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Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

March. 31,2006
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6.8
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PG
| Adventure Animation Comedy Family
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Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster prompts them to reunite and warn all the other beasts about the desperate situation.

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Linbeymusol
2006/03/31

Wonderful character development!

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Mjeteconer
2006/04/01

Just perfect...

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PiraBit
2006/04/02

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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Ariella Broughton
2006/04/03

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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shubhamsrivastavalu
2006/04/04

The next part of the cute and comical series finds addition of more members in the herd family. Manny after a brief period of grief thinking he is the last Mammoth finds love in Ellie who thinks of herself as a Possum like her little brothers. A cute story wherein Ellie lives, acts and sleeps like a Possum just like her brothers. It is later that she realizes that she is actually a Mammoth. Sid is as always the glue of the herd but is not respected by others. He finds respect is a group of little Sloths who consider him as the fire Lord. He finally find respect but is sacrificed...huh...not killed....killing Sid is not that easy. The encounters of Manny and the two Possum brothers (as protector of their sister) was interesting and amusing. The meltdown, an effect of the global warming was the deeper thought of the movie in relation to the current situation. Scrat is as always after the fruit. He plays an important part in the end when he saves the life of the herd by dividing the flooding water through cracking of the snow. A cute story.......good for a quality time

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adonis98-743-186503
2006/04/05

Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths. Ice Age: The Meltdown is the perfect example of how to make a great 2nd film especially since it brings new faces and new villains to the table. For example i love Ellie's backstory and her character as a whole she's sweet and funny also i love those 2 little fellas Crash and Eddie and the new villains the Vulture and the 2 sea creatures were great and quite dangerous to begin with. The film is heavily invested upon friendship and family as well which is a good message for the kids and the overall animation is terrific. In the end Ice Age 2 is a fun, light hearted and above all fun sequel that expands the universe that the first film made and once again Scrat steals the show especially the Karate moments were entertaining as hell. (A+)

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Gavin Cresswell (gavin-thelordofthefu-48-460297)
2006/04/06

Back at 2002, Blue Sky Studios released their very first feature film Ice Age about three animals in the paleolithic era trying to take a human baby back to it's own kind. It became a big hit and a sequel was inevitable before it got released four years later. So, they made "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown". It shows the three animals meeting another mammoth named Ellie (voiced by Queen Latifah) and two of her possum brothers Crash and Eddie (voiced by Sean William Scott and Josh Peck) while discovering the ice is melting and will cause a flow of water to kill all of the creatures. So, it's up to them to find a boat, the only place that they will be safe.I saw this in theaters back at 2006 when it was released and I thought it was very good. Sure, it's not as excellent as the original which became an epic classic, but it's still entertaining to those who still love it. The story feels like Noah's ark and it might be a bit clichéd, but it's well executed thanks to it's decent enough premise when it comes to sequels. It also has some nice moments like how we got to know Ellie's past and how she met her two possum brothers which makes it completely original. What I also liked about the story was it's relationship between Ellie and Manny which was so enjoyable and cute.There are some nice bits of dialog, but some of them lacked the wit and irrelevance that made the first Ice Age such a classic. But that doesn't mean the characters aren't likable enough to entertain us. Manny is still his anti-social self, but isn't that bad, Diego is a tough, but friendly saber tooth tiger who doesn't get along with the possums, and Sid never makes me stop laughing at his comedic antics as did the audience who had seen this in theaters as well. The new characters like Ellie, the beautiful female mammoth and her two hilarious possum brothers Crash and Eddie are likable as are the new villains in the movie the vultures who determined to eat the flesh of any fallen animal, but the only character who steals the show the most goes to Scrat, whose attempts at getting his acorn remains timeless since the original film. The strongest aspect that makes them likable is the voice cast from the likes of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Sean William Scott, Josh Peck, & others who did great with what they were given to their roles.There are other redeeming qualities for this sequel and that includes it's nice pacing, it's brilliant character animation with some nice detail on some of the creatures' furs, and it's great music from John Powell, but the strongest aspect goes to it's beautiful visuals with a brilliant look on the ice, it's landscape mountains and it's water which is one of the coolest highlights of the animation.Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think that despite it's lukewarm reception it had when it came out in theaters, I think that this is a very good, if not excellent, sequel to a classic from Blue Sky Studios. I understand that some had called it the worst of the franchise, but for me, I'm recommending this to those who have not seen it yet.

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tomgillespie2002
2006/04/07

With the Ice Age coming to an end, Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo) and Diego (Denis Leary) learn that the valley they are living in will collapse and ultimately flood. They set off on a journey to reach higher ground, with Manny depressed at the fact that he may be the last mammoth alive. They come across two mischievous opossums Crash (Seann William Scott) and Eddie (Josh Peck), who are travelling with their 'sister' Ellie (Queen Latifah), a mammoth who believes that she is an opossum. Facing some hungry sea creatures, an army of mini-sloths who wants to sacrifice Sid (who they believe to be a fire God), and a temperamental volcano, the group must face physical perils, as well as their own company.Following the mega-success of the first film, the first sequel (there are now four films all together) arrives with an increased budget and some much improved animation, and was naturally a huge success. It is a damning indictment of audience's thirst for originality, as The Meltdown is nothing more than a less-funny re-hash of the first film. The wafer- thin plot of the first is given a slight twist with the fact that they are escaping a massive world event, rather than returning a baby to some humans, but it is the same basic, threadbare story. Only this time, the ever-annoying Queen Latifah is on hand to give her trademark sass, and make me want to throw things at the screen.That said, the film is as mindlessly entertaining as it predecessor, with Sid providing the majority of the laughs within the central plot, even though the focus seems to have moved to the less interesting Manny and his relationship with Ellie. But Scrat, the sabre-toothed squirrel that was highlight of the first film, is on hand again to provide some inspired animated physical comedy, as his endless quest to retrieve his acorn carries on, inadvertently getting caught up with the events around him. Overall, a bit of a disappointment given the fact that the first film wasn't bad at all, but is still able to provide enough laughs to make it worthy of 90 minutes of your time.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

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