Ice Age: Continental Drift

Peaches is a teenager, and Manny turns overprotective. Sid ends up with his granny, dropped off by his family. Scrat cracks the continents apart, and Manny, Sid, Granny and Diego drift away on an ice floe, far from Ellie, Peaches and the rest of the herd. The four fall into the hands of Captain Gutt's pirates, led by a Gigantopithecus. Shira, his first mate, eventually switches sides. Meanwhile Peaches learns her new friends are fake and comes to value her pal Louis. In the end Manny beats Gutt, the family reunites and the herd settles on a new island.

1. CameoPeter Dinklage sings with the pirates

   The pirates' sea shanty "Master of the Seas" was written and produced by Adam Schlesinger and features Peter Dinklage among the cast's voices. It isn't on the soundtrack album.

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2. ReferenceIt played with a Simpsons short

   In US theaters the film was paired with The Longest Daycare, a short starring Maggie from The Simpsons.

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3. SetupScrat promoted it in advance

   Fox released two roughly 3-minute teasers, Scrat's Continental Crack-up and Part 2. In the first, Scrat's antics split the continents. In the second, his underwater acorn chase leads him to a pirate ship.

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