Ice Age - The Meltdown

MPAA Rating

Theatrical Release Date

Mar 30, 2006

Genre(s)

Animation
Fantasy
Ice Age
Feature Films
Family Features

Rating (Stars)

Description

/ 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 FetzerBeyond Ice Age: The MeltdownIce Age - Super Cool EditionIce 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)/

Director

Carlos Saldanha

Stars

Queen Latifah
Denis Leary
John Leguizamo
Jay Leno
Will Arnett

Running Time

91 minutes

Original Price

$29.98

Current Value

$6.70

DVD Features

AC-3
Color
Dolby
Dubbed
DVD-Video
Subtitled
Widescreen
NTSC
1.85:1