
2012 animated film by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier
"Ice Age: Continental Drift" is a 2012 animated film directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier that continues the popular Ice Age franchise. It matters as a major studio animated release that provided family entertainment and extended the series' storyline for fans of the characters and world established in previous films.
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Ice Age: Continental Drift is a 2012 American animated adventure comedy film produced by 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios. The fourth installment in the Ice Age film series following Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), it was directed by Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier and written by Michael Berg and Jason Fuchs. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah reprise their roles from the previous films, with Jennifer Lopez, Drake, and Nicki Minaj joining the cast. The film involves Scrat mistakenly sending Manny, Sid, and Diego adrift on an iceberg with Sid's Granny, leading them to face a gang of pirates led by Captain Gutt.
The film premiered at CineEurope on June 20, 2012, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 13 by 20th Century Fox. Despite mixed critical reviews, the film was warmly-received by the general public and grossed $877 million worldwide, making it the fifth highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing animated film of 2012. A further sequel, Ice Age: Collision Course, was released on July 22, 2016.
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