History Headscratchers / IceAge

** Actually, going by the specific assortment of animals seen (and ignoring the [[YouFailBiologyForever dodos]]), it's pretty clear that the film is intended to be set in South America. Moving south would most likely take them into ''colder'' territory, not warmer.

** Based on the most recent commercials, it looks to be a lost world scenario, with the dinosaurs somehow living in an [[YouFailBiologyForever underground jungle]]. Huge trees and everything.

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* In the 4th movie, how did Captain Gutt know where the continent was and how did he beat Manny and the gang to it, despite them having a huge head start on him?

*** Writers wanted the movie to be an homage to LostWorld based fiction, especially JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth so it's understandable.

* I can forgive ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' since it's a [[strike: rip-off]] homage to ''JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''. I can't forgive ''The Meltdown'' for not offering any explanation for how two carnivorous aquatic reptiles can survive being frozen in ice for millions of years with no side-effects, other than being {{Super Persistent Predator}}s.

** You also have to keep in mind though that Fox ordered a ''children's comedy.'' Killing off a main character doesn't exactly fit into a children's comedy, but that's because Blue Sky upped the stakes a little and altered into a ''dramedy.'' And they (Carlos and Chris) do express a bit of regret that they had to alter it because it verged from their original vision (and probably the movie it's based on, ''3 Godfathers.'') in the WesternAnimation/IceAge 1 commentary. Also, surprisingly Denis Leary was against killing Diego from the start and warned them it would set kids bawling and when he was right Diego did actually ''die'' but was brought back to life.

** While I'm not entirely familiar with how the siren mythology goes, they're rarely mental illusions, but real objects, such as an element having been enchanted with a magic presence in the shape of/or with the voice of a beautiful woman, luring the listener in by their beauty/their voice's beauty before killing the victim. As an example, watch the siren scene from Dreamworks' SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MV7ChV3anA]]

* It's not really such a ''huge'' deal, I suppose, but about that string of beads that Roshan's father gives to Manny at the end of the first film...Why doesn't he keep that in any of the other ones? If I had known there was going to be an ''Ice Age 2'' when I saw the first one, I for sure would've expected it to have been just tied around one of his tusks to secure it...Wouldn't it have been a nice little reminder of the baby, the entire ''reason'' the heard was brought together in the first place?

* Speaking of that, did anyone notice that Diego falls on his left side after taking the blow from Soto but when we see Manny and Sid mourning over him later, he's lying on his right side? I always assumed that Diego didn't move anymore after taking the blow because he was too weak because of his injuries, but apparently he ''has'' moved. It just doesn't make sense to me why he should stand up to lay on his other side when being that hurt.

** Well, Buck will come back for ''Ice Age 5: Collosion Course'', so maybe did Buck just loose his knife whil the continent broke apart and the pirates found it.

** Well, Buck will come back for ''Ice Age 5: Collosion Course'', so maybe did Buck just loose his knife whil the continent broke apart and the Pirates found it.

* The sirens- are they magic or something? It's definitely more than just a mental illusion, since Scrat was able to pound one disguised as an acorn into the ground like any other acorn, and then the others transformed into floating acorns and pounded him.

** You also have to keep in mind though that Fox ordered a ''children's comedy.'' Killing off a main character doesn't exactly fit into a children's comedy, but that's because Blue Sky upped the stakes a little and altered into a ''dramedy.'' And they (Carlos and Chris) do express a bit of regret that they had to alter it because it verged from their original vision (and probably the movie it's based on, ''3 Godfathers.'') in the IA1 commentary. Also, surprisingly Denis Leary was against killing Diego from the start and warned them it would set kids bawling and when it was right Diego did actually ''die' but was brought back to life.

* You also have to keep in mind though that Fox ordered a ''children's comedy.'' Killing off a main character doesn't exactly fit into a children's comedy, but that's because Blue Sky upped the stakes a little and altered into a ''dramedy.'' And they (Carlos and Chris) do express a bit of regret that they had to alter it because it verged from their original vision (and probably the movie it's based on, ''3 Godfathers.'') in the IA1 commentary. Also, surprisingly Denis Leary was against killing Diego from the start and warned them it would set kids bawling and when it was right Diego did actually ''die' but was brought back to life.