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| View Larger Image | Ice Age - The Meltdown (Full Screen Edition) | DVDStarring: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck
Directed By: Carlos Saldanha
Also With: Chris Wedge (Producer), Bob Gordon (Producer), Christopher Meledandri (Producer), Lori Forte (Producer), Gerry Swallow (Writer), Jim Hecht (Writer), Peter Gaulke (Writer)
| List Price: | $19.98 | | Price: | $15.99 | | You Save: | $3.99 (20%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 91 minutes | | Format: | AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC | | Studio: | 20th Century Fox | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | November 21, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 3,580rd |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Description
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! |
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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 Beyond Ice Age: The Meltdown Ice Age - Super Cool Edition Ice Age & Ice Age 2: The Meltdown - (DVD 2-Pack) Funtastic Adventures Collection Box Set (Ice Age / Robots / Fern Gully / Once Upon a Rainforest) Stills from Ice Age: The Meltdown (click for larger image) |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 226 reviews)
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Ellie the Mammoth/Possum Shows Up by John F. Rooney  4 Stars
November 15, 2009
"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.
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Ice Age 2: The Meltdown... On the Rocks by Julian Kennedy (St Pete Florida)  3 Stars
November 13, 2009
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.
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Fast Shipping, Perfect Item by Pamela Perry (Medford, OR)  5 Stars
November 02, 2009
This DVD arrived very quickly and in perfect condition. Movie is hilarious, my grandsons really like it!
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Ice Age - The Meltdown is "NO" meltdown by Russell A. Becker (Corona, CA USA) 5 Stars
October 23, 2009
This movie is just as good (if not better) than the first ICE AGE. The three main characters from Ice Age 1, are still with us. And with the addition of two crazy opossums and one Mammoth, who thinks she is a opossum, adds to the enjoyment of the movie. The is a great movie for the entire family, even my teenage grand kids liked it.
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A must-have for any blu ray collection by marymelon (northern, IN USA) 4 Stars
September 15, 2009
Just when you thought the DVD was impressive, the Ice Age blu ray movies are spectacular! The story was enjoyed by family members of all ages. The extra features are as entertaining as the movie!Ice Age: The Meltdown [Blu-ray]
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