![]() ![]() The only chance of survival for the animalsis to get to the other end of the valley where, they are told, there is a boatwhich can carry them all to safety.Īnd so they begin their trekthrough miles of melting ice and green landscapes. ![]() Manny, Sid and Diego discover, helped by someominous warnings from con artist Fast Tony (Leno) and a predatory vulture(Arnett), that a huge glacial dam holding off oceans of water is about to meltand engulf the valley with water. ![]() In Ice Age 2, the ice age is coming to an end and our heroes- sturdy woolly mammoth Manny (voiced by Romano), over-enthusiastic slothSid (Leguizamo) and sabre-toothed tiger Diego (Leary) - are enjoying alife of leisure in a sun-drenched valley with a horde of other animals.īut global warming isbringing imminent catastrophe. Ingenuity aplenty is devoted to the visual humourand digital spectacle of the film, but the narrative itself feels tired.Įven wide-eyed kids mightstart feeling the fatigue by year-end as deer/grizzly bear buddy movie OpenSeason and tap-dancing-penguincomedy Happy Feet reach themarket. In The Meltdown, it's another road trip with some strained subplotsthrown in - a mammoth who thinks she's a possum, a tribe of sloths whothink Sid is their Fire God. The problem is, and allcute-animal-themed animated movies are facing the same dilemma, that storyideas are running dangerously thin. The film opens day-and-datewith the US on March 31 in numerous territories, and will be in theatreseverywhere by the end of April.Īgain produced by ChrisWedge's Blue Sky Studios, it's a diverting enough entertainment, deliveringmany easy laughs and visual pleasures. Ice Age 2 is oneof the few CG-animated films this year - and there are some 20 majorstudio releases - which has recognizable characters, and it comes, likeits predecessor, before the summer CG stampede kicks in ( The Wild in April, Over The Hedge in May, Cars in June, Monster Houseand Barnyard in July, The AntBully in August). With awareness of thecharacters from the first film so high among families around the world, thesequel is sure to be a slamdunk at the box office over the upcoming schoolEaster holidays. The DVD subsequently sold over 25 million unitsworldwide. 20th Century Foxlooks set to enjoy an early year worldwide smash with Ice Age 2: TheMeltdown (called just Ice Age:The Meltdown in North America), alikeable sequel to the spring 2002 original which was one of the firstnon-Pixar CGI films to make a mint - $373m to be precise, $197m of that frominternational territories. ![]()
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