![]() ![]() Manny, Sid, and Diego live in a valley surrounded by a high ice wall on all sides. Three more sequels were released: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012, and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, it grossed $667 million worldwide, marking it the third highest-grossing film of 2006 and the highest-grossing animated film of 2006. The film premiered in Belgium on March 1, 2006, and in the United States on March 31. In the film, Manny, Sid, and Diego attempt to escape an impending flood, during which Manny finds love. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge reprise their roles from the first Ice Age film, with newcomers Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, and Queen Latifah joining the cast. The film was directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay written by Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow, and Jim Hecht, and a story by Gaulke and Swallow. It is the sequel to Ice Age (2002) and the second installment in the Ice Age film series. Too bad.Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Every one of those parts was well done, tho indeed, I'd gladly take any of them over the entire 2.5 hours of the noxious Transformers sadly, this much better film probably won't do nearly as well at the box office. But Ice Age 3 wasn't quite an entire story, more a collection of loosely related parts. After all, Dogma was a comedy, and it maxed out on my rating scale. Why, then, does it not get my top rating? Not at all because, as a comedy, it doesn't deserve to be taken seriously. ![]() Never a dull moment, never a missed step. Really, it's amazing to realize how much stuff they managed to cram into barely an hour and a half. Also new is Buck, a bold, intrepid, 1-eyed buccaneer of a weasel, voiced by Simon Pegg with British accent in full flower. As a devotee of the tango, I particularly appreciated their version of it. New to the cast is Scratte, a long-lashed female squirrel who, in a running subplot (including mini-cartoons to both start and end the flik), vies with the iconic acorn for the undying devotion of Scrat. The characters, familiar now from the 2 previous films, are well acted with distinctive personalities, and the comic-relief possums have an expanded role. The one carp I have is that 3-D simply does not lend itself to dissolves between scenes I'm guessing the filmmakers figured this out themselves, as most of the time they used cuts. The 3-D is likewise terrific, well used where appropriate (especially in conveying a sense of scale for the underworld) but not overdone. Dino babies and mammal kids are ridiculously endearing. Judging from the end credits, apparently the Astor beaver trade, long thot to be extinct, has experienced a renaissance in the animated-fur factories of California. (Well, several critters are swallowed whole but subsequently disgorged, slimy with saliva but basically unhurt family film, y'know.) The animation is terrific. It's a classic tale of nature red in tooth and claw, except for nobody actually getting eaten. (Don't overthink it.) Suddenly Manny the mammoth and his pregnant mate Ellie discover that they're not only not the largest creatures on Earth, as they'd thot, but actually pretty petite compared to the Mama T. So how does the plot explain their coexistence? Well, it seems that there's this entire hidden tropical world underneath the eponymous ice, and our heroes literally fall into it. Now those among you who haven't fallen prey to creationism are well aware that mammoths are very large mammals (and hence quite recent in geological time), while the last of the dinosaurs went extinct 65,000,000 years ago. blue wire" time-bomb scenario, but they find an ingenious way to do it. You wouldn't think a film set in the age of mammoths would be able to run a parody of the old "red wire vs. There's about an even mix of verbal and visual gags in this 3rd installment of the Ice Age family saga, they're all fresh instead of hackneyed, and they all work. I haven't had so many laff-out-loud moments in a movie for a long time. ![]()
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