Ice Age: Landscape Damage (2019 film)

Ice Age: Landscape Damage is a 2019 American 3D computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is a standalone sequel to 2016' s Ice Age Collision Course and the sixth installment in the Ice Age film series.

The film features the voice acting of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jennifer Lopez, Simon Pegg, Jessie J and Chris Wedge all reprise their roles from previous films. New additions to the cast include Christopher Lloyd, Jeremy Renner, Jack McBrayer, Alfred Molina, Jerry Seinfeld, Zendaya, Nick Cannon, Jack Gore, Ariel Winter & J.K. Simmons

The film is released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in 2D and 3D. It received negative reviews and has grossed over $375 million worldwide.

In this film Scrat crash in the epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him the underground tunnel where he accidentally sets off a geyser that transform to an ice tornado threaten Planet Earth. To save themselves from peril, Manny, Sid, Diego, and the rest of the herd must leave their home, but then they encountering a host of new characters and embark on a quest-filled adventure full of comedy and excitement while travelling to exotic new home and landscape.

Plot
Scrat is still flying on the UFO, but suddenly it ran out of gas and crashed down to Earth. He finds a cave tunnel, but when he placed his acorn on the geyser, the hot springs water was sending into the air making it an ice tornado. Meanwhile, Manny is getting a little worried that Peaches will someday have a kid, which he doesn't want a grandson. Sid is excited that he always wanted a kid when Brooke is pregnant. Diego and Shira have two cubs, Zang and Nina, they want to teach them proper behavior not to eat, or use the prey. After Brooke's baby shower party for girls, some of the ice tornadoes strike the place and the herd barely escape with their lives. Meanwhile, at Geotopia, Granny is getting a massage from Teddy. But she sees the home of the Herd getting dirt and destroyed. So she and Teddy came to meet up with Manny and the others. Just then Buck explains to the herd according to the map he draws in the sand, the tornadoes had caused several extinctions in the past and with a massive one still incoming, he believes the only place that they could find a clue to stop it is on the site of the impact of the previous ones, as according to its engravings, they always fall and destroy at the same place.

Meanwhile, Scrat, in a desert tunnel, finds a map that directs him towards an acorn of gold. As the herd travels to the weather crashed site, they discover that the tornadoes have geyser hot springs over properties. But they are surrounded by the groups of territory animals led by an Agriotherium, Eamon, who attempts them to leave his hiding cave along with his animal crews. When they try to get to the geysers, Eamon prepares to attack them, while Buck holds him off. When the herd came through the other side of the cave, Buck theorizes that if a huge quantity of tornadoes should be gathered and launched into debris, they can attract the main tornado as well and prevent it from damage on Earth. When Eamon overhears Buck's conversation, he suggests his minions to stop them from saving the day so the tornadoes can crash and trash the whole world so they can dominate over Earth for their species. The next day, the herd arrives at the place called "Diamond of Wonder" ,a community that protects and helps others when they need it. However, a moose, Brozin, leader of Diamond Wonder, has decided to cooperate with Buck's plan to send the diamonds and rocks from the geyser tornado in order to prevent the imminent impact, as they are the key to the residents longevity to protect the world and other mammals. But then Sid accidentally kicked the rock all over the diamond walls.

Once they help the herd with Buck and Brozin's plans, which is to fill up a geyser with the diamonds and rocks so that the pressure launches them into the other side of the country to blow the tornado away for good. But Eamon and his minions, Bernie the Ram, Scooter the Wolf and Rakuma the Raccoon came to stop them and attempts not to send the tornadoes away, and taken Ellie, Peaches and Julian hostage with Crash and Eddie, as Diego, Shira, and Sid fights off Bernie, Scooter and Rakuma, Eamon's minions, except for Brooke who thinks that she needs to stay seated on the rock along with Granny and Teddy in the cave. Manny and Buck defeated Eamon in the final duel, and the plan worked. The tornadoes are gone to the other country for good. Yesterday as the herd came back home, Sid was wondering what kind of baby it was, but then it was the three baby triplets. And he'll name them Maggie, Jason and Danny and makes him a great dad, and Manny suggest that he always wanted grandkids, but Peaches decided to not to have kids yet until she is 30, then Nina and Zang will always be good sabres for Diego and Shira, then Granny and Teddy have decided to stay at home with the herd along with Shangri Llama, and the mammals to redecorate their home with snow.

Scrat finally finds a golden acorn which gives him an uncontrollable urge to hunt acorns in the acorn crystals, but when he pulls the shiny bright acorn, it crushes down, and Scrat sees a lamp. Then the Genie Scrat granted him his new acorn, but it got accidentally sent to the lava geyser. The film ends with Scrat screaming in frustration before the credits begin rolling.

Cast

 * Ray Romano as Manny, a woolly mammoth and the leader of The Herd
 * John Leguizamo as Sid, a ground sloth and the founder of The Herd
 * Denis Leary as Diego, a saber tooth tiger and the member of The Herd
 * Queen Latifah as Ellie, a female woolly mammoth – Manny's wife
 * Seann William Scott and Josh Peck as Crash and Eddie, two opossums and Ellie's brothers
 * Simon Pegg as Buck, a one-eyed weasel and a dinosaur hunter
 * Keke Palmer as Peaches, a young female woolly mammoth – Manny and Ellie's daughter
 * Jennifer Lopez as Shira, a female saber tooth tiger – Diego's wife and former first mate pirate
 * Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Shangri Llama, a yoga-loving llama and the spiritual leader of Geotopia
 * Jessie J as Brooke, a ground sloth who is a resident of Geotopia and Sid's wife
 * Adam DeVine as Julian, a woolly mammoth and Peaches' husband
 * Wanda Sykes as Granny, an aging ground sloth and Sid's grandmother
 * Michael Strahan as Teddy, a fearless rabbit and Granny's boyfriend
 * Christopher Lloyd as Eamon, a tempered Agriotherium who is the leader of his trespassing cave and the main antagonist
 * Jeremy Renner as Bernie, a ram who is part of Eamon's cave and the secondary antagonist
 * Jack McBrayer as Scooter, a wolf who is part of Eamon's cave and the third antagonist
 * Alfred Molina as Rakuma, a raccoon who is part of Eamon's cave and the fourth antagonist
 * Jerry Seinfeld as Brozin, a moose and the leader of the Diamond Wonder
 * Zendaya as Jasmine, a eagle and the residents of Diamond Wonder
 * Nick Cannon as Eric, a heroic cougar and residents of Diamond Wonder
 * Jack Gore as Zang, a male saber tooth tiger and Diego and Shira's son
 * Ariel Winter as Nina, a female saber tooth tiger and Diego and Shira's daughter
 * Chris Wedge as Scrat, a saber-tooth squirrel
 * J.K. Simmons as Genie Scrat
 * Nathalie Dormer as Elsa, a woolly giraffe
 * Albert Brooks as Craig, a woolly hippo

Soundtrack
Ice Age: Landscape Damage is the soundtrack of the film scored by John Powell and was released on July 12, 2019.

Featured in the film was "It's Very Windy", performed by Beyonce the film's first theme song, and the second theme song "We Stay Together" written by Ester Dean, performed by Keke Palmer, Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah, Jessie J, and Zendaya. Both songs play during the credits and are available on the soundtrack.

Songs used in the film

 * 1) It's Very Windy - Beyonce
 * 2) Carrie Underwood - Just A Dream
 * 3) Come As You Are - Nirvana
 * 4) Helium - Mikey Wax
 * 5) We Stay Together - Keke Palmer, Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah, Jessie J, and Zendaya; first song in credits
 * 6) Senorita - Shawn Mendes; second and final song in credits

Trailer Song
Whatever It Takes - Imagine Dragons

Reception
As of August 31, 2020, Ice Age: Landscape Damage has grossed $62 million in North America and $326 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $389 million, against a budget of $105 million.

In the United States and Canada Ice Age: Landscape Damage opened on July 15, 2019 and was projected to gross $30–35 million in its opening weekend. It made $850,000 from Thursday night previews and $7.8 million on its first day. It had a disappointing $21 million debut in its opening weekend, finishing fourth at the box office.

The film began its international theatrical run two weeks prior to its North American release, earning $18 million from seven markets on about 5,286 screens. In its second weekend, it added $32.2 million from 25 countries. As a result, it only topped the international box office for a non-Chinese film but also helped Fox pass the $2 billion mark internationally, making this the eighth consecutive calendar year Fox has surpassed this milestone, and the 10th time in the studio's history. By its third weekend, after grossing another $53.5 million from 15,132 screens in a total 51 markets, it finally topped the international box office and became the biggest grosser of the weekend.

The debut makes it the top non-local animated opening in the country this year and is also the franchise’s best debut. It has so far grossed a total of $59.2 million there.

In terms of total earnings, its biggest markets outside of North America are Germany ($23.8 million) and France ($22.2 million).

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 17% based on 100 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Ice Age: Landscape Damage has no simple earning and has little to no kids' movie formula in all concepts".

" On Metacritic, the film has a score of 34 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

Katie Walsh of Los Angeles Times gave the film a negative review, saying "Landscape Damage simply a perfunctory, watered-down entry in the series that feels like it should have been released on home video." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film one out of four stars, saying "The sixth entry in the Ice Age series is a loud, lazy, laugh-starved cash grab that cynically exploits its target audience (I use the term advisedly) by serving them scraps and calling it yummy. "

Owen Gleiberman of Variety gave the film a positive review, saying "The long-running series returns to form with an infectious chatterbox comedy about the end of the world as we know it."

Sid's Christmas Icetacular (2019 Christmas Special)
Sid's Christmas Icetacular is a 2019 direct-to-DVD Ice Age holiday special produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the second and final Christmas special for the Ice Age franchise, following 2011's A Mammoth Christmas. It will be released on December 7, 2019.

Synopsis
This short animation film takes place in The Valley, the Christmas version over in the cave. Sid (John Leguizamo) suggests everyone sing Christmas carols. Sid sings "Rockin Around The Christmas Tree." Manny (Ray Romano), Ellie (Queen Latifah), Peaches (Keke Palmer), Ethan (Drake) and the Brat Pack sing "Jingle Bells." Diego (Denis Leary) and Shira (Jennifer Lopez) sings "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire." Then everyone sings "All I Want For Christmas Is You," But they call it All We Want For Christmas Is You.

Ice Age: Yule Log (2019 Yule Log video)
Ice Age: Yule Log is a "Yule Log" video streaming on Disney+ as of December 15, 2019. It accompanied the Disney+ debut of Ice Age: Landscape Damage. So far, Ice Age: Yule Log is the only Ice Age installment not available for purchase on either DVD or digital.

Trivia

 * This the first Ice Age film from 20th Century Fox to be released after the Disney purchase.
 * This will be the sixth installment of the Ice Age hexalogy.
 * This is the first time Blue Sky Studios releases two films a year, which are: Ogre Tales 4: Journey Quest, Ice Age: Landscape Damage and Spies in Disguise.
 * This is the sixth and final Ice Age film to be composed by John Powell.
 * Like the previous Ice Age installments, Skywalker Sound is included.
 * The end credits feature a montage of clips from the previous five Ice Age films.
 * This marks the 10th anniversary of the third Ice Age installment.
 * This is the first Blue Sky Studios film to feature Andy Serkis, Alfred Molina and J.K. Simmons.
 * Eamon is similar to Vincent from Over the Hedge. Both of them hate being waken up by hibernating and also attempts to kill the heroes.
 * He is also similar to the Bear from The Fox and The Hound. Both hated trespassers in their territory and they wanted to kill the heroes, and also made them mad as they get hurt.
 * Eamon is very similar to Lots-O' Huggin' Bear from Toy Story. They both rulers who can torturers their minions.
 * Bernie the Ram is very similar to Squint from the fourth Ice Age installment. They both hated Shira.
 * Not some other ram goats that cause their misery for their temper.
 * Scooter the Wolf has the voice of Fix-It Felix Jr. in Disney's Wreck-It Ralph.
 * Scooter is similar to Flynn from the forth Ice Age installment due to their stupidity, showing no physical threat to the heroes, and the abuse they get from their boss.
 * Scooter is somehow similar to the wolf from Peter and the Wolf, a segment of the 1946 animated feature film Make Mine Music. They both like to eat and chasing the heroes.
 * Maggie, Jason and Danny are very much similar to the Baby Dinos from the third film. They never even met during the film, but they still half-brothers and sisters.
 * Maggie, Jason and Danny are also similar to the Dronkeys from the Shrek films. They both loyal to their parents and the kids for always an eternity.