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Ice Age: The Meltdown

Play trailer 1:15 Poster for Ice Age: The Meltdown PG Released Mar 31, 2006 1h 31m Kids & Family Comedy Adventure Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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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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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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Carter R Ice Age: The Meltdown is actually a really good movie and a fun sequel! The characters were all likeable, the story is engaging in my opinion, the animation is definitely an improvement over the the first Ice Age, and the comedy is really well done, but to me, it suffers from Crash and Eddie, who the only hateable characters in this movie because they suck, and its terrible runtime! But overall, it's better than the original Ice Age in my opinion. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/09/25 Full Review Axel V ¡Genial!!!!!!!!!!! %92🍅🧊 Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/08/25 Full Review thiago s Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom, só o esquilo ajudou um pouco no filme. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/25/25 Full Review Stephen C What the **** were you all thinking?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/22/25 Full Review DYLANZS W Honestly better than the original. I know hot take but that’s just my opinion. The humour was much better in this film and the animation was more crisp. The characters have real emotional depth. Only characters I don’t like involve Crash and Eddie. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/19/25 Full Review Dominic C Introduced Crash and Eddie who probably came from hell Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/07/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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