<Li> Ice Age: Continental Drift </Li> <Li> Ice Age: Collision Course </Li> <P> Ice Age is an American media franchise centering on a group of mammals surviving the Paleolithic ice age . It is produced by Blue Sky Studios, a division of 20th Century Fox, and featuring the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge . Five films have been released in the series thus far with Ice Age in 2002, Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012, and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016 . It has received some criticism for making no attempt to be scientifically accurate . As of April 2016, the franchise had generated $6 billion in revenue, making it one of the highest - grossing media franchises of all time . </P> <P> Sid, a talkative sloth, is left behind by his family and the herds of mammals journeying to the south . He meets Manny, a mammoth who travels to the north, and decides to follow him . When a humans' camp is attacked by tigers, a woman takes her baby and jumps into a river and falls over a waterfall . Before she disappears, the baby is rescued by Manny and Sid . The two animals decide to search for the father and return the baby to him . Diego, one of the tigers that attacked the humans, comes also claiming the baby, and the trio form an uneasy alliance during their journey to the humans . </P>

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