Ice Age: Collision Course

Five years after the events of the fourth film, Manny and Ellie are preparing for the upcoming marriage between their daughter, Peaches and her clumsy, good natured fiancé, Julian, but Manny is unsure about the wedding. Diego and his wife Shira want to start a family, but their fierce appearance tends to scare children. Sid is dumped by his girlfriend, Francine, just as he is about to propose to her, and he laments his solitude. During Manny and Ellie's twenty-third wedding anniversary party, asteroids strike the place and The Herd barely escape. Meanwhile, at the underground lost world, Buck returns a Chasmosaurus egg back to its rightful owner after it was stolen by a trio of flying dromaeosaurs named Gavin, Gertie, and Roger. Buck discovers an ancient stone pillar and takes it to the surface, where he meets The Herd after 21 years.

Buck explains to The Herd that according to the pillar, the asteroids had caused two extinctions of "horseshoe crab-looking thingies" and dinosaurs in the past and with a massive one still incoming, he believes that the only place they could find a clue to stop it is on the site of the impact of the previous ones, as according to its engravings, they always fall at the same place. However, the three dromaeosaurs overhear their conversation, and Gavin and Gertie decide to stop them, believing that they could easily avoid the impact, thus not only getting their revenge on Buck, but also eradicating Earth's population and securing domination over the planet for their species. Roger is reluctant, but Gavin and Gertie strong-arm him into cooperating.

As The Herd travels to the crash site, they discover that the asteroids have electro-magnetic properties. Buck theorizes that if a huge quantity of smaller asteroids should be gathered and launched into orbit, they could attract the main asteroid as well and prevent it from falling on Earth. After facing several obstacles and the interference of the dromaeosaurs, The Herd arrives at "Geotopia", a community of immortal animals formed inside one of the asteroids that have fallen long ago, where Sid meets Brooke, a female ground sloth who falls in love with him.

However, Shangri Llama, the leader of Geotopia, refuses to cooperate with Buck's plan to send the city's crystals into space in order to prevent the imminent impact, as they are the key to the residents' longevity. Sid inadvertently destroys the entire city when he attempts to remove one of the crystals to present Brooke with, immediately aging them to their real ages and revealing their true crone-like appearances, much to Shangri Llama's anger.

Once Brooke convinces the Geotopians that preventing the asteroid's fall is more important than their lost youth, they and The Herd help with Buck's plan, which is to fill up a volcano with the crystals so that the pressure launches them into space to draw the asteroid away. The dromaeosaurs attempt to intervene, but they soon discover that they will not be able to survive the asteroid's impact, and Buck convinces them to help. The plan initially fails, as there is a small leak Granny discovers, who uses her cane to plug it up, causing an explosion, and the asteroid is pulled back into space.

The Herd then departs back home, including Sid, who parts ways from Brooke, but just after they leave, a small crystal shard falls inside a hot spring, giving it rejuvenating properties and making the Geotopians and Granny, who stayed behind with them, regain their youth. After The Herd returns, Manny reconciles with Julian, Peaches and Julian celebrate their wedding, Diego and Shira become heroes to the kids who were scared of them before, and a rejuvenated Brooke appears during the ceremony to reunite with Sid.

In the epilogue, Neil deBuck Weasel (Neil deGrasse Tyson) talks about the planet Mars and how it was habitable. When the UFO impacts the planet, it turns colors to red. Scrat, not interacting with the herd for the whole movie, gets out to see a bit of Mars. When he sees the dead iguana now faded away, he gets back into the spaceship and flees for Earth.

• Ray Romano as Manny, a woolly mammoth, leader of the Herd, Ellie's husband and Peaches’ father.[8]
• John Leguizamo as Sid, a ground sloth and the founder of the Herd and best friend to Manny & Diego.[8]
• Denis Leary as Diego, a saber-toothed tiger and the member of the Herd, Shira's husband.[8]
• Queen Latifah as Ellie, a female woolly mammoth – Manny's wife, Peaches’ mother and Crash and Eddie's adoptive sister.[8]
• Simon Pegg as Buck, a one-eyed weasel and a dinosaur hunter who reunites with The Herd to warn them of the coming asteroid.[9] Pegg also voices Pythagoras Buck and Robo Buck who exist in his mind along with Neil deBuck Weasel.
• Seann William Scott and Josh Peck as Crash and Eddie, two opossums and the adoptive brothers of Ellie.
• Keke Palmer as Peaches, a young female woolly mammoth – daughter of Manny and Ellie and fiancée to Julian (wife by the end).[10]
• Adam DeVine as Julian, a young male woolly mammoth and Peaches' fiancée (husband by the end).[1][11]
• Neil deGrasse Tyson as Neil deBuck Weasel, a weasel astronomer who exists in Buck's mind.[1]
• Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Shangri Llama, a yoga-loving llama and the spiritual leader of Geotopia.[1]
• Jessie J as Brooke, a ground sloth who is a resident of Geotopia and the love interest of Sid.[1][12]
• Jennifer Lopez as Shira, a female saber-toothed tiger and Diego's wife.
• Wanda Sykes as Granny, an aging ground sloth and Sid's grandmother.[13]
• Nick Offerman as Gavin, a flying dromaeosaur[14] – father of Roger and Gertie.[1]
• Stephanie Beatriz as Gertie, a flying dromaeosaur[14] – Gavin's daughter.[1][15]
• Max Greenfield as Roger, a flying dromaeosaur that is freaky and cowardly[14] – Gavin's son.[1][16]
• Melissa Rauch as Francine, a female ground sloth who dumps Sid as she is his former girlfriend.[1][17]
• Michael Strahan as Teddy, a fearless rabbit and a resident of Geotopia.[1][18]
• Lilly Singh as Bubbles and Misty, a pair of "minicorns" who reside in Geotopia.
• Chris Wedge as Scrat, a saber-toothed squirrel.[8]

The concept of Collision Course was deeply rooted in a scene from the first Ice Age film where Manny, Sid, Diego and Roshan are walking through an ice cave and they spot a spaceship that's encased in ice, an item that inspired this film in the series.[19] As with the third film, which was also inspired by the ice cave scene in which The Herd comes across a dinosaur that was encased in ice, the team went back to the first film to search for a possible inspiration for this next installment.[20] The characters were first hand-drawn on animation software, complete with color and animated clips of the characters doing specific actions. They were then sent to be hand-sculpted with clay, and ultimately scanned into CGI software and animated around the model.[19]

The "Figaro's Aria" sequence which involved Buck saving an egg from a trio of dromaeosaurs proved to be one of the most challenging sequences for Blue Sky Studios' animators, as it involved a continuous uninterrupted shot that ran for around two minutes long. It was one of the first scenes put into production but also one of the last to exit production due to its time-consuming and difficult structure, as the team would only be able to produce three or four seconds of footage a week.

The recording session took place in Los Angeles, California since most of the actors live there while the studio is based in New York City. Director Mike Thurmeier and co-director Galen T. Chu would take turns travelling to L.A. to head the recording sessions.[21] In the film, Simon Pegg sang a rendition of "Figaro".[21] Jesse Tyler Ferguson was offered the role after the producers saw his performance in Modern Family. It is his first time working in an animated film.[22] Ferguson blew out his voice on the first day of the recording session because he did a lot of yelling. He then took a few days off and came back later to finish his part.[22] He admitted that he struggled the first time he heard his voice come out of his character's mouth. As a result, he decided to stop watching interviews of himself on television because he found them to be "too weird".[22]

A promotional poster, shown in June 2015, at the Licensing Expo, revealed the film's full title: Ice Age: Collision Course.[23]

The film was composed by John Debney, who replaced John Powell from the previous three films due to Powell being busy with other projects.[7] However, most of Powell's score from the third film was included, along with David Newman's score from the first film. Jessie J performed a song dubbed "Superstar" as a contribution to the film.

Ice Age: Collision Course was originally scheduled for release on July 15, 2016.[24] However, it was delayed to July 22,[25] in order to avoid competition with the Ghostbusters reboot that was also scheduled for July 15. An extended sneak peek of the movie in the form of a short film called Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe was attached to theatrical showings of Blue Sky Studios' The Peanuts Movie on November 6, 2015.[26] The teaser poster of the film was revealed on November 6, 2015 with the words "Bring Scrat Home" spoofing The Martian.[27] The short film was released later on November 9, 2015, on 20th Century Fox's official YouTube page.[28]

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