A Worthy Sequel

Rating: 8/10 (7 May 2019)

Ice Age: The Meltdown has some fun to it. It has great voice acting, a pretty good story, and this is when the animation of the Ice Age series gets really really good.
This one is where Manny, Sid, and Diego are back, and this time, an extreme heatwave is happening, which is causing all the ice to melt, thus going to be a flood due to them being in a valley that surrounded by big snow walls, which prevent them from escaping. However, there is a huge boat at the end of the enclosed valley can save them. So it's up to Manny, Sid, Diego, and all the other animals to make it to the boat and not drown. They also meet new characters, such as Ellie (Queen Latifah), a female mammoth that thinks she's a opossum because she has two opossum brothers, Crash (Sean William Scott) and Eddie (Josh Peck). Also, Scrat the clumsy squirrel is back and gets into more sticky situations involving his acorn.
The plot is pretty cool. Last time the three characters were trying to survive coldness, while this time they travel through a heatwave and survive the melting world they are in.
What I really like the most about this movie is the three main characters have their own conflict. Manny is fearing that he is the last mammoth alive, up until he finds Ellie. Sid is frustrated that he is not getting the respect he deserves, and hopes to find someone that can give him respect. Lastly, Diego has a terrible fear of the water and has to conquer that fear before it is too late.
Very good character development, great voice acting from the three main actors, as well as Latifah, Peck, and William Scott, a pretty good plot, and the best of all, the animation is a big improvement over the first movie's.
Bottom line, Ice Age: The Meltdown is an enjoyable sequel.