Ice Age: The Meltdown

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Ice Age: The Meltdown

PG

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

06/24/2006

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

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Neil Smith

BBC.com

04/11/2006

4/5

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.

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Philip French

Guardian

04/08/2006

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.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

09/04/2023

1/4

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.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

09/11/2020

2.0/4.0

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

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Leigh Paatsch

Herald Sun (Australia)

09/11/2020

2/5

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

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Tyler S

@tylerking24 4d

This might be an interesting take, but the plot of this film should have been the plot of the first film. Don't get me wrong, I liked the first film more, but this movie felt like a proper Ice Age movie. If these sequels never happened, my score for the first movie might be a bit higher. But knowing there are FIVE films (boutta be six), that scares me a little. Still, thought this was an overall solid film!

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Hayden T.

@RT84200025 5d

An okay sequel to the first ice age movie

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Dillard D.

@ZILL4RD May 5

It's not bad but it's not good

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Matteo Q

@Matteo59 Apr 26

Non è bello come il primo ma comunque bello

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Rocco S

@Rocstar Apr 25

Ice age 2 is the same to Ice age 1 to me all the meltdown scenes and pacing are kinda quite good the new characters crash and Eddie are okay and Ellie is a good love for manny the animation is way tolerable then the first and the new scrat moments are funny to the first overall it’s a good sequel 3.5/5

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Benjamin W.

@Code70 Apr 11

Decent sequel isn’t particularly compelling, but adds new things to the franchise. The Meltdown isn’t a great film by any means, but as an Ice Age sequel, it works well enough. It introduces new characters while expanding the scope and size of the universe, while also actually having a premise centered around the Ice Age. But, once again, nothing too terribly deep or insightful is at play here, there are far too many subplots going on here, and the story is once again pretty basic. It’s a decent time with some fun characters.

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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)