It’s been 10 years since Ice Age: Collision Course warned audiences to “kiss their ice” goodbye, but it’s challenging to keep a good family franchise down. Hence, Ice Age is back, baby! On Thursday, 20th Century Studios released a teaser trailer for Ice Age: Boiling Point, which is technically the sixth feature film in the franchise started by Blue Sky Studios. It’s wild to think that Ice Age has been around almost as long as Pixar’s Toy Story franchise, or that Manny and the gang are still trying to outrun extinction and global warming so many years later.
Who’s returning for Ice Age: Boiling Point?
Oddly, Ice Age: Boiling Point appears to center around Manny and his friends outmaneuvering the thaw of a glacial landscape, which was already the plot of 2006’s Ice Age: The Meltdown. Then again, it’s only a teaser, and I’m sure there’s much more in store for the crew in their new film. According to reports, Manny (Ray Romano), Diego (Denis Leary), Sid (John Leguizamo), Buck (Simon Pegg), and Ellie (Queen Latifah) are on the run not only from global warming but from long-lost dinosaurs as well. Joining them for the great escape are Jennifer Lopez, Keke Palmer, Adam Devine, Sean William Scott, Wanda Sykes, Nick Offerman, and others.
Ice Age: Boiling Point doesn’t open in theaters until February 5, 2027, so you’ve got plenty of time to rewatch the series, which includes Ice Age (2002), Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ( 2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016). If you want to complete the journey, make sure you check out 2022’s The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, starring Simon Pegg as Buck.
Ice Age keeps chuggin’ along
I’d like to see what Ice Age still has left in the tank after seemingly running the franchise’s premise into the ground. Then again, Ice Age is important to young audiences. Can 20th Century Studios recapture the public’s interest after a ten-year absence from the silver screen? Will Manny and the crew eventually get taken out by Mother Nature? Only time will tell, and February will come at us faster than we think.
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