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,...
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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.