The first animated Ice Age tale came about almost a decade ago, in 2002, and while it was an enjoyable tale of anthropomorphized prehistoric animals banding together as unlikely buddies and making it through an epochal cold-snap together, you wouldn't be wrong for not expecting it to spawn a viable franchise with two sequels in the can and another on the way for next summer.  The 2006 sequel, Ice Age: The Meltdown, found the gang heading for high ground as the ice turns to water, and 2009's Ice Age: Rise of the Dinosaurs found the tangling with, you know, dinosaurs.

Ice Age: Continental Drift sees the main characters trying to keep it together as Pangea, the massive unified continent, drifts apart into the seven continents as we know them.  The first teaser poster for the new film predictably employs the long-toothed squirrel Scrat once again in pursuit of an acorn, this time on a makeshift sailboat.