Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
Kiss your nuts goodbye.
Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster prompts them to reunite and warn all the other beasts about the desperate situation.
In Ice Age: The Meltdown, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “mammoth valley”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing survival, community, environment, love.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)E8/E9 · community, environment
The Lorax (2012)E8/E9 · community, environment
Over the Hedge (2006)E8/E9 · community, survival
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)E8/E9 · community, survival
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)E8/E9 · community, survival
Dinosaur (2000)E8/E9 · environment, survivalSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Red Turtle (2016)consciousness in animals · island sanctuary
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)consciousness in animals · prehistoric dinosaur valley
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010)consciousness in animals · marine odyssey
The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)consciousness in animals · prehistoric valley
2012: Ice Age (2011)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic ice age
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)consciousness in animals · pet metropolisSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)consciousness in monsters · environment, survival
Legend (1985)consciousness in abstractions · environment, love
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond (2022)consciousness in monsters · community, environment
Village of the Damned (1995)consciousness in aliens · community, survival
Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014)consciousness in machines · environment, survival
Critters 2 (1988)consciousness in aliens · community, survival
