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Watching this zoo of long-vanished quadrupeds, you're left with an eerie message for our own warming times: They fought the thaw, and the thaw won.
[The film] has lots of energy, some decent animation and good voice-over work -- but no real story and few chuckles.
A tad crasser and pushier than its predecessor, Ice Age: The Meltdown is still an entirely serviceable follow-up to the 2002 hit that will thoroughly amuse kids and get a rise or two out of parents as well.
The Meltdown is at least faithful to its predecessor in the sense of being equally as underwhelming.
The Meltdown is less a story than a series of complicated slapstick bits -- the physical gags are often enjoyable, but there's not much else to the movie.
On the short list of sequels superior to the originals -- alphabetically between The Godfather, Part II and Toy Story 2 -- you may enter Ice Age: The Meltdown.
Ice Age: The Meltdown is a considerable improvement over its predecessor...As before, Scrat (again voiced by Chris Wedge, who this time did not direct) steals the show.
As with the first "Ice Age" movie it is Scrat the acorn-obsessed rodent who bookends the movie and steals the most laughs with his hilarious attempts at obtaining an ever-elusive acorn.
I don't know what happened to the Ice Age team between the first movie and the sequel, but whatever it was, it wasn't good.
Plucky animals survive prehistoric global warming.
I've seen cooked spaghetti with more tension.
For as endearing as Scrat's antics are, even they can't sustain the lackluster jokes that pass for humor for the bulk of the ninety-minute running time.
I'm not going to beat around the glacier. If you liked Ice Age, you're going to like this sequel.
A fun romp that calls to mind the very best of the old Warner Brothers cartoons.
Abounds in well-paced gags, both visual and verbal.
The animation is beautiful, with the flowing water and icy cliffs perfectly rendered.
If the animation studio Blue Sky has proven anything so far, it's that they're big league visual artists, but frankly pedestrian when it comes to stories.
The lines may not be Shakespeare, but the physical escapades are pure Rube Goldberg and many of the scenes, especially those involving Scrat, will have you not only on the edge of your seat, but laughing out loud.
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