Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade Page #3

They headed north two hours ago.

You could have died,

trying to save me.

That's what you do in a herd.

You look out for each other.

Come on, Diego, let's

bring this mammoth down.

What are you doing?

Leave the mammoth alone.

You have to leave me here.

If those humans get through the

pass, you'll never catch them.

Come on, Sid, let's head south.

Diego? You're okay!

Nine lives, baby.

This is gonna be

the best migration ever.

I'm telling you, I'll show you

my favorite watering holes.

Everything is melting.

The dam's gonna break. The

entire valley's gonna flood.

Look around.

You're in a bowl.

Bowl's gonna fill up.

Ain't no way out.

What are we gonna do?

Unless you can make it

to the end of the valley.

There's a boat.

It can save you.

Well, shave me down

and call me a mole rat.

You found another mammoth.

Where? Wait a minute. I thought

mammoths were extinct.

This guy giving

you trouble, sis?

Sis?

That's right.

These are my brothers.

I don't think her tree goes all

the way to the top branch.

Hey, she should come with us.

Are you insane? No way.

Okay.

Manny wants me to ask you if you'd

like to escape the flood with us.

No brakes. Gotta roll.

Meet you at the other end.

So, you think she's

the girl for me?

Yeah. She's tons of fun

and you're no fun at all.

We made it.

Yeah, we showed

those scary vultures.

There's only one way to go.

We go forward.

We go back.

Forward.

Back.

Come on.

Fine.

Manny.

It's Ellie, she's

trapped in a cave.

Ellie, I don't want us to be

together because we have to.

I want us to be together

because we want to.

And I wanna be with you, Ellie.

What do you say?

Oh, Manny, I thought

you were going...

You're possum enough for me.

The baby's coming!

The baby's coming!

Watch it!

I'm having a baby!

Manny?

Huh?

I told you it was just a kick.

Sorry, folks! False alarm!

I'd like to present

Egbert, Shelly and Yoko.

Sid, whatever you're

doing, it's a bad idea.

Momma!

I'm a mommy.

Sid!

Sid!

Help!

Sid must be down there.

We've been living

above an entire world,

and we didn't even know it.

The name's buck.

Short for buckminster.

Long for "buh."

What are you doing here?

Our friend was taken

by a dinosaur.

Well!

He's dead.

Welcome to my world.

Wait! Sloth down!

It's not so bad down here. Nice

weather, friendly neighbors.

Hi, neighbor.

Rudy.

Rudy?

Peaches!

Peaches?

Peaches! The baby!

What, now?

This? Not good.

Stranger danger!

That's right! Come on!

Yee-haw!

This is the end

of Sid the sloth!

Help!

No, Sid! It's me!

And me!

And me!

I think we're getting close.

She looks just like her mother.

Thank goodness.

It's good to have you back, Sid.

Never thought I would say this,

but I missed you, buddy.

All right, mammals,

let's get you home.

That's right, sweetheart.

Welcome to the ice age.

What was that?

I think we're almost there!

I'll bury you all and

dance on your graves.

So frail.

And she can't wait to

spend time with you, Sid.

Manny! No!

No matter how long

it takes, I will find you!

That wall is going to

keep moving and crush us.

We need to get to

the land bridge.

Any questions?

Yes?

When you drink water through your

trunk, does it taste like boogers?

No.

Well, sometimes. Let's move!

Hmm. Am I hallucinating, or is that

ice coming straight towards us?

Captain Gutt, here to help.

You know, that's a nice monkey.

Lights out, big fella.

Hey, buddy.

Welcome to the party.

Prepare the plank!

Prepare the plank!

Preparing the plank!

Ain't going to happen, captain.

Does anyone have floaties?

There! Land!

Everyone paddle. Paddle!

Guys, over here.

Come on, it's a shortcut.

Wow! That is amazing.

Huh?

Guys, we should get out of here.

This is epic!

Go! Go! Go!

Hey, peach, loosen up!

Have some fun.

Fun? I'm out of here.

If you geniuses are normal, this

species is going to end up extinct.

Yeah, well, your species is

going to be extinct first.

Burn!

We're the same species, genius.

What? Double burn.

Is that...?

Peaches? There she is!

Dad!

Go, go, I'm right behind you.

No!

I'm right behind you.

Dad!

No!

There's nowhere to run, Manny.

Sometimes, it pays

to weigh eleven tons!

No!

Bon voyage, monkey boy!

Did somebody hail a whale?

How's that for an entrance?

During moviemaking sometimes, you

find characters that really stand out

and become this happy

surprise in the story,

and Scrat was one of them.

Scrat was one of the

characters that we

developed for ice age 1.

And it came from a need to find

an opening sequence

for the movie.

So, we went through Peter's

drawings, and there it was.

We added the saber-teeth

and we gave him an acorn,

and this whole issue was born.

And that's when the idea

of that glacier sequence

became the opening of the movie.

Very simple storyline,

no dialogue.

Just having this

little character

run for his life with one

thing in mind, the nut.

People just loved it.

Everybody who saw

this sequence just

could so identify with

this poor little guy,

that he just got

a life of his own,

and we just ended up using him

throughout all three movies.

Scrat sequences are

a dream, in a way,

because it is pure animation,

just to have fun

and do slapstick

and not be tied

down by dialogue.

But after three movies, it does

get challenging because...

"So, okay, what have we

not done with this guy?"

The most important thing in

Scrat's universe is his acorn.

That's all he cares about.

And writers came up

with something brilliant

by coming up with

the one thing that

could possibly

compete with that,

and that's Scratte.

Scratte is the perfect foil because

she's beautiful, she's cunning,

she's everything that he isn't.

When I was designing Scratte, I knew

she had to be the opposite of Scrat.

So she had to be beautiful.

She had to be smart. All

the things that he's not.

Scrat is this nervous,

twitchy character,

not particularly

well-groomed.

She's elegant and smooth.

We just wanted her to look as

beautiful as she could be,

because scrat has to look at her

and just fall in

love immediately.

So, we gave her long eyelashes

with a little bit of blue,

so we just make her

really feminine and funny.

Scratte did start out being

a lot more instinctual,

and then we started

seeing her look,

playing against scrat

actually worked a lot better.

And that's where it started

to mold her personality.

Her movement is really different

because she's very

straight with her poses.

Scrat will pop and just

jerk into the motion.

She'll do a swirl.

The uglier and the more disheveled

and pathetic you get Scrat,

the funnier he is.

But you always have to make sure

she's looking as good as possible,

and that's where the comedy is,

the contrast between the two.

And we kind of thought, what

if both Scrat and scratte

have the same goal, the nut.

Like, we can create

this great fun little

kind of spy vs spy kind of thing

that they keep trying to outsmart

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