There, Sid and Diego learn about Manny's past and his previous interactions with the human hunters, in which they slaughtered his family, consisting of his mate and child, leaving Manny a depressed loner. The four travel on, with Diego secretly leading them to Half-Peak where his pack is waiting to ambush them.ДЄfter encountering several misadventures on their way, the group reaches a cave with several cave paintings. They meet up with Diego, who convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the humans.

After much persuasion by Sid, they decide to return the baby, but when they reach the human settlement, they find it deserted. The mother only has enough strength to entrust Roshan to Manny before she dies and disappears into the water. Later, Sid and Manny encounter the mother struggling out of a river just in front of the falls from earlier, exhausted from her plunge. If he fails, he will be killed in RoshanвЂ™s place. As punishment for his failure to retrieve the boy, Diego is sent to find and retrieve him while the rest of the pack waits for him at a mountain known as Half-Peak. Cornered by SotoвЂ™s lieutenant, Diego, she leaps down the waterfall with Roshan. Soto leads a raid on the human camp, during which Roshan's mother flees with her son. Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of a Smilodon pack, wants revenge on a human tribe for previously killing half of his pack by eating the chief's infant son, Roshan, alive. Manny is annoyed by Sid's outgoing demeanor and wishes to migrate on his own, but Sid nonetheless continues to follow Manny. Sid joins Manny, not wanting to be alone and unprotected. Sid is soon rescued by Manny, a cynical woolly mammoth heading north, who fights the rhinos off and continues on his path. 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 he unknowingly ruins their meal and making them angry. 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. Eventually, as he tries to stomp it into the ground, he inadvertently causes a large fissure to form in the ice that extends for miles before setting off a slab of glacier ice which nearly crushes him. Scrat, a saber-toothed squirrel, attempts to find a place to store his acorn for the winter. Seven Ice Age short films were also released between 20. Two holiday specials were also released: 2011's Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (taking place between Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Continental Drift) and 2016's Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (taking place between Continental Drift and Collision Course). It started the Ice Age franchise, being followed by four sequels: Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012, and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016. It was a box office success and grossed over $383.2 million, marking it the eighth highest-grossing film of 2002 and the highest-grossing animated film of 2002. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. The film was released in the United States on March 15, 2002. Focus shifted from making an action-adventure drama film to a more comedy-oriented one, and several writers, such as Berg and Ackerman, were brought on to bring out a wittier tone.

Ice Age was originally intended as a 2D animated film developed by Fox Animation Studios, but eventually became the first full-length animated film for the newly-reformed Blue Sky, which had been reshaped from a VFX house to a computer animation studio. Additionally, the film occasionally follows Scrat, a speechless 'saber-toothed squirrel' voiced by Wedge, who is perpetually searching for a place in the ground to bury his acorn.

Set during the days of the ice age, the film centers around three main characters-Manny (Romano), a no-nonsense woolly mammoth Sid (Leguizamo), a loudmouthed ground sloth and Diego (Leary), a sardonic saber-tooth tiger-who come across a human baby and work together to return it to its tribe. Wilson and Peter Ackerman and features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran ViЕЎnjiД‡, and Jack Black. The film was directed by Chris Wedge (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Michael Berg, Michael J. Ice Age is a 2002 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios (in its debut film) and distributed by 20th Century Fox.