Ice Age: The Meltdown

Ice Age: The Meltdown
Directed by	Carlos Saldanha
Screenplay by	Peter Gaulke Gerry Swallow
Story by	Gerry Swallow Jim Hecht Peter Gaulke
Produced by	Lori Forte Chris Wedge (Executive Producer) Chris Meledandri (Executive Producer)
Starring	Ray Romano John Leguizamo Denis Leary Queen Latifah Jay Leno Seann William Scott Josh Peck Will Arnett
Edited by	Harry Hitner
Music by	John Powell
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	March 31, 2006
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$80 million
Box office	$651,899,282

Ice Age: The Meltdown (also called Ice Age 2: The Meltdown or simply known as Ice Age 2) is an American 2006 animated adventure comedy movie and is the second film in the Ice Age series. It was produced by Lori Forte and Chris Wedge. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha.

The movie was released on March 31, 2006. Despite receiving mixed reviews from film critics, the film was positively welcomed from audience who praised its animation, humor, characters, emotional weight, soundtrack, action scenes, character development and the visuals.

This movie is the first sequel to the 2002 movie, Ice Age. The other four sequels to the film are Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022).^[1][2] The first sequel to this movie was even more positively welcomed from audience who often calls it the best Ice Age movie, the second one is called good, but not like the previous films while the fifth is hated by both film critics and audience. Ice Age: The Meltdown was Blue Sky's first sequel overall.

Cast

The characters are all prehistoric animals. Unlike real life, the animals can talk and understand each other.

• Ray Romano as Manny, a woolly mammoth .
• Denis Leary as Diego, a Smilodon.
• John Leguizamo as Sid, a Megatherium.
• Seann William Scott as Crash, an opossum.
• Josh Peck as Eddie, another opossum.
• Queen Latifah as Ellie, a woolly mammoth.
• Will Arnett as Lone Gunslinger Vulture
• Jay Leno as Fast Tony, a giant armadillo-like being.
• Chris Wedge as Scrat, a saber-toothed squirrel.
• Robert Clotworthy as Dung Beetle Dad
• Caitlin Rose Anderson as Glypto Boy Billy
• Mary Gibbs as Beaver Girl
• Connor Anderson as Rhino Boy
• Maile Flanagan as Beaver Boy
• Joseph Bologna as Mr. Start
• Jack Crocicchia as Elk Boy
• Tim Curry as Condor Chick
• Nicole DeFelice as Start Girl
• Debi Derryberry as Diatryma Mom
• Marshall Efron as Start Dad
• Tom Fahn as Stu, a armadillo-like animal.
• Charlie Adler as Male Ox
• Jason Fricchione as Molehog Grandpa
• Andre Stojka as Shovelmouth Male
• James Godwin as Traffic Vulture
• George Jacobs as Beaver Dad
• Clea Lewis as Female Mini Sloth
• Brenda Blethyn as Dung Beetle Mom
• Brian Scott McFadden as Glyptodon
• Jansen Panettiere as Shovelmouth Boy
• Gregory Romano and Matt Romano as Start Boys
• Stephen Root as Aardvark Dad
• Michael Bell as Dodo
• Manoela Scarpa Saldanha and Sofia Scarpa Saldanha as Molehog Kids
• Reyna Shaskan as Diego's Bird Girl
• James Sie as Freaky Male
• Cindy Slattery as Aardvark Mom
• Mindy Sterling as Female Ox
• Alex Sullivan as James
• Renée Taylor as Mrs. Start
• Alan Tudyk as Cholly, a large Ancylotherium.
• Rodger Bumpass, Harrison Chad, Paul Eiding, Danny Mann, Phil Proctor, Steve Susskind, Brian Tochi and Jim Ward as Various Mammals
• Jack Angel as Male Ox
• Bob Bergen as Male Start
• Bill Farmer as Male Elk
• Jan Rabson as Male Glyptodon
• Sherry Lynn as Female Diatryma
• Wayne Allwine, Emily Anderson, Spencer Aste, Shane Baumel, Jeff Bennett, Claudia Besso, Kyle J. Bogert, Corey Burton, Paul Butcher, Bianca Camacho, Daveigh Chase, John Cygan, Jennifer Darling, Olivia DeLaurentis, Grey DeLisle, Harrison Fahn, Pat Fraley, Crispin Freeman, Spencer Lacey Ganus, Jess Harnell, Tim Kirkpatrick, David H. Kramer, Maurice LaMarche, Laura Marano, Mona Marshall, Matt McCarthy, Mickie McGowan, Sean Cameron Michael, Laraine Newman, Ryan O'Donohue, Patrick Pinney, Zack Shada, Thomas Sharkey, Ross Simanteris, Kath Soucie, Aaron Spann, Rachel Diaz-Stand, Tara Strong, Maddie Taylor, Ben Tibber, April Winchell and Ariel Winter as Additional Voices.

References

1. Pamela McClintock (December 20, 2013). "Ice Age: Collision Course to Hit Theaters Summer 2016". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
2. Gleiberman, Owen (June 18, 2016). "Film Review: Ice Age: Collision Course". Variety. Retrieved November 12, 2016.

Other websites

• Ice Age: The Meltdown's Official website Archived 2012-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Ice Age: The Meltdown on IMDb
• Ice Age: The Meltdown at AllMovie