Even though it's pretty simple and soft, the game is not completely terrible. As Ellie, Crash, and Eddie went around the geyser fields, and the three were feet from the giant boat, a mountainside caved in. After several failed attempts of convincing Ellie she's a mammoth, Manny seemingly gives up, after one last attempt of "impressing" her. Shopping. 1 Summary 2 Plot 3 Trivia 4 Transcript The Irelanders help Manny, Sid and Diego escape a massive flood and meet new friends Ellie and her brothers Crash and Eddie along the way. Powell composed brand new music for the film that replaced the theme songs from the previous film. [2] The Meltdown received mixed critical reaction but was a box office success by earning over $660 million. Sid encounters the mini-sloths again - they believe Sid stopped the flood and invite him to be their leader. They discover an area which Ellie recalls as the place where she was adopted. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha. Manny discredits this, stating that the world will not flood over, when one aardvark discredits his ideals, claiming that Manny is the last mammoth, when attention shifts to Sid, who is standing atop the Eviscerator, the tallest water slide in the park, with the intention of jumping. After Sid leaves, Manny tells a story to keep the rambunctious toddlers at bay, until a young song bird asks Manny about his "big, happy family" leaving him silent (conflicted by old memories). [21], CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave The Meltdown an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. “You want the facial expressions to work. With the help of her lost memory, she finally realizes that she is, in fact, a mammoth. Contents. [4] In 2003, Lori Forte, the producer of the first film, signed a multi-year deal with Fox Feature Films to develop and produce animated films, including a potential Ice Age sequel. However, he soon realized Ellie was a very strange mammal as she believed that she was a opossum, like her brothers Crash and Eddie. Sid invites her to tag along with the group to escape the flood, and she brings her brothers. Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2006 computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film directed by Carlos Saldanha. The impending disaster prompts them to reunite and warn all the other beasts about the desperate situation. He enters a heaven full of acorns. 4.1 out of 5. After Manny dives after Ellie, Diego overcomes his fear of water as he saves an unconscious Sid, and a marooned Crash and Eddie. Manny is ready to start a family but no one has seen a mammoth in ages making him think he is the last mammoth alive. When the flood comes, Manny saves Ellie from drowning as she is caught in a cave (due to falling rocks), while Diego overcomes his fear of water to save Sid, Crash and Eddie from drowning. As things settle down, the herd sleeps while and unsuspecting Sid is kidnapped by a tribe of mini-sloths, who believe Sid to be a god, referred to as "fire king". Manny then ushers the animals along and takes a moment to look out at the chunk of broken ice in the lake suspiciously, until Diego moves him along as well. Info. During the same evening of this cameo, Sid was hosting the entire FOX line-up, showing up in intermittent times between commercials. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge reprise their roles from the first Ice Age film, with newcomers Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott and Josh Peckj… However, the moment quickly ends, as flood waters rise higher still, and the group huddles together awaiting their impending doom. Diego steps in, and tells both Sid and the mini-sloths that Sid can't go with them as he's both the creator of their herd and the glue which holds their friendships together (to which Sid embraces an embarrassed Diego). It stars Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, and Queen Latifah Directed by Carlos Saldanha. Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Manny soon squares off with Cretaceous and Maelstrom, and, due to his quick thinking, impales the two with a rock slab from Ellie's cave, likely killing both. Rent $4.99 Buy $14.99 Trailers See All. The next morning, Sid tells the others his experience but none are convinced. [1] Ice Age: The Meltdown was the highest grossing animated film worldwide of 2006, but lost to Cars for being the highest grossing animated film in North America. It was developed by Eurocom and published by Vivendi Universal Games. Just as the herds leave, a glacier (which contains two sea reptiles from the Mesozoic era, Cretaceous and Maelstrom) breaks off and eventually melts, releasing the aquatic villains into the melting world. Manny is ready to start a family but no one has seen a mammoth in ages making him think he is the last mammoth alive. Read full review. Two boys run in fear after Fast Tony (a six banded armadillo), the valley's local con artist, claims that the earth will flood and that the bark and reeds (which he sells) are crucial for survival. I think they're talking about going back into the studios something around late Fall. Support - Alex 06:39, 14 March 2006 (UTC) Support - It is the film's new title so to have the "2" is incorrect. It was again directed by Carlos Saldanha, and it tells a story of the protagonists discovering a tropical world inhabited by dinosaurs. After the release of Ice Age in March 2002, executive producer Chris Meledandri commented on the potential Ice Age sequel: "The success of Ice Age is something that gives us additional momentum. Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. 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