![]() ![]() The side story for The Meltdown follows Scrat again. Excitement is added by the fact that the melting has thawed out some scary, reptilian predators that want to snack on our heroes. An identity crisis ensues for Ellie, along with the token, romantic debacles with Manny. She and her two brothers (Sean William Scott and Josh Peck), who are actually possums, join the group on their incredible journey. Along the way, they meet another wooly mammoth, Ellie (Queen Latifah), who believes herself to be a possum. Rumors of a huge boat, a sort of Noah's Ark, far away lead the whole group to begin a long journey. Manny, Sid, and Diego realize that they and all of the other animals around them are in danger of drowning in a great flood because the ice all around their home is melting. Scrat's adventures essentially frame the movie. Parallel action follows a rodent named Scrat (Chris Wedge) as he attempts to obtain a single acorn amidst all sorts of crazy happenings. In the end, Diego does the right thing and saves the day for the good guys, and our heroes succeed and have bonded as a makeshift herd of misfits. Manny (Ray Romano), a wooly mammoth, leads the silly sloth, Sid (John Leguizamo, reprising his best role ever), and the duplicitous saber-toothed tiger, Diego (Dennis Leary), as they attempt to return the lost child to a tribe of humans. ![]() In the original Ice Age (2002), a ragtag group of prehistoric animals have to save a human baby from a group of saber-toothed tigers. Thomas Spurlin has already written a great review of The Meltdown based on a Fox preview disc, but my review was based on a consumer copy, so I can finally bring you the details on the quality of the image and such. Fox has released an updated DVD of Ice Age: The Meltdown that includes a bonus disc with a preview of Horton Hears a Who, and it gives DVD Talk the perfect opportunity to discuss the final version of the home video release.
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