Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Tagline: Kiss Your Ice Goodbye
Plot: Our trio is still together and enjoying the perks of their now melting world. Manny may be ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time; Manny thinks he may be the last one. That is, until he miraculously finds Ellie (voiced by Queen Latifah), the only female mammoth left in the world. Their only problems: They can't stand each other – and Ellie somehow thinks she’s a possum!Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum “brothers”...Crash and Eddie (voiced by Seann William Scott and Josh Peck), a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky, loud-mouthed troublemakers. Manny (voiced by Ray Romano), Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo), and Diego (voiced by Denis Leary) quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: A huge glacial dam holding off oceans of water is about to break, threatening the entire valley. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. So our three heroes, along with Ellie, Crash and Eddie, form the most unlikely family – in any “Age” – as they embark on a mission across an ever-changing, increasingly dangerous landscape towards their
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 ...delivers the kind of cinematic package they expect: cute animals, funny moments, and cartoonish action sequences. With the bar set so high by Pixar and Dreamworks, adults have come to expect more from animated films than Ice Age: The Meltdown delivers.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
"Ice Age: The Meltdown" was funny and entertaining, but I recommend it more for older kids. If you liked the first "Ice Age," you should be very pleased with this sequel.--Scott Chitwood (ComingSoon.net)
Ice Age 2 surpasses the original in every way. Fox Animation has a film to be extremely proud of.  --Julian Roman (MovieWeb)
So while “Ice Age: The Meltdown” may not be as good as its predecessor, it’s still a fun and entertaining movie that kids will enjoy (probably more than their parents)...  --Scott Mantz (MovieMantz.com)
ICE AGE 2 needed nothing but Scrat to be the winner he never will be. And we all lose because it isn’t.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
It’s fabulous to see past mistakes in “Ice Age” corrected for the newer model. Kids are going to love this latest round with their prehistoric friends, and, unlike last time, parents will have just as much fun with it. --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
The best thing that can be said for “Ice Age: The Meltdown” is that it is one of the rare sequels that bests its predecessor... --David Medsker (Bullz-eye.com)
To paraphrase Tuco in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, "There are two kinds of sequels in the world, my friend - those that broaden the film's universe and those with no reason for existing other than as a blatant cash-in." Happily, Ice Age: The Meltdown falls unequivocally into the former category. 8/10--Paul Greenwood (FutureMovies.co.uk)
So long as they can maintain this quality, let's hope it isn't another four years before the next Ice Age.  --Scott Nash (TheMovieBuffs.com)
The movie has a few decent jokes that kids won't get right away so it works for adults too – in very small doses. The story is not as good as the original and had it not been for the parts with scrat the squirrel, I'd probably still be sleeping. Little kids that just loved it surrounded me and if you are a parent and want to see your kids smile and laugh, this movie works... --JC (Moviesforguys.com)
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Carlos Saldanha
Ice Age, Gone Nutty, Assembling 'Robots': The Magic, the Music, & the Comedy |
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| Peter Gaulke
Black Knight, Say It Isn't So, Saturday Night Live |
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