Ice Age: The Meltdown

PG

Released Mar 31, 2006

1 hr. 31 min.

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Animation

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146 Reviews

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71%

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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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Dashell N

Scrat is best charater along with the piranhas fight with scrat its fun

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

04/04/24

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Aidan M

Still pretty good, new characters

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/27/24

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NextAmirChannel

great sequel to the movie of all time

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/23/24

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The action got a little too piled up, the squirrels got a little too much, and the possum brothers got incredibly annoying, but overall it was passable and funny.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/15/24

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Rick M

I give the original Ice Age movie 5 stars. I give this one, one and a half at best. It had its moments (a few of them), but not even close to the quality of the first one.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/29/24

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Dino G

As usual the critics are wrong! Ice Age: The Meltdown has Scrat's funny moments with the acorn and the score is good. This is undoubtedly better than the first one.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/28/24

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Carlos Saldanha

Director

Ray Romano

Manny

John Leguizamo

Sid

Denis Leary

Diego

Queen Latifah

Ellie

Chris Wedge

Scrat

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Derek Adams

Time Out

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

Jun 24, 2006

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Neil Smith

BBC.com

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.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 11, 2006

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Philip French

Guardian

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.

Apr 8, 2006

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

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.

Rated: 1/4

Sep 4, 2023

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

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

Rated: 2.0/4.0

Sep 11, 2020

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Leigh Paatsch

Herald Sun (Australia)

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

Rated: 2/5

Sep 11, 2020

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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
Executive Producer: Christopher Meledandri , Chris Wedge
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
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD , DTS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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