The biggest irony of this franchise to me is that Manny at the end of the first movie says that he'll never forget the baby, but the baby never appears in the future sequels nor is even brought up lmao

Less foreshadowing, more like they went back to the first film and said "hey, let's use that"

As a kid, the ufo was the most unsettling out of all things

I swear the Dinosaur and UFO scene scared me as a kid😭🙏🙏

I swear I heard somewhere that scrat was designed specifically to not resemble any animal in history, only that a couple years after the first film’s release, a prehistoric animal dating back to the ice age was discovered that looked *exactly like scrat*

Ice age 5 is like a fever dream. I swear i've seen it, but it feels like it never existed.

i’m pretty sure they made this gallery first and then they thought “hey, let’s make every one of those images into a movie”

Ice Age, the movie that teacher's loved to show their elementary classes on Friday or before Christmas break. Anyone that had elementary school between 1999-2003 knows Ice Age, Shrek, Empires New Groove, Snow Dogs, Rugrats Go To Paris and the Goofy 2 movie where his son went to college w/ his friend's and Goofy joins them lol. That was the classic rotation for early 2000s kids that had cool teachers in elementary school. Good time's!

*Frozen cave shows evolution in a fun way* "Oh, yeah, this is definitely a reference to Sid's family"

Anyone sad that the company that made ice age, robots and rio got bought out?

Technically all the sequel movies were really references to this scene🤣

Or... they watched their first film and started transforming all those parts in movies, even in the same order...

ok but why is the dinosaur actually fucking terrifying

That t-rex scarred me for life ever since i was young

I refuse to believe they actually had all of that planned

This part of the movie always freaked me out as a kid but I still love the hell out of it. One of the best movies

What’s even crazier is that in the first film Scrat the saber tooth squirrel was a made up animal but then somehow after the film was released paleontologists really said that they discovered a fossilized one.

The real question, are these setting up future movies, or are the future movies making callbacks to this movie?

Correlation doesnt equal causation 😂 they had no clue they were gonna make sequels.

Scrat is a legend

The fifth movie was actually inspired by that UFO lmao

As a child the ice scene scared the hell out of me, especially the dinosaur

Scrat didn’t just have *A* ufo, he has THAT ufo

Ice Age ended after 1. Everything else is just a kid version of it.

People: making references to something in the past Internet: “how this thing predicted the future”

There's no way they were planning on making 5 Ice Age movies back in 2002, they probably just added those things in the ice cave as throwaway visual gags and then made plots off of the dinosaur and UFO later when they were out of ideas. And the Sid's family one is probably just a coincidence

Bro when I was younger that dinosaur scared me to death 😂

Theyre not references to the movies, they literally jusy pulled the inspiration from that one scene, after the fact. Foreshadowing implies that the future event was already planned by the writiers.

"What should we make these ice age sequels about?" "Idk just pick some bits from the first one and go off that" "You sure people won't realize how lazy we are?" "Nah they'll call it foreshadowing and think it's brilliant!"

Maybe they just had the models sitting around and said, "eh, fuck it."

Plot twist: blue sky just used this scene as inspiration for the sequels

The ice cave section is my favorite, it was just so fascinating as a kid

The first Ice Age movie is simply fantastic. It was simple, had a nice story, not overloaded with tonnes of annoying characters.

Thanks, I just got myself spoiled.

For some reason that ufo is just really wierd and mysterious

You forgot that when the kid looks at the space ship he gives the 'live long and prosper' gesture from Star Trek

There’s actually a KZfaqr that worked on the fifth Ice age film I believe his name is Kevin Temmer Toons and makes great 3D animation and original music

"Milking a scene to the bone" would be a more accurate definition of the franchise

Easter Egg References in these 5 IceAge Movies make sense.

Is the 5th “movie” actually a whole ass movie about scrat on a ufo though

There are no accidents - Master Oogway

God i swear if someone doesnt make a hypothetical elephant culture ill do it myself

You know they weren’t planning the 4 other movies when this came out right? Like maybe they were thinking of ideas for the second one but definitely not the other 3

My favorite foreshadow is when Scrat. Literally just when Scrat. He's a saber tooth squirrel which isn't even a species but they found a similar shrew-like mammal that looks a little *too* similar to him.

I remember noticing this with a friend when we were rewatching the original the "family" hint threw us off

They tried to warn us…

Dude you are FORGETTING the two monster fish in the second movie! They were the main antagonists! Give that scene a rewatch I remember because I saw the series again recently!

That ice scene left me feeling uneasy for some reason, every time

Also they foreshadowed scrat being an actual prehistoric being. The sabretootj squirrel was only discovered after the films came out

I highly doubt it’s “foreshadowing”. Rather, when the creators were going to make the newer films they just decided to implement those themes. I don’t think BlueSky Studios planned on embarking on this 20 year long saga that’ll last over 4 films lmao

imagine this dinosaur was unfrozen at some point in ice age 3

Fun fact: in the first movie, when Diego chases the baby's mother he saw her jump off a waterfall and stops immediately. Could simply be because he thought she would die from the fall/drown or because as we see in ice Age 2, he is extremely afraid of water

I always thought Sid looking at the stuff in the ice freaked me out as a kid

The fact it shows which future movies comes out and no one notices it.

Sad fact: when Sid met manny, manny was standing at the edge of a cliff staring straight down probably thinking about jumping cuz as far as he knew he was the last of his species

To be honest, the First Ice Age was really really good, the scene of Manny's family slaughtered in the cave paintings is really touching, something we have never seen again in those movies

Bro that ufo always gave me chills for some reason....and it still does-

That thing that looks like🦠 is just wierd cause it stares into my soul😂

The Sid thing isn’t referencing his family. It was just showing the evolution of sloths

Ice Age is, weirdly enough, one of my favorite franchises. I like most of them, to be honest and I only watched them all a few months ago.

The UFO would later be the same one Scrat has in Ice Age 5.

I honestly enjoy the fourth ice age

I bet they didn't plan shit and just came back to this scene when making the sequels

Retroactive continuity. It's not hard to do, nor is does it mean things were really foreshadowing and planned from the start

There’s a difference between foreshadowing pre determined things and throwing in references to the first movie.

I wonder if they knew about those stuff for the future

THEY MADE 5?! That's news to me. Gdi now I have to watch the others after that emotional goodbye from Scrat when their studio shut down

I remember the ice age movies by the Mammoth's life events. First movie they meet. Second movie they get married Third movie they have Peach Fourth movie Peach has a boyfriend Fifth movie Peach gets married

And the fact that Sid stinks as 🗑️ foreshadows the sixth movie.

The movies got increasingly more bizarre as each one was released. Like we went from a somewhat realistic depiction of the Ice Age to eventually freaking Pirates with a Monke Captain in the 4th. I thought it couldn’t get any more bizarre, but then suddenly Ice Age 5 released and yeah… now we’re in SPACE! 💀💀

A movie director once told me: Behind every small choice and every detail, lies a conscious meaning

"reference" implies that they already had all of the sequels in mind. These aren't foreshadowing, and these aren't references.

That ufo still gives me chills

Aliens: Scrat, we saw how you shaped the Earth and welcome to the group Scrat: Gimme my acron!

Not just that scrat himself was shockingly Found a real species after the show came out

I think they just took those ice things and made it work in the story 😑

That dinosaur always gave me chills

yo that squirrel was goin crazy on them piranhas 💀

RIP Ice age franchise, will always be a huge part of my childhood ❤

Foreshadowing? This is literally turning a gag into a sequel

Imagine all the way back in 2006 they planned all the movies out

Scrat Is a astronaut 🛸🐿️

i adore these movies, they're my comfort movies. imo, theyre so much better than people give them credit for. mannys arc is just amazing. he goes from lonely and cynical having lost his wife and child, feeling like he failed to protect them. to finding ellie and making the choice to move on and try again, which was a choice he grappled with until the very end of the movie. along with struggling to let her have control of her choices with how much he worries. and then you see him become overprotective and frightened of the world when ellie is pregnant, but at the same time, allows himself to actually be excited and happy. when peaches grows up, you see he CLINGS to that protectiveness and feels the need to control every aspect of his daughters life. he sees at the end of the movie though, that shes not a little girl anymore and he lets up considerably on the control. and then in the last movie, he has to completely let go of that protectiveness and not only trust her fiance, but her too. the wedding scene in the last movie ALWAYS makes me cry. and yes, sid DID deserve to find true love and i enjoyed his arc of thinking he was a stud who deserved any woman ever and a rotation of women- to realizing there is value in settling down. yes he idealizes the concept a lot, especially after watching manny settle down and have a child. but he finally finds someone who loves him for HIM. nothings forced, theres no pity to it. she just loves sid and its very sweet. diegos story was a little more underwhelming especially as they did next to nothing with shira after continental drift. but i love that he continually chooses to stay with the herd. thats his family. i also love how he defies the stereotype of tough guy man never talks about feelings. manny harbored that belief and ellie was NOT amused and when he went to talk to diego, he opened up and talked so easily that manny was bewildered lol. buck was a wonderful character. granny will never not remind me of my mother, they HAD to have based her off of my mom lol. crash and eddie are fairly entertaining. julian was wild lol i was not expecting him but i love him and i think hes perfect for peaches. he makes her shine. i think theyre wonderful movies that showcase mixed/chosen family and a valuable lesson in letting go and trying again. even if you lose EVERYTHING, like manny had. like sid had. like diego had. you can still start over. you can still find and make your own family. and to me, that means a lot. i feel abandoned by my biological family. i relate a lot to sid lol. i just love these movies. anytime im anxious or sad, i pick a random one and fall asleep to it.

If I had a nickel for every-time someone said foreshadowing and didn’t understand what it meant.

The fact that Sid invented skiing snowboarding football was the first animal to make fire AND proved the evolution theory in only the first movie is insane

This is true, but if you notice in the third part of the series the development of the sloth until it reaches Sid, which does not mean his family, but rather the development of the world and the formation of continents.

The dinosaurs depicted in the ice age is just perfection. Cartoonified, but not _too_ cartoonified, so it just looks like a neat artstyle.

Im glad im not the only one that didnt know there was a 5th movie 😂

The Simpsons: **Amateurs**

The funny thing is that even when I was a kid when this movie was new, I remember seeing the Rex and thinking “they should make a movie of ice age with that Rex”

I think after finding the first movie had success, they were like "What could we do with a sequel?" and then some guy paused the movie at this scene on re-watch to get something, then was like "OOOOOH I HAVE AN IDEA"

There's also a lot of snow everywhere which is a reference to future sequels

"He is moving on from speedrunning" Understandable. Dude has set 7 world recordd now with the most recent cutting a whole minute off of time.

Ice age was just- my childhood

I only remember watching the Christmas special as a kid and watching the clip of scrat eating the acorn he spent years hunting down. I didn't even know about other movies

It wasn't a reference to Sid's family, it was a joke about evolution.

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Franchise got milked longer than the actual ice age.

I don’t exactly believe this was foreshadowing…

"I didn't know they made five Ice Age movies." I would argue they shouldn't have.