Huh?
I'm so happy.
I love spring in the ice age.
Oh, the colors,
the changing of seasons!
Yeah, I hardly
recognize the place.
Of course, spring doesn't really
start until the eggs hatch. And...
And you can't start Easter
without our Easter feast.
That's right, with the
family all together.
Which sounds amazing! But I
made plans with my friends.
Someday you're gonna have
a family of your own...
And then you'll know
the importance of
getting everyone
together on the holidays.
I don't even know
if I want that.
Manny, come out here! Your
daughter is talking nonsense!
Honey!
I'm in my Manny cave watching
the hawks-bears game.
I'll help when I get back.
Promise.
Oh!
Come on, hawks!
This is it,
folks, it's sudden death.
Guys, every time?
They're in
formation and here they go!
Bears rule!
Whoo-hoo!
Hawks on the attack!
Here
comes fuzzy wuzzy. He...
- Ooh!
- Holy mastodon!
That was sudden!
Game over. Hawks lose.
Why don't you guys go help your
sister with the Easter feast?
Easter, Sschmeaster,
chicken Keister!
Possums are launching
our own holiday.
April possum day!
A celebration of all
things prank and possum.
If it's about you guys, why
not call it April fools'?
Ouch! I like it.
Now, who will be the first fool?
Peaches! Yeah, that's
what I was thinking.
Manny! I could use
another trunk up here!
Let's go watch the falcons-hornets
game at your den.
Yeah, but Shira's sleeping. She went
out all night hunting with the girls.
The cougars?
Fine, we'll watch at Sid's.
Bring the nose plugs.
Wow, guys, I'm touched you want
to watch the game with me, but...
I can't because, you see,
it's my grand opening!
Nothing about you is grand, Sid.
Well, if you recall, I once ran
a kid's camp, El campo Del Sid.
Disaster.
And then I nurtured three
beautiful dinosaur eggs.
Disaster.
And then I thought, who has time
to sit on their egg all day?
Me! So, I'm opening
a pre-hatched pre-school.
Egg sitting.
I sit on your egg.
Future disaster.
Wow. And not one
single parent
has entrusted
their egg to you yet.
No, can you believe that?
And I asked everyone, too.
- Asher, stop sniffing him.
- It's embarrassing!
Except her!
Please, give me strength.
Ahhh! Don't eat that,
it's already digested.
Uh, excuse me, ma'am?
Hmm?
I can't help noticing that you
just migrated... Savannah!
So you know nothing about me.
Savan... mmm-mmm.
- Rachel!
- It wasn't me!
The skinny one! Spit your brother out!
Right now!
What on earth are you saying?
I know it's hard to manage, what,
with today's two-hunter families.
Only one hunter here.
My mate flew the Coop.
That's great!
What?
I mean, I mean,
I feel your pain.
So, um, let me ask you...
Who'll watch your egg
while you scavenge
to feed your young
mouth to mouths?
I'm basically your only option.
And really, think about it.
What could possibly go wrong?
Yo, I been stuck down here for
three months hangin' out.
I got my sea legs back.
Time to set sail!
Come on,
you just got home! Stay!
We got it made here.
We sleep all day,
we game all night.
Mom, like, she picks up
all our droppings, dude.
Can one of you
take out the trash?
Mom! In a minute!
I'm busy!
I love that woman.
Clint! This hole is
your whole universe.
And that's cool. You're a late bloomer.
Whatever.
I am a pirate.
I don't judge.
But there's a whole world out
there to pillage and plunder.
You can sit here
with your late bloomin',
I'mma get to
pillage and plunderin'.
Okay... well...
Every time you scheme something,
you end up back here,
at rock bottom.
Yeah, but this time's
gonna be different.
I'm gonna bounce.
Here we go! What?
It's them!
Watch out!
They sank my ship!
All because I tried to kidnap
and, well, maybe dump 'em at sea.
Anti-pirate jerks.
Payback time.
If you're going out,
take your brother!
Mom! I'm not taking him!
Of course I have space
for little Jessica!
My motto is...
"Long as you've got an egg,
I've got a place to sit."
Next!
Who referred you?
Ethel did.
She said you had the most
trustworthy eye she's ever seen.
You see, my little egg is
my whole life, my miracle.
Well, yeah!
I should say so.
So, how did you, um...
I adopted.
Oh!
Sid's got a dozen
eggs in his care.
This is not gonna go over easy.
It's like the future of the
ecosystem is in Sid's hands.
Worse. It's under Sid's butt.
Ew!
Hey! You hose-faced, trunk-toothed beast!
Remember me?
Peter cottontail?
That is insulting to my species!
I'm here for the new
ship you owe me!
What are you talking about?
Oh, let me refresh your memory.
Last time we met, you beat,
outsmarted, and humiliated me.
So the way I see it,
you owe me a new ship.
Beat it, bunny.
I don't owe you bupkis.
Ha-ha!
What is he doing?
I think...
He's attacking you?
Attacking?
Exfoliating, maybe.
Y'all haven't heard the last of me!
I'll be back for my new ship!
Nap time!
Oh, my gosh, you're so cute!
Sleep, sleep.
You want back tickles?
Oh, you have a big day tomorrow!
Now, how are you gonna come outta
your shell if you don't rest?
Oh, I know!
I know, I know.
I'll tell you the story my mom
used to tell me all the time.
It puts me right to sleep.
Okay. "Humpty dumpty
sat on a wall..."
And the lucky bunny
stole them all.
Oh, you're poached!
"And all the king's horses
and all the king's..."
Oh, I like your sunny side.
I'm gonna put you up!
Egg roll!
Tomorrow I'm gonna
cash in my nest egg
for a big ol' pirate
ship to sail away in!
First pranking is a rite of
passage for every possum.
Peaches gets to be the first
April fool in history.
She's gonna be so happy.
Shh!
Here she comes!
We're the best uncles ever! Shh!
But I...
I don't get it!
We set a vicious booby
trap for our niece.
We did everything right here!
Maybe your glue's no good.
Told you my glue is good!
Whoa!
Crash?
What's happening?
Eddie?
Stop it!
You stop it!
It's good glue.
Thank you.
It's incredible!
Where are our eggs?
I don't think
he knows where the eggs are.
I told you
we shouldn't trust him.
Well, maybe it's
senior ditch day.
How is that even possible?
Wow, I mean, they are
deceptively quick for oblongs.
You close your eyes for one
second and they wobble off.
You lost them?
I trusted you with my egg! And
I got them to trust you too!
Do you have any idea,
as a single-parent dad...
The hoops they made me
jump through to adopt?
It took me all day
to lay my eggs!
Have you ever given birth to
something that weighs half a ton?
No.
Sadly, nature hasn't seen it fit
to bless me with
that experience.
Well, you're about to
find out how it feels.
Pull!
Go ahead. I deserve it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Please release the sloth.
Look, look, we'll find your eggs
and we'll get 'em
back by morning.
Or you can draw and
quarter him tomorrow.
I'm not saying they should.
Can we tar and feather him?
No! It'll get
all over my cave.
What if we feed
him to the reptile!
Get that horny toad!
Look, I appreciate your ideas,
but Sid didn't take your eggs!
Then who did?
Hey, look!
We found something!
It's a ransom note.
Get me a ship by tomorrow
or the eggs get scrambled.
The pirate took our eggs!
You brought this trouble here.
Just give him a new ship!
We can't negotiate with a pirate.
He'll just keep doing it.
Wait, wait!
It's the pirate!
Get him!
Wait, wait, wait,
no, I'm not him!
That's my brother.
No, he hid this!
In our rabbit hole.
It's a treasure map to the eggs.
You see, pirates,
they like to hide things...
And draw maps to find them, like, later.
I don't know.
I know what pirates do.
Why did you bring this to us?
My family's made its hole in
this valley for 13 generations.
That's almost four years!
For once, I gotta make
things right. You know?
For my family.
We gotta get those eggs back.
I napped, and they
got egg-napped.
Manny, we have to
help those families.
Sid, this is your chance
to make things right.
Thanks, Ellie.
You're wise beyond your size.
Okay, we got ourselves
an egg hunt!
Let's search every
tree hole, rabbit hole,
watering hole, and ice hole...
In this entire valley.
We'll find 'em.
I promise.
Hey, don't you want
to follow the map?
Map, Schmap.
We have a D.T.S.
Diego tracking system.
My nose, and these
instincts, can't miss.
They just did.
Huh?
According to this map we don't
need, there should be one right...
Here!
Eggs marks the spot.
Painting and hiding eggs?
It's insidious. Who
would do such a thing?
This is like finding
an ice cube in a glacier.
I found another one.
All right, a little more
to the left. No, center.
Okay, to the right, to the right.
Okay, no, no, no, no.
Okay, a little more to the left,
a little south, a little south.
It's chocolate. Should
weigh just about the same.
Who knew that chocolate
tastes best in egg form?
Whoa!
Sid!
Yeah! We got 'em all!
Aw, Clint!
Finally got off your cottontail
just to bite me in the back.
Okay.
Those traps are
on a hare-trigger.
One goes off, they all go off!
Soon as she comes up, pow!
Genius!
But why would she come here?
Simple.
I left her a note.
This note?
Shoot.
Looks like we might
be here for a while!
My baby!
My little miracle!
I am not your miracle.
Could you just put me down?
We can't panic like this.
We've gotta panic like this!
We're never gonna
see our eggs again!
We gotta build him that ship.
I know you're worried about your families.
I've been there.
But my guys always come through.
Look! It's them!
They're back!
Thank you!
Thank you, thank you!
Neither ice, nor more ice,
nor dark of night...
Would keep us from
returning every last egg.
Huh?
Except yours.
My egg's missing?
But we found every
egg on the map!
Oh, no. My poor little egg!
Never even got a chance
to drive me crazy!
Oh, why? Why me?
You fools!
Oh, you really think I'm gonna
put all my eggs in one basket?
You have until sunrise
to build me my ship...
If you ever want to see
your precious egg again!
Oh, no!
It's one hour to sunrise.
We're not gonna make it.
We still got
an hour. Our hour.
Hour hour?
So that's two hours.
No, it's the hour
that belongs to us!
Look, despite new
evidence that suggests
I should not work
in child care...
When we work together,
we can fix any mistake I make.
Sid's right.
Look, we had a setback.
Let's start over
and get this done.
Huh?
Count me in.
Dude, stop, all right? This is
kind of getting out of hand.
I'm not giving up that egg,
Clint, not without a ship.
What about our home?
Our family?
What about us? Your
own fluff and blood.
You gave up on loyalty the
moment you gave up my map!
We're bunnies!
Okay? We're soft,
we're cute, we're cuddly.
We got button noses
and fluffy tails...
Hand-crafted by nature
to make everybody go, "aw!"
And you found a way
to make the whole
animal kingdom
hate us in one day!
You need everyone to love you!
Here's you. "Oh, that's okay, I
don't need to be tough and strong.
"I'll go hide in a hole."
That's you.
Here's me.
I win!
Well, fine.
Have it your way.
They built you a ship.
They're doin'... They're buildin'...
They're building it?
No!
Hah! If you think
I'm gonna tell you
where that egg is, you're nuts.
The egg!
Uh-oh.
No!
I got it, I got it!
My nest egg!
Head's up!
Come on!
Oh!
Surprise!
Oh, please!
Got it!
Whoa!
Did you see that?
I got it!
My egg!
Sid!
Sneak attack!
Do-si-do!
Spring thaw!
The ice is melting!
Give me that egg!
Sid!
Ah!
Darn bunny tail!
You're the first April fool!
We did it!
April fools!
Oh!
Mama.
Thank you!
Savannah!
Come look at
your little brother.
Oh, he's so cute!
Oh, my goodness, aren't you
the most beautiful thing?
My miracle!
Mom! Look!
Come here.
Peaches?
Are you crying?
You got me.
Family's cool.
You might even get to be
a grand-mammoth someday.
Manny, come out here.
Huh? What? What's wrong?
Your daughter's finally
starting to make sense.
Okay, I know you want to
be with your friends.
And I know the eagles show is starting.
Go watch with Diego.
No way.
Yeah, mom.
We're having Easter
feast all together.
As a family.
You know, it was kind of
fun having an egg hunt.
Maybe we should paint eggs
and hide 'em every year!
Hey, you know what?
You're awesome with eggs.
Now, what do you think of this?
The Easter...
Bunny!
You mean like a job?
Would I have to
wear a stiff suit?
No, your birthday
suit is perfect.
Mom, I got a job!
What do bunnies
have to do with Easter?
Or eggs. Or painting.
I'm sorry, that could
never catch on.
Oh, I'm gonna
get business cards.
I'm the Easter bunny!
Perfect!
The ship is terrible!
Not seaworthy!
Bunny overboard!
A-ha!
Whoa, whoa.
Oh. Ah!
Oh.
Oh!
Oh, no!
Hey, look, shooting stars.
Oh, oh! Quick, quick,
make a wish, make a wish.
You gotta make a wish.
Wow, my wish came true.
I'm okay!
Mine too.
I think I burned
my marshmallows.
Aah!
Over there!
Oh!
Three, two, one...
Yee-haw!
Aah!
Goal!
Ow!
Ah!
Welcome aboard, mate.
Hey, this cruise
has entertainment.
Seriously? Sid,
you're out of your mind.
They left without me.
Isn't there anyone who
cares about Sid the sloth?
Get off my face.
Whoa, you and me,
we make a great team.
What do you say we just
head south together?
Great, yeah. Hey, jump up on my
back and relax the whole way.
Wow, really?
No.
Didn't get the name.
Manfred.
Manfred? Yuck.
How about Manny the moody mammoth?
Or Manny the melancholy...
His daddy
wiped out half our pack
and wears our skin to keep warm.
An eye for an eye.
And, Diego,
bring me that baby alive.
Go! Go!
That's his herd
right up the hill.
We should return him.
Manny!
Name's Diego, friend.
Manfred, and I'm
not your friend.
If you're looking for the humans,
you're wasting your time.
They left this morning.
They couldn't be far.
You don't know much
about tracking, do you?
They headed north two hours ago.
You could have died,
trying to save me.
That's what you do in a herd.
You look out for each other.
Come on, Diego, let's
bring this mammoth down.
What are you doing?
Leave the mammoth alone.
You have to leave me here.
If those humans get through the
pass, you'll never catch them.
Come on, Sid, let's head south.
Diego? You're okay!
Nine lives, baby.
This is gonna be
the best migration ever.
I'm telling you, I'll show you
my favorite watering holes.
Everything is melting.
The dam's gonna break. The
entire valley's gonna flood.
Look around.
You're in a bowl.
Bowl's gonna fill up.
Ain't no way out.
What are we gonna do?
Unless you can make it
to the end of the valley.
There's a boat.
It can save you.
Well, shave me down
and call me a mole rat.
You found another mammoth.
Where? Wait a minute. I thought
mammoths were extinct.
This guy giving
you trouble, sis?
Sis?
That's right.
These are my brothers.
I don't think her tree goes all
the way to the top branch.
Hey, she should come with us.
Are you insane? No way.
Okay.
Manny wants me to ask you if you'd
like to escape the flood with us.
No brakes. Gotta roll.
Meet you at the other end.
So, you think she's
the girl for me?
Yeah. She's tons of fun
and you're no fun at all.
We made it.
Yeah, we showed
those scary vultures.
There's only one way to go.
We go forward.
We go back.
Forward.
Back.
Come on.
Fine.
Manny.
It's Ellie, she's
trapped in a cave.
Ellie, I don't want us to be
together because we have to.
I want us to be together
because we want to.
And I wanna be with you, Ellie.
What do you say?
Oh, Manny, I thought
you were going...
You're possum enough for me.
The baby's coming!
The baby's coming!
Watch it!
I'm having a baby!
Manny?
Huh?
I told you it was just a kick.
Sorry, folks! False alarm!
I'd like to present
Egbert, Shelly and Yoko.
Sid, whatever you're
doing, it's a bad idea.
Momma!
I'm a mommy.
Sid!
Sid!
Help!
Sid must be down there.
We've been living
above an entire world,
and we didn't even know it.
The name's buck.
Short for buckminster.
Long for "buh."
What are you doing here?
Our friend was taken
by a dinosaur.
Well!
He's dead.
Welcome to my world.
Wait! Sloth down!
It's not so bad down here. Nice
weather, friendly neighbors.
Hi, neighbor.
Rudy.
Rudy?
Peaches!
Peaches?
Peaches! The baby!
What, now?
This? Not good.
Stranger danger!
That's right! Come on!
Yee-haw!
This is the end
of Sid the sloth!
Help!
No, Sid! It's me!
And me!
And me!
I think we're getting close.
She looks just like her mother.
Thank goodness.
It's good to have you back, Sid.
Never thought I would say this,
but I missed you, buddy.
All right, mammals,
let's get you home.
That's right, sweetheart.
Welcome to the ice age.
What was that?
I think we're almost there!
I'll bury you all and
dance on your graves.
So frail.
And she can't wait to
spend time with you, Sid.
Manny! No!
No matter how long
it takes, I will find you!
That wall is going to
keep moving and crush us.
We need to get to
the land bridge.
Any questions?
Yes?
When you drink water through your
trunk, does it taste like boogers?
No.
Well, sometimes. Let's move!
Hmm. Am I hallucinating, or is that
ice coming straight towards us?
Captain Gutt, here to help.
You know, that's a nice monkey.
Lights out, big fella.
Hey, buddy.
Welcome to the party.
Prepare the plank!
Prepare the plank!
Preparing the plank!
Ain't going to happen, captain.
Does anyone have floaties?
There! Land!
Everyone paddle. Paddle!
Guys, over here.
Come on, it's a shortcut.
Wow! That is amazing.
Huh?
Guys, we should get out of here.
This is epic!
Go! Go! Go!
Hey, peach, loosen up!
Have some fun.
Fun? I'm out of here.
If you geniuses are normal, this
species is going to end up extinct.
Yeah, well, your species is
going to be extinct first.
Burn!
We're the same species, genius.
What? Double burn.
Is that...?
Peaches? There she is!
Dad!
Go, go, I'm right behind you.
No!
I'm right behind you.
Dad!
No!
There's nowhere to run, Manny.
Sometimes, it pays
to weigh eleven tons!
No!
Bon voyage, monkey boy!
Did somebody hail a whale?
How's that for an entrance?
During moviemaking sometimes, you
find characters that really stand out
and become this happy
surprise in the story,
and Scrat was one of them.
Scrat was one of the
characters that we
developed for ice age 1.
And it came from a need to find
an opening sequence
for the movie.
So, we went through Peter's
drawings, and there it was.
We added the saber-teeth
and we gave him an acorn,
and this whole issue was born.
And that's when the idea
of that glacier sequence
became the opening of the movie.
Very simple storyline,
no dialogue.
Just having this
little character
run for his life with one
thing in mind, the nut.
People just loved it.
Everybody who saw
this sequence just
could so identify with
this poor little guy,
that he just got
a life of his own,
and we just ended up using him
throughout all three movies.
Scrat sequences are
a dream, in a way,
because it is pure animation,
just to have fun
and do slapstick
and not be tied
down by dialogue.
But after three movies, it does
get challenging because...
"So, okay, what have we
not done with this guy?"
The most important thing in
Scrat's universe is his acorn.
That's all he cares about.
And writers came up
with something brilliant
by coming up with
the one thing that
could possibly
compete with that,
and that's Scratte.
Scratte is the perfect foil because
she's beautiful, she's cunning,
she's everything that he isn't.
When I was designing Scratte, I knew
she had to be the opposite of Scrat.
So she had to be beautiful.
She had to be smart. All
the things that he's not.
Scrat is this nervous,
twitchy character,
not particularly
well-groomed.
She's elegant and smooth.
We just wanted her to look as
beautiful as she could be,
because scrat has to look at her
and just fall in
love immediately.
So, we gave her long eyelashes
with a little bit of blue,
so we just make her
really feminine and funny.
Scratte did start out being
a lot more instinctual,
and then we started
seeing her look,
playing against scrat
actually worked a lot better.
And that's where it started
to mold her personality.
Her movement is really different
because she's very
straight with her poses.
Scrat will pop and just
jerk into the motion.
She'll do a swirl.
The uglier and the more disheveled
and pathetic you get Scrat,
the funnier he is.
But you always have to make sure
she's looking as good as possible,
and that's where the comedy is,
the contrast between the two.
And we kind of thought, what
if both Scrat and scratte
have the same goal, the nut.
Like, we can create
this great fun little
kind of spy vs spy kind of thing
that they keep trying to outsmart
each other to catch the nut.
And then, therefore by doing
that, they find love.
Then, the concept came up,
the love triangle,
Scrat, nut and girl, Scratte.
The Scrat sequences in
general are not scripted.
They are all invented in
story and with the director.
Carlos definitely had the idea of
the Scrat arc, meeting the girl
and a basic idea of
what would happen.
But as far as every individual
sequence, they leave it to us.
The first thing we do
is a first rough pass.
Rough, dirty
awful looking drawings,
and then you pitch them
in front of the whole room.
You act it out.
You do voices.
You're really trying
to get the room to laugh.
And then falls like a rock.
The Scrat tango sequence,
that was my assignment.
And I thought, "well, okay. They
need to be fighting over the nut.
"It's gotta be fun
and funny and..."
So, then, the next
part was me just trying
to sketch out the choreography,
seeing how it would
work with their tails,
and bringing squirrelness
into a human dance.
Just weeks of just doing gags.
And then Carlos basically
just picks his favorite,
and the tango was born.
The tango sequence took 33
days, about five weeks,
because there was a lot of play
between who is holding the nut,
where it's going, so it takes
a great deal of Polish time.
We looked up on YouTube
how to dance tango,
and I think one of
the coolest responses
was when the
storyboard artists noticed
I did a backwards ocho
in one of the shots I did.
So, actually, I have very
specific tango moves in this.
So, it's all
a collaborative effort
that made that sequence
extremely painful
but extremely rewarding
at the same time.
It's one of my favorite
sequences in the movie.
It just shows how fun and
painful love can be.
One thing about the original
scrat was thinking,
"what's gonna be
the voice for Scrat?"
So, we just put temporary
voices just to see.
We needed some sounds.
So, I connected
with my inner Scrat,
and the noises
just came voluntarily.
Mostly, it's effort sounds.
Scrat gets surprised by
something, it's kind of...
He's getting bopped on the head, it's
kind of the same sound, only just...
Things like that.
It matched so perfectly.
We said, "why look elsewhere?
We got the talent right here."
And Chris became the signature
voice of Scrat and was wonderful.
And then when we
defined the Scrat girl,
I decided,
"let's look inside again.
"Let's go through
the same process."
And Karen Disher, she'd been doing
a lot of voice temps for us.
I've been doing scratch
voices since I started out.
So, I think when
they needed a temp voice
for Scratte at
the beginning of production,
they were like,
"we'll just bring Karen in,"
which is, for me, a lot of fun,
when you can come into the
booth and they're like,
"okay, you're falling
down a cliff."
You know, "you're being
punched in the stomach."
You know, it's a funny
and weird thing.
In terms of vocalizing, it's
tricky because Scrat's so great.
Chris wedge does
such an amazing voice.
So, how do I keep this
animal in the same family,
but different at the same time?
So, for me, that was thinking
of little sexy things like,
little purrs she could do,
little come-hither squeaks,
which is difficult to do.
There's big, furry paws
to fill in a lot of ways.
Pretty clever. I don't
know where she gets it.
I just don't.
I was not expecting to end up being
the voice in a movie at all.
And then John came to me about a
year and a half ago now and said,
"guess what?
You're gonna be Scratte."
And I was just,
like, "shut up."
Like, I couldn't
even believe it, so...
It was really exciting.
Mmm!
The final ending where you kind
of, you keep the question,
"is he gonna be with the girl?
Or is he gonna get the nut?
"Or he's gonna get nothing?"
And we had, like, three different
ways of ending the movie.
And we chose one that we thought
was the best for Scrat.
The nut always comes first for Scrat.
Always, always, always.
He can't win at the end, never.
And that's the cardinal rule
'cause that's the Scrat.
We kind of leave Scrat where we
pick him up in the beginning.
He's always gonna have a certain
amount of struggle in his life
no matter what happens.