History YMMV / IceAge4ContinentalDrift

* {{Adorkable}}: Louis. He's soft-spoken, shy, polite, has huge crush on Peaches, tries to avoid danger, and likes digging.
* AntiClimaxBoss: The GiantEnemyCrab is quickly dispatched by a tornado before it can really start fighting the gang.
* AuthorsSavingThrow: Some fans had been missing the days of when Manny, Sid, and Diego were the only main protagonists. In this film, much of the film revolves around the three's journey to return home, with Ellie in a vital supporting role.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** "Chasing the Sun" by Music/TheWanted.
** Captain Gutt's [[VillainSong sea]]-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YA2nU5CatY shanty]] has a nice tune and is delightfully shameless in its bragginess.
** The song "We Are Family" sung by the entire cast over the end credits.
* CatharsisFactor: Considering how Gutt attempted to outright '''''murder''''' Manny's family [[DisproportionateRetribution for the sake of vengeance]], it's hard to have any sympathy for him when he ultimately [[spoiler: ends up [[EatenAlive eaten]] ''[[EatenAlive alive]]'' by Siren(s)[[note]]While a single Siren yanked Gutt into its clam, one or two back-fins belonging to other Sirens can be seen swimming near the clam, suggesting they intend to join their kin in feasting on their latest victim [[/note]] after being defeated in the climax]].
* ContestedSequel: Is this a good sequel or is it a sequel that shouldn't even exist. Despite that, it has a 62% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes which is a positive score and audiences gave the film an "A-".
* CriticalDissonance: Despite receiving mixed reviews, the film was a huge box office success, grossing $161 million in the domestic market and $715 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $877 million against it's $95 million budget. Along with its massive success both domestically and worldwide, audiences gave it mostly positive reviews, giving the film an "A-". The film currently holds an audience score of 62% on Rotten Tomatoes.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Granny for being a CoolOldLady and a walking [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Moment of Funny]].
** Louis the molehog. He just oozes {{Moe}}.
** [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Flynn]]. Being also LaughablyEvil helps.
** [[HairRaisingHare Squint]]. A CrazyIsCool PintSizedPowerhouse that could probably give Buck a run for his money.
* EvilIsCool: Captain Gutt. A [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot pirate Gigantopithecus]] voiced by Creator/PeterDinklage. What's not to love here?
* {{Fanon}}: It's also become extremely common to see {{fanfic}} writers have Diego and Shira use the terms “Kitty” and “Softy”, respectively, as pet names for each other.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Its domestic gross of $161.3 Million was lower than that of even the first movie ($176.4 Million), but its international gross of of $715.9 Million was slightly ahead of the third's movie's gross of $690.1 Million.
* HilariousInHindsight: Louis the molehog, Peaches' best friend, is voiced by Josh Gad. One year later, Gad would voice another ice-related character: Olaf the snowman in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''.
** [[AxCrazy Captain Gutt]] could be considered PlayingAgainstType if you only know Creator/PeterDinklage as [[TheChessmaster Tyrion Lannister]] from ''Series/GameOfThrones''.
** We have Manny trying to break the [[spoiler:sirens']] trance by singing "The Candyman", which happened in the Creator/{{Dreamworks}} movie ''{{WesternAnimation/Madagascar}}''. This would later head in the opposite direction, with the RunningGag of Squint (the rabbit on Gutt's crew) being called the Easter Bunny... which would become a thing in Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians.''
%%* {{Moe}}: Louis the molehog.
* MoralEventHorizon: Captain Gutt crosses it by coming dangerously close to [[spoiler:''murdering'' Manny's family in cold blood just to get back at him.]]
* PortmanteauCoupleName: Shira + Diego = [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Shego]], though the pairing is more commonly known on ff.net as "Dira."
* RetroactiveRecognition: Louis is [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Olaf]].
* TheScrappy: Initially, a good many viewers disliked an adolescent Peaches due to her subplot being pretty much a copy and paste of a million teen sitcom cliches. Luckily, her CharacterDevelopment in the next film [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap pulled her out of the Scrappy heap]].
* StrangledByTheRedString: Diego and Shira's romance wasn't built up much, happens way too quickly, and unlike Manny and Ellie, they do not share any intimate emotional scenes that could grow Shira (or Diego) as characters through their romance but instead spend most of the time snapping at each other until Shira randomly decides to side with the herd. Heck, Shira remains an entirely one-dimensional LoveInterest throughout the film, something that sticks out like a sore thumb when one compares how well Ellie was written in ''The Meltdown.''
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The rest of Gutt's crew besides Gutt, Flynn, Shira, and Squint don't get any development/fleshing out and are mostly there to be muscle for the villains, also wasting some talented actors like Rebel Wilson and [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Kunal Nayyar]].
* WereStillRelevantDammit: Likely the only reason why Nicki Minaj and Drake voice characters (and minor characters at that) is because the studio perceived them as being 'hip' with the kids.
* WhatAnIdiot: [[TooDumbToLive Sid gulps down a lotus berry that Diego vainly tries to warn him about, while bragging that he "knows [his] berries"]]. The end result not only leaves him temporarily paralyzed from the neck down and reauired to be dragged around by Manny for a while, but also causes the ship that the Herd were going to use to narrowly take off without them, forcing them to chase it down as Gutt and his crew catch on to Manny's plan and chase them down in turn for revenge.
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** Captain Gutt's [[VillainSong sea]]-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YA2nU5CatY shanty.]]

* CriticalDissonance: Despite receiving mixed reviews, the film was a huge box office success, grossing $161 million in the domestic market and $715 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $877 million against it's $95 million budget. Along with it's massive success both domestically and worldwide, audiences gave it mostly positive reviews, giving the film an "A-". The film currently holds an audience score of 62% on Rotten Tomatoes.

* EvilIsCool: Captain Gutt. A [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot pirate gigantopethicus]] voiced by Creator/PeterDinklage. What's not to love here?

* TheScrappy: Initially, a good many viewers saw an adolescent Peaches as this due to her subplot being pretty much a copy and paste of a million teen sitcom cliches. Luckily, her CharacterDevelopment in the next film [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap pulled her out of the Scrappy heap]].
* StrangledByTheRedString: One could argue that Diego and Shira's romance was this because it wasn't built up much, happens way too quickly, and unlike Manny and Ellie, they do not share any intimate emotional scenes that could grow Shira (or Diego) as characters through their romance but instead spend most of the time snapping at each other until Shira randomly decides to side with the herd. Heck, Shira remains an entirely one-dimensional LoveInterest throughout the film, something that sticks out like a sore thumb when one compares how well Ellie was written in ''The Meltdown.''

* WhatAnIdiot: [[TooDumbToLive Sid gulps down a lotus berry that Diego vainly tries to warn him about, while bragging that he "knows [his] berries". The end result not only leaves him temporarily paralyzed from the neck down and reauired to be dragged around by Manny for a while, but also causes the ship that the Herd were going to use to narrowly take off without them, forcing them to chase it down as Gutt and his crew catch on to Manny's plan and chase them down in turn for revenge.

** [[HairRaisingHare Squint]]. A CrazyAwesome PintSizedPowerhouse that could probably give Buck a run for his money.

* CatharsisFactor: Considering how Gutt attempted to outright ''''''''murder'''''''' Manny's family [[DisproportionateRetribution for the sake of vengeance]], it's hard to have any sympathy for him when he ultimately [[spoiler: ends up [[EatenAlive eaten]] ''[[EatenAlive alive]]'' by Siren(s)[[note]]While a single Siren yanked Gutt into its clam, one or two back-fins belonging to other Sirens can be seen swimming near the clam, suggesting they intend to join their kin in feasting on their latest victim [[/note]] after being defeated in the climax]].

** [[AxCrazy Captain Gutt]] could be considered PlayingAgainstType if you only know Creator/PeterDinklage as [[TheChessmaster Tyrion Lannister]] from ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Watch him kick the ass of someone several times his size in ''Film/{{Elf}}''.

* TheScrappy: Initially, a good many viewers saw an adolescent Peaches as this due to her subplot being pretty much a copy and paste of a million teen sitcom cliches. Luckily, her CharacterDevelopment in the next film pulled her out of the Scrappy heap.

* TheScrappy: Initially, a good many viewers saw an adolescent Peaches as this due to her subplot being pretty much a copy and paste of a million teen sitcom cliches. Luckily, her CharacterDevelopment in the next film pulled her out of the Scrappy

* TheScrappy: Initially, a good many viewers see an adolescent Peaches as this due to her subplot being pretty much a copy and paste of a million teen sitcom cliches. Luckily, her CharacterDevelopment in the next film pulled her out of the Scrappy

* WereStillRelevantDammit: Likely the only reason why Nicki Minaj and Drake voice characters (and minor characters at that) is because the studio perceived them as being 'hip' with the kids.

* TheScrappy:
** Many people see Shira as little more than a boring "tough girl" clone of one of the main characters (much like WesternAnimation/LolaBunny) who only exists to serve as a LoveInterest. Not only that, her pretty white fur and flawless face sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the more ugly pirates, with the only part of her that's even remotely asymmetric being that she only has earrings on one ear.
** A good many viewers see an adolescent Peaches as this due to her subplot being pretty much a copy and paste of a million teen sitcom cliches.

** We have Manny trying to break the [[spoiler:sirens']] trance by singing "The Candyman", which happened in the Creator/{{Dreamworks}} movie ''{{WesternAnimation/Madagascar}}''. This would later head in the opposite direction, with the RunningGag of the rabbit on Gutt's crew being called the Easter Bunny... which would become a thing in Dreamworks' ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians.''

** Many people see Shira as little more than a boring "tough girl" clone of one of the main characters (much like [[Film/SpaceJam Lola Bunny]]) who only exists to serve as a love interest. Not only that, her pretty white fur and flawless face sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the more ugly pirates, with the only part of her that's even remotely asymmetric being that she only has earrings on one ear.

* MoralEventHorizon: Captain Gutt crosses it by trying to [[spoiler:kill Manny's family in cold blood just to get back at him.]]

** Shira, much like [[Film/SpaceJam Lola Bunny]], is a boring "tough girl" clone of one of the main characters who only exists to serve as a love interest. Not only that, her pretty white fur and flawless face sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the more ugly pirates, with the only part of her that's even remotely asymmetric being that she only has earrings on one ear.
** Teenaged Peaches also gets this for her plot of that movie being pretty much a cut and paste of a million teen sitcom cliches.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The rest of Gutt's crew besides Gutt, Flynn, Shira, and Squint don't get any development and are mostly there to be muscle for the villains, also wasting some talented actors like Rebel Wilson and Kunal Nayyar.
* WereStillRelevantDammit: Likely the only reason why Nicki Minaj and Drake voice characters (and minor characters at that) is because the studio perceived them as being hip with the kids.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Louis is [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Olaf]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Louis the molehog, Peaches' best friend, is voiced by Josh Gad. One year later, Gad would voice another ice-related character: Olaf the snowman in Disney's ''{{Disney/Frozen}}.''

** Gutt and his crew, particularly Flynn, also got their share of fans.

** "Chasing the Sun" by TheWanted.