| Product Summary | | Label: Foxvideo | | UPC: 00024543387534 | | Release Date: 1/24/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 202862785 | | Item#: V2EDJ3 |
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| | Your favorite sub-zero heroes are back for another incredible adventure in the super-cool animated comedy Ice Age: The Meltdown! The action heats up - and so does the temperature - for Manny, Sid, Diego and Scrat. Trying to escape the valley to avoid a flood of trouble, the comical creatures embark on a hilarious journey across the thawing landscape and meet Ellie, a female woolly mammoth who melts Manny's heart. With its dazzling animation, unforgettable characters and an all-new Scrat short, Ice Age: The Meltdown is laugh-out-loud fun for the whole family!  What is UMDTM?
UMD, Universal Media Disc, is a brand-new and groundbreaking optical storage medium, designed for the high speed and efficient delivery of digital entertainment content that can store up to 1.8 GB of digital data on a 60mm disc -- or an entire feature film on a single UMD video. All UMD DVDs are produced in Widescreen and encoded using advanced AVC compression. UMD for PSP will play on the new PlayStation Portable handheld entertainment system.
Specifications
Diameter: 60 mmMaximum Capacity: 1.8GB (Single-sided, dual layer)Laser wavelength: 660nm (Red laser)
"Should warm viewers' hearts globally." Claudia Puig, USA Today
"A good-natured, gag-filled sequel." Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
"The rare sequel that is better than the original." Lou Lumenick, New York Post
"Raucously fun, fluid follow-up with ecological message." Luke Sader, The Hollywood Reporter
"...a good movie (especially for kids) with top-of-the-tech CGI." Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
| | Album Notes and Credits |  | Carlos Saldanha - Director | | Denis Leary - Voice Of | | Gerry Swallow, et. al. - Writer | | Jay Leno - Voice Of | | John Leguizamo - Voice Of | | John Powell - Original Music By | | Lori Forte - Producer | | Queen Latifah - Voice Of | | Ray Romano - Voice Of | | Seann William Scott - Voice Of | | Stephen Root - Voice Of | | Thomas Cardone - Art Director | | Will Arnett - Voice Of | | |
| | Professional Reviews | | eFilmCritic.com 9 of 10
I can't say that I didn't enjoy "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown" because I did. I smiled at most of the jokes, but once again I regretted Ray Romano's lack of vocal variety (Romano is Manny, the mammoth), and the fact that Denis Leary, as Diego the saber-tooth, wasn't given much to do. I mean, if you don't want a smirking, sardonic performance in a major role, don't cast a comic who is known for being smirking and sarcastic to play it...Scrat is essentially soundless, emitting only grunts, gasps, and growls in his pursuit in what appears to be the only acorn BCE. Chuck Jones would have been proud to be Scrat's papa, which, in a way, he was. - Doug Bentin
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
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...The movie is nice to look at, the colors and details are elegant, the animals engaging, the action fast-moving, but I don't think older viewers will like it as much as the kids. The first "Ice Age" movie more or less exhausted these characters and their world, and the meltdown doesn't add much. Most of the conflict involves personalities: Can these species co-exist? Well, of course they can, in a cartoon. - Roger Ebert
Variety 8 of 10
A tad crasser and pushier than its predecessor, "Ice Age: The Meltdown" is still an entirely serviceable follow-up to the 2002 hit that will thoroughly amuse kids and get a rise or two out of parents as well...Style and approach of the sequel are of a piece with the original picture, on which present helmer Carlos Saldanha was co-director (to Chris Wedge, who's now exec producer). Lori Forte remains as producer. New writers Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow and Jim Hecht supply plenty of decent jokes that Romano, Leguizamo and Leary deliver with every bit of drollery they can summon, but there's a small new anxiety to please that differentiates the tone somewhat from the first outing. Not that the small fry will notice. - Todd McCarthy
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