While you may not recognize Blue Sky Productions immediately, the company created several beloved movies from Ice Age to Rio. Though the company went defunct in 2021, you can still enjoy the many films produced by the company from 2002 to 2019. For your next movie night, make sure to add one of these six best Blue Sky Productions movies to your watchlist.
6. Spies in Disguise (2019)
Our sixth selection for best Blue Sky Productions movies is Spies in Disguise, the last film produced by the company. Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost complete opposites. While Lance is smooth, Walter is awkward but makes up for his social skills in smarts and inventions created for Lance. But when an invention takes an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance must learn to work together, or the world will fall into peril.
–IMDb score: 6.8
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5. Horton Hears a Who (2008)
One of the most popular Dr. Seuss books, Horton Hears a Who is also our fifth selection for the best Blue Sky Productions movies. As Horton the Elephant goes about his day, he hears a cry for help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he cannot see anyone on the speck, Horton decides to help. The speck is home to the Whos, living in the city of Whoville. As Horton tries to protect the speck, his neighbors torment him, believing nothing could survive on such a tiny speck but Horton stands by his motto that “a person is a person, no matter how small.”
–IMDb score: 6.8
4. Rio (2011)
Our favorite Macaw Blu flies into our fourth spot for best Blue Sky Productions movies in Rio. Blu is a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, taken from the wild by smugglers when he was little. Though he never learned to fly, Blu lives a happy life with his human friend Linda as the last of his kind. That is until word gets out there is another Blu Macaw in Rio de Janeiro, so Blue and Linda go to meet her. When the two birds get captured by animal smugglers, they must work together to earn their freedom and get back to Linda.
–IMDb score: 6.9
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3. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Ice Age joins the list in our third spot for the best Blue Sky Productions movies with Dawn of the Dinosaurs. After The Meltdown, life has changed a lot for our furry main characters. Manny and Ellie are expecting a baby, Diego is pondering the idea that he has become too laid back, and Sid wishes for his own family. When Sid finds a trio of dinosaur eggs, he takes them as his own until the mother comes for them. As Sid is dragged into the strange underground world that dates back to prehistoric times, Sid’s herd must rescue him before it’s too late.
–IMDb score: 6.9
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2. The Peanuts Movie (2015)
If you love the 2-D version of The Peanuts, then you will also enjoy our second selection of the best Blue Sky Productions movies, The Peanuts Movie. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the whole gang appear in a completely new animation design with another heartwarming story. A new girl moves across the way, and Charlie Brown is smitten. As he tries to impress the girl of his dreams, Snoopy is writing a love story about his battles with The Red Baron. Will Charlie Brown be able to find love or will too many other obstacles get in his way?
–IMDb score: 7.0
1. Ice Age (2002)
Last, of course, is the original movie that kicked off Blue Sky’s success, Ice Age. Back when glaciers still covered most of the Earth, and animals were trying to save themselves from the Ice Age, three unlikely heroes joined together. A sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed tiger named Diego must band together and return a human child to its father while fighting against the elements of the impending storm.
–IMDb score: 7.5
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