How Many Ice Age Movies Are There?

There are six released Ice Age movies: five theatrical films made by Blue Sky Studios between 2002 and 2016, and one spin off, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022), which premiered on Disney+. Ice Age: Boiling Point, the sixth theatrical film, is due in US theaters on February 5, 2027, and it will bring the feature total to seven.

If you are planning a family marathon, the five main films run for roughly seven and a half hours together, and Buck Wild adds another 82 minutes (1 hour 22 minutes). Every one of the six carries a PG rating in the US and a U in the UK, according to the certifications on TMDB. In Australia the first and fifth films are rated G and the rest are rated PG, so parents choosing for younger children have plenty of room to pick.

The five main films were released in the same order as their story runs, so the release order and the chronological order are identical and you can watch them exactly as they arrived. For a fuller walkthrough, see ice age movies in order, and for the wider franchise overview visit the ice age movies hub.

1. Ice Age (2002), directed by Chris Wedge, opened in the US on March 15, 2002 and runs 81 minutes. Manny the grumpy mammoth and Sid the clumsy sloth set out to return a human baby to his people, while the sabertooth Diego, sent by a pack led by Soto, is meant to snatch the child.
2. Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), directed by Carlos Saldanha, opened on March 31, 2006 and runs 91 minutes. The valley is a paradise of water slides until a vulture warns that the ice wall is really a dam, and the herd has about three days to reach a boat at the far end.
3. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), also directed by Carlos Saldanha, opened on July 1, 2009 and runs 94 minutes. Sid adopts three large eggs, they hatch into baby Tyrannosaurs, and their enormous mother carries him off to a hidden world under the ice.
4. Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), directed by Michael Thurmeier and Steve Martino, opened on July 13, 2012 and runs 88 minutes. Scrat tears the land apart, and Manny, Sid, Diego and Granny drift out to sea on a chunk of ice while Ellie and Peaches are cut off on the other side.
5. Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), directed by Michael Thurmeier, opened on July 22, 2016 and runs 95 minutes. Scrat's acorn chase sends asteroids toward Earth just as Peaches gets engaged to Julian, and Buck finds a stone tablet that shows where the next big one will land.

Yes, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild counts as an Ice Age movie, but it is a spin off rather than part of the five film main saga. Directed by John Donkin and released on Disney+ on January 28, 2022, it runs 82 minutes and follows the possum brothers Crash and Eddie, who set off an avalanche, leave camp to prove themselves, and wander into the Lost World, where their old friend Buck rescues them from raptors. Simon Pegg voices Buck, a role he has held since the third film, while Manny, Sid, Diego and Ellie are voiced by different actors than in the theatrical films. It was made for streaming, so it has no theatrical gross and no published budget. The ice age spin offs page covers it in more detail, and Buck has his own character page.

Ice Age: Collision Course is called a flop because it earned the weakest domestic result of the series, about $64 million against a $105 million budget, according to The Numbers. Its worldwide total of $402 million was less than half of the $877 million that Continental Drift made four years earlier. Box Office Mojo lists different totals for the film because its figures include a 2020 re-release. Whether it counts as a flop depends on the yardstick: it still earned nearly four times its budget worldwide, yet it fell well short of the standard the previous two films had set. No source gives a single reason for the drop. The full numbers are on the ice age box office page, and you can see where the film lands in our ice age movies ranked list.

Dawn of the Dinosaurs is the highest grossing Ice Age movie, with about $887 million worldwide according to Box Office Mojo, just ahead of Continental Drift at $877 million. The Meltdown follows with $667 million, Collision Course made $402 million, and the first film made $383 million. Budgets climbed with each sequel, from $59 million for the first film to $105 million for the fifth, so the series grew in cost as well as in scale.

There will be at least seven features, because the five theatrical films and Buck Wild are released and Ice Age: Boiling Point is the confirmed next film. Disney announced the title at Destination D23 on August 30, 2025 and set the US theatrical release for February 5, 2027, according to TheWrap. The film had previously been dated for December 2026, and on May 22, 2025 Marvel moved Avengers: Doomsday to December 18, 2026, the date then held by Ice Age 6. UK and Australian release dates are still to be confirmed.

Disney+ confirmed on August 26, 2026 that Ray Romano returns as Manny, John Leguizamo as Sid, Denis Leary as Diego, Queen Latifah as Ellie and Simon Pegg as Buck. John C. Donkin is the director and Lori Forte the producer, and Box Office Mojo lists Batu Sener as composer. For the cast, rumors and status, see ice age boiling point, and for footage visit the ice age boiling point trailer page.

As of November 3, 2026, Disney Plus streams all six released films in the US, UK and Australia, according to JustWatch data on TMDB, and Netflix carries the five theatrical films in all three countries. Availability changes often, so check where to watch ice age for the current table. If you are new to the series, start with Ice Age (2002), follow the release order through Collision Course, and save Buck Wild for last, since it works as a side trip rather than a chapter of the main story.