Ice Age: The Meltdown

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Ice Age: The Meltdown

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2006

1h 31m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Animation

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With global warming threatening their once-icy domain with widespread flooding, Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo) and Diego (Denis Leary) set out to find a safe haven. Along the way, another mammoth (Queen Latifah), who thinks she is an opossum, joins the travelers on their perilous quest.

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Critics Consensus

Despite its impressive animation and the hilarious antics of the saber-toothed squirrel Scrat, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown comes up short on the storytelling front.

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Derek Adams

Time Out

The storyline wanes towards the end and, from the kids' point of view, the whole package lacks momentum.

Jun 24, 2006

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Neil Smith

BBC.com

Carlos Saldanha's mix of race-against-time action and eco-friendly propaganda is actually an improvement on the original, not least for giving its funniest character -- acorn-hunting rodent Scrat -- a lot more to do.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 11, 2006

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Philip French

Guardian

In its untouched-by-human-hand way, it's not bad and, as in the first film, the funniest moments involve the half-rat, half-squirrel Scrat.

Apr 8, 2006

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Suffering from the same troubles as Dreamworks’ Madagascar series, the Ice Age movies over-modernize their productions with hip lingo, base humor, nonsensical references, and structures them around thin storytelling.

Rated: 1/4

Sep 4, 2023

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

I never bought in to this film and found myself regularly distracted by animation that seemed bland and boring.

Rated: 2.0/4.0

Sep 11, 2020

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Leigh Paatsch

Herald Sun (Australia)

Vaguely entertaining sequel to the big animated hit of 2002, but a bit flat...

Rated: 2/5

Sep 11, 2020

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Massimo D

Il mio preferito della saga, l'animazione è molto meglio del primo film e le battute sono divertentissime. Adoro i personaggi e ogni minuto del film

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/19/25

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Joseph B

Absolutely funny and amazing

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/17/25

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Big Z.

F Art C- Entertainment D Overall

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/10/25

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Jed I

5.7/10 — "Mediocre"/"Passable"

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

09/26/25

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Jackson W

Love the comedy in this movie, doesn't really have an antagonist other than the ice melting which is kind of interesting. The characters have a bit more personality in this movie and the quality increased by a lot.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/11/25

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Blu B

Nothing is broken about it and is quite simliar in structure to the first. Good music, animation, and voice work. The new mammoth is cool but the two sidekick possums are just alright. The villians like the vultures and underwater monsters are forgettable and feel like they don't really have a purpose other than to be just some villian. Editing and pacing aren't bad but suffer from inconsistent character growth and figuring out how to make it all work cohesively. Manny sure gets good growth and Diego overcomes his fear. But Sid just kinda does his thing and his whole side plot feels pointless and out of place. Ellie thinking she's a Possoum doesn't add anything. There really isn't much in the way of character expansion and it's pretty much the same structure and setting we already seen. Not much new but it does try. If it jst would've figured out how to either get more character growth or a different setting than that probably would be enough. More or less this walks the line of doing some of what a sequel does and what the first did and can't figure out how to fully cross it. If your a big fan of the first or any voice actors here it might be worth checking out but most should just stick to the first.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/02/25

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Synopsis

With global warming threatening their once-icy domain with widespread flooding, Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo) and Diego (Denis Leary) set out to find a safe haven. Along the way, another mammoth (Queen Latifah), who thinks she is an opossum, joins the travelers on their perilous quest.

Director: Carlos Saldanha
Producer: Lori Forte
Screenwriter: Peter Gaulke, Jon Vitti
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: 20th Century Fox, Fox Animation Studios
Rating: PG (Some Mild Language|Innuendo)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 31, 2006, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 1, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $195.3M
Runtime: 1h 31m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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