![]() ![]() And if you slip, say three Hail Marys and buy a carbon offset. Or you can be a sustainably farming organic gardener who consumes only renewable energy fuels. You can live without sin, and get a free pass. And if neither of those does the job, well, Judgment Day is just around the corner. Today, if global warming doesn't get us, peak oil will. When I was a kid, nuclear holocaust was all the rage. I am not the first to recognize that humans appear to crave apocalypse, whether induced by technology or Jehovah. By that point I was so befuddled trying to figure out how seriously I should take the Bible's intervention in this global warming parable that I was nearly paralyzed. NOAH'S ARK is going to save us from climate change!ĭon't even get me started on the Rapture of the Acorn that closes the film. But if the animals can get to the other side of the valley, there is a boat waiting that will save them.Ī boat? A flood? Say what? WARNING, WARNING: Allegory Breakdown Alert. Community in: Birds, Characters, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and 2 more Vulture Sign in to edit Vulture Vultures are scavenging birds of prey that lived during the Ice ages into the modern day. Early on in the movie, an evil vulture cruelly informs the animals of the valley that, yes, a great flood is coming. However, if you are a 43-year-old secular humanist, you might be perplexed. And that's about it for a story line, aside from whether or not two neurotic mammoths are ever going to get it on.īut really, what more does one need for a passable narrative than the threat of an all-consuming apocalypse? Despite its plot weaknesses, "Ice Age 2" is amusing, especially if you are an 8-year-old boy. Our lovable motley crew of neolithic beasts live in a valley precariously protected from towering masses of water by a huge ice dam. The song Food, Glorious Food is intended as a direct parody of the song of the same name from the musical and film Oliver!, its original lyrics written by Lionel Bart.( Warning: Some "Ice Age: The Meltdown" spoilers ahead.)īy now, pretty much anyone who cares (and just about everyone who has a small child, judging by the boffo box office numbers this past weekend) knows that global warming is the driving plot device of the animated movice "Ice Age 2." As allegories for our current climate-change times, it's about as obvious as a melting glacier in Greenland. History A valley situated around great walls of ice and snow, the Ice Valley was inhabited by herds of animals, who enjoyed the change of climate, which brought on flowers and grass, trees and shrubbery instead of ice and snow. Oh, food, wonderful food, marvelous food, glorious food! Food, glorious food, Poached possum served flambé, Broth made from a sloth, Or a saber-tooth souffle, Why should we be fated to, Do nothing but brood, On food, magical food, wonderful food, marvelous food?, Food, glorious food, Flesh picked off the dead ones, Rank, rotten, or chewed, Soon, we'll be the fed ones! Just thinking of putrid meat Puts us in a mood forįood, glorious food, marvelous food, fabulous food, beautiful food, Magical food,īehind the Scenes Food, Glorious Food Just picture a mammoth steak, fried, roasted or stewed The song was sung by the flocks of vultures, who all intended to eat the flesh of the herd of animals once they were deceased, flying around them and watching as they tried to reach the end of the valley, through quicksand and cliffs.įood, glorious food…we're anxious to try it The vultures flew around the herd in formation, singing the song to them as they moved on towards the boat. The song Food, Glorious Food indirectly told how the vultures of Ice Valley were anxious to feast on the remains of a herd of animals, consisting of two mammoths, a ground sloth, a saber-tooth tiger and two possum. History Usage " I wish I knew what they were thinking." ― Sid to Manny Cretaceous and Maelstrom are the main antagonists of Blue Sky Studios' third animated feature film Ice Age: The Meltdown, the second installment of the Ice Age film series, and posthumous antagonists in No Time for Nuts (4D) and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild. ![]()
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