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		List Price: $34.99		Label: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Salesrank: 8417 Released: November 21, 2006
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		MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
Your favorite sub-zero heroes are back for another incredible adventure in the super-cool animated comedy Ice Age the Meltdown! The action heats up - and so does the temperature - for Manny, Sid, Diego and Scrat. Trying to escape the valley to avoid a flood of trouble, the comical creatures embark on a hilarious journey across the thawing landscape and meet Ellie, a female woolly mammoth who melts Manny's heart. With its dazzling animation, unforgettable characters and an all-new Scrat short, Ice Age: The Meltdown is laugh-out-loud fun for the whole family!

Description of Ice Age: The Meltdown [Blu-ray]:
The love life of a woolly mammoth--handled with G-rated delicacy--drives this sequel to the first computer-animated romp in the age of prehistoric mammals. While the first Ice Age took a delightful premise and suffocated it with a formulaic plot--in which a mammoth named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano, Everyone Loves Raymond), a sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo, Moulin Rouge!), and a sabre-tooth tiger named Diego (Denis Leary, Rescue Me) helped an abandoned human infant return to its tribe (basically, Three Mammals and a Baby)--the sequel takes the now-familiar setting, gives it a shapeless, episodic storyline, and yet somehow becomes pretty darn entertaining. Faced with the threat of a flood from melting ice, our heroic trio are on the run to escape from their blossoming valley. On the way, they meet a female mammoth (Queen Latifah, Bringing Down the House) who thinks she's an opossum and get menaced by some freshly defrosted carnivo! rous fish. Add into the mix a herd of lava-worshipping mini-sloths, some Busby Berkeley-style vultures, and more ingenious slapstick featuring the acorn-crazed Scrat, and Ice Age: The Meltdown will amuse even jaded adults. -- Bret Fetzer

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Stills from Ice Age: The Meltdown (click for larger image)

Ice Age: The Meltdown [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Full of sexual innuendo and questionable language
2009-12-19 - The story line isn't even that great. The funniest parts are when Scrat continues his quest for acorns, and those are just snippets. This movie is full of sexual innuendo and language which my son repeated. We loved parts one and three. But this one we will never watch again. Our son is 6.

Squirlus ex machina ending
2009-11-30 - What a great vehicle for multiple narratives this schema is. A group of friends with surprising characteristics and needs, a "world wide dilemma" leading to mass migration - it becomes a quest to reach the boat. On the way each has a chance to meet their needs, a tiger fear of swimming, Manny loss of family, and Sid - well, Sid's character fault has been replaced with a super-ego with the aid of many mini-sloths. Very cute. Meanwhile, the dilemma is saved at the end via a Squirlus ex machina, with the aid of a nut, may real dilemmas be solved so easily. Excellent movie for kids and Peter Pans too.

Ellie the Mammoth/Possum Shows Up
2009-11-15 - "Ice Age the Meltdown" (2006) is the second computer-animated film in a so-far three movie saga about a family of animals of all sorts of species. In it we see Manny (voice of Ray Romano), the mammoth, who believes he's the last of his species on Earth. Sid, the sloth (John Leguizamo), the lead character of the series, is joined by Diego, the glum saber-toothed tiger. The ice is melting at a fast pace, a prehistoric global warming, so all of the animals have to flee, looking for dry ground before the deluge. At one point they get on a huge hunk of bark that reminds us of Noah's ark.
As interludes in the movie there are short, separate cartoon sequences about Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel who keeps wrestling with that infernal acorn. Of course in the third movie of the series, he'll find a girlfriend who can fight with him over that acorn.
Manny is delighted to meet another mammoth, cute Ellie (Queen Latifah), but the trouble is she's been brought up by two possums and thinks she is a possum. She even tries to hang from trees with her tail, but her weight gives her problems. There's a lot of funny dialogue between Manny and Ellie. The movie has some sly adult humor that grown-ups will enjoy, and the kiddies will probably not latch onto.
The movie has real lessons to teach youngsters and oldsters as well: the importance of belonging to a family or a group, loyalty to your friends and family, helping out friends. Diego, the tiger, learns that even though he fears the water and is convinced he cannot swim, a loyal and brave gesture on his part, an effort to save his friends, forces him to overcome his fears and win over adversity.
There are musical numbers, and at one point Sid becomes an object of worship to hundreds of sloths.
It's a lot of fun, easy-to-take entertainment, told with originality and skill. The third movie in the series is more action-oriented with more thrills for kids. This one will seem tamer and milder after you see Number Three.


Ice Age 2: The Meltdown... On the Rocks
2009-11-13 - Ice Age 2: The Meltdown: 5 out of 10: Global Warming comes to the Ice Age clan. Now before you get any idea that this is An Inconvenient Cartoon, keep in mind that global warming in this case is presented as a fairly benevolent event (After all they are in an Ice Age) and by definition not man made (though with all the fart jokes I think Woolly Mammoth flatulence may be a contributing factor.)

Possibly controversial political hot potatoes aside, this is a very attractive and quite empty headed CGI cartoon.

The movie is simply drop dead gorgeous. The water effects alone are almost worth a view. The other highlight of Ice Age 2 is simply the finest English orphan vulture musical number ever put on film.

Other than that Oliver Twist twist, the jokes seem kind of flat. The characters have no spark (Denis Leary's Saber Tooth tiger in particular seems neutered.), and there is some Noah's Ark imagery that at best seems misplaced.

I'm sure the kids will love it and I have often felt the first Ice Age was under-appreciated compared to similar Pixar offerings. The sequel alas is a bunch of gags barely strung together with a go from point A to point B storyline occasionally interrupted by that scene stealing pre-historic squirrel, Scrat.

Most of the gags are pleasant enough but, except for the vulture musical number, there is nothing inspired in the whole film.



Fast Shipping, Perfect Item
2009-11-02 - This DVD arrived very quickly and in perfect condition. Movie is hilarious, my grandsons really like it!