After a dangerous encounter with Cretaceous and Maelstrom while crossing a pond, Sid prompts Diego to encourage him to admit and face his fears - Diego insists that "fear is for prey", so Sid points out that Diego is behaving as if he is the water's prey. Sid invites her to tag along with the group to escape the flood, and she brings her brothers. Manny is still worried about being the last mammoth alive and his family, who had been killed by humans, but is surprised when he encounters Ellie, a female mammoth who believes she is an opossum and Crash and Eddie's adoptive sister. When Manny briefly is separated from them, Diego and Sid encounter two cheeky opossums named Crash and Eddie who drive them nuts by playing Whac-A-Mole with them. During the evacuation, a glacier which contains two sea reptiles from the Mesozoic era, Cretaceous and Maelstrom, breaks off. As the animals begin their journey, Sid sings three songs to tease Manny about Mammoths being "extinct". The herd figure that the pleasant weather has caused the ice shelves to melt, and it is kept from destroying the valley only by the glaciers, which have formed a dam.Ī lone vulture warns the animals that a giant tree can act as a boat and save them if they make it to the end of the valley within three days time, and all soon set out to find it. Manny dismisses the idea, but is distracted when he sees that Sid will try to high dive from a giant waterfall as Manny goes with Diego to the top of the waterfall to save Sid from his act of daredevilry, suddenly the ice under Diego's feet begins breaking, causing him to bolt in fear, this also made Sid figure out that Diego is afraid of the water. Sid opens a small day camp, where none of the younger creatures take him seriously, nor do Manny and Diego, which leaves Sid seeking a daring deed. Fast Tony, a local con artist is claiming that the earth will flood and that the bark and reeds which he sells are needed to stay alive. The creatures of the Ice Age are all shown enjoying themselves on slides and pools made by the melting ice among them the three protagonists of the first film: Manny, Sid, and Diego. In the opening scene, Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel climbs a glacier to bury his acorn, but accidentally opens a hole in it, causing water to spurt out. Clea Lewis as Female Mini Sloth / Dung Beetle Mom.Alan Tudyk as Cholly, the chalicothere.Jay Leno as Fast Tony, the giant armadillo.Seann William Scott and Josh Peck as Crash and Eddie, the opossums, respectively.Queen Latifah as Ellie, the woolly mammoth, who is under the delusion that she is a possum.Chris Wedge as Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel.John Leguizamo as Sid, the giant ground sloth.Ray Romano as Manny, the woolly mammoth.The Meltdown received mixed critical reaction but was a box office success by earning over $660 million. It was eventually released in 70 countries, with the last release being in China, on June 9, 2006. The film premiered in Belgium on March 1, 2006. The original voice cast - Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Chris Wedge - is joined by Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott and Josh Peck. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha, co-director of the first film, with the music composed by John Powell. As the first sequel to the 2002 film Ice Age, it focuses on the herd escaping an upcoming flood, during which Manny finds love. Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox.