: The fan-favourite weasel who provides the scientific (and often nonsensical) roadmap to survival.

: A new community living inside a fallen asteroid, led by the spiritual Shangri Llama (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and featuring Brooke (Jessie J), a sloth who becomes a surprise love interest for Sid.

: Manny, Ellie (Queen Latifah), Sid (John Leguizamo), and Diego (Denis Leary).

The story kicks off with the series' chaotic mascot, , whose never-ending pursuit of his acorn leads him to stumble upon an abandoned alien spaceship. In true slapstick fashion, he accidentally launches himself into the cosmos, where he unintentionally triggers a series of events that send a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling toward Earth.

The film brings back the beloved original trio—Manny, Sid, and Diego—while introducing several new characters to the growing ensemble:

It was the final Ice Age film produced by Blue Sky Studios before the company's closure in 2021. The franchise has since continued under Disney with the 2022 spin-off The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild and the recently confirmed Ice Age 6 , currently in development for a 2026 release.

Despite mixed critical reception, the film was a technical milestone for Blue Sky Studios . The production team drew inspiration from a "hidden" Easter egg in the first 2002 Ice Age movie—a frozen UFO Sid walks past. The animation of "Geotopia," with its complex crystalline textures and sparkling light effects, was so demanding that animators often only produced three to four seconds of footage per week.

, the fifth instalment in the iconic Blue Sky Studios franchise, takes the prehistoric "Herd" into its most outlandish territory yet: outer space. While the long-tail search term you mentioned often appears on various third-party streaming or hosting platforms, the film itself remains a significant, if controversial, chapter in animation history. The Plot: A "Scrat-tastrophe" of Cosmic Proportions