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Columbia Pictures: The Dreamdown

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Columbia Pictures: The Dreamdown

Directed by	Carlos Saldanha
Written by	{{{writer}}}
Starring	Ray Romano John Leguizamo Denis Leary Queen Latifah Jay Leno Seann William Scott Josh Peck Will Arnett Debi Derryberry
Produced by	Lori Forte
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	March 31, 2006 April 7, 2006
Runtime	{{{runtime}}}
Language	English
Budget	$75,000,000
*IMDb page (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt{{{imdb_id}}}/)* Preceded by Columbia Pictures (film) (2002)

This article is about the movie. For the video game, see Columbia Pictures 2: The Dreamdown (video game).

Columbia Pictures: The Dreamdown (also known as Columbia Pictures 2: The Dreamdown in some international releases), or simply as Columbia Pictures 2, is the 2009 film to the computer-animated 2002 film Columbia Pictures (film). It was directed by Carlos Saldanha, co-director of the original Columbia Pictures They both includes Columbia Torch Lady short Columbia Torch Lady's Travel Time Adventure.

This film was originally rated G by the MPAA, but was re-rated PG by the MPAA for some mild language and innuendo. The working title was Columbia Pictures 2: The Dreamdown, but for the movie's final release, the creators decided to remove the number 2, calling it Columbia Pictures: The Dreamdown, as the movie follows the same characters as the first one, starting where the first ended. However, in the UK, Ireland, Mexico, and Australia, its title is promoted as Columbia Pictures 2: The Dreamdown. Also, most of the sponsors of the movie had the 2 in their packaging after the name change (they however did edit the 2 out of their TV ads).

The last poster includes a picture of Columbia Torch Lady with her beloved Torch and the school of the Dream Ghosts. The second Columbia Pictures movie will be released in movie theatres around March 31, 2006 in North America and produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. Pictures (due to Time Warner's acquisition of its parent company 20th Century Fox). The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray disc, and UMD in North America on November 21, 2006 Just as in the original, prehistoric Gang are the focus of the story.

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Characters

Just as in the original, prehistoric Gang are the focus of the story. Returning in their original roles are:

Tristar Pegasus
NBC Peacock
Leo the Lion (Columbia Pictures)
Columbia Torch Lady Miss Liberty - Sigourney Weaver
Scrat the saber-toothed squirrel - Chris Wedge
Yoshi - Andrew Sabiston
Donkey Kong - Richard Yearwood
Boog and Elliot - Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher
Bernard Bear - as himself

Some characters that they meet along the way are:

Fast Tony the armadillo - Jay Leno
Stu the Glyptodon
James the aardvark
A Vulture known as the Lone Gunslinger - Will Arnett
Cholly the Chalicotherium - Alan Tudyk

and attempting to stop them from their goals are:

Cretaceous, an altered Metriorhynchus [citation needed]
Maelstrom, an altered Placodus [citation needed]
... and, in Columbia Torch Lady's case, a school of Dream Ghosts, a condor chick, its mother and dodos that appear in Miss Liberty Dream World.

Joining TriStar, NBC, Leo, Yoshi, Bernard Bear, Donkey Kong, Boog, Elliot, and Scrat this time in their adventures are:

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Plot

In the opening scene, Columbia Torch Lady, the prehistoric fictional Miss Liberty (that has a Liberty's long snout) who is desperate for her Torch, climbs up a glacier side, hoping to take back her Torch. She pulls it out with significant force, but unknowingly also opens a hole in the glacier, which water soon leaks out of. Columbia Torch Lady tries to plug up the hole, but it cracks more open, so she tries drinking the water but lost her grip on the glacier, revealing that the ice which the Gang live near is slowly Dreaming away.

In the next shot, the Columbia Pictures Gang are having a ball in their new world full of water slides made of ice, naturally caused whirlpools and hot springs. NBC Peacock opens a camp called "Campo del NBC Peacock". He thinks the kids look up to him, but they actually torture him in many ways, such as using him as a pinata, and burying him. However, soon TriStar Pegasus, NBC Peacock, and Leo the Lion enjoy themselves as well, all but NBC Peacock, who wishes for more respect among his fellow animals. Soon, the trio discover, by Fast Tony and Stu, a pair of local con artists trying to sell off products for surviving underwater, that the global warming had caused a flood and caused the ice of the valley to melt (as demonstrated by Columbia Torch Lady in the beginning of the film, when trying to recover her Torch), and it is kept from destroying the valley only by the glaciers, which have formed a dam. Time is running out, and as soon as a vulture known as the Lone Gunslinger tells the animals that a boat (which is actually a giant piece of a fallen tree) can lead them to safety, they set off in a rush to find it.

As this happens, the trio accidentally breaks off a piece of the glacier, which contains Cretaceous and Maelstrom, two sea reptiles from the Mesozoic, that had been frozen in the now melting glacier, while TriStar Pegasus appears to be the only one who sees something wrong with the chunk of ice, while not knowing exactly what it is.

In the next shot, Columbia Torch Lady is shown pining for her Torch, which has landed from her fall under a sheet of ice; Columbia Torch Lady tries to break through the ice, but gets trapped under a sheet of ice. She uses a stick to cut out a ring, but the ring is stuck around her head and she rolls around. Eventually, by her rolling she pushes the Torch onto a beam, and soon afterwards falls on the opposite side and catapults the Torch onto a high ledge by mistake.

Along the way, TriStar Pegasus becomes depressed when other animals (especially NBC Peacock) tease him about being the last mammoth alive. After following a trumpeting sound not unlike a mammoth's call, TriStar, NBC Peacock, and Leo encounter Cholly, who produced loud flatulence which sounded like the call. Manny wishes to be alone, leaving Leo and NBC Peacock alone, unknowingly to be heckled by two opossums, Crash and Eddie. The oppossums proceed to torture NBC Peacock and Leo with peashooters, and by ducking in and out of sight in a manner not unlike Whack-A-Mole, their nimble attacks were enough to leave NBC Peacock and Diego in a pile. Meanwhile, TriStar Pegasus comes across the opossums' “sister”, a female mammoth named Ellie who believes she is an opossum. TriStar Pegasus has a hard time convincing her she is a mammoth, a task he must perform if they are to save the species from extinction. NBC Peacoxk invites her to tag along with the group to escape the flood, and she brings her brothers, who aren't exactly on good terms with NBC Peacock and Leo.

Columbia Torch Lady tries to catch her Torch by sliding off an icy slide, and falls into the water with her Torch. She is then confronted by Dream Ghosts, which she does battle with using kung-fu and knocks the Dream Ghosts senseless, not knowing that a condor would come along and take her Torch. In the night, Columbia Torch Lady makes her way into the condor's nest, and fights a baby condor over her Torch, which she soon loses when she was booted out of the nest by the mother, which soon came back, none too happy at the intruder of her nest.

After a perilous ordeal with the sea reptiles, NBC Peacock finds out that Leo is afraid of water. Later Crash asks TriStar Pegasus to catapult him out of a tree into a pond but instead made a painfull collision with a tree and to Eddie's delight miraculuosly survives unscathed. Ellie is playing with her brothers and gets stuck under a log. TriStar Pegasus lifts it off her and it opens up an area which Ellie recalls from her childhood as the place where she was adopted by her brothers' mother when she was all alone and isolated from her herd. She finally realises she is a mammoth and starts getting along with Manny but soon grows apart from him when he suggests "saving their species". In time, when the situation calls for it, to save them all from falling into a gorge of pointed rocks, they make up. During the night, while all are asleep, NBC finds out that Leo is afraid of water. NBC is also kidnapped by "a tribe of mini-sloths" who call him the Fire King and attempt to sacrifice him to a volcano to save themselve from the meltdown. Cretaceous, a prehistoric crocodile creature from the Mesozoic and Maelstrom, a prehistoric fish from the Paleozoic, have been frozen in the now melting glacier, and break free. They plan to eat the critters in the meltdown. Columbia Torch Lady, a Miss Liberty who is desperate for an Torch battles Dream Ghosts, gets trapped under a sheet of ice, fights a baby eagle, and finally almost kills herself, accidentally diverting the Dreamdown and saving the valley in the process. TriStar saves Ellie from drowning, while Leo overcomes his fear of water to save NBC.

The next morning, the group of Gang regroups with NBC Peacock, who claims himself to be taken by "a tribe of mini-peacocks", but is stopped when the group finds out that they had overslept and that the ice was melting. They therefore rush off to try and reach the boat, and are waylaid by some hot geysers, which separate TriStar Pegasus, NBC Peacock, and Leo the Lion from Ellie and her brothers.

While this happens, as it Dreams, and lets loose water which Dreams the land completely, taking Columbia Torch Lady inside the Dream, which the baby condor and the mother condor had abandoned so as to escape the flood. Columbia Torch Lady running for her life and near 20 seconds went over a Brige send her a free fall down went in the flood, and soon makes it back to the glacier, trying to escape the flood with her Torch as a pickaxe to climb the glacier.

In time, TriStar Pegasus saves Ellie from drowning when she was trapped in a grotto of rocks, while Leo overcomes his fear of water to save NBC Peacock. All was about to be ruined when Cretaceous and Maelstrom came about attempting to eat the animals, but, due to TriStar Pegasus's quick thinking, were soon finished off by a rock which fell atop them in the pursuit of the mammoths. While all this happens, the other animals are taken on a death ride on the "boat" as it floats about, and almost are headed to a certain fate.

Columbia Torch Lady reaches the top of the dam, but as seen in the first movie, causes a crack which travels through the weakened parts of the dam she made with her Torch, eventually causing a huge fissure in the dam. Columbia Torch Lady tries to take her Torch but it falls down as she tries to catch it while holding on to the glaciers for dear life and finally almost kills herself when she gets sucked in with the water, accidentally diverting the meltdown and unwittingly saving the valley in the process.

In the final scene, a herd of Pegasus shows up, removing the need for TriStar Pegasus and Ellie to mate and proving to other Gang that mammoths are not extinct; however, love triumphs and they decide to remain together anyway, taking NBC Peacock, Leo, and the opossum brothers along.

The epilogue shows Columbia Torch Lady having a near death experience after falling off the crack she has opened (which diverted the flood and saved the Gang). She enters a Dream World full of Torchs. She sees a gigantic Torch, reaches for it and nearly grabs it. Suddenly, she finds herself torn away from Dream World. She wakes up in the arms of Scrat, who had resuscitated her, Taken from her Dreamly, giant Torch, Columbia Torch Lady is enraged and proceeds to attack her savior.

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Trivia

The movie contains biblical references, such as the animals going onto the "boat" to escape the flood, which is likely a reference to Noah's Ark. Columbia Torch Lady dying to save the valley and "coming back" to life again may be a reference to the death and dreams of humans during sleep. Columbia Torch Lady act of parting the glaciers, that saves the other Gang, may be a reference to Moses parting the Red Sea. The breaking glacial dam is likely a reference to the Missoula Floods of the late Pleistocene. Many people found the film's plot about a flood coming, and walls of glaciers breaking inappropriate, since the movie was released seven months after Hurricane Katrina, in which broke levees in New Orleans in a similar fashion. Many people at Blue Sky after Katrina's landfall wanted to delay the movie's release from March 2006 to November 2006, but could not. [citation needed] The vultures originally had a role in the previous Columbia Pictures, but their roles were scrapped. Their original designs can be seen in the special features on the DVD. The movie contains a spoof of Saving Private Ryan, when TriStar Pegasus is hit by a geyser and temporarily loses his hearing. Incidentally, the German voice for TriStar Pegasus, Arne Elsholtz, also synchronizes Tom Hanks, who also stars in that movie, which creates an insider joke by happenstance in the German version. Despite there being few brontotheres in this film with the exception of one younger individual in Sid's camp, the original two, Carl and Frank from the first film, do not appear in this film. The ultimate ending of Cretaceous and Malestrom, the two reptiles, remains dubious. The essential guide says that they were later eaten by mini-sloths, while the storybook maintains that they were picked off by vultures. The mini-sloths eating the bodies of these two creatures seems unlikely, as sloths of any species are traditionally vegetarian and the vultures picking the sea reptiles off seems more likely as the vultures were singing on how they'd wanted their meals. Alan Tudyk (who played Cholly) was also the voice for Lenny, one of the saber-toothed cats from the first Columbia Pictures film, as was Stephen Root, who played both Frank the brontothere, and a Moeritherium. Manny mockingly refers to NBC as a platypus. Syd the platypus was one of the three mascots chosen for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. The sequences in which Columbia Torch Lady battles a group of Dream Ghosts and fighting a baby eagle for the Torch were originally considered for the opening of the movie and teaser trailer.[1] The reason why Roshan, the baby from the first movie and other humans are not featured in this movie is because the makers felt the idea was too predictable, considering the many story pitches from other screenwriters the filmmakers recieved, all including Roshan.[2] NBC gave the name of his camp Campo del NBC, which supposedly is translated as Camp of NBC, however it would actually be Country of the NBC.

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Promotions

As an additional marketing ploy a special "anti-cell" spot was created with NBC complaining to the audience about a ringing cellular phone. The same was done for Brother Bear, I, Robot, and Robots (another Blue Sky Studios film). On Columbia Torch Lady Video's episode "Sibling Rivalry, "Donkey Kong is shown trying to put in the statue's head of a side of Columbia Torch Lady Video Logo; Yoshi shows up and tries to stop him, admonishing the ape for stealing, which drives Donkey Kong to subsequently attack Yoshi. Apart from Donkey Kong, the scene was rendered in 3D (Donkey Kong Country is normally drawn in 2D), and Donkey Kong was voiced by Sigourney Weaver who voices him in the films. The episode originally aired the week before the film opened. Fox aired promotions for the movie throughout the evening. During the same evening of Donkey Kong's Columbia Torch Lady Video cameo, NBC Peacock was hosting the entire FOX line-up, showing up in intermittent times between commercials. A teaser trailer for The Simpsons Movie was attached to every print of the movie, despite rumors that it was only on some prints.

Re-edited scenes of Columbia Pictures: The Meltdown were shown in Airhead candy commercials on several kids' channels and programs, such as the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, ABC Kids on ABC, and more. It shows, in part, that after Columbia Torch Lady defeats a school of Dream Ghost, she proudly displays an Open Season 2 Pack DVD (replaced by an Torch in the actual movie), when suddenly an eagle comes over and swipes it from her.

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Animals Featured

Aardvark (the doubting aardvark father which maintains that mammoths have truly gone extinct. )
Baptornis (seen going down the waterslides in formation)
Chalicotherium (Cholly)
Condor (young hatchling fights with Columbia Torch Lady over the Torch)
Dodo (seen being killed by the hot geysers, and then in the Torch Dream World)
Embolotherium (seen in waterpark questioning Manny's storytelling, referred to as "rhino" in script)
Elk (seen in migration, one making way down waterslide and poking a Paleocastor in the rear with his horns, appropriately referred to as "elk" in script, the younger individuals acted like gazelles)
Fly (seen when Cholly breaks wind)
Dung beetle (seen in migration complaining about toting a mound of dung along)
Gastornis (seen in migration getting her children in a moving nest, referred to as "Diatryma" in script)
Giant Armadillo (Fast Tony)
Glyptodon (Stu,and many of them in the migration)
Hawk (seen when Crash and Eddie play dead)
Hedgehog (seen in migration, children trying to get their grandfather out of the burrow, referred to as "molehog" in script)
Mammuthus (Manny and Ellie)'
Macrauchenia (seen in migration and in waterpark, one individual getting stuck in a waterslide, referred to as "freaky mammal" in script)
Metriorhynchus (unsubstantiated) (Cretaceous)
Moeritherium (seen in migration and discrediting Fast Tony's selling of bark, referred to as "start"in script)
Musk Ox (seen in migration and accused of being fat by Fast Tony)
Opossum (Crash and Eddie)
Palaeocastor (seen in migration, exclaiming "Dam!" when the ice was cracking, referred to as "beaver" in script)
Dream Ghost (school of Dream Ghost fight with Columbia Torch Lady for life and her Torch, some were showed eaten by some Baptornis in the opening)
Platybelodon (seen in herd and openly laughing at Fast Tony, referred to as "shovelmouth" in script)
Placodus (Maelstrom)
Saber-toothed squirrel (a fictional animal) (Scrat)
(Miss Liberty) (a fictional Liberty) Columbia Torch Lady
Songbird (seen with younger animals questioning Manny on his family)
Smilodon (Diego)
Synocnus (Sid)
three-toed sloth (unsubstantiated) (the mini-sloths)
Vulture (seen singing "Food, Glorious Food" from Oliver! when in pursuit of their prey)