MOVIEGUIDE(R) Review: ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN
Quality: * * * *
Acceptability: +1
ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN is an animated sequel about ice age animals trying to escape a great flood caused by glaciers melting. ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN will melt your heart, tickle your funny bone, and delight your older children, but some of the humor is too crude and some of the action too scary for younger children.
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ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN opens with a bigger role for Scrat, the squirrel-like animal who's still trying to get his acorn. While the other animals play in the water park formed by the melting glaciers, our heroes find out that behind the ice dam is a great sea of water waiting to break through and flood the valley. Everybody is urged to run as fast as they can to the other end of the valley and get in the ark. As they're traveling, Manny the mammoth, Diego the tiger and Sid the sloth have to face their fears. Diego fears water. Sid fears that nobody respects him, and Manny fears he's the last mammoth, until he meets Ellie, a female mammoth.
ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN will melt your heart, tickle your funny bone, and delight your older children. The movie also has a lot of heart, including kindness, courage and self-sacrifice. That said, the movie has some really frightening, jump-out-of-your-seat moments, such as when Sid is thrown into a fiery volcano, or two dinosaurs attack Manny. There are also too many scatological jokes. Thus, this ICE AGE is not for younger children.
RATING: PG
RELEASE: March 31, 2006
STARRING THE VOICES OF: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Jay Leno, Will Arnett, and Josh Peck
DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox/News Corp.
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