At first it's rocky then it grows, but the bumps along the way are forced and have a very made-for-TV feel. Obviously, a romance blooms between Manny and Ellie. As is she has to make a big character change on a dime just to keep the plot moving. If she would have just acted like a possum and had no desire to be a mammoth, it would have worked wonderfully. Her belief that she is a possum doesn't work. Now we come to Ellie, who isn't annoying, she's stupid. However, the problem is that they're more annoying than funny. Crash and Eddie are supposed to be annoying, but its supposed to be annoying-funny - comic relief wisecrackers. The new supporting cast seems to have been imported from Far, Far Away. In addition to not looking very appealing, they are used too often to bring "irreverent sass." One thing that made the first ICE AGE so good is that it was trying to be SHREK-like. There are a lot of new creatures in this film. So let's address these annoying characters. Along the way Manny, Sid and Diego get separated from the mass of annoying characters, to end up with three other annoying characters - possums Crash (Sean William Scott, AMERICAN PIE) and Eddie (Josh Peck, MEAN CREEK) and their adopted mammoth sister Ellie (Queen Latifah, CHICAGO), who doggedly refuses to accept that she is indeed a mammoth. It appears that the valley where they all reside is going to flood soon, so they head off to the far end toward a rumored boat. Diego (Denis Leary, TV's RESCUE ME) fears water, which is a real problem when the land of ice you live in is melting all around you. Sid (John Leguizamo, SUMMER OF SAM) gets no respect from the kids in their new larger tribe of various prehistoric animals. Manny (Ray Romano, TV's EVERYONE LOVES RAYMOND) is sad over the possibility that he may be the last mammoth alive. Our loveable trio each has their own separate issues to deal with this time around. Scrat fares much better because he's out on his own. This overshadows poor Manny, Sid and Diego. The new characters in MELTDOWN make the sequel annoying. The characters made the original so wonderful. He's up by a couple of fifths, ahead by a tusk.Luckily there's a 4-star Scrat short interspersed between the weak sitcom plot of this disappointing sequel to Blue Sky's surprisingly good debut film, ICE AGE. Manny, I just heard you're going extinct. I was born in this hole and I'll die in this hole. Traffic backed up as far as the eye can see.Īnd it looks like there might be a fatality. Overturned glyptodont in the far right lane. Survive that and you'll be racing the water, Unless you can make it to the end of the valley. The entire valley's gonna flood.įlood's real, all right. He's right about the flood.īecause we saw what's up there. The size of mammoths raining from the sky. OK, I'm gonna jump on the count of three. The dinosaurs got cocky and made enemies. I'm talking about you being the last of your kind. You see this ground, it's covered in ice.Ī thousand years ago, it was covered in ice.Ī thousand years from now, it will still be ice. You'll have plenty of air for eons to come. Through its design and sturdy construction, You suck air through your mouth, you moron. What are you doing? I can't sell that now. it can actually pull air right out of the sky. Then the hungry tiger ate the pesky little kids.įast Tony - he says the world's gonna flood.įolks, I hold in my hand a device so powerful, OK, well, when you tell your burro story, I think he should go with the girl burro. Hey, let's play pin-the-tail-on-the-mammoth. Stop! You're supposed to wear blindfolds. Hector, no, no, no, you can't pee-pee there. This is too hot, the Ice Age was too cold. So our three heroes, along with Ellie, Crash and Eddie, form the most unlikely family-in any "Age"- as they embark on a mission across an ever-changing, increasingly dangerous landscape towards their salvation. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. Manny, Sid and Diego quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: A huge glacial dam holding off oceans of water is about to break, threatening the entire valley. Their only problems: They can't stand each other-and Ellie somehow thinks she's a possum! Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum "brothers"- Crash and Eddie, a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky, loud-mouthed troublemakers. That is, until he miraculously finds Ellie, the only female mammoth left in the world. Manny may be ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time Manny thinks he may be the last one. Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and the hapless prehistoric squirrel/rat known as Scrat are still together and enjoying the perks of their now melting world. Search Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) - full transcript Ice Age: The Meltdown - subtitles like script.
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