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Your favourite sub-zero heroes are back for another incredible adventure in the super-cool sequel to the global hit comedy Ice Age!
The action heats up - and so does the temperature - for Manny, Sid, Diego, and Scrat. Trying to escape the valley to avoid a flood of trouble, the comical creatures embark on a hilarious journey across the thawing landscape and meet Ellie, a female woolly mammoth who melts Manny-s heart.
DVD Special Features:
• Commentary By Director Carlos Saldanha
• Commentary By Producer Lori Forte And Production Team
• Garfield 2 DVD Trailer
• "No Time For Nuts" Scrat Short
• Three "Crash And Eddie Stunts"
• Meet Crash And Eddie
• Meet Ellie
• Ice Age Animation Bloopers: Crash And Eddie Blooper
• Silly Sid With John Leguizamo
• Sloth Dancing To Sid's Sing-A-Long
• Meet The Modeler
• Lee Ryan Music Video
• Five - "Smackdown Sound Effects Lab" Segments - Animals, Car Noises, Classic Cartoons, Human Noises, Musical Instruments
• Scrat "Breaking Story"
• Scrat "News Report"
• Six Lost Historical Student Films On The Ice Age Period - The Sloth "Nature's Lovable LisperÂ", The Woolly Mammoth "Nature's Beast Of Burden", The Saber-Toothed Squirrel "Nature's Nutty BuddyÂ", The Saber-Toothed Tiger "Nature's Fearsome Feline", The Vulture "Nature's Cleaners", The Possum "Nature's Spunky Spectacles"
• Scrat: From Head To Toe
• Making A Scene - Ice Age Meltdown
• Four Set Top Games - Sid Football Game, Who's Your Buddy, Vivendi Game Memory Challenge, Ice Age Factoid Meltdown
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Review by: kiwireviewer-00
Dated: 7th of December, 2006
The first movie was wonderful... and though this was another hilarious movie it did suffer from a mild case of sequelitis. With all the same amazing rendering, and the same core characters as well as a pile of new ones... it had a margerine plot; soft and spread a little thin in places.
However, ignoring an adult perspective and just going by my young son's reactions, this will still be another winner for the family bookshelves. Plenty of humour, and a highly entertaining scene with Sid and his worshippers (You have to see it to really get it... but let's just say that Sloths Acapella could be a hit stageshow in the style of Lion King.)
Overall, a great stocking stuffer if your kids enjoyed the first movie.
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