![]() It was deservedly nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar (though didn't stand a chance against Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away). The original Ice Age movie is still the franchise's best. The film does take a while to get going and doesn't really know what to do with Diego (an issue that repeats itself throughout the sequels), but overall, Ice Age: The Meltdown is a fun family movie and a worthy follow-up to the first film. Composer John Powell joins the series (his first of three Ice Age scores) and gives the movie a warm and exciting soundtrack. The increased budget compared to the first movie provides the characters and the world with a digital makeover, and the animation is really engaging. Scrat continues to be the movies' most valuable asset though, with his Looney Tunes-style antics stealing the show. Having to escape from a valley before an ice dam bursts, the ticking clock element gives the film some urgency despite its bizarre movie logic (in particular, the internally melting ice). Manny is given a love interest in the form of Queen Latifah's Ellie, who brings along her adoptive opossum brothers Crash and Eddie. Ice Age: The Meltdown started the series tradition of adding new characters to the herd. Related: Every Hotel Transylvania Movie Ranked From Worst To Best ![]() Wedge passed the directing duties to Carlos Saldanha ( Rio, Rio 2) for the next two entries, 2006's Ice Age: The Meltdown, and 2009's Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which saw the cast of Ice Age characters swell in tandem with the series' accumulating billion-dollar box office returns. ![]() Ice Age was directed by veteran animator and Blue Sky co-founder Chris Wedge, who also voices fan-favorite squirrel Scrat in the movies. Adopting the tried-and-tested buddy road movie formula, Ice Age was a critical and commercial success. Unlike today's overstuffed marketplace, computer animation was still a novelty for audiences back then. The movie centered on a trio of prehistoric animals, Ray Romano's woolly mammoth, Manny, John Leguizamo's sloth, Sid, and Denis Leary's saber-tooth tiger, Diego, as they set out to return human baby Roshan to his tribe. The first movie, Ice Age, was released back in 2002 by Blue Sky Studios as their first feature-length film.
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