The Ice Age: The Adventures of Scrat landed in Disney+ this Wednesday, April 13, to have fun for young and old at home. This is one of the last productions that Sky Blue Studios completed before the entertainment company made its closing official in 2021. Thus, the remembered squirrel of the film saga returns once again to run after his nut and with a new responsibility as a father through a series of animated shorts.
“Six adventures of Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel, and his experience with parenthood”, reads in the description shared by the platform. While, the protagonist went through his daily routine (hunt nuts), he accidentally meets a young squirrel and becomes completely attached to it. Now, her priorities are divided between Baby Scrat and the nut, which she cannot forget after all.
The chapters that make up the season are “Crazy about nuts”, “The rhythms of Scrat to sleep”, “A complicated goal”, “Crazy reflexes”, “An unbalanced balance” and “This' nu-ez 'the end”. Each of them is three minutes long and offer a short dose of entertainment that will delight the generation that grew up watching this character in the cinema and the youngest members of the family.
Chris Wedges lends his voice for the role Scrat, while Karl Wahlgren plays Baby Scrat in The Ice Age: The Adventures of Scrat. The pilot episode was an original idea written by Michael Berardini, who also directed it with Donnie Long. The rest of the chapters are directed by the latter alongside a team consisting of Matt Munn, Drew Winey, Eric Prah, Jeff Gabor, Lisa Allen Keane. In addition to Berardini and Long. The scripts were written by James Young Jackson, Drew Winey, Galen Tan Chu and Michael Thurmeier.
The long history of Scrat in The Ice Age
In 2002, a prehistoric animated film was screened worldwide without premeditation that it would become one of the great film franchises. The Ice Age, directed by Chris Wedge, was a complete blockbuster with more than $380 million raised worldwide. With this title, the production company Blue Sky Studios and the then distributor, 20th Century Fox, secured a future for this 3D animation saga featuring fictional animals.
In fact, the story begins with Scrat (voiced by Wedge himself), a saber-toothed squirrel who is dedicated to stealing nuts and acorns to keep them in a tree where he will spend the winter, as the ice age approaches. When he manages to find his food, he tries to store it in the least appropriate place - ice - and it unleashes a terrible catastrophe.
This furry and nervous creature reappears in the next installments until the release of the fifth film in 2016 and starred in the short films Gone Nutty, No Time for Nuts, Scrat's Continental Crack-up and Cosmic Scrat-Tastrophe. He has crossed paths with the main characters, Manny, Sid and Diego, on multiple occasions and even had a girlfriend named Scratte. This year, he marked his return with his new series The Ice Age: The Adventures of Scrat on the streaming service Disney+.
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