

Later they find a human baby, and both develop a love for the child. Manny meets Sid, the sloth, and immediately develops a dislike for the pushy Sid.

There is a great deal of story-building in this movie with many ideas planted for further chapters which will bring on the introduction of more characters, and mating instincts will flower. Manny sees a mammoth family and becomes very lonesome about his own isolated plight without a mate. This first film is noteworthy because of the presence of human beings, a sight of Stonehenge, and the very interesting episode with the prehistoric human cave drawings. Manny, the mammoth (voice of Ray Romano) is going against the tide, headed in the other direction. The stage is set for the later independently embedded cartoons in which the squirrel is constantly trying to conquer that iconic acorn, at battle with nature and his nut.Īt the beginning of this film there's a huge migration to warmer climes going on with lots of different species heading south. In later movies of the series he becomes more of an independent entity and even finds a soul mate. Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel, is wrestling with his prized acorn although in this outing some of his vignettes become brief interactions with the main characters. In "Ice Age" (2002), the first of the superb three-part series, some traditions are established that hold true for later films in the series.
