The Eds's Adventures of Ice Age: The Meltdown

The Eds's Adventures of Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2018 Australian-British comedy adventure film screenwritten and directed by Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel. The sixth film was an international co-production among companies based in ten countries and regions: Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, Norway and the United States. The film stars Lucas Hedges, Sam Claflin, Adam Butcher, Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Josh Peck, with Seann William Scott and Queen Latifah. Principal photography took place during August 2017 in Norway, Finland and Montreal.
==Plot==
The movie starts with Scrat (saber toothed squirrel) climbing an inverted ice cliff. As he reaches the top (after a few hilarious moments), he tries to remove the acorn lodged on the surface. He pulls out the acorn and water start gushing out of the cliff. He falls into an ice slide just in front of a large animal sliding down to a pool. Sid (John Leguizamo) is being pushed around his ‘Camp Sid’ by his wards as Ed (Sam Claflin), Edd (Adam Butcher), Eddy (Lucas Hedges), Diego (Denis Leary) and Manny (Ray Romano) rescue him. Humiliated, Sid climbs the top of the cliff to be the first one to jump from there. The Eds, Manny and Diego follows and rescues Sid on time. Looking beyond the cliff, the gang sees that the cliff has become a giant ice dam, and the dam is slowly melting away. The gang goes down and adds their voice to a con armadillo named Fast Tony (Hamish Linklater) who is selling all kinds of stuff to help prepare for a flood. Nobody believes them until a vulture tells them of a coming flood when the dam breaks into the enclosed valley. A ‘ship’ is located in the other end of the valley, a three day distance, the vulture informs them. The Eds and Manny herds the animals to go to the ship. As they start, The Eds and Manny are bothered by something in the ice, they don't see the two water predators being released as the ice melted. During the travel, Manny is concerned about being the last surviving mammoth. Encouragement from Ed, Edd, Eddy, Sid and Diego doesn’t help much. After a few false leads, Manny and The Eds stumbles on Ellie (Queen Latifah), a mammoth raised by a possum family. Ellie and her two possum brothers Eddie and Crash (Seann William Scott and Josh Peck), join The Eds and Manny so that they will have ‘protection’ so that they can travel by day. The group first encounters the water predators, as the ice cracks from underneath their feet. Sid discovers Diego’s fear of water and tries his best to teach Diego not to fear the water. ‘Do not let the water treat you as prey, let the water be your prey’, Sid intoned to Diego. Sid also encounters a group of mini sloths, who capture him and make him, king for a night before tossing him over a volcano as a sacrifice. Sid escapes and joins the group, who didn’t believe his adventure. Nice production number, too. Along the way, Manny and The Eds tries to convince Ellie of their mammoth ‘heritage’. A poignant scene where Ellie relives her childhood reminds her she was a mammoth raised by a kindly possum family. The two behemoths and the three humans get along until Manny, Ed, Edd and Eddy awkwardly tells Ellie of their ‘responsibility’ for Manny and Ellie being the only mammoths left. Ellie, still miffed, leads the ‘herd’ during a night trek and promptly walks into a delicately balanced rock formation. Only after working together, does the group survive. In between, the struggles of Scratch continue. Tracking the acorn under the frozen ice, he caught the acorn after warding off a school of prehistoric piranha. However, a vulture grabs the acorn and brings it up his nest. Scratch follows and tangles with the vulture chick (just hatched) for the acorn. His victory is short lived, as the parent vulture returns and he is stomped out of the nest. The group arrives within eyesight of the ‘ship’ (a large log nestled on top of a cliff) but a geyser field is between them and the ship. Manny and The Eds goes across the field, Ellie elects to find a way around. Manny, Ed, Edd and Eddy gets a near miss with a geyser but was revived by Sid and Diego. The gang reaches the access road but no Ellie was in sight. Ellie and her brothers travel the long way and was nearing the access ramp until a landslide traps Ellie under tons of rock. Eddie and Crash bring The Eds, Manny and the group to try and rescue Ellie. A huge splash washes the group off the ramp, as the dam already broke and water was coming in with the force of a tsunami. The possums are stranded in a tree branch; Sid (characteristically) hit his head in an attempt to rescue them. Diego overcomes his fear of water and actually swims to save the little group. Only after they were safe did Sid confess that he knows that tigers don’t swim. Manny and The Eds tries to free Ellie using a log as a wedge to open the cave door. The water predators try their best to get Manny and the Eds but Manny, Ed, Edd and Eddy was able to sucker the two into hitting the wedge log at top speed. The cave door opens and falls over the two. The group is now unable to reach the ship as the water has risen too high. They are stranded in a small island waiting for the water to claim them. Scratch, meanwhile, has returned to the vulture nest as the dam is breaking. The vulture occupants are flying away as the nest is washed in the flood. Scratch is able to leave the nest with his acorn and climb a cliff near the ‘ship’. As he places the acorn on the top, the ground cracks (again) and splits. This time, the opening allows the water to pass through to a lower ground behind the cliff. The flood recedes and The Eds, Manny (and the group) is saved. Scratch, however, falls to the bottom of the cliff as the water gushes in. The ship settles on dry land as the group walks toward them. Suddenly, a herd of mammoths come from the crack in the cliff into the valley. Ellie tries to join the herd but Manny, Ed, Edd and Eddy convinces her to join their ‘herd’ instead. The herd is now comprised of three humans, two mammoths, two possums, a tiger and a sloth, as they walk away to new adventures. Sid also gets a tempting offer from the mini sloths to lead them but Diego (for Sid) refuses, saying that the ‘herd’ is nothing without Sid and Ed. in the post-credits scene, Meanwhile Scrat is in squirrel heaven. As he enters the ‘pearly gates’ acorns are all around! He hugs them until he sees a giant acorn standing in the middle. As he approaches the giant acorn, a huge gust of wind was pushing him from ‘heaven’ until he falls back in….consciousness. Ed and Sid has found him half drowned and has done CPR to save him. Scratch goes into his ‘kung fu’ amok stance and start beating Ed and Sid.
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