

Despite this bonding moment with Manny, she distances herself from him when he suggests "saving their species". She finally realizes she is a mammoth and also expresses her suspicions about how different she was from other opossums. They discover an area which Ellie recalls as the place where she was adopted. After a dangerous encounter with Cretaceous and Maelstrom while crossing a pond, Sid prompts Diego to encourage him to admit and face his fears - Diego insists that "fear is for prey", so Sid points out that Diego is behaving as if he is the water's prey. Sid invites her to tag along with the group to escape the flood, and she brings her brothers. Manny is still worried about being the last mammoth alive and his family, who had been killed by humans, but is surprised when he encounters Ellie, a female woolly mammoth who believes she is an opossum and Crash and Eddie's adoptive sister. When Manny is briefly separated from them, Diego and Sid encounter two mischievous opossums named Crash and Eddie who drive them nuts by playing Whac-A-Mole with them. Manny is also having trouble fearing the fact that he may be the last mammoth left.ĭuring the evacuation, a glacier that contains two sea reptiles from the Mesozoic era, Cretaceous a Cymbospondylus and Maelstrom a Pliosauroidea, breaks off. A vulture tells them that there is a boat at the other end of the valley that may save them all, but they only have three days to reach it or die. However, the trio discovers that the ice wall is actually a dam that is barely holding a massive body of water that could flood the valley to nearly a mile underwater. Manny, Sid, and Diego are currently living in a large valley surrounded by an enormously high ice wall on all sides. Three more sequels were released - Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012 and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016. The Meltdown received mixed critical reaction but was a box office success by earning over $660 million.

It was eventually released in 70 countries, with the last release being in China on June 9. The film premiered in Belgium on March 1, 2006, and in the United States on March 31. In the film, Manny, Sid, and Diego attempt to escape an impending flood, during which Manny finds love. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge reprise their roles from the first Ice Age film, with newcomers Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott and Josh Peck joining the cast. The film was directed by Carlos Saldanha, co-director of the first film, and written by Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow, and Jim Hecht. It is the sequel to Ice Age (2002) and the second film in the franchise. Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
