Ice Age: The Meltdown
Published January 20, 2019
Film info
- Title Ice Age: The Meltdown
- Director Carlos Saldanha
- Year 2006
- Run time 1hr 31m
- Genres Comedy, Animation, Family, Adventure
- Tagline Kiss your nuts goodbye
Everyone's favourite sub-zero heroes are back for another incredible adventure in the super-cool animated comedy Ice Age: The Meltdown! The action heats up - and so does the temperature - for Manny, Sid, Diego and Scrat. Trying to escape the valley to avoid a floor of trouble, the comical creatures embark on a hilarious journey across the thawing landscape and meet Ellie, a female woolly mammoth.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 1:07 | Traversing overhangs makes no sense in my head, the physics of it. Same happens in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. |
| 3:06 | Oh, that’s the solution to climate change, just make a water park out of the ice. |
| 5:10 | “Manny, don’t squash their creativity.” |
| 8:37 | The armadillo is the Del Boy of the ice age. |
| 12:46 | “Ah, go suck air through a reed.” Like that as a putdown. |
| 15:33 | Ooh, I didn’t see that coming. Cryogenically frozen scary monsters. |
| 20:16 | How could they not have noticed all the summer grass and flowers and stuff? |
| 21:24 | “Well don’t that put the stink in extinction.” |
| 25:22 | “I don’t think her tree goes all the way to the top branch.” |
| 31:29 | The mammoth that thinks she’s a possum is a fun sub-plot. |
| 39:10 | “She’s not half bad. Crazy and confused, but sweet.” |
| 42:45 | Baby Ellie is adorbz. |
| 43:06 | I sense a ‘can you feel the love tonight’ moment coming on. |
| 48:56 | Why do the ice age creatures need a fire? |
| 56:50 | The sloth has the same crowd power as Freddie Mercury. |
| 59:56 | When did the vultures get to see Oliver? |
| 1:09:06 | “I’ll save you!” Bash, bangs his head. Ha. |
| 1:19:41 | The mammoth is cute when it waddle runs. |
Conclusions
We were medium happy with the first Ice Age movie, and having scooped up the rest of the pack in a Blue Sky bundle, we figured it was worth watching the sequel. I think I liked it more than the first, a serious situation about climate change lends itself to an interesting and funny story - animals on the move, alongside being the last of your species (or not), and believing you’re one thing when it turns out you’re another.
Good film but I was mostly distracted by the fact that the water looked amazing whilst the animation of the ice could still use some work.
Rating: 2 / 5