Ice Age: A Series Retrospective
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- The Ice Age movies were some of my favourites as a kid, and were among the most successful animated movies ever, peaking when the third movie became the second highest-grossing animated movie ever. However, a lot of people don't remember the series too fondly. In this video, I review every piece of Ice Age media, in order to see for myself how well the series holds up.
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Ice Age (2002): 1:33
Gone Nutty (2002): 6:05
The Sequels: 6:52
The Meltdown (2006): 7:58
No Time for Nuts (2006): 11:52
Surviving Sid (2008): 13:19
Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009): 15:07
A Mammoth Christmas (2011): 20:56
The Continental Drift (2012): 23:04
The Great Egg-Scapade (2016): 29:31
Collision Course (2016): 31:56
Scrat: Spaced Out (2016): 40:07
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022): 41:58
Scrat Tales (2022): 48:33
Ranking: 50:06
The End: 51:03
Eggimer (the other voice that appears intermittently throughout the video): / eggimer
the first one has an atmosphere unlike the other films in the franchise, it's hard to describe, there's something so wild and tranquil about it.
"I think dawn of the dinosaurs is easily the best one" I couldn't agree more man
First movie: a simple, fun story with nostalgic vibes
Second movie: a decent follow-up
Third movie: The best sequel and a great conclusion
Fourth movie: a product more than a film, at least we got the Sid Shuffle and the Ice Age Village game
Fifth movie: Just Stop!
Sixth movie: End my suffering
Scrat Tales: the best finale to this franchise
Can't even imagine what a seventh movie would be like.
@@TheEoghShow probably hell
There’s some things interesting regarding Ice Age 2 that were cut from the movie. For starters, there was originally gonna be a teenage Sabertooth Tiger who would’ve likely been served as a sergeant son to Diego, implying that Diego’s arc in the 2nd movie being drastically different from his arc in the final version (Which honestly, would’ve been better than the one we got. Have Diego be a father figure to this other saber-toothed tiger as well as finding new responsibilities that would’ve been a nice middle ground between his redemption in Ice Age 1, and his midlife crisis in Ice Age 3. Plus it would’ve fit Ice Age 2’s more relationship driven storyline.). Another scrapped idea was that Scrat was going to join the herd at the end of the 2nd movie, and would’ve been a prominent figure in the main characters’ dynamic… meaning that final scene where Sid brought Scrat back to life was gonna happen before the herd found closure in their arcs at the end of the movie. (Personally though, I would’ve let Scrat joined the herd at the end of the 3rd movie. With him deciding to choose the herd over Scratte, and by doing so he not only helps them stop Rudy through wacky antics but also joins them as a way for Scrat to end his comedic subplot. But for him joining the herd in Ice Age 2… yeah, I feel like it brakes the perfect pacing that film had.)
Edit: Btw, Diego’s speech at the end of Ice Age 2 where he talks about how Sid’s the heart & soul of the group does fit into Sid’s arc in the movie… that is, if it was Sid’s arc. Throughout Ice Age 2, Sid’s been trying to prove to the other guys that he’s just as capable as Manny and Diego. And so he wanted to be treated as an equal to both Manny & Diego as 1. He practically provided them campfire, giving them food, and was the reason why they even deliver the baby in the 1st movie. And 2. They wouldn’t be friends to begin with if it weren’t for Sid. Which is why even though I prefer Ice Age 3 over it’s predecessor, I do think Diego’s speech about Sid works in Ice Age 2 than it does in the 3rd movie…as the 3rd film was about the characters dealing with a struggle of their existential crisises, compared to the 2nd movie’s more “relationship problems.”
I think for the 3rd movie they really learned from Shrek where you use real world troubles to ask and answer questions about the characters' futures. What if someone has a mid life crisis? What if they have kids? Etc.
I get what you're saying, I just think it's a little strange to credit that specifically to Shrek lol.
I remember watching the second movie a lot and became my favorite of the franchise despite its flaws. I will that the third should have been the end of the franchise because it felt like it concluded most of the characters arcs.
Also a bit of a fun fact that Diego was supposed to die at the end of the first movie, but when the crew showed the scene to the test audience, the children were very upset because they really cared about the character and didn’t like that he died.
yeah, I heard about that.
For Surviving Sid, it was actually somehow included in the DVD premiere of Blue Sky’s own Horton Hears a Who! movie. I got to watch it so extensively as much as the movie itself.
Yeah, I found out about that after I'd already edited most of the video.
Just like you, I am incredibly nostalgic for the Ice Age movies. The main ones that I used to watch all of the time were the 3rd and 4th movies. I especially watched the 4th movie a lot because it was one of the few films I had on my old phone back in the day so whenever I was in a long car ride, I would usually watch it. In fact, I have a distinct memory of watching that movie in the cinema
Either way, the 4th one would probably still be my favourite even outside of nostalgia because Peter Dinklage killed it in my opinion. Oh, and the credits where we see all the voice actors gives me so much joy
The only thing I primarily remember about the 3rd movie is Simon Pegg who was fantastic. The rest was just kind of ok I feel. And I barely watched the 2nd and 5th film so I’ve got no opinions
As for the original, it’s the only one I’ve rewatched recently and honestly, I still thought it was really great. It was surprisingly funny, had a solid story and plenty of heart and strong emotional beats
Overall, the franchise is inoffensive for the most part. However, I do wish I wasn’t obsessed with them as a kid and instead checked out other animated films back in the day like the Studio Ghibli films or something
I definitely don't hate the fourth movie on a personal level, even if looking at it more critically I think it's kind of bad.
Ditto on the Ghibli thing, I wish I'd seen some of those when I was a kid. I had a weird aversion to watching things I wasn't familiar with back then.
They should’ve just ended the series with the third movie. It feels like a proper conclusion to everything.
Yup.
Not to mention that after the third movie, you can tell that FOX and Blue Sky were really banking on the franchise until it became a shell of former self
Then we wouldn't got Captain Gutt as the villain in another film. Besides, I like the drifting out to sea adventure stuff.
For less than 100 subscribers, this is very well made! Though I haven't seen the movies in an eternity, I'd have to say that the points are good. +1 sub :)
thank you! Everyone has to start somewhere!
This is a great video/evaluation of the series. I can't believe you don't have a lot of subs, the production quality is solid, but more importantly, very comfy!
Thank you! Put a lot of effort into this!
Just commenting to show support, this was entertaining !
thank you!
Tbh. I really like ice age 3. Mainly how they deal with the dinosaurs and how they survive. Sure it’s not amazingly good or best but it’s alright for the most part. I find the underground/not hollow earth to be good. The story is alright. Not the worst nor best. It’s alright. The jokes. Are ok. Didn’t find eddie and crash to be gods mistake. Cuz am insane. Manny is meh. Ellie is good. Diago is ok. And theres buck. He’s insane. Not insenely bad but the alright insane. The dinosaurs are actually great. Not best but great. I will not deny that it’s bad. It’s okay. Also let’s be honest here the music at the end is so good that you can’t deny that all dinosaurs. Fictional or not fictional. Will be dancing to the beat. Even my boi Godzilla will do it.
The third one is my favourite as well. And I WILL deny that it's bad.
We all have to agree that the Ice Age franchise should have ended after the 3rd film. Or would still have a 4th film that would serve as a conclusion to the franchise, but instead of being about the separation of Pangea (the seperation of Pangea had already happened in the fictional universe of the Ice Age franchise in the 2002 short film Gone Nutty) and pirates (it doesn't make any sense for there to be pirates in a franchise that literally takes place during the ICE AGE!!!), it would be about the Herd reuniting with the same humans from the 1st film (among them, of course, would be Roshan, who would now be a adult or at least a teenager) and all together they would face an army of evil humans led by the human who hunted and killed Manny's 1st mate and calf during the past and would plan to start a hunt for mammals. But unfortunately FOX forced Blue Sky to make more films just to make more and more profits. There could have been at least a TV series called "Ice Age: Adventures With The Herd" that would have show the Herd's adventures and experiences across the glacial plains, meeting new friends and allies, facing new enemies and rivals, and showing and teaching more and more about the ice age itself (like the exotic prehistoric animals that existed here in Earth during that period of time). Furthormore, the main villains of this TV series would still be Captain Gutt and his herd, who would constantly antagonize the Herd (mainly Manny). However, they would not be pirates (like, real pirates) but would be a fictional profession from the franchise's fictional universe known as "glacier marauders" (which would be a profession just very similar to a pirate crew, but being real pirates), who would invade and attack thousands of glaciers and polar ice caps in search of lots of food (which would be their "bounty") and use the four of dead animals that would had killed as flags. Finally, the great series finale of this TV series would be exactly how I described above as the 4th film could have been. But what about you? Do you agree with me? And which of these two versions of the rest of the Ice Age franchise do you prefer? Making a 4th and final film with the story that I described above ou simply making a TV series to continue the franchise after the events of the 3rd film? Please tell me your honest opinion. Anyway, good video!
I do think bringing the baby back for one of the sequels was untapped potential, though it all depends on the execution. I thought Adventures of Buck Wild had a conceptually okay idea for a sequel plot, but we saw how the end product turned out.
@@TheEoghShow Yeah. But so? What of the two versions that I described above? Continuing the franchise with a TV series? Or making a 4th film with the return of the humans?
I like the separation of Pangea that has drifting out to sea in the 4th film since not many films has that or on epic scale as that.
@@DavidBContentExtravaganza3967that wasn't really the problem with the fourth movie, the real problem for me was that the characters didn't really have anything to do anymore.
Here’s my personal ranking: The first film is great/awesome, the second one is good, the third one is okay, the fourth one is bad, and the fifth one plus “Buck Wild” is literally unwatchable. I haven’t completely seen “Scrat Tales”, but from what I’ve seen of it it’s a great improvement and both it and the final animation of Scrat finally getting to eat his acorn is the perfect send-off to Blue Sky Studios.
I found the fifth one to be funny-bad. Adventures of Buck Wild was just bad.
So basically the story architype of this entire series is:
characters walk from point A to point B
and they find a love interest in each sequel
largely, yeah.
Then throw in some questionable moments that are Owo
I actually rewatched these films recently and was surprised how much I enjoyed Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Continental Drift. I only really remembered enjoying the first 2 as a kid.
Dawn of the Dinosaurs is peak.
nice video sadly only 844 very underrated video and channel
thank you!
I rewatched the first ice age yesterday and I loved it as much as I did as a kid, and it had a lot of moments that made me laugh out loud, despite setting itself up as a cliche roadtrip movie
The third one may be the best in my opinion, but the first is probably the most accessible.
I rewatched the meltdown the most as a kid too! in fact I watched that one before I saw the original
It was our go-to movie to watch on long car rides. That or Brother Bear.
Her name’s pronounced “Scra-tae”
they probably should have put an accent if that was the intention. Or maybe I just don't understand linguistics.
Didn't the first movie show us that there wasn't anymore Mammoths through that we neve saw any before or after Manny, at least that we knew of at that point.
I think that's a stretch. There are a number of species throughout the series where we only ever see a few of them; Scrat was the only one of his kind to appear until the third movie. And it's not like any character in the first movie acted like meeting a mammoth was that unusual; they only suddenly started doing that in the second movie.
I seriously think that by the time we reach Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, this is where Manny, Sid, and Diego's story comes to a close. The ladder three are known as Ice Age Gen 1. Peaches, Buck, Rudy, Momma Dinosaur, and her young (and by extension Scratte) should be known as Ice Age Gen 2. Instead of Continental Drift, the fourth film could've been the start of the next generation, appropriately titled Stone Age.
Probably would have been difficult, though; not sure I can think of a franchise that succeeded in "passing the torch".
I thought Puss In Boots did a good job as a spinoff of Shrek.
@@user-bs8nj2di9u I suppose, yeah.
Honestly the first 3 are really good and I can't really chose which one I prefer and the 4th one is alright, haven't seen the 5th one in a while though and I have not watched the 6th one for obvious reasons.
Also how dare you not mention Sid's Grandma?
By the later movies, there are so many characters that it's practically impossible to talk about all of them lol.
@@TheEoghShow Yeah that's fair
I rewatched the 5th one like a week ago and ugh I do not like it. The Scrat parts are fine though.
Surviving sid was released on the horton hears a who bluray for some reason, thats the only place to own it psychically
yeah, I only found out about that after I'd already published the video.
Ice age a movie for the Cenozoic and a Paleomedia for cenozoic megafauna
to be honest I stopped enjoying the Ice Age films after Dawn of the Dinosaurs and even that one was flawed, I really didn't care for the first half of that film with Sid raising the eggs.
My wife and I and her sister have seen maybe the first 4 of these and now we've given up just like the fast furious movies after paul walker died we may do the same thing with despicable me
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I think the 4th film should have gotten around 5 years of development because i think 3 years of development after the 3rd film was a little to early or a little to quick and if so the villain could of been different or just still a ape if you check out his concepts. But the 5th film was a horrible mistake as I speak for others. If blue sky studios were still alive today things would have been different and I don’t wish for any excuses the studio did its best and that was it
I don't know if time was the issue. The third movie came out 3 years after the second one, and I think the third one was the best.
13:30 I know a place where you can watch surviving sid Instead of looking for parts on CZcams and it's Pretty simple You just have to own a dvd or a blu-ray copy of Horton here's a who A Dr. Seuss adaptated movie created by Blue Sky Studios
Yeah, I found out about that eventually. The video was already mostly finished by the time I did.
@@TheEoghShow i only just found out about it yesterday when i was doing resreach for this short flim
ice gae 3 is one of the best cartoons, I don't care what you say
I said in the video that the third one was my favourite.
@@TheEoghShow absolutely loved your review my dude. With you i mean the critics mabad.
@@glenipolus9731 thank you!
Movies can be cartoons, and vice versa. They don't have contradicting definitions.