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Release Date: March 31st, 2006

Running Time: 90 min.

U.S. Box Office: $195,329,763

Rating: PG for some mild language and innuendo.

Director: Carlos Saldanha

Starring: Ray Romano, Chris Wedge, Peter Ackerman, Caitlin Rose Anderson, Connor Anderson

Critics Reviews: 7 out of 10

Chicago Sun-Times Only Scrat, the ferocious little sabre-toothed squirrel, retains his magic from the original "Ice Age" (2002). Most of the other characters are back in "Ice Age: The Meltdown," but their story is more of a slog than a sprint. Remarkable, that they're still around although tens of thousands of years must have passed since the previous film. Roger Ebert

Reelviews Despite its popularity with children, Ice Age represented, at the time, a nadir for digital animation. Although entertaining, the film couldn't stand toe-to-toe with its Pixar and Dreamworks competitors. Ice Age: The Meltdown represents a further step backwards. Although the animation has improved, the regression is keenly felt in other areas - particularly the story. James Berardinelli

San Francisco Chronicle The Meltdown" presents a villain that isn't going to sell a lot of night-lights. Global warming. You heard right -- other than a handful of vultures and a couple of predatory fish, the best that the three writers responsible for this sequel could come up with to move the story forward is some melting ice. Peter Hartlaub

FilmCritic.com There’s so much more energy to this radiant new Age, subtitled The Meltdown because it occurs during a period of natural thaw. The frozen tundras of the first film are melting, creating the potential for flood. The sequel’s plot involves yet another trek for the primary herd, this time to the end of the valley where a boat-shaped rock structure waits to carry animals to safety. Sean O'Connell

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