Ice Age: The Meltdown Page #2

Synopsis: Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and the hapless prehistoric squirrel/rat known as Scrat are still together and enjoying the perks of their now melting world. Manny may be ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time; Manny thinks he may be the last one. That is, until he miraculously finds Ellie, the only female mammoth left in the world. Their only problems: They can't stand each other--and Ellie somehow thinks she's a possum! Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum "brothers"-- Crash and Eddie, a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky, loud-mouthed troublemakers. Manny, Sid and Diego quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: A huge glacial dam holding off oceans of water is about to break, threatening the entire valley. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. So our three heroes, along with Ellie, Crash and Eddie, form the most u
Director(s): Carlos Saldanha
Production: 20th Century Fox
  7 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
PG
Year:
2006
91 min
$195,300,000
Website
6,408 Views


Weve got an

overturned cliff on the far right lake,

traffic is

packed up as far as the eye can see,

Ohhh! And

it looks like there might be a fatality!

I call the dark meat!!

Come on everybody! Lets go!

Come on. Come, come, come! Get in!

Come on Grandpa, come on! We have to go!

Well, Im not leaving!

I was born

in this hole and I'll die in this hole!

Do we have to bring this crap, ?

Im sure there's crap where we're going!

Ahh! This was a gift from my mother!

- Ok! Keep it moving. keep it moving!

- Manny, Manny!

I've just heard youre going extinct!

Hey! If you ever master hygiene,

try working on sensitivity!!

Im not going extinct!

Kids! Look, !

The last mammoth!

Well, you probably

won't see another one of those again!

See?!

Where is James?

Stu! Come on! Stu!

Lets blow this ice cube stand!

Stu!!

Folks! Be the first in the valley

to have your very own mobile home!

Some day, when you're gonna sing,

When you make us sing,

- Shut up Sid!

- Ok!

Stop, hey-hey, Whats that sound, ?

- All the mammoths are in the ground.

- Stop singing Sid!

Sid! Im gonna fall on you

again! And this time I will kill you!

Ok, someone doesn't like the classics!

What if you're right?

What if I am the last mammoth?

But Manny,

look on the bright side. you have us!

Not your most persuasive argument, Sid!

Mammoths?

I knew I couldn't be the last one!

I felt it in my trunk!

This stinks!

Come on!

Sorry! My stomach,

hates me!

Well,

Don't that put the 'stink' in extinction!

Whoa!

Sheesh!!

Oooh, Nasty!

Manny?

I ah, I need to be alone for a while,

You go on ahead. Ill catch up!

One truly is the loneliest number,

-Ow!

-Ow!, Hey!

Ohh, these work great!!

Cool!

Missed me, missed me!

Try and come and kiss me!!

Ill get 'em!

Which end is up?

I dunno, That makes two!

Hey, ugly!

Ow!, I've got to sit on that!

Got you!

Ok! Im going in!

- Sid!

- What?!

I felt some breeze in that one!

Smile!

Over here!

- Surrender?

- Never!

Cool!!

If any one asks. there were 50 of them,

, And, they were, rattlesnakes!

Here kitty-kitty,

Big mistakes you miscreants!

Miscreants?

Uh, Diego, they're pecking,

Retreat!

I guess it's just you and me now,

I knew it! I knew I wasn't the only one!

Me too! Everyone falls

out of the tree every now and then,

they just don't admit it!

Wait, what?

Some of us

have a tough time holding on to branches

I mean

it's not like we're bats or something,

We don't have wings to keep us up!

And you were in the tree. because?

I was looking for my brothers,

They are always getting into trouble,

Brothers? You mean there's more?

Sure!

, lots of us

Where?

Everywhere,

under rocks and holes in the ground,

Usually we come out

at night, so birds don't carry us off!

Help! Help!

Well!!

Shave me down and call me a mole-rat!!

Youve found another mammoth!

Where?

Wait a minute!

I thought mammoths were extinct!

What are looking at me for?

I don't know,

Maybe because you are a mammoth?

Me?!

Dont be ridiculous!

Im not a mammoth! Im a possum!

Right, good one! I'm a newt,

This is my friend, the badger,

and my other friend the platypus!

Why do I got to

be the platypus! Make him the platypus!

This guy giving you trouble, Sis?

Sis?

Thats right, these are my brothers,

Possum, Possum, Possum

I don't think her

tree goes all the way to the top branch!

Manny, the brink

of extinction is a bad time to be picky

Hey, She should come with us!

Are you insane? No way!

Ok! Manny wants me to ask you if

you'd like to escape the flood with us

What the?

Id rather be road kill!

That could be arranged!

Ha, funny!

Let me

have a little word with my brothers,

Ellie!

Are you crazy? Were not going with them!

Look! Well never make

it in time if we only travel at night,

These guys can protect

us out in the open. What do you say?

- Ow!

- Why did you invite them?

Because you might

be the only two mammoths left on earth.

He has a point!

Im sorry.

When did I join this dating service?

My brothers and I

would be delighted to come with you,

if, you treat us nicely!

See that!

Thats the total opposite of nice!

Maybe we'll have ourselves

a little snack before we hit the road

Want a piece of us? lets go!

Bonsai, !

- I got him!

- Ow!

You know the best part, ?

Were carrying diseases!

Ok! Thanks to Sid,

we're now travelling together,

and like it or not,

we're going to be one big happy family!

Ill be the daddy,

Ellie will be the mommy,

And Diego will be the uncle

who eats the kids who get on my nerves!

Now lets move, before the

ground falls out from under our feet!

I thought

fat guys are suppose to be jolly,

Im not fat!

Its this fur that makes me look big!

Its poofie!

Ok, he's fat,

Folks! Escape from the flood is a,

perfect time

to shed those unsightly pounds,

with fast Tony's, disaster diet!

You, ma'm!

You look like a big fat hairy beast!

How'd you

like to lose a tonne or two of that?

Would I ever!!,

Dont listen to him, Vera!

Youre already thin as a twig,

I also have the perfect

cure for your eyesight, my blind friend!

Ohh, We'll never make it at this pace!

Ellie, it's ok!

You can lose the camouflage!

Youre safe!

Ok, safe?

Please!! Crash, Eddie,

You two, Go scope it out!

- What you got?

-Perimeter looks to be all clear captain

Roger that, four-niner, over!

Roger. Over!

All clear!

Hawk!!

What are you doing?

Playing dead, !

Manny, Why don't you do that?

Because, Im a mammoth!

But you do it for treats, right?

Is he gone?

Youre safe! Get up,

Man!, if you weren't here,

that hawk would have swooped down,

and snatched me up for dinner!

Thats how Cousin Wilson went!

Boy, I really feel for you, I do!

I can't

even imagine what it would be like,

to be the last one of your species!

Im not the last one!

Oh, You brave, brave soul,

that's right, don't give up hope,

Ellie?

Look at our footprints,

they're the same shape

Well, how

do I know those arent your footprints?

Well, then,

look at our shadows. we match!

Youre right! Were the same!

You must be part possum!

You wish!

Diego, there are whole continents

moving faster than you, lets go!

We got to catch up with the others!

Hey! Knock it off!!

Oh cry me a river,

blubber tooth tiger. Have some fun!

Cant you see the ice is thin

enough. without you two wearing it down?

Oh, Diego. The ice may be

thin, but its strong enough to hold,

a ten ton mammoth and a nine ton possum!

Ellie, get up!

If you play dead, you'll be dead!

Look at me!

Diego?

Diego!

Come on,

Come on!

This may sting a little,

What in the animal kingdom was that?

I don't know,

but from now on, playing safe, !

Water? Not safe!

That,

was the bravest thing I've ever seen,

It was nothing really, I,

Oh! It's not a compliment, !

To a possum, bravery is just dumb!

Yeah! Were spineless,

Lily-livered!

Maybe mammoths are going extinct because

they put themselves in danger too often!

Maybe you should run away more!

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