don't worry, so did the writers

​@@Butchcavalier Frankly I'm not convinced the writers didnt just totally forget that it's supposed to be earth and not a croods/Primal fantastical alternate universe.

Good point actually. What did ever happen to those human things? Unless we are too assume that they all just died.

​@@Moneymaker864realistically they'd have died during continental drift

I also forgot that Manny had a dead wife and kid before the first movie

& presumably any storyboarders

Visual gags are in the script

Do you not know that visual gags are in the script? do you seriously think that the animators just make that shit up without anyone telling them to do that?

@@joshuasgameplays9850 alot of the time stand alone visual gags are put in by storyboard artists or animation directors (it's literally part of why they get hired)

*were, not where

As a kid I was so proud that I knew he didn't actually die because the trailer played his "Nine lives baby!" line at the point of his "death" I was like "but the line, we haven't seen it yet!"

I'm glad they didn't let Diego die. The story wouldn't work without him, he brings some sense of reason and calmness into this messy group, with Sid the clumsy kinda dumb sloth and Manny the grumpy stubborn mammoth. Diego balances this chaotic group out, the sequels wouldn't work without him. Although they clearly didn't know what to do with his arc in the second and third movie.

To be fair to them, if there was an asteroid headed to earth I’d also go to the crash sight and watch it hit

Nah you just gotta jump at the right time to avoid the impact

Yeah, I get the feeling we don’t really have enough comic relief in this cast.

really could've used more, if only.

😂

Plot twist: fall about boy stole the prehistoric music from the ice age animals. I'm real life. Ice age 5 is a documentary

holy shittt

Fall Out Boy literally said “you will remember me for centuries” they were dropping hints ok

Said fob song also happens to be about the bassist from mcr, meaning mcr also has to exist prehistorically

@@stanm4769 while there are quite a few fob songs written about mikey, i don't think my songs is one of them.

She said "Ice age 2002"

@@Eyecyou64 did she call it that every time, or just the first time?

@@scroobledooble6257 most if not every time, yes

family?? Without any romantic or blood ties?? Can’t be.

Wait I didn't think of it like that but omg! I always saw Syd as a kind of gay uncle type character but I only know the first film as a kid

ikr the entire point of the first movie was that family doesnt have to be blood and then they just... made everyone also have their own blood families

Before I watched the video I thought the Christian part was going to a nonliteral description to get the idea of the classical Americana nuclear family. No, actually they just have Christian weddings I guess. Cool. I'm now so curious about the religious, esoteric, and occult history of the ice age universe. "Christian" weddings assume the evolutionary path of religion is extremely similar to ours, and Carries with it the insane implication of things like Ice Age Gnostics and other early pre-orthodox branches. Which would also imply the greater Greco egyptian milieu. Now who knows how direct the parallels are, but I'm just going to say (because its it's funny to me) there is absolutely an ice age Greek Magical Papyri, complete with _The Steele of Jeu: the hieroglyphicist and his letter_ complete with like, a mammoth version of Akephalos. Praise to Mammoth Moses, Praise to Smilodon Osiris, Praise to Sabertoothed Squirrel Jesus, Sabaoth Iao, etc etc. I also choose to believe there is also a Sabertooth Crowley who modernized it into the Sabertooth Bornless Ritual and when you try to Ice Age Google the original text you only get the sabertooth bornless ritual and it's incredibly annoying Crowley get the fuck away from things I'm interested in challenge or I'll dig you up and find something to do to your bones you wont find arousing. Edit: this also means Ice Age Plato, so like Ice Age Eugenics. Also ice age hermeticism, ice age alchemy, ice age Rome... Edit 2: oh my God there's Weasel Pythagoras in Buck's sherlock mind palace? Does this imply Pythagoras is like a guy Buck invented? Or does Buck Pythagoras Weasel exist as Buck's representation of greek smart dudes because there was an actual Ice Age Pythagoras that Buck (the guy who literally only interacts with dinosaurs and lives underground) read about? Also I was joking about the religious esoterica stuff, but like, Pythagoras is just directly religious esoterica. To the point we don't know if he really existed and the Pythagoreans thought of him as a Daimon, like a nature spirit of math and thought he did all these supernatural things and like this was a crazy mystery cult with complex ideas about the world and I am going insane. Why am I thinking about this so much?

and? lmao

My child brain missed out on a lot of the darker subtext of this movie

Also it just hit me that he was near a cliff edge because the human hunters dropped rocks off a cliff to k*ll his wife and child so he wanted to go out in a similar fashion oh my god

​​@@mollymcdade4031jesus christ 😭 the more I learn about the og movie, the more fucked up it is

So much for woke Hollywood

@@4nn4h This comment took me OUT

I just genuinely gasped upon reading this comment, because I really liked Louis. He was probably my favorite part about Ice Age 4 (which I did not like as much as the first 3).

@@whoasked3961louis was easily the best part of ice age 4 like he was adorable only to never be seen again

He makes a cameo in the fifth movie, which is somehow worse since nobody acknowledged him and peaches never mentions him. He literally saved her from a pirate and was supposed to be her bestest friend

It’s true that she was wasted. Shira went through an arc similar to Diego in the 1st film while the 4th film slowly built up their relationship. I recall really liking her in the 4th film… only for her to be barely in the film. At least Diego had more films prior to Collision Course. The worst part of Collision Course to me wasn’t that Shira was wasted. It wasn’t Julian coming in out of nowhere when he should have been introduced in the 4th film. It wasn’t what was done to Manny’s character. It wasn’t what was done to Buck as a character (actually he was one of the positives to me). It wasn’t the Dino-Birds nor the Shangri Llama. It wasn’t even any of Sid’s relationship nonsense. It was what they did to Gladys, Sid’s grandma. She was so funny and likable in the 4th film, only for the 5th film to make her rarely funny and now unlikable. They took what to me was the funniest character in the 4th film and ruined her in the next one. Ouch.

yeah because for some reason even though the first film really hinges on the fact humans exist, humans are erased from existence in all the sequels. you never see a human ever again you never hear about them, manny doesn’t mention his family that was killed by humans, diego doesn’t mention his family and their relationship to humans, and they literally never mention the baby ever again. it’s so weird

Yeah, following that thought, I feel like there was a way for them to still introduce romantic partners and building these same family units and still remain true to the themes of the first movie. Manny could have met Ellie and experienced some abandonment issues that made him not as receptive to a partnership with her and it could have been about the early stages of recovering and building new relationships after loss. And then when they know they’re going to have Peaches, build on that with “oh no, I’m afraid to have a kid again because *trauma*” and then this one “oh no, it’s happening again, I’m losing my child!” All the while doing similar stuff with Syd and Diego as B and C plots while they continue supporting each other and surviving together- maybe Syd learns not to be so clingy throughout the series as he overcomes his abandonment issues because he’ll always have the herd. Maybe Diego finds he still struggles not to engage in transactional behavior when pursuing a potential partner because they aren’t part of his herd yet and so he realizes that he still has those trust issues for new people. Each movie could have handled different stages of recovering after each characters respective traumas and how they support each other through that, while still being a children’s series and it could have been so good. I’m forever bummed that they forgot the first movie and didn’t just continue with the emotional development of these characters and their stories.

Yeah like I’m not saying the 4th movie is good or worth watching but it’s at least kind of entertaining. The animal pirates are cool and fun, even if they feel totally out of place in the world

So is Buck. The dude is literally a one-eyed weasel. Do with that what you will.

Please explain this to me, wtf, wtf?

@@dontfearthe Because Scrat literally is always looking for a place to store his nuts, for example.

@@darthmeticulous6901 ohhh... Ohhhhh. 😭

@@darthmeticulous6901 I dont think that was intentional, because hiding acorns is just something squirrels do

they all were extinct

It's really weird how different the other Ice Age films are from the first. Not even the oddly forgotten aspects like the existence of humans or Manny being a widower, but even the tone is drastically different. The first movie comparatively feels far more grounded and doesn't feel the need to constantly undercut dramatic moments with constant jokes

I will say, the second one isn’t completely awful. I grew up with that one, and I was not aware there was another one before it cause I was a dumb child.

Fr every time I was like wtf

You are so funny! I also had that moment! I'm at the magnetic astroids part and I'm like "this movie isn't even half reviewed yet HOW

"we're 40 minutes into the movie and we're back in space 😮‍💨" this and the "which is good because i didn't think we had enough comic relief characters" gag never got old throughout the entire video

This is why they need to be paid better

Diego is just like me fr

Same 😭

My phone background is sexy Diego

I think the franchise would be dead even if Disney hadn't Disneyed, honestly. But yeah, what they did to Bluesky fucking sucked.

i do feel like at least a few of the land before time sequels do still have heart. like i grew up with a dvd that had the stone of cold fire and secret of saurus rock and like.. yeah. i mean stone of cold fire isn't my favorite particularly for the weird message they were sending out with pterano but like, particularly secret of saurus rock and the dynamic between littlefoot and his grandparents is pretty redeemable imo

@@celebrityguest.9530I mean, while the first Land Before Time is a classic, there’s at least four sequels I can immediately think of that were just as good… Land Before Time 2 and 4-6, especially 5 and 6, the former being a great way to make Chomper so much better, the latter being a solid chapter in its own right with an awesome ending. The 7th film was okay, as was the 3rd one. I barely recall 8-10, never saw the last four, and yes, there are 14 Land Before Time films, you can buy all of them as a DVD set for under 20 dollars.

I haven’t fully watched the first Ice Age in at least 5 years and I’ve only just fully realised that Manny wasn’t just sad over his wife and child, he was fully planning on staying behind to freeze to death out of his grief - and him, Sid and Diego essentially saving each other through the power of healthy male friendship

dinosaurs was 3, meltdown was 2.

That's number 3. Because I WAS RAISED ON TWO THINKING IT WAS ONE. Which is the one where their home starts melting and it has a terrifying eel creature and a scene were buzzards try to eat the gang.

@@krell.1415i’m cursed to sing “food glorious food” every time i’m hungry.

Peaches is his child though

@@raccoonsandys3038i think they meant peaches isnt his FIRST child

@@asthejayfliesWHAT for 10 years thought Manny lost his parents and not his wife and kid???? Are you fr

@@emmakaisa27 it was an adult male mammoth watching as the female and child were killed, not the baby watching the mother and father though to be fair. i entirely missed on the implication that the father in the mural was manny when i was growing up. it wasnt until i checked the fuckin wiki for ice age for some reason years ago that I understood that part

Honestly, the movies should've made that the reason for Manny being so overprotective. His first kid literally died. He's going to be absolutely terrified of that happening again. Wait I just want him to act like Merlin from Finding Nemo

I like buck in 3 because he was the only one who knew what was happening but was also clearly nuts so he was unpredictable and unreliable

Not exactly. Manny’s loss of his first wife and child is actually a reason for so much of his conflict in the 2nd film (it literally gets brought up early in the film when he’s telling a “happily ever after” style story), it’s part of the reason he was so nervous about Ellie’s pregnancy in the 3rd film, and it’s a reason for why he was so protective of Peaches in the 4th film. Also, Diego mentions leaving his pack in the 4th film to Shira. While it is true that the baby was basically ignored in the sequels, it is false to say the 1st film was completely ignored.

In my opinion, Ice Age should have remained a standalone film.

In my opinion, Ice Age should have remained a standalone film and didn't need sequels.@@darthmeticulous6901

When did it premiere?

@@Drokovat if I remember correctly it was 7:02

My little brother is living in the US at the moment and he was absolutely shocked to find that his American friends didn't view Ice Age as the huge cultural touchstone moment that he did and were just like "oh yeah I kinda remember that movie"

there's FOUR alvin and the chipmunks movies??? and four shrek movies???? you're a godsend

Shrek 4 is actually good compared to Shrek 3 don't @ me

@@giorgimamalashvili4220 Shrek 3 is the only bad one. Shrek 1,2, and 4 are actually pretty good.

Cloudy with a chancy of meatballs 2 is fun. Cute food animals.

oh my god madagascar 3 was such a wild fever dream but tbh i love it because it is just so batshit crazy which makes it incredibly funny

In a perfect world they would've brought the baby (Roshan) back to reunite with the herd of Manny, Diego, and Sid and bring everything full circle... but they never did and that was MY biggest disappointment re: the sequels...

And arguably, even the first, becos Sid has basically no impact on any plot events, whether it's the human connection to Manny and Diego's backstory - since both are hunted by humans and the majority of their character development is spurred by their growing bond and fondness for baby Roshan whilst Sid has NO connections to humans whatsoever in his backstory - nor does Sid have any plot-relevant impact on Diego's redemption arc, which happens almost solely due to Roshan and Manny's influence on him. Sid is just... there, and whilst he is decent comic relief in IA1, he is such a plot-irrelevant character that the movie might've been stronger if they removed Sid entirely and focussed on the bonds btwn mammoth, sabre-tooth tiger, and baby instead, in my opinion since those three characters form the poignant drama of IA1 whilst Sid is just... super disconnected to that aspect and since he has _so little_ to do with the overall story, if you remove Sid (and Scrat) the film basically becomes _a drama_ and not the dramedy it is today.

Actually it represents the fact that he was supposed to die for real but nobody liked that during test screenings.