

1.3 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009).It will be released on Disney+ in early 2022. The spin-off film Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild will be the first film in the franchise to be produced solely by Bardel Entertainment and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Existing films can still be streamed on Disney+.

On April 10, 2021, Blue Sky Studios was defuncted due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on The Walt Disney Company, resulting the future films which were in progress to be cancelled. This makes it the 15th highest-grossing franchise of all time, and the second highest-grossing animated franchise worldwide (behind only the Shrek franchise). The franchise has met financial success, having grossed nearly $3.2 billion worldwide in their theater runs. The movies typically have received PG ratings for things such as for peril, rude humor, and mild language, with the first and fourth movies having more peril and less rude humor than the other installments of the series. Set in the ice age time period, it follows the adventures of fictional mammals consisting Manfred (a woolly mammoth), Sid (a sloth), Diego (a saber-tooth cat), Ellie (Manny's wife), Crash and Eddie ( possums), Peaches (Manny and Ellie's daughter), and Scrat (a saber-tooth squirrel) among other characters.Īll movies and shorts have been produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The first film in the franchise was released on March 15, 2002.
ICE AGE THE MELTDOWN MOVIE
Ice Age is Blue Sky's first computer animated movie franchise, started by Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge of the comedy-drama genre. I'm glad we saw it, but once is plenty.For other uses, see Ice Age (disambiguation). I can't wait until there's a movie where the boy character says, "you're snotty and high maintenance, I'd rather stay single!" :) Anyway, it's a cute movie, degraded by the rude humor, but not ruined by it in my opinion. There is also the constant theme of the girl (Queen Latifa's character) who takes pleasure in making the boy (Manny) bend over backwards to win her affection.

My 11 year old felt sorry for the squirrel at times, working so hard and never getting that darn acorn. We all laughed out loud at times, especially during the sequences with the squirrel and the acorn - those are really funny. Our 7 year old was worried at times about the menacing dinosaurs and the beloved characters being in peril. Without the tasteless humor, I would give the movie 4 stars for entertainment value. If possible, I would give this movie 2.5 stars. I wish CSM would add a symbol for rudeness. I really wanted to like this movie, and I did enjoy some of it - there are lovable characters and creative cute parts, but I found the rude dialogue distracting and distasteful. Our family watched it, including our 7 and almost 11 year olds. We rented this movie, and I confess that I didn't see the first part. So overall I think this is a pretty entertaining sequel! Perhaps even better than the first one! :) And the humor is a little more varied this time and not completely non stop.Īnd the animation is a little better, you can almost feel the beautiful sunlight here.Īnd the music score here is a BIG improvement since the first movie! ( I mean it's John Powell! ) The first have only a few memorable scores, while in this movie pretty much all the scores are memorable.Īnd I also like how the interaction between the characters feels a little bit nicer this time, which makes sense since they know each other better now. And I like how Scrat actually come to some use for the story in the end and wasn't just a masqot. And she is a great female addition to the team. And I like how this new character Ellie is a very smart girl and her little story where she believes she's an opossum is interesting.

The story is a little better, when they're setting up that Manny may be the very last mammut.
