Product Description
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In this computer-animated sequal to ICE AGE, prehistoric
creatures face a new problem: their icy world is melting. Star
Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Drea de Matteo, Queen
Latifah Special Features: Full Frame Format. Commentary,
Behind-the-Scenes, Bonus shorts. 90 Minutes.
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The love life of a woolly mammoth--handled with G-rated
delicacy--drives this sequel to the first computer-animated romp
in the age of prehistoric mammals. While the first Ice Age took a
delightful premise and suffocated it with a formulaic plot--in
which a mammoth named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano, Everyone
Loves Raymond), a sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo, Moulin
Rouge!), and a sabre-tooth tiger named Diego (Denis Leary, Rescue
Me) helped an abandoned human infant return to its tribe
(basically, Three Mammals and a Baby)--the sequel takes the
now-familiar setting, gives it a shapeless, episodic storyline,
and yet somehow becomes pretty darn entertaining. Faced with the
threat of a flood from melting ice, our heroic trio are on the
run to escape from their blossoming valley. On the way, they meet
a female mammoth (Queen Latifah, Bringing Down the House) who
thinks she's an opossum and get menaced by some freshly defrosted
carnivo! rous fish. Add into the mix a herd of lava-worshipping
mini-sloths, some Busby Berkeley-style vultures, and more
ingenious slapstick featuring the acorn-crazed Scrat, and Ice
Age: The Meltdown will amuse even jaded adults. -- Bret Fetzer
Beyond Ice Age: The Meltdown
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If your kids have any interest in learning about how animation
works, skip the mediocre games and pointless featurettes like
Meet C & Eddie (which function like commercials for the dvd
you've already bought) and dig into the fascinating The Animation
Director's Chair and Scrat's Piranha Smackdown. Director's Chair
shows a handful of scenes from the movie at different stages of
design and polish, while Smackdown repeats the same scene but
with wildly different sound effects. There are also two
informative commentary tracks--an earnest but dry one from
director Carlos Saldanha and a jovial one from several members of
the animation crew--but for the general viewer, the gems will be
some new scenes featuring the rambunctious opossum brothers and a
new short cartoon, No Time for Nuts, in which Scrat scurries
through time to find precious acorns. While every bit as
gorgeously animated as Ice Age: The Meltdown, this delightful
short captures the zippy, elastic flavor of classic Bugs Bunny or
Daffy Duck cartoons. --Bret Fetzer
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