With a worldwide gross of over $880 million, this is Blue Sky Studios' and the Ice Age franchise's highest-grossing film.
At the time of its release, this was the second highest-grossing animated film worldwide, after DreamWorks' Shrek 2 (2004). This marked the only time in history that neither of the two highest-grossing animated films were produced by Disney.
Buck warns the troupe, "Abandon hope, ye who enter there!" This is actually the famous line of Dante Alighieri's Inferno. It's said to be written on the gates of Hell.
This film and L'Âge de glace (2002) are the only two films in the franchise to be nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film. Both also didn't win. They lost to Le Voyage de Chihiro (2001) and Monstres contre Aliens (2009) respectively.
Though this was the highest grossing animated film of 2009 worldwide, domestically it fell short of Là-haut (2009) and Monstres contre Aliens (2009).