The Ice Age is coming to an end, and the animals are delighting in the melting paradise that is their new world. Manny, Sid, and Diego quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: a huge glacial dam is about to break, threatening the entire valley. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. So the three heroes, along with a mammoth named Ellie and her two "brothers" -- possums Crash and Eddie -- embark on a mission across an increasingly dangerous landscape towards their salvation.
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Director: Carlos Saldanha
Screenwriter: Jon Vitti
Genres: Comedy, Kids/Family, Animation and Sequel
Running Time: 90 min.
Release Date: March 31st, 2006 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG for some mild language and innuendo.
Distributors: 20th Century Fox

- The film opened on March 31, 2006, and exceeded expectations by opening with an $68.7 million in its first weekend, the second biggest opening for a non-summer non-holiday release, after The Passion of the Christ.

- As of May 14, 2006, the film has grossed a total of $187,570,805 in the United States box office, making it the first movie in 2006 to pass the $100 million mark at the box office.

- On Family Guy's episode Sibling Rivalry, In one scene, Scrat is shown trying to take 3 nuts out of a side of a glacier, in which Peter shows up and tries to stop him, admonishing the squirrel for stealing, which drives Scrat to subsequently attack Peter

- The idea of the animals avoiding the flood by getting to an ark is similar to the story in the Bible, Noah's Ark.

- Although dodos supposedly went extinct in Ice Age, a dodo is seen when Manny, Sid and Diego are trying to get past the geysers. (But it is blown up and turns into a roast dodo, so it still dies).

- For the movie's final release, the creators decided to remove the number 2, calling it Ice Age: The Meltdown, as they considered the movie not a sequel but an entirely new movie
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