Ice Age 3: A New Beginning (2009)

Ice Age 3: A New Beginning is a 2009 American computer-animated direct-to-video adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and Fox Circle 7 Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) and the third installment in the Ice Age film series. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and co-directed by Steve Martino & Mike Thurmeier. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge reprise their roles from the first two films and Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, and Queen Latifah reprise their roles from The Meltdown, with Richard Dreyfuss joining them in the role of a main villain & the iconic Kaiju monster named King Kong. The story has the herd was stuck into the snowy Shangri-la, after King Kong arrives and they're both faces off against the giant monster.

Despite the direct-to video threequel was released on July 1, 2009. It received positive-to-mixed reviews and with critics deeming it as one of Fox's better direct-to-video sequels/threequels.