The exposition is lazy and sloppy and the story has little creative heat.
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03/30/06
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
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Creative exhaustion haunts Ice Age: The Meltdown, as the characters from 2002's Ice Age face global warming and the submersion of their valley.
03/30/06
Top CriticIce Age: The Meltdown is a rarity, like the last of the woolly mammoths: a sequel that's as delightful as the original.
03/30/06
There are brightly funny individual scenes, especially the "Fire King" encounter (though it seems to have been taken straight from one of the Hope and Crosby "Road" movies), but it doesn't have the power or imagination of the first.
03/30/06
The wacky creatures from the first Ice Age return for a witty, poignant sequel made by people who actually care about animation.
03/30/06
Ice Age: The Meltdown leaves you with a warm feeling, and not the typical frustration at being ripped off by a cheesy sequel.
03/30/06
Ice Age: The Meltdown has its share of humorous moments, but most of these involve the squirrel. The main plot involving the exodus and the Mammoth romance is more often dull than amusing.
03/30/06
Forget two thumbs up. Ice Age: The Meltdown earns three toes up -- of the sloth variety.
03/30/06
This Ice Age is still a good movie (especially for kids) with top-of-the-tech CGI.
03/30/06
A frolicsome adventure for kids that celebrates diversity, facing one's fears, and relying on each other in troubled times.
03/30/06
Forgettable, completely harmless, sporadically amusing, and not at all ready to go up against the real masters at Pixar and Disney.
03/30/06
Ice Age: The Meltdown is fine, in much the same way the first one was fine -- not as inventive as Pixar, but not out scratching for jokes like Chicken Little.
03/30/06
The movie still retains the goofy charm, stylish visuals and attention to character of its fine 2002 predecessor.
03/30/06
It's more like watching a typical animated-shorts collectio--a few highlights, a lot of clinkers--than like watching an actual movie
03/30/06
A blandly voiced, simply plotted, inoffensively average children's film. Every single bit - down to Scrat once again running away with the movie - is exactly like the first.
03/30/06
needed nothing but Scrat to be the winner he never will be. And we all lose because it isn't.
03/29/06
Scrat once again steals the show
03/29/06
Ice Age: The Meltdown blithely looks on the bright side of life, amassing a screen full of vultures to sing and dance 'Food Glorious Food' and daring us not to get happy.
03/29/06
Ice Age 2 isn't really a meltdown, but it's no bolt from a Blue Sky.
03/29/06
Like its predecessor, it's a moderately engaging family movie, but in the Pixar Age that's not quite enough.
03/29/06
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