Ice Age - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[eli]

The film was originally intended as a drama but Fox would only accept it as a children's comedy.

[janice]

When Sid tells Manny how his family abandoned him, he asks Manny about his family. Manny doesn't answer, and then tells Sid the following morning he should be loyal (in Sid's case, grateful) to a mate if and when he gets one. We find out what happened to his family in the cave drawings scene. Manny had a wife and child who were killed by humans, and he's still grieving for them, so he knows full well about being loyal to a mate. This is likely a reason why he denies his feelings for Ellie in the second film at first too.

[gabriel]

Bruce Willis were considered for the role of Manfred.

[michele]

The character Sid was originally intended to be a con-artist and a hustler. For example there is a finished scene called paying toll with the aardvarks this scene shows Sid conning three young aardvarks this scene was cut from the final version of the film because the team felt that the audience would've disliked him so he was revised to clumsy sloth instead also there is an alternate version of the mud bath scene which was more suggestive than the version in the final version this scene where Sid says some suggestive stuff and gets kicked in the groin this version was removed because it was inappropriate for children,received negative reception and would've gotten the film a PG-13 rating.

[leo]

Chris Wedge, director, is the voice of Scrat, but has no intelligible dialogue; the plan to have Scrat talk was quickly dropped, as he worked better as a silent character for comedic effect. The name 'Scrat' is a combination of the words 'squirrel' and 'rat', as Scrat has characteristics of both species; Wedge has also called him "saber-toothed squirrel." Scrat's opening adventure was inserted because, without it, the first real snow and ice sequence wouldn't take place until about 37 minutes into the film. This was the only role intended for Scrat, but he proved to be such a popular character with test audiences that he was given more scenes, and has appeared in other movies.

[violet]

20th Century Fox launched it on the home market with a marketing budget of $85 million, the largest amount they had spent up till then on a DVD release.

[bessie]

Michael J. Fox were considered for the role of Sid.