Cedric Kyles, April 24, 1964 in Jefferson City, Missouri) is an African American actor and comedian. ... Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951 in Sarasota, Florida) is an American comedy actor. ... Jane Krakowski (née Krajkowski, October 11, 1968, Parsippany, New Jersey) is an American actress. ...

Plot

After an attack by a pack of saber-toothed cats (Soto, the leader, with Diego, Zeke and another) a camp of neanderthal 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. The term saber-toothed cat describes numerous cat-like species of the that lived during various parts of the Cenozoic that evolved their saber-toothed characteristics entirely independently. ... Binomial name Homo neanderthalensis King, 1864 The Neanderthal or Neandertal was a species of genus Homo (Homo neanderthalensis) that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia from about 230,000 to 29,000 years ago (the Middle Palaeolithic and Lower Paleolithic, in the Pleistocene epoch). ...

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. This article refers to the South American mammal. ...

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 pinch the baby, convinces the pair that he knows where the humans are going and begins leading Sid and Manfred to find them.

Over the course of their adventures Diego realizes that it would be wrong to harm the child and works with Sid and Manfred to return it to the tribe. At one point he even fights off his former pack. Eventually finding the humans, the trio return the child and say an emotional goodbye to the baby they had gotten somewhat attached to.

A subplot involving Scrat, a sabre-toothed prehistoric squirrel who defends his beloved acorn with paranoid fervour, is continued in the follow-up "Gone Nutty". Genera Many, see the article Sciuridae. ... Acorns of Quercus kerrii The acorn is the fruit of the oak tree. ...

Alert viewers will notice the plot has some similarity to Disney's animated version of The Jungle Book (1967). The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... The Jungle Book is the nineteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features songs such as "Send Me on My Way" by Rusted Root. The Japanese release's theme song is "Hitoshizuku" by ZONE. Rusted Root is a jam band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania known for their fusion of Grateful Dead-style bluegrass with a strong percussion section that draws from African and Middle Eastern influences. ... ZONE, from left to right: Mizuho, Miyu, Takayo, and Maiko ZONE is a JPop band started in Sapporo, Japan in 1999, who went on to become a hit in 2000 with their single Good Days. ...

Factual accuracy

The film has numerous anachronisms and factual errors, though the creators can claim artistic licence. Probably the most glaring anachronism is the portrayed fate of the dodo which, unlike the other animals in the movie, did not actually go extinct until modern times. An anachronism (from Greek ana, back, and chronos, time) is something that is out of its natural time or appears to be. ... Artistic licence or license (US) is a colloquial term used to denote the liberties an artist may take in the name of art — for example, if an artist decided it was more artistically correct to portray St. ... Binomial name Raphus cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Mauritius Dodo (Raphus cucullatus, called Didus ineptus by Linnaeus), more commonly just Dodo, was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of Mauritius. ...

External links

• Ice Age at the Internet Movie Database