Ice Age: Lost in the Jungle

Ice Age: Lost in the Jungle is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated comic science fiction film&#91;6&#93;  produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the final installment in the Ice Age film series and the sequel to Ice Age: Collision Course (2012). The film was directed by Mike Thurmeier and Galen Tan Chu&#91;7&#93;  from a screenplay by Michael J. Wilson, Michael Berg and Yoni Brenner,&#91;2&#93;  and stars Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Adam DeVine, Jessie J, Jennifer Lopez and Simon Pegg reprising their roles from the previous films alongside Demi Lovato, Pitbull, and Lewis Black. In the last chapter, after Scrat accidentally removes a pounamu stone as the Earth's heart, and places the whole Planet to Blight during an attempt to bury his acorn, Manny, the Herd, and Buck must go on a life or death journey to find a way to restore the heart before it's too late.

Plot
After Returning to Earth, Scrat heads into the vast green jungle with a new acorn in his hands to search for a place to bury it, Suddenly, he sees a pounamu stone as the Earth's heart and the source of its power. However, Scrat removes the heart from the spiral to bury his acorn. Unfortunately, The Whole Planet began to Blight, and During the escape, Scrat is attacked by another who seeks the heart: Te Kā, a volcanic tiger. In the fight, Scrat is blasted out of the jungle with his acorn. He lands in a tree, But seems to get tangled from the vines. Suddenly, while picking Brooke some flowers, Sid the Ground Sloth accidentally found Scrat and attempts to free him Before Manny catches him.

After a wedding, Peaches later reveals to Manny that she is pregnant, much to his surprise that he and his fiance, Ellie are going to be grandparents, a year later, she gives birth to a baby mammoth named Amy, who later befriends Crash and Eddie, Ellie's two possum brothers. Sid is depressed that he has remained single since his old family abandoned him (in the first film) despite his attempts to get married, someday. However, the Herd found a dead area of the valley and discovers that the planet is going to Blight. A dire wolf tells them that the pounamu stone "heart" is still found on Earth, which would restore life, But they better do it quick Before they end up devoured in the bloodthirsty jaws of inescapable death. Suddenly, the blights struck the valley, But the herd barely escape and embarks on a mission to restore the heart on Earth.

During the journey, Sid fears that he and Brooke may be the last two sloths alive on Earth, But he is surprised when he sees his family, who were still looking for him. Manny and the others are shocked when they see Sid's family, they explain while they were looking for Sid, they were lost and were attacked by a group of animal cannibals, known as "cannibanimals" led by their leader, a Gigantopithecus named Wingo. Suddenly the Whole herd is captured by Wingo and the cannibanimals, who attempts to press them into his crew. When they refuse, Wingo tries to execute them, leading to their escape as the Jungle disintegrates. Wingo's first mate, a female weasel named Lola, joins them after she is left alone (due to her foot trapped between fallen rocks).

After a dangerous encounter with two hungry raptors, The Herd found a safe part of the jungle, which gives a shortcut to the spiral. Manny coordinates a group of lemurs to help them restore the heart. That Night, Eunice, Sid's mother took him to a area which Sid recalls as the place where he was born. He finally realizes he is a sloth and also expresses his suspicions about how different He was from Manny, Diego and the others. Despite this bonding moment with Buck, Lola distances herself from him when he suggests "saving their species". Lola and Buck ultimately make up when they must co-operate to save the group when the tropical area poisons. Crash and Eddie is kidnapped by a tribe of hyraxes who believe Crash and Eddie to be a god. They light a fire for them, and believes that they has finally found respect, but they plan to sacrifice them by tossing them into a pit of lava; the possums narrowly escapes. The next morning, They tells the others they're experience but none are convinced. After being harassed by dire wolves, the group finds the spiral behind a field of hot geysers, which separates the Herd from Sid's family when they argue about which way's safest to go through.

Unfortunately, Wingo and his crew has beaten them to it. When Te Kā emerges, A fight ensues, as Sid's family returns having had a change of heart, and buys the Herd time to reach the spiral by fighting the cannibanimals and Te Kā. a few cannibanimals are finished off by a falling rock which falls on them. Before Te Kā can kill Sid's family by blasting a plasma bolt toward them, Sid jumps out of the away and is nearly killed instead, much to his family and the Herd's fear. Manny defeats Wingo in a final duel, But discovers the spiral is missing, and realizes Te Kā is a dead Earth without her heart. Manny reforms Te Kā allowing him to restore Earth's heart transforming her back to normal. Life then heals the ocean and islands of the blight. Sid survives the blast after telling the Herd that he was just faking it. Crash and Eddie encounters the hyraxes again - they believe they stopped the flood and invite them to be their leader. Ellie convinces her brothers to stay with the others, admitting that the possums is a vital part of their 'herd'. Suddenly, a group of sloths show up proving Sloths aren't extinct. Sid bids a tearful farewell to his family and Lola starts to date Buck, taking the lemurs along. Three months later, Sid and Brooke marry in the valley which the animals have settled, once again.

The epilogue shows Scrat, who was out in a grassy plain, looking for a place to store his acorn. In a moment, he found an ideal place and pressed his acorn into the ground. After years of searching for a place to bury his acorn for the winter, Scrat prepares to migrate home, but realizes he pressed his acorn into a salad made of wild greens and leaves which angers two rhinos. the film ends with Scrat screaming in terror as he was about to be chased by the rhinos.

Cast

 * John Leguizamo as Sid, a Ground sloth.
 * Ray Romano as Manny, a woolly mammoth.
 * Denis Leary as Diego, a Saber toothed tiger
 * Queen Latifah as Ellie, a woolly mammoth
 * Simon Pegg as Buck, a one-eyed weasel
 * Cedric the Entertainer as Carl, a Brontops who is seen in the epilogue.
 * Stephen Root as Frank, a Brontops who is seen in the epilogue along with Carl.
 * Chris Wedge as Scrat, a Saber-toothed squirrel.

Trivia

 * Demi Lovato, Ellie Kemper, Ariel Winter and Rainn Wilson previously co-starred in Sony Pictures Animation's Smurfs: The Lost Village
 * This will be the sixth and final installment of the Ice Age trilogy.
 * This was the next Ice Age franchise to have Sid as the main character, the first one being, Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas.
 * This was the only movie to have Scrat, able to bury his acorn for the winter, But is pursued by two rhinos, Carl and Frank (from the First movie)
 * This was the only movie to have all scenes from all 6 movies during the end credits.