2012: Ice Age (2011)
A World Frozen Over ... A Family Torn Apart.
A volcanic eruption in Iceland sends a glacier towards North America, causing everything in it's path to freeze. A family man struggles to escape the onslaught of the coming ice age.
In 2012: Ice Age, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic ice age”. The story fights on E8/E6/E7 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing survival, family, environment, adventure, community.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Land Before Time (1988)E7/E8 · rare rung · family, survival
Flow (2024)E7/E8 · rare rung · environment, survival
The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)E6/E7 · rare rung · community, survival
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)E7 · rare rung · community, environment
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar (2016)E7 · rare rung · environment, survival
Phase IV (1974)E6/E7/E8 · rare rung · environmentSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Balto (1995)E4/E9/E10 · rare rung · community, survival
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)E12/E14 · rare rung · environment, survival
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · environment, survival
Them! (1954)E14 · rare rung · environment, survival
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)E9/E11 · environment, survival
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)E9/E10 · environment, survivalAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)consciousness in animals · prehistoric valley
The Red Turtle (2016)consciousness in animals · island sanctuary
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)consciousness in animals · prehistoric dinosaur valley
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010)consciousness in animals · marine odyssey
Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)consciousness in animals · dinosaur herd
Rio 2 (2014)consciousness in animals · amazon bird sanctuarySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)consciousness in monsters · community, environment
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)consciousness in monsters · environment, survival
Moana (2016)consciousness carried elsewhere · environment
Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might (1990)consciousness in aliens · environment
Roger & Me (1989)consciousness carried elsewhere · environment
Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler (1992)consciousness in machines · survivalSame people
Shared director or cast.
