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The Ice Age is beginning, and all the animals are migrating south to warmer places. Everybody except Manfred (Ray Romano, CBS's Everybody Loves Raymond) the Mammoth. He meets Sid (John Leguizamo, Collateral Damage, What's the Worst That Could Happen?), a sloth so annoying that his family left ditched him. They come upon a human baby, and decide that the right thing to do is return him to his tribe. Sabretooth Diego (Denis Leary, Final, Company Man) is ... after the baby, but not for altruistic reasons; he wants to eat the baby. The human tribe is also on the move, so Sid and Manfred set off the catch up.
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Like the original, Ice Age: The Meltdown is warm and fuzzy kids 'toon populated with wacky, lovable animals. But this entertaining sequel ... happens to tap into the very current fear of global warming, among other arguably grown-up themes. The mortal melting peril sets level-headed woolly mammoth Manny (voiced again by Ray Romano), ditzy Sid the sloth (voiced by John Leguizamo), steely Diego the saber-toothed tiger (voiced by Denis Leary), and the rest of their multi-species herd on a trek in search of higher ground, both literally and metaphorically.
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Thousands of years after the explosion at Argoth ended the Brothers' War, a severe Ice Age has descended over Dominaria, changing the face of the land and reducing the civilizations of Terisiare to scattered tribes. The strong have turned to barbarism. The weak have died. Their struggle is against more than the snow: the people of Kjeldor must battle against the mighty necromancer Lim-Dûl, and his demon lords Leshrac and Tevash Szat.
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Riding a wave of good feeling toward animated films, The Ice Age made a jaw-dropping $46 million in its opening weekend, in turn setting a new March record and reversing the fortunes of Fox's animation wing following the disappointing Titan A.E. (2000). An instant contender for the 2002 Best Animated Feature Oscar, The Ice Age can be viewed as derivative in its approach nonetheless. The central relationship between a dyspeptic woolly mammoth (Ray Romano) and the talkative sloth who follows him (John Leguizamo) is Shrek all over again, their guardianship of a lost human baby has shades of Monsters, Inc., and the prehistoric migration milieu even triggers unfortunate Dinosaur flashbacks. But beyond its basic structure, which must hew closely to standard guidelines to be successful, The Ice Age is a glittering fiesta of images bolstered by clever, laugh-out-loud set pieces. The animation itself is edgier than its closest digital contemporaries, mingling styles that recall claymation and old Hanna-Barbera cartoons into a finely detailed, visually arresting patchwork.
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The last Ice Age to affect Britain ended about 10,000 years ago. The ice had covered Britain as far south as Wales and the Midlands, with the south of England left frozen and bare. Temperatures averaged -8ºC. Because of all the water locked up in the ice, the sea level was so low that there was dry land between Britain and France. As the ice caps melted and the southern edge of the ice moved North, the land thawed and life recovered. As the vegetation took hold, animals from Europe moved in to exploit the new food source.
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The Ice Age: The Meltdown DVD will be presented in 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen format as well as a 4x3 1.33: Fullscreen version. Both include English 5.1 Dolby Surround, Spanish Dolby Surround and French Dolby Surround along with English and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features include:
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