Ice AgeComplete Watch Order Guide
A collection of animated films centered around a woolly mammoth, a talkative sloth, a serious saber-toothed tiger, and a small squirrel, as they navigate through the Pleistocene Epoch.
Ice Age Release Timeline
What order should you watch the Ice Age movies?
Release order — click any era to expand or collapse. All 6 released films, plus 1 still to come, shown below.
5 films released between 2002 and 2016.
1 film released between 2022 and 2022.
1 film released between 2027 and 2027.
Ice Age: Boiling Point
In theaters Feb 3, 2027
Watch Ice Age in Order
Watch the Ice Age movies in release order, starting with Ice Age (2002) and continuing through The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022). The series spans 6 films, released between 2002 and 2022. Audiences rate the franchise 6.6/10 on average.
What order should you watch Ice Age?
For most viewers, release order is the recommended way to watch Ice Age. This is how the story was crafted and revealed to audiences — earlier films seed details, callbacks, and twists that pay off in later entries. Watching in release order preserves those reveals and matches the pacing the filmmakers intended.
Ice Age largely tracks its own in-universe chronology, so release order and chronological order overlap closely. You can use either without losing much, though release order is still the safest first watch.
About the Ice Age franchise
A collection of animated films centered around a woolly mammoth, a talkative sloth, a serious saber-toothed tiger, and a small squirrel, as they navigate through the Pleistocene Epoch.
Each film builds on the previous one, rewarding viewers who watch in sequence.
Ice Age by the Numbers
Every figure below is calculated from the full film list on this page.
- 6
- Films released
- 20
- Years running
- 6.6/10
- Average audience rating
- 7.4/10
- Highest rated
- 6.1/10
- Lowest rated
- 6 years
- Longest gap between films
Ice Age has 6 released films, the first in 2002 and the most recent in 2022.
The series has been running for 20 years, from 2002 to 2022.
Across its 6 rated films, Ice Age averages 6.6/10 on TMDB, from 49,297 audience ratings.
The highest-rated entry is Ice Age (2002) at 7.4/10 on TMDB.
The lowest-rated entry is Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) at 6.1/10 on TMDB.
The longest gap between consecutive films is 6 years, between Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022).
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Ice Age, covering all 6 released films. Last recalculated September 2026.
Ice Age Fun Facts & Trivia
The Ice Age franchise spans 20 years, from 2002 to 2022.
The highest-rated entry is Ice Age with a 7.4/10 audience score.
Across all films, the franchise averages a 6.6/10 rating from audiences.
Ice Age films have collected over 49k audience ratings combined.
The most recent entry, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022), continues a franchise that began 20 years earlier.
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