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Ice Age

FILM · 2002 · USA

Ice Age

Directed by
Chris Wedge
Runtime
81 min
Studio
Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox

196 archived facts 7 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026

Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.

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All facts (196)

  1. #001

    All of the character drawings shown during the end credits were made by the animators' children, and the same goes for the picture Sid paints on a cave wall. Sid's drawing was made by three-year-old Will Shefelman, the son of story artist Dan Shefelman. The story artist working on the scene turned to a specialist because he had trouble drawing like a three-year-old child.

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  2. #002

    John Leguizamo tried 30 different voices for Sid. After watching a documentary about sloths, he learned that they store food in their mouths, which made him wonder what kind of sound he would make with food in his mouth. After trying to talk as if he had food in his mouth, he decided it was the perfect voice for Sid.

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  3. #003
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    According to a July 12, 2012 interview with Jay Leno, Denis Leary's character Diego died near the end of the film, which left the child test audiences in tears and caused the film to be remade.

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  4. #004

    Despite the dodo's less than brilliant survival instincts, they outlived all of the main characters' species. Dodos were wiped out between the mid and late 17th century; woolly mammoths (Manny) died out 10,000 years ago (a dwarf species survived until around 1700 BC), ground sloths (Sid) are widely believed to have gone extinct around 2500 BC (though it has been suggested that a small group survived until 1550 AD), and saber-toothed cats (Diego) disappeared around 10,000 BC. Even Neanderthals like Roshan and his father did not outlast the dodo.

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  5. #005

    To help keep the animation spontaneous, all of the actors were encouraged to improvise as much as possible.

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  6. #006

    Each of the frozen creatures Sid sees in the ice is connected to an installment in the series: a carnivorous fish, a dinosaur, a line of sloths and a flying saucer.

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  7. #007

    Director Chris Wedge is the voice of Scrat, but the character has no intelligible dialogue; the plan to give Scrat speech was quickly dropped because he worked better as a silent character for comedic effect. Because Scrat has features of both species, his name is a combination of the words 'squirrel' and 'rat'; Wedge also called him a "saber-toothed squirrel." Scrat's opening adventure was added because without it the first real snow and ice scene would not have arrived until around the 37th minute of the film. This was the only role designed for Scrat, but he proved such a popular character with test audiences that he was given more scenes and appeared in other films as well.

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  8. #008

    Although Scrat was designed as a fictional animal, in 2009 scientists in Argentina uncovered the remains of a small, extinct mammal that resembled a long-toothed mouse. The animal was given the scientific name "Cronopio Dentiacutus" in memory of Scrat.

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  9. #009

    This is the only film in the Ice Age series to show human characters, and for nearly a decade it was the only Blue Sky Studios film to feature human characters. Blue Sky would not include human characters again until the 2011 film Rio.

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  10. #010

    The film was initially planned as a drama, but Fox would only accept it as a children's comedy.

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  11. #011

    The first drawings seen in the cave (before the giant area containing the mammoth drawings) are copies of the oldest known cave paintings, found at Lascaux in southern France. They have been dated to between 15,000 and 17,000 years old.

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  12. #012

    Sid was originally meant to be a con artist and a swindler, and there were even two finished scenes in which the character swindles some aardvark children, plus a very racy scene later in the film involving two female sloths. Sid was also supposed to be pursued by a female sloth named Sylvia, who looked down on him and kept leaving him. All of the removed scenes can be seen on the "Super Cool Edition" DVD.

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  13. #013

    While Sid, Diego, Manny and Roshan are in the ice tunnel, a flying saucer appears and Roshan makes a "Star Trek" hand gesture (the Vulcan salute).

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  14. #014

    No cave paintings of the saber-toothed cat Smilodon have ever been found.

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  15. #015

    Most of the animals that appear in the film's sequels were originally designed for the first Ice Age but were cut.

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  16. #016

    In his blog, writer Michael J. Wilson stated that his daughter Flora came up with the idea of naming the animal that is a mix of both squirrel and rat Scrat, and that the character became obsessed with chasing the acorn.

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  17. #017

    All ground sloths in Ice Age and its sequels were designed with features of both prehistoric ground sloths and modern tree sloths. In early designs, Sid the ground sloth resembled the elephant-sized Megatherium, one of the most notable ground sloth species. In the finished films, the sloth species Sid and the others most closely resemble is the Caribbean ground sloth, which was closer in size to a pig.

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  18. #018

    20th Century Fox initially expected Ice Age to open to around $30 million. Its opening weekend was $46.3 million.

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  19. #019

    The one condition anthropologists from the American Museum of Natural History in New York insisted on for the production was that there be no dinosaurs. Although many of the animals shown in the film did not live in the same eras or places as the main characters, they should already have been extinct 20,000 years ago. Dinosaurs were finally included in the second sequel, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), explained by their having survived extinction in underground caves.

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  20. #020

    James Earl Jones and Ving Rhames were initially considered to play Manny.

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  21. #021

    It was Blue Sky Studios' only film nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar until Ferdinand (2017), fifteen years later.

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  22. #022

    It was Jack Black's first animated film. He later voiced Lenny the Shark in Shark Tale (2004), Po the Giant Panda in the Kung Fu Panda films, the ventriloquist dummy Slappy in the first Goosebumps film (2015), and Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

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  23. #023

    The "rhinos" in the film are actually titanotheres (or brontotheres), mammals from the Oligocene epoch, and have nothing to do with modern rhinos, since they went extinct several million years before the Ice Age depicted in the film. Ice Age rhinos looked more like modern rhinos but, like mammoths, were covered in thick fur coats.

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  24. #024

    The responsibility for animating Sid's snowboarding scene was given to animators who snowboarded in real life.

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  25. #025

    The filmmakers made sure that many of Scrat's scenes appear immediately after the film's dramatic moments.

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  26. #026

    Some additional character names: the baby is Roshan, his mother is Nadia and his father is Runar. The sabers are Soto, Zeke, Oscar ("haughty saber") and Lenny ("fat saber"). The female sloths at the pool are Jennifer ("He's not much to look at…") and Rachel ("All the sensitive ones get eaten."). The "rhinos" are Carl (the one with the thick horn) and Frank (the one with the thin horn). This information comes from a signed original script bought at auction. There is a signed COA from the 20th Century Fox Archives, auction item number ICE0032.

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  27. #027

    Antonio Banderas was considered for the role of Diego.

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  28. #028

    Don Bluth is thought to have turned down directing the film because 20th Century Fox told him they wanted it made in CG after the failure of 2D animation; Bluth refused due to his personal hatred of fully CG animation and left the project in anger.

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  29. #029

    The production team initially considered turning the 20th Century Fox logo to ice when it appeared before the film. Although it can be seen in one of the trailers, they cut it and put the normal logo in the film, but pushed it up slightly so that its lower part is visible.

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  30. #030

    It was Blue Sky Studios' first feature film.

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  31. #031
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    When the saber-toothed pack attacks the human camp and Roshan's mother flees with him while Diego gives chase, she is blocked by the other sabers to prevent Runar (the father) from helping her and the baby. This mirrors the later scene in the cave, where Manny reenacts his family's fate at the hands of human hunters through animated cave paintings. As another group of hunters attacked them, a group of human hunters prevented Manny from coming to the aid of his mate and calf.

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  32. #032

    It was Hollywood's eighth fully CGI animated feature.

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  33. #033

    The film was released in March 2002. Within three weeks it became the first film that year to pass the $100 million mark in ticket revenue.

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  34. #034

    It is the only film in the Ice Age series released on VHS in the US. (Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) was also released on VHS internationally, in nine countries: Argentina, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland and Russia.)

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  35. #035

    In the film, Manny is referred to as Manfred, Manny, little mammoth Manny, Pessimistic Mammoth Manny, Melancholic Manny, friend, Jumbo, mammoth, Fat-Haired Boy and buddy.

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  36. #036

    On the film's 2-Disc Special Edition DVD, Ray Romano calls it a "dramedy" and explains why it is both a drama and a comedy, which is confirmed by director Chris Wedge in his own interview among the special features. Fox wanted a children's comedy, so Blue Sky chose that direction but kept the dramatic side as a notable element of the film; that is why the cast and crew call it a "dramedy."

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  37. #037

    Chris Wedge regrets not including the rabbit from his short film Bunny (1998) in the film as a hidden reference.

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  38. #038

    It was the eighth highest-grossing film of 2002.

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  39. #039

    Before John Leguizamo was cast, Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Knoxville, Dave Foley, Adam Sandler, Michael J. Fox, Ewan McGregor, Jerry Seinfeld, Billy Crystal, Eric Idle and Danny DeVito were considered for the role of Sid.

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  40. #040

    Pre-production lasted more than a year before any animation took place.

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  41. #041

    Chris Wedge says that Scrat's saber-toothed squirrel species was given a scientific name by the writers, but that Wedge has since forgotten it.

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  42. #042

    It earned $383 million from a budget of $59 million.

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  43. #043

    Diego was named after Diegoaelurus, an extinct saber-toothed mammal (technically not a cat) that existed during the Middle Eocene. Diegoaelurus took its name from San Diego, where its fossilized remains were found.

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  44. #044

    Gone Nutty (2002), also known as "Scrat's Missing Adventure", was created specifically for the DVD release.

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  45. #045

    This title is part of the first wave of Fox's Blu-ray releases. The list included five films in total: Fantastic Four (2005), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) and Kiss of the Dragon (2001).

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  46. #046

    James Earl Jones, Ving Rhames, Johnny Depp, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Kline, Robert De Niro, Albert Brooks, Nicolas Cage, Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Costner, Keith David, Bruce Willis, Jeff Bridges, Jim Belushi, Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer were considered for the role of Manfred before Ray Romano was cast.

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  47. #047

    The film's tie-in books and the book version feature a female sloth named Sylvia who does not appear in the released film. In the book, Sid manages to avoid having her accompany him as he migrates south because he is not interested in a commitment.

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  48. #048

    The film was initially planned to be directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman at Fox Animation Studios, until the failure of Titan A.E. (2000) made them pay the price. With Bluth and Goldman's departure, the project moved to Blue Sky instead.

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  49. #049

    It was the first film produced by Fox Animation since Titan A.E. (2000), which also featured John Leguizamo.

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  50. #050

    It is the only Blue Sky Studios film to carry the "Twentieth Century Fox presents" credit.

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  51. #051

    It was Denis Leary's second animated film. His first was A Bug's Life (1998).

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  52. #052

    20th Century Fox released the film domestically with a marketing budget of $85 million, the largest amount it had spent on a DVD release up to that time.

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  53. #053

    It was Diedrich Bader's first time voicing a character in a theatrical film. He went on to voice Ted Bedderhead the bear in The Country Bears (2002), and later roles including in Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005), Tank the Penguin in Surf's Up (2007), one of the Veteran Cats in Bolt (2008) and Bing the Goose in Duck Duck Goose (2018).

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  54. #054

    It was Alan Tudyk's first animated film to be released in theaters. He would later voice Chalicotherium Cholly in this film's sequel Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Milton the Sloth in another sequel, Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), Mr Squeegee the Robot in Astro Boy (2009), and roles in Wreck-It Ralph (2012), the Duke of Weselton in Frozen (2013), Alistair Krei in Big Hero 6 (2014), Duke Weaselton the Weasel in Zootopia (2016), the chicken Heihei in Moana (2016) and KnowsMore in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).

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  55. #055

    After Fox Animation Studios shut down, this project was offered to Disney, but Disney turned it down. Ironically, when Disney acquired 20th Century Fox (including Blue Sky) in 2019, the property came to belong to the House of Mouse.

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  56. #056

    Leonardo DiCaprio was considered for the role of Sid.

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  57. #057

    This is the second 20th Century Fox animated film scored by David Newman. The first was Anastasia (1997), released five years before this film.

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  58. #058

    Kelsey Grammer was considered for the role of Diego.

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  59. #059

    According to the promotional materials, Scrat was originally going to be Manny's pet squirrel and the trio's comic sidekick in the film, helping Manny, Sid and Diego return the baby to its family and fight Soto and his pack. When the film was released, however, Scrat turned out to be a minor character in a subplot of his own, chasing an acorn.

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  60. #060

    This and Rio (2011) would be the only Blue Sky Studios films to produce sequels.

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  61. #061

    With a 77% freshness rating, this is the only film in the Ice Age series to be certified fresh by Rotten Tomatoes, let alone fresh, since all four of the sequels are rotten. It was also Blue Sky Studios' only certified fresh film until Horton Hears a Who! (2008) and The Peanuts Movie (2015).

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  62. #062

    Kristen Johnston voiced Sylvia in three deleted scenes.

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  63. #063

    Before Goran Visnjic was cast, Christopher Walken, Alan Rickman, Sam Elliot, James Gandolfini, Patrick Stewart and Michael Wincott were considered for the role of Soto.

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  64. #064

    This is the only film in the Ice Age series whose music was composed by David Newman.

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  65. #065

    Jeremy Irons was considered for the role of Diego.

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  66. #066

    Werner Herzog was considered for the role of Soto.

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  67. #067

    Burt Reynolds was considered for the role of Soto.

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  68. #068

    Warren Beatty was considered for the role of Manfred.

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  69. #069

    Hank Azaria was considered for the role of Sid.

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  70. #070

    Dan Castellaneta was considered for the role of Manfred.

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  71. #071

    George Carlin was considered for the role of Diego.

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  72. #072

    Clancy Brown was considered for the role of Manfred.

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  73. #073

    Bob Saget was considered for the role of Sid.

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  74. #074

    Charlton Heston was considered for the role of Soto.

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  75. #075

    Robert De Niro was considered for the role of Manfred.

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  76. #076

    Scrat was originally meant to be part of the herd but was cut from it because Chris Wedge said the character needed to have his own story.

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  77. #077

    Brad Pitt was considered for the role of Diego.

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  78. #078

    It is the only Blue Sky Studios film to receive more than one sequel.

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  79. #079

    Before Denis Leary was cast, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, Kiefer Sutherland, Toby Stephens, Kevin Spacey, Liam Neeson, Tommy Lee Jones, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Tim Curry, Ian McKellen and Lance Henriksen were considered for the role of Diego.

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  80. #080

    Ray Romano (Manny) and Denis Leary (Diego) were both born in 1957, four months apart: Leary on August 18 and Romano on December 21.

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  81. #081

    Some of the screams in the film were reused several times.

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  82. #082

    It is the only film in the Ice Age series to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.

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  83. #083

    The first choice for the role of Sid was Leonardo DiCaprio, for Diego it was Antonio Banderas, and for Manny it was James Earl Jones.

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  84. #084

    Ice Age was the first Blue Sky Studios film to use Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. material, as well as Cartoon Trax Volume 1 sound effects.

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  85. #085

    Bryan Cranston was considered for the role of Manfred.

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  86. #086

    Tom Hanks was considered for the role of Manfred.

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  87. #087

    Jackie Mason was considered for the role of Sid.

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  88. #088

    Stacy Keach was considered for the role of Manfred.

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  89. #089

    Billy Connolly was considered for the role of Manfred.

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  90. #090

    Ben Kingsley was considered for the role of Diego.

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  91. #091

    Harry Shearer was considered for the role of Diego.

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  92. #092

    Patrick McGoohan was considered for the role of Soto.

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  93. #093

    At 1 hour and 21 minutes, Ice Age is the shortest film in the franchise.

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  94. #094

    Ice Age is the only Blue Sky Studios film with a blue-striped logo; it does not include Robots (2005), which was released three years later with an updated logo for its release, although the old blue-striped logo appears on the poster for Robots.

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  95. #095

    Albert Brooks was considered to voice Manny.

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  96. #096

    Denis Leary (Diego), Cedric The Entertainer (Carl) and Stephen Root (Frank) also appeared in Pixar films. Leary had previously appeared in A Bug's Life (1998) as Francis the Ladybug, Cedric later appeared in Planes (2013) and its sequel Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014) as Leadbottom, and Root later appeared in Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016) as the yellow tang Bubbles.

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  97. #097

    If Scrat had spoken, voice actors Robin Williams, Louis C. K., Patton Oswalt, Eddie Izzard, Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey and Bill Burr would have been considered as the voice of Scrat.

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  98. #098

    Ice Age was Cedric The Entertainer's first animated film. He went on to voice Maurice the Aye Aye in the Madagascar films, Golly the Goose in Charlotte's Web (2006), Leadbottom in the Planes films and Caloo the Pookoo in Swapped (2026).

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  99. #099

    Paul Newman was considered for the role of Diego.

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  100. #100

    Ice Age was Stephen Root's first animated film. He went on to voice Zeb Zoober the bear in The Country Bears (2002), Bubbles the Yellow Tang in the Finding films, in Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), the Rabbit Doctor in Rango (2011) and Grandpa Crud the Cat in Dog Man (2025).

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  101. #101

    For most of the cast, Ice Age was their first voice role in an animated film, with the exception of John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Diedrich Bader: John Leguizamo had appeared in Don Bluth's animated film Titan A.E. (2000), another 20th Century Fox animated film, Denis Leary in A Bug's Life (1998), and Diedrich Bader in Bartok the Magnificent (1999), also 20th Century Fox, and Recess: School's Out (2001).

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  102. #102

    The names Oscar and Lenny, given to two of the smilodons, would later be used for characters in DreamWorks Animation's Shark Tale (2004) two years later. Jack Black, the voice actor for the smilodon Zeke, also appears in that film.

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  103. #103

    Both Ray Romano and John Leguizamo grew up in Queens, New York City.

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  104. #104

    John Malkovich was considered for the role of Diego.

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  105. #105

    Nathaniel Parker was considered for the role of Soto.

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  106. #106

    John O'Hurley was considered for the role of Manfred.

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  107. #107

    An alternate scene showed Sid in a hot tub with women, telling them, "Let's jump in the gene pool and see what happens." One of the female sloths then kicks him in the groin. It was cut because it was not suitable for children and could have earned the film a PG-13 rating.

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  108. #108

    Coincidentally, both this film and Matilda (1996) feature a score by David Newman and use of Rusted Root's song "Send Me on My Way."

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  109. #109

    Chris Rock was cast as the voice of Sid.

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  110. #110

    Brad Garrett was cast as the voice of Manfred.

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  111. #111

    Sid says that "Iceberg Ahead" is a reference to the film Titanic.

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  112. #112

    Mark Hamill was considered for the role of Diego.

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  113. #113

    The main trio in the film have the same personalities as the main characters of The Powerpuff Girls (1998). Manny resembles Blossom (the fiery commander and leader), Sid resembles Bubbles (joy and laughter), and Diego resembles Buttercup (the toughest fighter). The film was released the same year as The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002).

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  114. #114

    Brad Garrett was considered for the role of Carl.

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  115. #115

    Cody Cameron was considered for the role of Lenny.

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  116. #116

    Chris Miller was considered for the role of Oscar.

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  117. #117

    Ray Liotta was considered for the role of Soto.

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  118. #118

    Dabney Coleman was considered for the role of Manfred.

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  119. #119

    Kevin Conroy was considered for the role of Manfred.

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  120. #120

    It is Josh Hamilton's only animated film.

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  121. #121

    Bob Hoskins was cast as the voice of Diego.

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  122. #122

    Don Rickles was cast as the voice of Manfred.

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  123. #123

    Detlef Bierstedt is the regular voice of Commander Riker.

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  124. #124

    Michael Pan and Detlef Bierstedt regularly voice Star Trek: The Next Generation characters.

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  125. #125

    Detlef Bierstedt is the regular voice of Commander Riker in the Star Trek: Titan audiobook.

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  126. #126

    Detlef Bierstedt regularly lends his voice in the John Sinclair radio play.

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  127. #127

    Detlef Bierstedt is the regular dubbing voice of Jonathan Frakes.

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  128. #128

    The audio play brings together some of Star Trek's leading voice actors: Jörg Hengstler (Sisko), Michael Iwannek (Kim), Michael Pan (Data), Detlef Bierstedt (Riker) and Reiner Schöne, who was an actor in Star Trek TNG.

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  129. #129

    Jörg Hengstler, Michael Iwannek, Michael Pan, Detlef Bierstedt and Reiner Schöne all performed voices in the John Sinclair radio plays.

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  130. #130

    Ulrike Lau and Detlef Bierstedt regularly voice Star Trek: The Next Generation characters.

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  131. #131

    Marie Bierstedt is Detlef Bierstedt's daughter.

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  132. #132

    Detlef Bierstedt is the regular dubbing voice of George Clooney.

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  133. #133

    Arne Elsholtz was one of the best-known and leading voice actors. He died in 2016.

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    Arne Elsholtz is known as the German dubbing voice of Tom Hanks.

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  135. #135

    Arne Elsholtz is known as the German dubbing voice of Bill Murray.

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    Michael Iwannek later became a main voice in the Ice Age franchise.

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  137. #137

    Michael Iwannek is the regular German voice of Dr. Scott Sampson from Dino Zug.

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  138. #138

    Michael Iwannek is the regular German voice of Zach Galifianakis.

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  139. #139

    Michael Iwannek is the regular German voice of Buck in the Ice Age films and short films.

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  140. #140

    Michael Iwannek is best known as the voice of Harry Kim in Star Trek Voyager.

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  141. #141

    Jörg Hengstler is known for dubbing the voice of Sisko in Star Trek - DS9.

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  142. #142

    Jörg Hengstler is best known for dubbing the voice of Adrian Paul.

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  143. #143

    Jörg Hengstler is known as the dubbing voice of Connor MacLeod in the Highlander series.

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  144. #144

    Michael Iwannek is the German voice of Ensign Harry Kim in Star Trek Voyager.

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  145. #145

    Michael Iwannek is the regular German voice of Jon Favreau.

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  146. #146

    Michael Iwannek is the regular German voice of Matthew Perry.

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  147. #147

    Lutz Mackensy is known as the usual voice of Al Pacino (in the '70s).

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  148. #148

    Lutz Mackensy's full name is Lutz Werner Mackensy.

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  149. #149

    Tobias Kluckert is the son of the actor Jürgen Kluckert.

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  150. #150

    Michael Iwannek and Jürgen Kluckert both did voice work on Dino Zug.

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  151. #151

    Lutz Mackensy is best known as the regular voice of Christopher Lloyd.

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  152. #152

    Lutz Mackensy is known as the regular voice of Stanley Tucci.

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  153. #153

    Michael Iwannek is the regular German voice of Garrett Wang.

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  154. #154

    Michael Iwannek is the regular German voice of Danny McBride.

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  155. #155

    Lutz Mackensy is the narrator in the audio plays of Hanni und Nanni.

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  156. #156

    Michael Pan is known as the German voice of Data in TNG, the films and Picard.

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  157. #157

    Michael Pan voiced Jago in the Aladdin series.

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  158. #158

    Lutz Mackensy is known as the regular voice of Mr. Ping in the Kung Fu Panda film and series.

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  159. #159

    David Nathan is the son of Michael Pan, who voiced Data in Star Trek TNG, the films, Star Trek Picard, Ninjago, Jago in the Aladdin films and series, and many other different films and series.

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  160. #160

    Lutz Mackensy is the narrator in the audio plays of Burg Schreckenstein.

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  161. #161

    Lutz Mackensy is best known as the regular voice of Rowan Atkinson.

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  162. #162

    Michael Pan is the regular German dubbing voice of Martin Short.

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  163. #163

    Michael Pan is the regular German dubbing voice of Christian Clavier.

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  164. #164

    German actor Reiner Schöne appeared as a guest star in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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  165. #165

    Reiner Schöne is the regular German dubbing voice of Mickey Rourke.

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  166. #166

    Michael Pan is the regular German dubbing voice of Brent Spiner.

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  167. #167

    Michael Pan had a recurring role in Ninjago.

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  168. #168

    Reiner Schöne is the dubbing voice of Darth Vader for new films, series or new scenes in older films.

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  169. #169

    Reiner Schöne is the dubbing voice of Optimus Prime.

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  170. #170

    Thomas Fritsch is the German voice of Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia films.

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  171. #171

    Thomas Fritsch is the German voice of Scar in The Lion King films and series.

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  172. #172

    Thomas Fritsch is the German voice of Diego in the Ice Age films.

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  173. #173

    Thomas Fritsch is the German voice of Goliath in the Gargoyles series.

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  174. #174

    Thomas Fritsch is the German dubbing voice of Jeremy Irons.

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  175. #175

    Thomas Fritsch is the German dubbing voice of John Hurt.

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  176. #176

    Daniela Hoffmann is the German voice of Julia Roberts.

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  177. #177

    Daniela Hoffmann is the German voice of Calista Flockhart in the series Ally McBeal.

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  178. #178

    Otto Walkes also sings the bonus songs in the German dubs of the Ice Age films.

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  179. #179

    Otto Walkes is best known for Otto - Film.

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  180. #180

    Daniela Hoffmann was the German voice of Janine Turner in the dubbed version of Northern Exposure (1990).

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  181. #181

    Daniela Hoffmann has a recurring role in the new Hui Buh radio plays.

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  182. #182

    Along with the cave paintings that are even used to represent Manny's backstory, this is the only Ice Age film that features no mammoth other than Manny himself; whether any other mammoths remain is left unclear for the others until the events of the next film.

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  183. #183

    In an interview for the film, Denis Leary said that voicing Diego in this film was much cooler than voicing the ladybug Francis in A Bug's Life, though he may have been joking (I'm not joking).

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  184. #184

    James Earl Jones, for the role of Manny: before Ray Romano was cast, the producers heavily considered James Earl Jones to give Manny the mammoth a "god-like," authoritative presence.

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  185. #185

    John Leguizamo and Jack Black both started with Mario films. Leguizamo played Luigi in Super Mario Bros, and Black voiced Bowser in Super Mario Bros Movie.

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  186. #186

    Arne Elsholtz is best known as the German dubbing voice of Kevin Kline.

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  187. #187

    Arne Elsholtz is known as the German dubbing voice of Jeff Goldblum.

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  188. #188

    Jörg Hengstler is best known as the dubbing voice of Avery Brooks.

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  189. #189

    Lutz Mackensy is the narrator in the Fünf Freunde audio plays.

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  190. #190

    Michael Pan is the regular dubbing voice of Richard Kind.

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  191. #191

    Thomas Fritsch is the German voice of Maxwell Sheffield in the series Dadı.

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  192. #192

    Thomas Fritsch is the German dubbing voice of Tim Curry.

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  193. #193

    Thomas Fritsch is the German dubbing voice of William Hurt.

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  194. #194

    Thomas Fritsch is best known for the series "Rivalen der Rennbahn."

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  195. #195

    Thomas Fritsch served as the narrator of the series "Pro 7 Märchenstunde."

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  196. #196

    Arne Elsholtz and Thomas Fritsch both did voice work in the Ice Age films and short films.

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