This film looks terrific, and has some wonderfully eye-grabbing sequences.... So it's a pity the story's so bland.
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04/01/06
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
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Reviews Counted:140
Fresh:80
Rotten:60
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Impressive animation carries this sequel, as the story is not up to par. Kids will surely enjoy it, but most everyone else will wish to see more of the mute ice squirrel and less of the main characters.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $195,251,850
Synopsis: In ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN, the sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbuster CGI film "Ice Age" are back – Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and the hapless... [More]
Reviews for Ice Age: The Meltdown
61 - 80 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
It's charming enough, though, and there's plenty of laughs.
04/01/06
Top CriticA delight for all ages.
04/01/06
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04/01/06
Ice Age: The Meltdown is a joy from start to finish, as nutty and irreverent as its tiny hero Scrat.
03/31/06
A tad crasser and pushier than its predecessor, Ice Age: The Meltdown is still an entirely serviceable follow-up to the 2002 hit that will thoroughly amuse kids and get a rise or two out of parents as well.
03/31/06
Top CriticPrehistory's first blended herd begins a new adventure some tens of thousands of years after joining forces in the face of a global deep freeze (no, the math doesn't work, so stop worrying about it).
03/31/06
The Meltdown is at least faithful to its predecessor in the sense of being equally as underwhelming.
03/31/06
The film feels visually richer than its predecessor, but has the same brand of uncomplicated all-ages charm.
03/31/06
The Meltdown is less a story than a series of complicated slapstick bits -- the physical gags are often enjoyable, but there's not much else to the movie.
03/31/06
Fire and freeze, flames and ice, it's all primal. And fairly prime as getaway entertainment.
03/31/06
Ice Age: The Meltdown seems like one of those straight-to-DVD animation sequels the studios love to churn out, and not just because of the colon in its title.
03/31/06
The amusing gang from Ice Age is back for an encore in Ice Age: The Meltdown, a funny sequel that's on a par with 2002's entertaining original.
03/31/06
A curiously dour sequel to 2002's popular Ice Age.
03/31/06
Its prehistoric characters might as well be stretching their paws and claws out for money, because the picture gives them little else of consequence to do.
03/31/06
On the short list of sequels superior to the originals -- alphabetically between The Godfather, Part II and Toy Story 2 -- you may enter Ice Age: The Meltdown.
03/31/06
The animated work is generally first-rate, which is good, because some of the one-liners date to the ice age and beyond.
03/31/06
You'll take your kids, yes. But don't be surprised if this one leaves them cold as you-know-what.
03/31/06
Ice Age: The Meltdown, a follow-up to the 2002 animated prehistoric hit, is the rare sequel that is better than the original.
03/31/06
A good-natured, gag-filled sequel to the hit animated movie about animals trying to evade extinction while trading one-liners.
03/31/06
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