Ice Age - The Meltdown

Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family

Queen Latifah	Ellie
Denis Leary	Diego
John Leguizamo	Sid
Jay Leno	Fast Tony
Will Arnett	Lone Gunslinger Vulture
Ray Romano	Manny
Seann William Scott	Crash
Josh Peck	Eddie
Chris Wedge	Scrat
Peter Ackerman	Dung Beetle Dad
Jason Fricchione	Grandpa Molehog

Director	Carlos Saldanha
Producer	Lori Forte; Bob Gordon; Chris Wedge
Writer	Gerry Swallow; Peter Gaulke
Musician	John Powell

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)

Stills from Ice Age: The Meltdown (click for larger image)