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The plan worked, freeing Ellie, and knocking the two reptiles down with the boulder.
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Manny devised a plan to rid himself of the two sea reptiles, by having them try to chase him, he tricked them into hitting a log that was wedged under a large rock. Later when the dam broke, the two reptiles went swimming on the wall of water that was slowly approaching the escaping masses and pulled down Manny when he was swimming to save Ellie. Maelstrom intended to eat Sid but could not catch him, as Sid was already escaping with Diego, and had only just escaped Maelstrom as he broke off a massive chunk of ice where the sloth and Saber-tooth Tiger had stood only moments before.
#ICE AGE 2 THE MELTDOWN DAMN SERIES#
The two sea reptiles then swam further down the series of rivers where they eventually reached Manfred's herd as well as Crash, Eddie, and Ellie. When they made it to the ice lake, the first animal that they had encountered and eaten was Stu the glyptodon, leaving behind only his shell. The ice melted, releasing both Cretaceous and Maelstrom into the lake which was all but abandoned by most animals. Maelstrom and Cretaceous lurking below the thin ice After having been frozen in the waters they swam in, both reptiles remained in stasis until the ice ages began, thawing them out into a world ruled by mammals instead of reptiles.įrozen long ago with Cretaceous during the era of the dinosaurs, Maelstrom was imprisoned in a great block of ice that was jarred loose when the wall of ice that it had been part of began crumbling, due to global warming loosening it. A strong production for Twentieth Century Fox.Maelstrom and fellow sea reptile Cretaceous were once creatures of the era of dinosaurs that had worked in tandem to catch prey. And the proto-squirrel steals our hearts with his absolute devotion to caching acorns. Overcominging fears in the face of danger is a prominent theme.
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The central theme of friendship in spite of differences and the humor found in trying situations plays well. A decade later, the climate warms up and causes the mixed emotions found in Ice Age II.
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#ICE AGE 2 THE MELTDOWN DAMN MOVIE#
How the tribe survived multiple thousands of years is not addressed, but who cares? Maybe they were actually living on the ecuator in the first movie and the ice caps just reached them in the final years of the ice age. A subtle flaw but not something the creators could avoid unless they wanted to make a "Mid-Ice Age" movie. The danger wasn't as imminent due to the fact that the meltdown is partly a blessing, while the ice age itself was all bad. The peril found in the first Ice Age movie was not duplicated here. Nary a dull moment as Diego, Sid and Manny find their way through the meltdown. So our three heroes, along with Ellie, Crash and Eddie, form the most unlikely family-in any "Age"- as they embark on a mission across an ever-changing, increasingly dangerous landscape towards their salvation. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. Manny, Sid and Diego quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: A huge glacial dam holding off oceans of water is about to break, threatening the entire valley. Their only problems: They can't stand each other-and Ellie somehow thinks she's a possum! Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum "brothers"- Crash and Eddie, a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky, loud-mouthed troublemakers. That is, until he miraculously finds Ellie, the only female mammoth left in the world. Manny may be ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time Manny thinks he may be the last one. Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and the hapless prehistoric squirrel/rat known as Scrat are still together and enjoying the perks of their now melting world.