Ice Age: The Meltdown (Widescreen Edition)
by Carlos Saldanha
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Actor: Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Josh Peck, Ray Romano, Seann William ScottDirector: Carlos Saldanha
Brand: TCFHE
Producer: Chris Wedge
Producer: Bob Gordon
Producer: Christopher Meledandri
Producer: Lori Forte
Writer: Gerry Swallow
Writer: Jim Hecht
Writer: Peter Gaulke
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Ice Age: The Meltdown (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: "Parents: Please do not leave your children unattended. All unattended children will be eaten."
Summary: 5 Stars
The Ice Age has come to an end, and our heroes Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo), and Diego (Denis Leary) are enjoying themselves in their new locale. However, when the ice melts and signifies a flood coming, the inhabitants are forced to immigrate to a safer valley. Along the way, he meets Ellie (Queen Latifah), another mammoth who thinks she's a possum, as well as her two brothers Crash (Seann William Scott) and Eddie (Josh Peck).
Oh, who could've forgotten about "Ice Age"? Directed by Chris Wedge, this surprising humdinger of a movie melded a traditional Disney family drama with Looney Tunes-inspired slapstick from Scrat, and three protagonists, played by comedy troupe Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, and Denis Leary (an underrated comedian, despite going large after "Rescue Me"). It's success in box office, and at the Golden Globes/Academy Awards, was enough to spawn an unlikely sequel. But among the disastrous sequels out there ("Basic Instinct 2") and family comedies with too much pop culture on their minds ("Doogal"), "Ice Age: The Meltdown" sidesteps away from these boundaries and follows what made the original such a classic: it's funny and has plot/character development.
Wedge has also deleted the human family from the original and now puts focus on the main characters, thus allowing "Meltdown" to focus more on great comedic moments. Scrat has more screen time, letting the slapstick come and stick long enough for us to laugh. He's still after an acorn that constantly eludes him. He'll try and protect his egg from a baby vulture, go karate against a horde of piranhas, obtain a massively huge acorn in heaven, etc. One wonders why characters like this don't exist in other creative movies. Although we had variations (Fish in the Water from "Chicken Little", and the hyper squirrel from "Hoodwinked"), they're just not massively clever enough or boasting a high screen presence like Scrat.
That doesn't mean this guy takes up the whole film. Manny, Sid, and Diego have plenty of outrageously funny moments. Sid, aka the other scene stealer of the film, is worshiped as a fire king, and has his sloth worshipers follow him in an inspired dance number. The sloth also plays Whack-a-Mole with two crazy possums. Ellie, a mammoth who believes that she is a possum, hangs on branches with her tail. That's all I know, but it's really great stuff.
Along with the comic trifecta of Romano/Leguizamo/Leary, Wedge has included a new cast of characters. Queen Latifah still highlights her comedic sass and gets a few laughs, Josh Peck and Seann William Scott have a lot of fun as the madcap possums, and Jay Leno makes good use of his small movie time as con-artist Fast Eddie.
"Ice Age: The Meltdown" may have been a bad sequel since many unnecessary ones have came out in the past few years, which proves that, according to every critic out there, "Hollywood has no ideas". But Chris Wedge does not believe in tired pop culture gags (we had enough "The Matrix" and "Star Wars" parodies). This is a straightforward comedy for the whole family to sink their teeth into, and that's saying something after "Doogal" and "Hoodwinked" came and went. I'm not sure if "Ice Age 3" will be a good idea, but with Wedge's polished comedy agenda and plethora of ideas, we could always use another surprise.
Summary of Ice Age: The Meltdown (Widescreen Edition)
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!
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) |
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