Ice Age (Remake)

Ice Age is a remake of the 2002 Blue Sky Studios film.

Directed By: Jon Favreau

Plot
A Cronopio known as Scrat attempts to find a place to store his acorn for the winter. Eventually, as he tries to stomp it into the ground, he inadvertently causes a large crack to form in the ice that extends for miles before setting off a large avalanche which nearly crushes him. He barely escapes but finds himself getting stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals migrating south in order to escape the forthcoming ice age. Sid, a clumsy ground sloth, is left behind by his family and decides to move on by himself, but is attacked by two Brontotheres after ruining their meal and making them angry. Sid is soon rescued by Manny, a gruff woolly mammoth heading north, who fights the rhinos off and continues on his path. Sid joins Manny, not wanting to be alone and unprotected. Manny is annoyed by Sid's outgoing demeanor and wishes to migrate on his own, but Sid nonetheless continues to follow Manny. Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of a Smilodon pack, wants revenge on a neanderthal tribe for killing half of his pack by eating the chief's infant son, Roshan, alive. Soto leads a raid on the neanderthal camp, during which Roshan's mother is separated from everyone else and jumps down a waterfall upon being cornered by Soto's lieutenant, Diego. As punishment for his failure to retrieve Roshan, Diego is sent to find and retrieve the him while the rest of the pack waits for him at a mountain known as Half-Peak.

Later, Sid and Manny encounter the mother struggling out of the lake, dying from her plunge. The mother only has enough strength to entrust Roshan to Manny before she dies and disappears into the water. After much persuasion by Sid, they decide to return the baby, but when they reach the neanderthal settlement, they find it deserted. They meet up with Diego, who convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the neanderthals. The four travel on, with Diego secretly leading them to Half-Peak where his pack is waiting to ambush them.

After encountering several misadventures on their way, the group reaches a cave with several cave paintings. There, Sid and Diego learn about Manny's past and his previous interactions with the neanderthal hunters, in which they slaughtered his family, consisting of his mate and child, leaving Manny a depressed loner. Later, the group almost reaches their destination, Half-Peak, only to encounter a forming river of lava. Manny and Sid, along with Roshan, make it across safely, but Diego ends up hanging on a cliff, about to fall into the lava. Manny saves him, narrowly missing certain death by falling into the lava himself. The herd takes a break for the night, and Roshan takes his first walking steps towards Diego, who starts to have a change of heart about his mission.

The next day, the herd approaches the ambush, causing Diego, now full of respect for Manny for saving his life to change his mind and confess to Manny and Sid about the ambush. As the pair turn hostile towards him, Diego asks for their trust and tries to foil the attack. The herd battles Soto's pack, but despite their efforts, Soto and his associates manage to corner Manny. As Soto closes in for the kill on Manny, Diego sacrifices himself by jumping in the way and is injured as a result. Manny then knocks a distracted Soto into a rock wall, causing several sharp icicles to fall onto Soto, impaling and instantly killing him. Horrified, the rest of the pack retreat. Manny and Sid mourn for Diego's injury, which they believe is fatal, and continue their journey without him. The two manage to successfully return Roshan to his tribe, and to their surprise, Diego manages to rejoin them, in time to see Roshan leave. The group then begin to head off to warmer climates.

20,000 years later, Scrat, frozen in a block of ice, ends up on the shores of a tropical island. As the ice slowly melts, an acorn that was also frozen in the same ice block is washed away. Scrat then finds a coconut and tries to stomp it into the ground, only to accidentally trigger a volcanic eruption.

Cast

 * Dwayne Johnson as Manfred "Manny", a woolly mammoth
 * Chris Evans as Diego, a Smilodon
 * Josh Gad as Sid, a Megalonyx
 * Frank Welker as Scrat, a Cronopio
 * Michael Fassbender as Soto, a Smilodon
 * Jesse Eisenberg as Zeke, a Smilodon
 * Will Arnett as Oscar, a Smilodon
 * Alan Tudyk as Lenny, a Homotherium
 * Cedric the Entertainer as Carl, an Embolotherium
 * Stephen Root as Frank, a Brontops
 * Jane Krakowski and Lorri Bagley as Rachel and Jennifer, respectively, a pair of female giant ground sloths
 * Flynn Timothy Stocklin as Roshan, a human infant.

Rating
Rated PG.

Trivia

 * Bill Murray, John C. Reilly, Brad Garrett and John Goodman were considered for the role of Manny.
 * Michael Pena was considered for the role of Sid.
 * Christian Bale, Edward Norton, Hugh Jackman and Ralph Fiennes were considered for the role of Diego.
 * Ciaran Hinds, Alec Baldwin, Bruce Campbell, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba and Guy Pearce were considered for the role of Soto.