Ice Age: The Meltdown

The herd lives in a valley ringed by an ice wall that's really a dam about to burst. A vulture says there's a boat at the far end, three days away. On the way, Manny, Sid and Diego meet Ellie, a mammoth raised by possums who thinks she is one, and her brothers Crash and Eddie. Two thawed sea reptiles also hunt the group. Manny, who thinks he's the last mammoth, falls for Ellie. When the dam fails, Manny saves her, and Scrat cracks open the ice, draining the flood and revealing more mammoths. Manny chooses to stay with Ellie.

1. Behind the scenesThe title dropped the number, but only partly

   The film was developed as Ice Age 2 and became Ice Age: The Meltdown at release. Even so, in the UK, Ireland, Mexico and Australia it was marketed as Ice Age 2: The Meltdown.

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2. CameoScrat crashed Family Guy

   As part of the promotion, the Family Guy episode "Sibling Rivalry" shows Scrat trying to pry three nuts out of a glacier until Peter shows up. The scene was rendered in 3D for a normally 2D show, with Chris Wedge voicing Scrat.

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3. ReferenceScrat's heaven plays Spartacus

   During Scrat's vision of acorn heaven you hear the Adagio from Spartacus by Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. John Powell wrote the rest of the score, replacing the first film's themes.

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