Shrek and Fiona travel to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, where Fiona's parents are King and Queen, to celebrate their marriage. When Scrat's acorn sends an asteroid to Earth, the Herd must find a way to stop the asteroid from hitting Earth with the help of a returning friend. Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe. 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. "[3] By June 2002, Blue Sky Studios was already working on the sequel. Nominee Annie: Best Animated Effects John David Thornton: Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production (GRUNTING) (EXCLAIMING) (STRAINING) (GASPS) (PANTING) Oh. However, the trio discovers that the ice wall is actually a dam that is barely holding a massive body of water that could flood the valley to nearly a mile underwater. Sid invites her to tag along with the group to escape the flood, and she brings her brothers. 6+ COMMON SENSE. This was the second biggest opening for a non-summer, non-holiday release, after the $83,848,082 of The Passion of the Christ. But the record for highest grossing weekend for March only lasted a year, due to the $70,885,301 weekend of 300. The action heats up - and so does the temperature - for Manny, Sid, Diego and Scrat. "[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. Ice Age: The Meltdown. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. The film grossed a total of $195,330,621 at United States and Canadian box offices, making it the first film in 2006 to pass the $100 million mark. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is the sequel to Ice Age, and the second film in the Ice Age franchise, released on March 31st, 2006. 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. Trailer. She finally realizes she is a mammoth and also expresses her suspicions about how different she was from other opossums. It's too early to say, but it's certainly something we'll explore. NEW! It was produced by Lori Forte and Chris Wedge. A group of animals who have spent all their life in a New York zoo end up in the jungles of Madagascar, and must adjust to living in the wild. As the first sequel to the 2002 film Ice Age, it focuses on The Herd escaping an upcoming flood, during which Manny finds love. When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better. [14] They were released in the UK on October 23, 2006, and both include a new Scrat short, No Time for Nuts. When they arrive, they find they are not as welcome as they thought they would be. When he turned around he saw the Condor Chick pop out of an egg. When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him. The action heats up - and so does the temperature - for Manny, Sid, Diego and Scrat. "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown" takes the good from the first movie, builds on it by adding funnier characters and moving the story into a good direction. Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2006 computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox.As the first sequel to the 2002 film Ice Age, it focuses on the herd escaping an upcoming flood, during which Manny finds love.It was directed by Carlos Saldanha, co-director of the first film, with the music composed by John Powell. The same was done for Brother Bear, I, Robot, Kung Fu Panda, and Robots. Trailers See All. That is, until he miraculously finds Ellie, the only female mammoth left in the world. Trailer Ratings and Reviews. Read full review. The WaterparkTwo months after the events of the first film, Scrat the saber-tooth squirrel tries to access his acorn, which is lodged into a great wall of ice, but releases a stream of meltwater from the ice wall upon removing the nut, which blasts him down into an ice slide where a young platybelodon slides down, carrying him along, as the young animal reaches a vast waterpark where herds of other animals are all enjoying the pools and sli… This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The Madagascar animals join a struggling European circus to get back to New York, but find themselves being pursued by a psychotic animal control officer. Released in March 2006, and keeping the predecessor’s offbeat tone, this new adventure was met with a more mixed reception from critics, but was warmly-received by audiences and fans. Ice Age: The Meltdown blithely looks on the bright side of life, amassing a screen full of vultures to sing and dance ''Food Glorious Food'' and daring us not to get happy. Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is a powerful, trial version Windows game, that belongs to the category PC games with subcategory Platform.. More about Ice Age 2: The Meltdown. But Manny and Ellie decide to remain together anyway, taking Sid, Diego and the opossum brothers along. When the flood comes, Manny saves Ellie from drowning as she is caught in a cave (due to falling rocks), while Diego overcomes his fear of water to save Sid, Crash and Eddie from drowning. Use the HTML below. All characters are voiced by the original actors who portrayed in the movie. In the film, Manny, Sid, and Diego attempt to escape an impending flood, during which Manny finds love. The consensus statement reads: "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. Directed by Carlos Saldanha. 3 Ratings. It's a wonderful sequel that all ages should enjoy.Rated: 8/10More reviews at: http://www.thelazylounge.net. Manny may be ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time; Manny thinks he may be the last one. [11], Ice Age: The Meltdown had its world premiere on March 19, 2006, at the Mann's Grauman Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California. Life in the valley is good. 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. Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. It shows, in part, that after Scrat defeats a school of piranha, he proudly displays an Airhead packet (replaced by an acorn in the actual film), when suddenly an eagle comes over and swipes it from him. Ice Age: The Meltdown is an Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure movie that was released in 2006 and has a run time of 1 hr 31 min. Queen Latifah, winner Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie for "Ice Age: The Meltdown" The other animals are at the mercy of the water currents. The movie was released on March 31, 2006. The film exceeded expectations by opening with an $68,033,544 in its first weekend. Re-edited scenes of Ice Age: The Meltdown were shown in Airhead candy commercials on several kids' channels and programs, such as the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, ABC Kids on ABC, and more. I think they're talking about going back into the studios something around late Fall. During the same evening of this cameo, Sid was hosting the entire FOX line-up, showing up in intermittent times between commercials. Ice Age: The Meltdown was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD were released in the North America on November 21, 2006 according to the official web store. But for the prehistoric animals left over from the first Ice Age movie, it’s at least the long-awaited end of a really cold era. A vulture tells them that there is a boat at the other end of the valley that may save them all, but they only have three days to reach it or die. Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and the hapless prehistoric squirrel/rat known as Scrat are still together and enjoying the perks of their now melting world. "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown" redirects here. [12] The film was re-released in 3D on October 13, 2014 in China only. Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum "brothers"-- Crash and Eddie, a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky, loud-mouthed troublemakers. [1] Ice Age: The Meltdown was the highest grossing animated film worldwide of 2006, but lost to Cars for being the highest grossing animated film in North America. [11] Release. 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. The film was directed by Carlos Saldanha, co-director of the first film, and written by Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow, and Jim Hecht. The characters, despite being from the last movie, were remodeled for the sequel.[10]. 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