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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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56% Tomatometer 144 Reviews 71% Popcornmeter 250,000+ Ratings
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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Nick R A step down, but still not that bad. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/19/24 Full Review Dimitra T Dieser Film ist bei weitem nicht so gut wie sein Vorgänger.Trotzdem würde ich diesen Film als eine gelungene Fortsetzung betrachten.Die Animation sah schon deutlich besser als im ersten Teil aus.Charaktere wurden perfekt weiter geführt.Neue Charaktere wurden eingeführt und funktionieren auch.Mein Problem ist das viele Konflikte zu schnell und zu einfach gelöst werden.Und das Ende Kamm auch bisschen Random.Trotzdem für mich eine gelungene Fortsetzung die zwar nicht so gut wie sein Vorgänger ist aber immer noch nicht schlecht ist. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/01/24 Full Review Jorge R Mostly I watch ice age 2 during the summer time. But overall a good watch Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/26/24 Full Review Rich S At least someone is paying attention to Global Warming. Let's go, folks. The clock is ticking. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/14/24 Full Review Audience Member Despite the movie having out of pocket scenes with high stakes that are almost completely unnecessary, I don’t think those flaws water down the movie that much, and apart from that, I found quite some enjoyment out of it. Maybe I’m biased because it’s the only Ice Age movie I’ve ever watched but it liked it. I didn’t love it, but I liked it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/20/24 Full Review Zion C Spectacular film in every way. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/11/24 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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