Ice Age: The Meltdown Reviews - User Reviews at MovieTome

Ice Age 2 wasn't as good as the first one,but it was still good.The Scrat part was actually the only good part.It wasn't that good.

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Posted jul 7, 2009 1:56 am pt

shengongwu3000

When I watched this sequel of Ice Age, Scrat's second short was longer and much funnier than his first one. The little saber-toothed squirrel stumbled upon a time machine. While using it, he travels through time and to different locations. First, he went to the medieval times. He tried to pry his acorn out from under the boulder by wielding excalibur he pulled out from the stone. Second, he visited the Roman Colliseum. The funniest part is when he meets his paradox duplicate. They were fighting over the one acorn. As Scrat continues to travel to different time periods, he ends up in the future. Although he get to see the oak tree with a lot of acorns, it turns out to be metallic and the last of the oak tree. After breaking the time device, one last jolt sent his acorn into oblivion and Scrat screams in fury trapped in the future.

Th opening of "Ice Age: the Meltdown" is much more hilarious than the one from the first movie. Scrat climbs on the icy wall searching for his acorn. After Scrat got hit by one of the prehistoric characters sliding down the icy slide. The scenes in the beginning looks like the creatures are having fun at a water park. Scrat tries so hard to recover his last acorn. He struggled against a school of piranhas and the condor mother and baby. They were the only enemies for Scrat while Cretacous and Maelstrom the Ichytosaur and Pilosuar are thawed out of the big block of ice to hunt down Manny, Sid and Diego. On the way for survival from Global Warming's massive flood, the trio meet Ellie the wooly mammoth and her opposum brothers, Crash and Eddie. It took a while for Ellie to realize her species. Even though Manny is an anti-social mammoth, he somehow develops a special bond with Ellie, and therefore he wants to be with her. Sid got to be treated like a god by the mini sloths until they tried to sacrifice him as a ritual. Diego conquered his fear of water. As the trio along with Ellie, Crash and Eddie continue their journey, Scrat finds himself somewhere in heaven. The dodos from the first movie appeared as spirits singing. As Scrat passed the gates, he started wandering around joyfully on the field of a million acorns. When he looked at the Big Nut, Scrat becomes enraptured until something is pulling him away. Sid performed CPR on Scrat, but instead of being grateful, Scrat begins to kick Sid's ass furiously.

I find this sequel of Ice Age to be better than the first movie because we see some character development from Manny and Diego. I really enjoy the part where Sid was idolized as the Fire King by his miniature kind. Manny and Ellie got to be together. Crash and Eddie will be serving as a comedy duo. Scrat's misadventures just keeps getting funnier every moment.

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Posted sep 7, 2008 1:42 am pt

The_MOW

Three unlikely friends, "Sid the Land Sloth" (voiced by John Leguizamo), "Manford 'Manny' the Wolly Mamoth" (voiced by Ray Ramono) and "Diego the Saber-tooth Tiger" (voiced by Dennis Leary) have discovered that the ice damn keeping the area they and other species live dry is melting. There claims are confirmed by a vulture.

The residents of this area go on a journey to a natural boat made out of a large tree for safety. Along the way, they meet "Ellie" (voiced by Queen Latifah), a female Wolly Mamoth who believes she is a possum, and her two "brothers", and actual possums, "Eddie" (voiced by Josh Peck) and "Crash" (voiced by Seann William Scott).

The group then go on an adventure to the boat, while trying to dodge predators that are following them.

Let me say first that this movie is very much a kids movie. There are a lot of things that kids will like, but the adults will find pretty boring.

A lot of times, this movie seems to drag and drag. I found myself looking more at my computer than paying attention as to what was going on on my television.

When it comes to humor, I can't say that it's a great comedy movie. In fact, the jokes either produced nothing or a mild chuckle. There was a pretty good laugh near the end of the movie, and some pretty good laughs with "Scrat the Saber-tooth Squirrel" (voiced by Chris Wedge). I just wasn't real amused with the movie's humor.

Another thing I was not impressed with was the music. I can barely remember two tunes, but none of the lyrics, except a little bit that was sung by one of the characters after the scene, because he found it catchy.

One thing I was pretty impressed with was the animation. Although the creatures were cartoonish looking, which was by design, they were well done. The detailing is not that great though, you only see any sense of movement of muscles with the mammoths. But, because this movie is target to kids, the didn't bring out the details that other movies have had.

I also think that the story itself was only fair -- maximum. There are numerous times where the movie begins to move at a slow snail's pace. During these scenes, like I said earlier, I found myself paying attention more to my computer. Kids really don't care about a story except for one that can keep their attention. I honestly can't give you an age limit on an audience for this movie. But, if you are in your tweens or above, I would say skip this movie.

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Posted aug 18, 2008 4:56 am pt

sheep233

Okay. Kind of bland and boring at times but pretty entertaining.

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Posted jul 15, 2008 10:17 am pt

255Utah

i only liked the scrat part.

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Posted jun 9, 2008 5:10 am pt

Lynxan1

I thought it was a mistake when I first heard there was a second Ice Age movie, (Of course I thought the same for a second Shrek... Striking out there) thank god it got into the hands of ones that knew the what to do and much like Spiderman and...
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Posted jan 30, 2008 5:04 pm pt

gamer4life27

Agree (2)

This movie was FUNNIER than the first because of the new characters AND because of Scrat showing up more.

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Posted aug 19, 2007 12:41 am pt

Shadow2040

In my opinion definitely different to the first but neither better nor worse, still an enjoyable movie with plenty of new and interesting characters.

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Posted jun 22, 2007 12:29 pm pt

FilipHolm

Allmost as good as the original, still a great movie!

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Posted may 15, 2007 11:55 pm pt

WriterGoddess