Sentence:  Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a <WSD>retinue</WSD> of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.