History WesternAnimation / IceAge2TheMeltdown

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Flemish version features the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_m9LY3Mt1k De Andere Kant]] (The Other Side) by X!NK.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Manny says after meeting Ellie he knew he wasn't the only one. Ellie agrees, saying not everyone admits falling out of a tree. Manny meant he knew [[LastOfHisKind he wasn't the last mammoth alive]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: While not as heavy and dramatic as the first film, ''The Meltdown'' has quite a bit more peril as now there is a threat to ''all'' of the cast, main and background, the threats ranging from being eaten by reptiles to being killed by explosive geysers.

* OppositesAttract: Manny and Ellie.

* TemptingFate: Manny looking into a puddle and saying, "[[LastOfHisKind I guess it's just you and me now]]". Seconds later, Ellie falls out of a tree right in front of him.
** Sid asking how bad the geyser pits could be, before seeing a dodo get hit by a geyser and [[InstantRoast roasted]]. Cue an OhCrap.

* WhatTheHellHero: Manny tries to suggest repopulating the species in a way that doesn't sound like "let's have sex immediately, and by the way, you're totally obligated to." He fails miserably.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Manny shoots for "you're pretty and we're the last mammoths alive, so maybe we could see how a relationship works out?" It comes out sounding like "You're obligated to have sex with me". Ellie is understandably furious.

* AccidentalTruth: Fast Tony predicts a devastating flood to help his sales. Manny confirms it be actually happening, much to the genuine surprise of ''Fast Tony himself''.

* FalseReassurance: The mysterious Lone Gunslinger vulture confirms that the upcoming flood is true and in order to escape it, they all must travel to the huge boat at the end of the valley, all in less than three days. He ends his warning with...

* AccidentalTruth: Fast Tony predicts a devastating flood to help his sales, which is confirmed to be actually happening.

'''Fast Tony''': [''in genuine astonishment''] I am? Er... I mean uh... [''boldly''] Yes, I am.

* AscendedExtra: Scrat has a major role and more screen time in this movie after having an AdvertisedExtra in the first ''[[WesternAnimation/IceAge Ice Age]]'' movie.

* AscendedExtra: Scrat has a major role in this movie after having a cameo role in the first ''[[WesternAnimation/IceAge Ice Age]]'' movie.

* AscendedExtra: Scrat has a major role in this movie after having a cameo role in the ''[[WesternAnimation/IceAge first one]]''.

* EarWorm: InUniverse, the vultures sing a reworded version of "Food Glorious Food" regarding eating the main characters. Sid starts dancing along to it, then humming it, much to the other characters' irritation.

* AffablyEvil: The Lone Gunslinger, the vulture that tells the animals about the flood.

The film received mixed reviews, but was warmly-received by the general public, and became a box office success, grossing $660 million worldwide against it's $80 million budget.

* CirclingVultures: [[TalkingAnimal Talking vultures]] circle the various creatures trying to escape the flood waiting for some to fail, leaving them with dinner. Later, a bunch of them are seen circling the migrating herds boarding the boat (albeit this time to manage the masses)

* TheDinosaursHadItComing: Manny claims that the dinosaurs "got cocky" and "made enemies," which is why they went extinct.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Mannie shoots for "you're pretty and we're the last mammoths alive, so maybe we could see how a relationship works out?" It comes out sounding like "You're obligated to have sex with me." Ellie is understandably furious.

* MotivationalLie: When Sid figures out that Diego can’t swim and tries to teach him, he says something to the effect of "Some animals can swim as babies," which is technically true. But at the end when Diego has overcome his fear and saved Sid, Crash and Eddie, he responds to Sid's surprise over his swimming with the same line, only for Sid to tell him "Except Tigers, I left that part out"

* ObliviousAdoption: Ellie raised by possums of course. She eventually discovers the CaptainObvious truth when she encounters the same moss tree she encountered as a calf lost in a blizzard.

* OppositesAttract: Manny and Ellie

* ShoutOut: Manny's daze after narrowly missing a full blast from a geyser evokes ''Saving Private Ryan''.

** A young aardvark is seen blowing bubbles in a pool of meltwater, by breathing out through its elongated snout and in through the mouth at its base. Real aardvarks have tiny mouths, and they're located at the tips of their snouts, not underneath them. Keeping the end of its snout continuously submerged should've drowned it. Also, Scrat the proto-squirrel has huge saber-like canine teeth. Being rodents, squirrels -- even prehistoric ones -- don't have canines at all. The authors have said in an interview that it was PlayedForLaughs. Later crosses into AccidentallyCorrectWriting since [[http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/11/03/141997834/scientists-unveil-fossil-of-saber-toothed-squirrel-that-lived-among-dinos a prehistoric mammal discovered in 2011 was indeed squirrel-like]], [[ScienceMarchesOn and did indeed have fangs]]. It was not a rodent though, and lived in the ''Mesozoic'', not in the Cenozoic, much less the last ice age.

* IWillShowYouX: "I'll show you [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar something that floats]]!"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Implied to be literal after Fast Tony's line about bark being able to float, and someone tells him, "[[IWillShowYouX I'll show you something that floats!]]"
** Not to mention the dung beetles ''literally'' getting crap past the radar.
** Manny is quite frankly suggesting he and Ellie have sex since it's their "responsibility" to save their species. He tries and fails horribly to express that he meant "at some point in the future", but the damage is done. She bluntly informs him that he won't be "saving the species ''tonight'' or any ''other'' night."
** Eddie stating that they might have to repopulate the earth, Crash states how that would be impossible because everyone was either a dude or their sister.

* SeaMonster: Cretaceous and Maelstrom, aquatic Mesozoic reptiles[[note]] Maelstrom is stated to be a pliosaur, but more closely resembles a mosasaur, while Cretaceous is stated to be an ichthyosaur, but more closely resembles a metriorhynchid[[/note]] freed from the ice by the thaw.
* ShoutOut:
** Manny's daze after narrowly missing a full blast from a geyser evokes ''Saving Private Ryan''.

* FalseReassurance: The mysterious Lone Gunslinger vulture confirms that the upcoming flood is true and in order to escape it, they all must travel to the huge boat at te end of the valley, all in less than three days. He ends his warning with...

-->'''Crowd:''' "[=GASP=]"!

* FalseReassurance: The mysterious Lone Gunslinger vulture confirms that the upcoming flood is true and they all must travel to the boat on the other end of the valley in less than three days. He ends his warning with...

-->'''Lone Gunslinger:''' I didn't say it was good news for ''you''.
-->'''Sid:''' [[SarcasmMode Boy he must've been a real pleasure.]]

* FalseReassurance: The Lone Gunslinger does this to manipulate the animals of the herd so he can eat them.
-->'''The Lone Gunslinger:''' Please make sure your children are on board. All unattended children will be eaten.

* AppeaseTheVolcanoGod: The sloths try to sacrifice Sid for this purpose...even though they understand the science behind volcanic eruptions perfectly.

-->'''Sloth:''' We have one - sacrifice the fire king.

-->'''Sloth:''' Worth a shot.