Ice Age 4 - Full Postponed

Movie
German title	Ice Age 4 - Full Postponed
Original title	Ice Age: Continental Drift
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2012
length	84 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0 JMK 6
Rod
Director	Steve Martino Mike Thurmeier
script	Michael Berg Jason Fuchs Mike Reiss
production	Lori Forte John C. Donkin
music	John Powell
camera	Renato Falcão
cut	James Palumbo David Ian Salter
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor Ice Age 3 - The dinosaurs are on the loose Successor  → Ice Age - Collision Ahead!

Ice Age 4 - Continental Drift (Original title: Ice Age: Continental Drift ) is an American computer-animated action - comedy film from the year 2012 , which in 3D is presented. Based on the script by Michael Berg , Jason Fuchs and Mike Reiss , Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier directed.
The film is the fourth installment in the Ice Age series and the first that was not directed by Carlos Saldanha . It was produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox . It is the second Ice Age film after Ice Age 3 - The Dinosaurs on the Loose that was filmed in 3D . The release date for the United States was July 13, 2012, in Germany the film was released on July 2, 2012.

action

The film picks up on a few years after Ice Age 3 - The dinosaurs are on the loose . Mannis and Ellie's daughter Peaches has grown into a teenage mammoth and only has eyes for the attractive young mammoth Ethan, who is adored by all mammoth girls. In order to look good in front of Ethan, Peaches denies her friendship with her actual best friend Louis, a molehead, and gets used to peculiarities like sleeping upside down on a branch like her mother Ellie, much to the displeasure of her father Manni. When Manni just interferes when Peaches and Ethan get closer, a father-daughter argument breaks out between Manni and Peaches. The Megalonyx Sid is looking forward to an unexpected, unplanned reunion with his family. Sid's parents are pleased, but they only have in mind to leave Sid's seemingly annoying, senile and headstrong grandmother behind. So it happens and Sid's parents move on when Sid and his grandma are briefly distracted.

Rat squirrel Scrat's hunt for his beloved acorn allows the animal to get to the center of the earth, where Scrat creates the individual continents with his clumsiness and causes severe continental shifts. Especially in the difference of opinion between Manni and Peaches, Manni, Diego, Sid and Sid's grandmother are separated from the rest of the herd and float out into the open sea on an ice floe, but Manni can call out to his family that everyone should meet at the bridge. A slow continental drift forces the remaining Ellie and Peaches, the opossums Crash and Eddie and the other animals of the valley, including Ethan and Louis, to leave their homes, and so they slowly steer towards the bridge as agreed. Meanwhile, Scrat finds a treasure map in a hollow acorn at the bottom of the sea and follows it.

Manni, Diego, Sid and Sid's grandmother drift on and on until they meet a gang of pirates, led by Gigantopithecus Captain Utan, who wants Manni, initially planned as prey, in his team. A fight ensues in which Captain Utan's huge floe splits. The saber-toothed tiger lady Shira, who actually belonged to Captain Utan's crew, is temporarily forced to join Manni, Diego and Sid. When the herd finally reaches land, Shira tries to flee, but Diego catches up with her. The herd is horrified to discover that Captain Utan has also already gone ashore and has already converted a new, huge ice floe into a ship. With the native Klippschliefern , who can only communicate with Sid, the herd can distract Captain Utan and cast off himself with Utan's ship. Shira decides to help the herd around Diego to escape with the ship, but remains behind and is called a traitor by Utan and treated accordingly. With a new, large ice floe and narwhals as a drive, Utan wants to reach their home in front of the herd to get revenge on Manni's family.

On the way home, Manni, Diego, Sid and his grandmother reach sirens on the high seas , who show them their innermost desires and offer them a perfect illusion of what they want most - with Diego, for example, getting closer to Shira and with Manni the reunion and reconciliation with his family. Only Manni can withstand the sirens because the illusion says something Ellie would never say, and so he manages to get the ship back on track. When they get home, Manni and the others are horrified to discover that not only has the bridge collapsed, but also that Captain Utan has arrived before them and is holding Ellie and Peaches prisoner to take revenge on Manni. Shira finally changes sides, joins Diego's herd and fights against Utan's crew. Not least thanks to the heroic appearance of little Louis, whom Peaches had denied for handsome Ethan, as well as the "pet" of Sid's grandmother, a huge whale , Captain Utan and his crew can be beaten, whereupon Peaches and the whole herd celebrate Louis as heroes . Captain Utan then reaches the sirens, falls for their illusions and falls victim to these mythical beings. The herd has lost their home, but they all go together to the island of the hyrax, on which they were briefly, and find their new, even more idyllic home there.

In the end, Scrat reaches the goal of his acorn treasure map and arrives at “Scratlantis”, where he meets speaking and extremely civilized conspecifics and there are more than enough acorns for everyone; Scrat has arrived in his personal, absolute paradise. Despite warnings from the other squirrels, Scrat's target is the acorn, which acts as an important plug. When Scrat lifts this acorn, he ultimately floods and destroys Scratlantis - creating the last, missing continent, North America.

development

The first details of the sequel were released on January 10, 2010 when The New York Times reported that Blue Sky Studios was working on a fourth film and was negotiating the cast. Fox confirmed on May 5, 2010 that Ice Age 4 - Fully Postponed would be released on July 13, 2012.

Peter Deseve (art director of the film) developed a number of animals for the film, but they were never used. For example, Sid was supposed to be riding a Hyracotherium , a giant squid, and a number of prehistoric sharks on the island when Sid's grandmother took a bath in the sea. Captain Utan was initially a bear, but Peter Deseve said that a monkey, thanks to the flexibility of the joints and the "four hands", was a much more suitable animal when he was e.g. B. swings through on the ship's rigging, this was changed in the film.

A poster for the film was released at the 2010 Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas. On December 19, 2010, 20th Century Fox released a first screenshot of the film.

synchronization

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Michael Nowka under his dialogue direction on behalf of Berliner Synchron AG .

role	English speaker	German speaker	description
Scrat	Chris Wedge	Chris Wedge	A "saber-toothed squirrel" ( similar to Cronopio )
Sid	John Leguizamo	Otto Waalkes	A megalonyx (giant sloth)
Manni	Ray Romano	Arne Elsholtz	The father mammoth
Ellie	Queen Latifah	Daniela Hoffmann	The mother mammoth
Peaches	Keke Palmer	Annina Braunmiller-Jest	Manni's and Ellie's daughter
Diego	Denis Leary	Thomas Fritsch	A saber-toothed tiger
Crash	Seann William Scott	Rainer Fritzsche	An opossum ; Ellie's adoptive brother
Eddie	Josh Peck	Julien Haggége	An opossum; Ellie's adoptive brother
Ethane	Drake	Johannes Raspe	A woolly mammoth that develops a penchant for peaches
Katie	Heather Morris	Josephine Schmidt	A woolly mammoth , of Ethan's retinue
Hailey	Nicki Minaj	Anja Stadlober	A woolly mammoth , of Ethan's retinue
Louis	Josh Gad	Max fields	A molehead secretly in love with Peaches
Milton	Alan Tudyk	Karlo Hackenberger	A sloth, Sid's father
Marshall	Ben Gleib	Bernhard Völger	A sloth, Sid's brother
Uncle Fungus	Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo	Michael Nowka	A sloth, Sid's uncle
Sid's grandmother	Wanda Sykes	Marie Gruber	A sloth, Sid's grandmother and everyone calls her grandma
Eunice	Joy Behar	Philine Peters-Arnolds	A sloth, Sid's mother
Captain Utan	Peter Dinklage	Tilo Schmitz	A Gigantopithecus captain of the pirates and the main antagonist
Shira	Jennifer Lopez	Ranja Bonalana	A smilodon from Utan's crew that Diego falls in love with
Squint	Aziz Ansari	Asad Black-Msesilamba	A prehistoric rabbit from Utan's crew
Raz	Rebel Wilson	Martina Treger	A Procoptodon from Utan's crew
Flynn	Nick Frost	Karlo Hackenberger	An elephant seal from Utan's crew
Gupta	Kunal Nayyar	Wolfram Cons	A badger from Utan's crew and the pirate flag
Silas	Alain Chabat	Frank Röth	A blue-footed booby from Utan's crew
Dobsonian	Frank Welker	Original voice	A Metridiochoerus (prehistoric warthog ) from Utan's crew
Precious	Frank Welker	Original voice	A Leviathan melvillei , Sid's grandmother's pet
Sirens	Ester Dean	Original voice	Sea monsters that can take any shape
Ariscratle	Patrick Stewart	Christian Rode	A rat squirrel from Scratlantis
Buck ( cameo )	Simon Pegg	Michael Iwannek	A weasel with an eye patch
Rudy ( cameo )	Frank Welker	Original voice	A baryonyx

Marketing and Publishing

The first trailer for Ice Age 4 - Fully Postponed was released on March 5, 2012. Ice Age 4 - Fully Postponed will also receive a Simpsons short film as a supporting film, the title of which is The Longest Daycare . The songs We Are (Family) , on which the Canadian rapper Drake and the American singer Jennifer Lopez worked, and Chasing the Sun by the British boy group The Wanted are used in the credits and during the film .

The film was released on DVD in Germany on January 1, 2013.

continuation

On June 30, 2016, the sequel Ice Age - Collision Ahead! in German cinemas.

success

On the opening weekend, 1.1 million tickets were sold in Germany. Ice Age 4 - Voll postponed thus had the third best theatrical release of the German theatrical year 2012. In total, it attracted 6.682 million viewers to German cinemas, which corresponds to box office earnings of 66.2 million US dollars (the equivalent of 51 million €). This made it 3rd place among the most popular films in Germany in 2012.

The film opened in the United States on July 13, grossing over $ 46.6 million on the weekend launch. It currently has worldwide revenues of $ 877.24 million. It also means that Ice Age 4 is the most successful animated film of 2012. Also, the film had a budget of $ 95 million, which is $ 5 million higher than its predecessor.

In the list of the world's most successful films of all time, Ice Age 4 - Fully Postponed currently ranks 69th (as of August 8, 2020).

Reviews

“Unlike the last part, whose fast-paced dinosaur action lacked childish charm, the multitude of bizarre characters in part 4 revives the magic of the first films. Conclusion: Turbulent deep sea adventure with a lot of humor and feeling. "

- Cinema

“'Ice Age 4' has too little story and too many characters, but more importantly, it's a lot of fun. The fourth part of the prehistoric saga is great family entertainment primarily because of its tried and tested mixture of ludicrous situational comedy and turbulent action. "

- filmstarts.de

“The plot arouses associations with old European cultural assets, has its engine in the family and their reunification, touches on teenage-parent dynamics, generation problems and of course love. Nature and the pirates provide some spectacular action sequences, all of them impressive, animated with effective camera perspectives. The three-dimensionality is an attractive bonus, even if opportunities are missed in view of the young target audience, because the filmmakers avoid circus effects here too, like Sid avoiding self-reflection. "

- kino.de

Web links

• Ice Age 4 - Continental Drift in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website (German)
• Official website (English)
• Ice Age 4 - Fully moved in the lexicon of international films
• Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
• Ice Age 4 - Continental Drift atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release Certificate for Ice Age 4 - Fully Postponed . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2012 (PDF; test number: 133 352 K).
2. ↑ Age rating for Ice Age 4 - Fully postponed . Youth Media Commission .
3. ↑ Rachel Harris: Ice Age 4 Confirmed By Fox . In: ScreenRush.co.uk . May 6, 2010. Retrieved November 15, 2010.
4. ↑ Pamela Mcclintock: Fox sets 3D 'Ice Age' sequel . In: Variety , May 5, 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
5. ↑ Jim Hill: Hollywood hypes what it hopes will be its 2011 & 2012 hits at the Licensing International Expo . In: Jim Hill Media . June 10, 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
6. ↑ EXCLUSIVE: First image from Ice Age: Continental Drift . In: Blogomatic3000 . December 19, 2010. Archived from the original on September 5, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Ice Age 4 - Fully postponed. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on September 20, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Cast. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 2, 2015 . 
9. ↑ New German speakers published
10. ↑ The New Ice Age: Continental Drift Trailer Has Arrived . In: ComingSoon.net , March 5, 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2012. 
11. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/226078.html
12. ↑ kino.de
13. ↑ http://www.wulfmansworld.com/Kinocharts/Kinocharts_2012
14. ↑ ^{a b} Evaluation of the top 75 film titles of 2012 according to socio-demographic as well as cinema and film-specific information ( memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ffa.de, accessed on December 13, 2013  
15. ↑ boxofficemojo.com
16. ↑ boxofficemojo.com
17. ↑ Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 25, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Top Lifetime big things. Box Office Mojo, accessed August 8, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Cinema.de
20. ↑ filmstarts.de
21. ↑ kino.de