The two lock trunks and embrace and the watching mammoths trumpet in commemoration of their new relationship, while Crash and Eddie weep happily together. The movie was a major success in the box office, grossing $660 million worldwide. Ellie quickly let go of her spite after she and Manny (under the direction of Diego) save the herd from the crumbling Misty Chasm and finally realizes that she and Manny did have chemistry together. Sid encounters the mini-sloths again - they believe Sid stopped the flood and invite him to be their leader. Meledandri, then president of 20th Century Fox Animation, credited the film's successful performance to the studio's strength in global marketing and distribution, the diversity of the crew, and Saldanha's method of using images rather than words to solve creative problems, which helped him realize that the animation of a film is just as important as the story and dialogue, leading him to start Illumination Entertainment with Universal a year later. Three Possums 10. Scrat has a small role in the first film, but in the second film, he has lots of screen time, being the film's main protagonist. After Sid lights a fire for them, and gains their worship, he finally believes that he has found the respect he had been searching for. Anyway, the glaciers are melting, the water is rising, and the animals are on the move to higher, drier ground. Fox aired promotions for the film throughout the evening. Manny and Diego move on to find that Fast Tony, a local armadillo con artist, with the help of his assistant Stu, is attempting to convince the other animals to buy river reeds from him, claiming that the the world will soon flood over and that by purchasing his products they might survive. 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The characters, despite being from the last movie, were remodeled for the sequel.[10]. Storytime 3. Carlos Saldanha strove to make the characters eyes appear alive and not mechanical. It is the sequel to Ice Age (2002) and the second film in the franchise. At that moment, however, a vulture known as the Lone Gunslinger appears and states that the valley will flood over, with the only means of escape being a boat at the end of the valley, which they must reach before three days, when the waters hit the geyser fields near the boat. The score is by John Powell; the soundtrack also features the song "Food Glorious Food" from the musical and film Oliver!. At that moment, however, Stu is pulled under the surface and consumed by the sea reptiles, his shell regurgitated from the waters in front of Fast Tony, who, unfazed by the demise of his assistant, attempted to pawn the empty shell off to other creatures. [19] Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, stating "the first Ice Age movie more or less exhausted these characters and their world, and the meltdown doesn't add much. Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. 458 Ratings. "[16] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, calculated a score of 58, placing it at the high end of the site's "mixed or average reviews" category. Playing Dead 11. Instead of crushing Ellie, the fallen boulders and rock slabs piled so that they created a great "boulder cave", with no exit large enough for Ellie to escape. Review. "[3] By June 2002, Blue Sky Studios was already working on the sequel. Part of 20th Century Studios ( The Walt Disney Company ) Full-length feature films: Franchise films: Ice Age: Ice Age (2002) | Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) | Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) Rio: Rio … Sid is shown to be quite smart in this film. Scrat's never-ending pursuit of acorns has world-changing consequences, separating Manny, Sid and Diego from the rest, forcing them to stand up to a pirate gang. The characters, despite being from the last movie, were remodeled for the sequel.[1]. 57% TOMATOMETER. With its dazzling animation, unforgettable characters, Ice Age: The Meltdown is laugh-out-loud fun for the whole family! Ice Age: The Meltdown. Manfred dismisses the idea, but is quickly distracted after he sees Sid trying to high dive from a giant waterfall. Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. But when Manny, Sid and Diego discover that the miles of melted ice will flood their valley, they must warn everyone and somehow figure out However, the moment quickly ends, as flood waters rise higher still, and the group huddles together awaiting their impending doom. As Ellie, Crash, and Eddie went around the geyser fields, and the three were feet from the giant boat, a mountainside caved in. Manny soon squares off with Cretaceous and Maelstrom, and, due to his quick thinking, impales the two with a rock slab from Ellie's cave, likely killing both. After being harassed by vultures, the group finds the boat behind a field of hot geysers, which separates Manny, Sid and Diego from Ellie and her brothers when they argue about which way's safest to go through. The three (along with Scrat) direct all other animals to safety, and meet a female mammoth named Ellie and her adoptive possum brothers Crash and Eddie, who manage to join the herd. A multi-platform game based on the movie was released by Vivendi Games on March 14th, 2006, 17 days before the movie released. So it’s no surprise that after four years and plenty of hype, Ice Age: The Meltdown would tread much of the same territory that made the original such a success. The film received generally positive reviews from the general public and fans of the first film. After a heated debate between Ellie and Manny about the geyser fields (Manny wanting to go through, and Ellie wanting to go around), the group splits with Sid and Diego going with Manny and Crash and Eddie going with Ellie. Manny, Sid, and Diego, now a herd, discover that the valley they all live in is to flood. It was again directed by Carlos Saldanha, and it tells a story of the protagonists discovering a tropical world inhabited by dinosaurs. During the same evening of this cameo, Sid was hosting the entire FOX line-up, showing up in intermittent times between commercials. Narrator: Ice Age 2: The Meltdown ("Ice, Ice Baby" starts. Manny: Uh, Diego, retract the claws, please. The next morning, Sid tells the others his experience but none are convinced. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a audience score of 71%, which indicates the film received generally positive reviews from audiences. Despite this bonding moment with Manny, she distances herself from him when he suggests "saving their species". Carlos Saldanha. Three more sequels were released — Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012 and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016. Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. Ice Age: The Meltdown received 13 nominations, including Annie Awards for Best Animated Effects, Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production, Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production (Carlos Saldanha), Best Music in an Animated Feature Production (John Powell) and Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production. Release Date: 2006. Originally was going to have a travel montage like the first film, but the crew thought it would be boring and decided not to have one. 1 Game Menu feature cheat sheet 1.1 Sid's Soccer Challenge 2 Ice Age Factoid Meltdown 2.1 Questions 3 Unused commands 4 Gallery The games have been made tough to get very well on them. However, he soon realized Ellie was a very strange mammal as she believed that she was a opossum, like her brothers Crash and Eddie. The film is set during the days of the ice age and after the events of the first film; the animals that migrated south enjoy the melting ice and snow. Aram Khachaturian's Adagio from Spartacus is featured during Scrat's Heavenly vision. Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. But despite sharing a slightly romantic moment or two with Manny, she quickly distances herself from him after he suggests that they could now "save their species", as its their responsibility. Just One Acorn 7. Most of the other characters are back in "Ice Age: The Meltdown," but their story is more of a slog than a sprint. Manny, Sid, and Diego are currently living in a large valley surrounded by an enormously high ice wall on all sides. On Family Guy's episode "Sibling Rivalry", Scrat is shown trying to take three nuts out of the side of a glacier; Peter shows up and tries to stop him, admonishing the squirrel for stealing, which drives Scrat to subsequently attack Peter. The film received mixed reviews from critics, earning a 56% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 58 on Metacritic, indicating "mixed or average reviews." It is the second of five films released in the Ice Age series, made by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Directed by Carlos Saldanha. Miscreants 9. Manny is still worried about being the last mammoth alive and his family, who had been killed by humans, but is surprised when he encounters Ellie, a female woolly mammoth who believes she is an opossum and Crash and Eddie's adoptive sister. Though Manny initially took a firm stance that he most definitely was NOT the last mammoth, he eventually gave in and let the realization he was alone sink in. After several failed attempts of convincing Ellie she's a mammoth, Manny seemingly gives up, after one last attempt of "impressing" her. 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