| Ice Age: Continental Drift |
Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by |
Steve Martino
Mike Thurmeier |
| Produced by |
John C. Donkin
Lori Forte |
| Screenplay by |
Michael Berg
Jason Fuchs |
| Story by |
Michael Berg
Lori Forte |
| Starring |
- Ray Romano
- John Leguizamo
- Denis Leary
- Nicki Minaj
- Drake
- Jennifer Lopez
- Queen Latifah
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| Music by |
John Powell |
| Cinematography |
Renato Falcão |
| Editing by |
James Palumbo
David Ian Salter |
| Studio |
Blue Sky Studios
20th Century Fox Animation |
| Distributed by |
20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) |
- June 27, 2012 (Europe)
- July 13, 2012 (North America)
|
| Running time |
88 minutes[1] |
| Country |
United States |
| Language |
English |
| Budget |
$95 million[2][3] |
| Box office |
$877,244,782[3] |
Ice Age: Continental Drift is a 2012 American
3D computer-animated comedy adventure film directed by Steve Martino and
Mike Thurmeier. It was written by
Jason Fuchs and Michael Berg, and features the voices of
Ray Romano,
John Leguizamo,
Denis Leary,
Nicki Minaj,
Drake, with
Jennifer Lopez, and
Queen Latifah.
It is the fourth installment of the
Ice Age series, produced by
Blue Sky Studios and distributed by
20th Century Fox. It is the first sequel in the series not directed by
Carlos Saldanha,
[4] and the second
Ice Age installment that utilises
Digital 3D. It was released in the US on July 13, 2012, three to six years after its predecessors
The Meltdown and
Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and ten years after the release of the original
Ice Age. This was the first
Ice Age film to be presented in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio.
Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film became a box
office success, with a worldwide gross of over $877 million, marking it
the highest grossing animated film of 2012.
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Plot
While Scrat (Chris Wedge) inadvertently causes the break up of Pangaea, Manny (Ray Romano) and Ellie (Queen Latifah) are forced to deal with the trials and tribulations of their teenage daughter Peaches (Keke Palmer),
who has trouble fitting in with her peers. Ellie tries to support her
daughter, but Manny becomes exceedingly over-protective. Peaches' friend
Louis (Josh Gad), a molehog, tries to warn her as she tries to approach a mammoth named Ethan (Drake) whom she has a crush on. Meanwhile Sid's (John Leguizamo) family returns, but only long enough to drop off the elderly Granny (Wanda Sykes)
before abandoning them both. Manny catches Peaches sneaking off to meet
Ethan, and they argue and fall out. Shortly after, a continental
break-up separates Manny from the herd. Trapped on a moving chunk of ice
with Sid and Diego (Denis Leary),
Manny has no choice but to ride out the current. Meanwhile a giant land
shift encroaches on Ellie, Peaches, and those remaining on land,
causing them to make their way toward the land bridge.
Meanwhile Scrat, in a side adventure, finds an acorn that has a treasure map
on it that directs him towards an island. After violent weather pushes
them further away from land Manny, Sid, and Diego find Granny who was
sleeping inside a hollow tree stump, on the ice raft. Shortly after they
are captured by a band of pirates sailing on a floating iceberg led by a Gigantopithecus, Captain Gutt (Peter Dinklage),
who attempts to press gang them into his crew. When they refuse Gutt
forces them to walk the plank but Manny, Sid, Diego, Granny and Scrat
(who was also taken captive) manages to escape and inadvertently cause
the ship to sink. Gutt's first mate, a female sabertooth named Shira (Jennifer Lopez) joins them out of no will of her own.
After finding Switchback Cove, they learn that it has a current that
would take them back home, but after washing ashore, Shira, still loyal
to Gutt, warns him and the rest of the pirate crew, who are also on the
island, of their presence. Gutt, wanting revenge on Manny for sinking
his ship, plans an attack. In response, Manny coordinates a plan to
steal Gutt's new ship to return home, and enlists the aid of the hyrax
inhabitants of the island with the help of Sid. The hyrax pretend to
charge towards the pirates with manny behind them, which the pirates
charge to in return, but at the last minute the hyrax fly off in
makeshift planes made from leaves, leaving Gut to discover that the
silhouette on top of the hill is a fake made to look like Manny. Shira
decides to leave Gutt, after confronting her feelings about Diego, but
she stays behind to ensure Gutt doesn't catch the herd who was
attempting to escape on his new ice ship. In a fit of rage Gutt
constructs a new ship by breaking two icebergs apart, and sails after
the herd, determined to get revenge.
Meanwhile, Scrat, using one of the hyrax's leaf "planes", flies off
the island, only to be swallowed by a shark. Peaches finally begins to
fit in with the mammoths her age, but accidentally pushes away Louis, by
saying they are not friends to fit in with the rest of the group. When
she realizes the other teens' careless disregard for danger, she turns
her back on them, warning that their extinction will come sooner than they think.
While sailing back on the current, Diego, Sid, and Granny encounter monstrous sirens preying on their deepest fantasies (Sid's siren is voiced by Ester Dean).
Fortunately, Manny realizes just in time that none of it is real and
saves them all at the last second. Scrat encounters a siren as well,
taking on the shape of Scratte (Scrat's old flame from the third film),
that Scrat ignores. The siren then turns into an acorn and Scrat
immediately runs up and attempts to bury the "acorn", and kills the
siren, but is attacked by other sirens but he manages to escape
unharmed.
Manny, Sid, Diego, and Granny returns home only to find the land
bridge destroyed in the earthquakes and that Gutt and his crew made it
there first. The pirates captures Ellie and Peaches forcing Manny to
face Gutt. Louis stands up for Peaches and a battle ensues between the
herd and the pirates. Shira frees Ellie and helps fend off her former
comrades, while Granny's "imaginary" pet whale, Precious, appears and
turns the tables on the rest of the lot. Gutt then attempts to kill
Ellie but Peaches, using her possum-like skills, manages to save her
mother. Manny defeats Gutt in a duel on an ice floe and reunites with
his family and friends. In the meanwhile Gutt encounters a siren taking
on the shape of a female of his species (also voiced by Ester Dean) and
is devoured. With their home destroyed, the entire party and inhabitants
then sail to an island that they found to settle down, while Louis
becomes a hero among the teenage mammoths, Shira agrees to stay with
Diego and becomes a member of the herd.
At the end Scrat discovers the island on the map, known as Scratlantis (a mock up of Atlantis),
but his uncontrollable urge to hunt acorns in the acorn-rich city
inadvertently causes the entire island to sink when he unplugs an acorn
drain holder; Scrat is then ejected into what is now known as
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In Movie Theaters:
World
Release Date:
December 6, 2013 (limited)
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