Ice Age: The Meltdown

Kiss your nuts goodbye.

2006 · 91 min · Animation
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Animation Family Comedy Adventure

Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster prompts them to reunite and warn all the other beasts about the desperate situation.

Country of origin
🇺🇸 United States
Year
2006
Studio
20th Century Fox Animation · Blue Sky Studios · 20th Century Fox

Trivia & behind the scenes

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Origins

Blue Sky Studios began working on a sequel to Ice Age as early as June 2002, just months after the original film's March 2002 release.

Origins

The film was initially developed under the working title 'Ice Age 2' and was renamed 'Ice Age 2: The Meltdown' by June 2005, before the number was dropped for its final U.S. release title 'Ice Age: The Meltdown'; however, it was still promoted as 'Ice Age 2: The Meltdown' in the UK, Ireland, Mexico, and Australia.

Filming

Director Carlos Saldanha aimed to make the characters' eyes look alive rather than mechanical, wanting audiences to be able to tell what the characters were thinking just by looking into their eyes.

Filming

Although the returning characters came from the first film, they were completely remodeled for the sequel.

Music

Composer John Powell wrote entirely new music for the sequel, replacing the thematic material from the first film, and the score also incorporates Aram Khachaturian's Adagio from Spartacus during Scrat's heavenly vision sequence.

Music

Different regional versions of the film featured different theme songs, including 'The Other Side' by X!NK for the Flemish version, 'Real Love' by Lee Ryan for the UK version, and a Japanese theme song by Kaori Kishitani.

References

Scrat made a cameo appearance in the Family Guy episode 'Sibling Rivalry,' rendered in 3D despite the show normally being animated in 2D, with Chris Wedge reprising his role as Scrat's voice for the crossover.

Reception

Chris Meledandri, then president of 20th Century Fox Animation, credited the film's box office success partly to director Carlos Saldanha's method of using images rather than words to solve creative problems, a model that influenced Meledandri's decision to leave Fox and found Illumination Entertainment the following year.

Memorable quotes

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[singing] Stop, hey, what's that sound, all the mammoths are in the ground! [Parody of Buffalo Springfield is "For What It is Worth"]

Sid Singing a parody about the extinction of mammoths during the flood crisis.

[to Sid] Congratulations. You are now an idiot in two languages.

Diego Insulting Sid after he's made a foolish mistake.

We're gonna live! [water rapidly rises around them] We're going to die!

Sid Rapid mood shift as the water level rises around them.

[Cholly the Chalicotherium farts on him] Phew! Well, don't that put the "stink" in "extinction"?

Sid After being farted on by Cholly the Chalicotherium.

[after he and Sid are humiliated by Crash and Eddie] If anyone asks, there were fifty of them. And uh, they were rattlesnakes.

Diego Trying to save face after being humiliated by Crash and Eddie.

Shut up, Sid.

Manny Exasperated with Sid's constant behavior.

I'm not fat. It's this fur that makes me feel big. It's poofy.

Manny Defending his appearance to himself.

[about the geysers] Oh, it's just a little hot water and steam. How bad could it be? [sees a dodo bird get fried by geyser] I just did something involuntary... and messy.

Sid Witnessing a dodo bird get fried by a geyser after dismissing the danger.

Stop singing, Sid!

Manny Demanding Sid stop his incessant singing.

I thought fat guys are supposed to be jolly.

Ellie Commenting on Manny's grumpy demeanor.

Hey, can you guys slow down a little? I am dying here! [Vultures stare at him] It was just a figure of speech!

Sid Struggling to keep up with the group while vultures circle overhead.

I am not a mammoth. I am a possum.

Ellie Insisting on her true identity despite looking like a mammoth.

[last lines] I saved you, little buddy! [when Scrat attacks him] Hey, I just saved you! Remember?! I - Ow! Ow! Ow! OW!

Sid Claiming credit for saving Scrat, who immediately attacks him.

[after Manny suggests that Ellie's "tree" does not go "all the way to the top branch"] Manny, brink of extinction is a bad time to be picky.

Sid Advising Manny not to be too picky about Ellie during their crisis.

Yep, tomorrow is the day the scary vulture said we are all going to die. [immediately starts snoring]

Sid Accepting the vulture's prediction about their impending doom before immediately falling asleep.

Sid, I am gonna try to fall on you cuz I do wanna try to fall on you again, and this time, I shall be able to kill you cuz I do wanna kill you and I will be able to kill you cuz I do wanna kill you.

Manny Threatening to kill Sid in a rambling, over-the-top manner.

It is not a compliment. For a possum, bravery is just dumb.

Ellie Explaining her philosophy on possum behavior versus bravery.

[when a male anteater asked him when it was the last time, he saw another mammoth] Mammoths cannot go extinct! They're the biggest things on Earth!

Manny Insisting mammoths can't go extinct when confronted about his species' survival.

Diego, there are whole continents moving faster than you, let's go! We wanna catch up with the other animals!

Manny Urging Diego to move faster on their journey.

[to his reflection] I guess it's just you and me for now.

Manny Reflecting on his solitude when confronted with the possibility of being the last mammoth.

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