Ice Age: The Meltdown

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Ice Age: The Meltdown

PG

Released Mar 31, 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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Jim P

All the other reviews are right. A step down from the first movie.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/11/25

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Samuel W

The first Ice Age is a classic, but the second movie was my favorite movie as a child. Watching it again has made me realize that I remembered every single event and scene as it played out as though I could play it in my own head. The movie is extraordinarily well-done and amps up the emotional undertones of Manny’s history from the first movie. With Will Arnett, Jay Leno, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, and of course, the amazing Queen Latifah joining the herd, the new characters were more than welcome to come aboard their crazy travels. The entire movie is exciting, hilarious, and can make you really tear up a time or two. And for a 2006 movie, the visuals were so excellently well-done.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/01/25

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Audience Member

Honestly the last ice age movie to stay at least somewhat true to it's heard like, nomadic feel. And the only Ice Age other than the original that I would consider watching. My one pet peeve with the movie is how they moved away from what animals would act like in the actual Ice Age and moved towards humanoid animals. Which in my opinion was the begging of the end for the series.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/30/24

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Obi-wan K

Worse then the 1st one but still good

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/23/24

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Nick R

A step down, but still not that bad.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/19/24

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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

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Carlos Saldanha

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Manny

John Leguizamo

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Denis Leary

Diego

Queen Latifah

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Chris Wedge

Scrat

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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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