2006 · animation · family · comedy
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Directed by Carlos Saldanha1h 31m2006
Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster prompts them to reunite and warn all the other beasts about the desperate situation.
Our read: Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
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