Ice Age: Continental Drift (also called Ice Age 4: Continental Drift or simply known as Ice Age 4) is 2012 American 3D computer animated adventure and comedy movie. It was directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier. It was written by Jason Fuchs and Michael Berg. It stars the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Jennifer Lopez, Keke Palmer, Peter Dinklage, Wanda Sykes, Drake, and Nicki Minaj.

It is the fourth Ice Age series. It was produced by Blue Sky Studios. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is also the first sequel of Ice Age not to be directed by Carlos Saldanha. It was the second Ice Age movie that is in Digital 3D. It was released in the United States on July 13, 2012. This was the first Ice Age movie to be shot in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio.

The movie was welcomed well from audience: they praised its story, the cast's performance, the villain, its new characters, the humor, the emotional weight and the animation, but was criticized for the siren scenes and for having Scrat as the cause of the events of the movie. The movie became a box office hit. It is currently the 6th highest-grossing animated movie in history. It is the 3rd highest-grossing movie of 2012 with a worldwide gross of over USD$800 million. Ice Age: Continental Drift was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on December 4, 2012.

Production
News of another Ice Age sequel were announced on January 10, 2010. The New York Times reported that Blue Sky was working on a fourth movie. They were also developing plans on who would be voice acting in the movie. Fox later confirmed this on May 5, 2010. They released the title as Ice Age: Continental Drift. They said that it will be released on July 13, 2012.

Cast

 Ray Romano as Manny
 John Leguizamo as Sid
 Denis Leary as Diego
 Queen Latifah as Ellie
 Seann William Scott as Crash
 Josh Peck as Eddie
 Chris Wedge as Scrat
 Karen Disher as Scratte
 Keke Palmer as Peaches, Manny and Ellie's teenage daughter
 Jennifer Lopez as Shira, a saber-toothed cat (Smilodon) and Diego's love interest.
 Peter Dinklage as Captain Gutt, a prehistoric ape (Gigantopithecus) and the main antagonist
 Wanda Sykes as Granny, Sid's 80-year-old grandmother
 Josh Gad as Louis, a molehog and Peaches' best friend, who has a crush on her
 Drake as Ethan, a woolly mammoth Peaches has a crush on
 Aziz Ansari as Squint, a prehistoric rabbit (Palaeolagus) and part of Gutt's crew
 Nicki Minaj as Steffie, a woolly mammoth

 Ester Dean as Sloth siren
 Rebel Wilson as Raz, an Australian prehistoric kangaroo (Procoptodon) that is part of Gutt's crew
 Joy Behar as Eunice, Sid's mother
 Nick Frost as Flynn, a 4000 pound English elephant seal that is part of Gutt's crew
 Heather Morris as Katie, a woolly mammoth
 Ally Romano as Meghan, a woolly mammoth
 Alan Tudyk as Milton, Sid's father / Fabio sloth
 Kunal Nayyar as Gupta, a Bengali Badger (Chamitataxus) and part of Gutt's crew and used as the ship's impearl flag
 Alain Chabat as Silas, a Blue-footed Booby from the south of France that is part of Gutt's crew
 Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo as Fungus, Sid's uncle
 Ben Gleib as Marshall, Sid's brother
 Jason Fricchione as Dumb mammoth / Various / Crab / Announcer
 Patrick Stewart as Ariscratle, a sabre-thoth squirrel who is the leader of Scratlantis
 Simon Pegg as Buck (cameo)
 Christopher Campbell as Creature siren / Various
 George Jacobs as Beaver

Non-speaking characters include:
 Boris, a prehistoric Wild Boar (Metridiochoerus) that is part of Gutt's crew
 Precious, Granny's "imaginary" pet Giant whale

Jeremy Renner was supposed to be the voice actor of Captain Gutt. He later dropped out because of scheduling conflicts with The Bourne Legacy. Jennette McCurdy was originally set to voice Peaches, but dropped out because of her schedule on iCarly.

Soundtrack

Ice Age: Continental Drift is the soundtrack of the movie scored by John Powell and was released on July 10, 2012.

Video games
Ice Age Village is a mobile video game. It was developed by Gameloft, and was released on April 5, 2012 to iPhone, iPad, and various Android devices.

Ice Age: Continental Drift – Arctic Games, a video game based on the movie, was published by Activision Publishing. It was developed by Behaviour Interactive and was released on July 10, 2012, on the Wii, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, and Kinect for the Xbox 360.

Sequel
A sequel, titled Ice Age: Collision Course, was released on July 22, 2016.

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2012 movies
2012 animated movies
English-language movies
20th Century Fox movies
American animated movies
2010s fantasy movies
Sequel movies
Family movies
Ice Age (franchise)