While the world debates which Ice Age film is best, a whole generation in Malaysia has only one answer: "Yang version Melayu, lah. Baru best." (The Malay version. That’s the best.)
When Disney launched in Malaysia, fans immediately checked for the Malay dub. To their horror, only English, Mandarin, and sometimes Indonesian were available. The reason is likely contractual: the rights to the specific Malay voice performances from the early 2000s were held by terrestrial broadcasters (like TV3 or Astro) or expired.
For millions of children growing up in Malaysia in the mid to late 2000s, the voice of a slobbery, acorn-obsessed sabre-toothed squirrel named Scrat wasn't provided by the original English actor. It was provided by a local voice artist speaking Bahasa Malaysia .