In this world, the pirate ship is merely a sailable glacier that is helmed by a fearsome orangutan captain named Gutt. While the whole pirates theme is getting a bit overdone at the cinemas - from the Caribbean movies to even Aardman Studio's animated film this past spring - it's something entirely new for Ice Age. This time, Manny, Diego, Sid and Sid's Granny (voiced by Wanda Sykes) find themselves encountering, and at war with, pirates.
Continental Drift has too familiar a feel to it right off the bat, but the team does their best to change things up some. They had also introduced Simon Pegg's eccentric Buck, who unfortunately was written out of the principle gang by the end of the story (although he does still live) and, therefore, does not appear in this movie (although I did hope to see him beyond a very fleeting cameo as Scrat passes him at the start of the film). I felt that the third film, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, was the strongest in the series and had added enough new elements to the story to freshen things up. In Drift, they're separated again-this time directly as families instead of just their "herds"-as the continents very quickly break up and move apart, and on their quest back to each other, Diego meets a love interest in Shira, a fellow sabertooth tiger (voiced by Jennifer Lopez). It's also the film that introduces Manny's love interest, another mammoth named Ellie.
In that film, the gang get separated from their kind when the icebergs begin to melt and things start shifting around them. What's interesting about Continental Drift is that it follows a relatively similar basic idea to the first sequel, The Meltdown. This is the second outing for Ice Age in 3D as our favorite prehistoric animals must face the sudden shifting and splitting of the Earth's continents. For 2012, Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie and now Peaches return for the fourth film, Ice Age: Continental Drift. Since then, the film has expanded into a lucrative franchise that has generated three sequels and an ever-expanding cast of characters that have worked their way into countless hearts and homes.
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