Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade

Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade

Year: 2016

Runtime: 25 mins

Language: English

Director: Ricardo Curtis

AdventureFamilyComedyAnimation

A frantic prehistoric bird mother asks Sid to care for her valuable, soon-to-hatch egg, launching a booming egg-sitting business. However, the mischievous pirate bunny, Squint, seeking revenge on the herd, steals all the eggs and cleverly hides them. With the help of his twin brother, Squint initiates a chaotic scheme. Now, Manny, Diego, and the rest of the Ice Age crew must embark on a daring rescue mission, which unexpectedly becomes the world's very first Easter egg hunt.

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Five years after the events of the fourth film and four months before the events of the fifth film, Manny Ray Romano and his crew get ready for Easter. While Ellie Queen Latifah struggles to make the decorations single-handedly, Manny and Diego Denis Leary, along with Crash Seann William Scott and Eddie Josh Pecken, watch a hawk vs. bear fight. Crash and Eddie attempt to prank Peaches Keke Palmer, starting the first April Fools’ Day. Peaches wants to spend Easter with her friends. Scrat Chris Wedge has excavated underground from Death Valley to the new herd’s Valley, and has found his acorn again. He once again loses his acorn, when it becomes a tree. In the meantime, Sid John Leguizamo decides to look after eggs for the owners of them, much to the scorn of Manny and Diego.

Meanwhile, pirate hare Squint Seth Green has been living in his home hole for the past three months with his lazy rabbit brother, Clint Blake Anderson and his mother. After getting back on his feet, the pirate sees Manny and his group as he plans to have his revenge for what he did to Captain Gutt and his ship. Squint confronts them, demanding a new ship, but is unsuccessful. However, he decides to frame Sid for stealing the eggs when he falls asleep. In order to prove his innocence, Manny and Diego help Sid look for them, and Clint lends a hand by giving them a map to the eggs, which have been painted by Squint to camouflage them. When they retrieve the eggs and see through their disguise, they find they are one egg short, with Squint telling them that if they don’t make a ship for him by the next day, the egg will be scrambled.

Clint leads his brother into an ambush by Manny, Sid, and Diego. They find the egg when it’s revealed to be painted into an acorn and has been taken by Scrat Chris Wedge. When Manny washes the paint off, a disappointed Scrat throws the egg off a cliff and the gang manage to retrieve it. Squint battles with Sid to get the egg, but the ice cracks, signaling Sid to defeat Squint with the help of Crash and Eddie’s latest prank, which is also a trap set up by Sid. After that, the mammoth family decide to spend Easter together and Sid suggests that Clint be the Easter Bunny by painting eggs every year and hiding them.

Meanwhile, Scrat has a basket of acorns and sees a chocolate fountain that he covers his acorns with but falls in. Squint uses Scrat’s acorn basket as a ship, but it sinks, and Scrat is unable to stop him due to being covered in chocolate from the chocolate fountain that dries up like cement.

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