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Carlos Saldanha has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
2008
Adventure · Animation
Ferdinand
2017 · Movie · Director
Top 48%Max · Included
Harold and the Purple Crayon
2024 · Movie · Director
Top 51%Hulu · Included
Invisible City
2021 · Series · Creator
Top 61%Netflix · Included
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009 · Movie · Director
Top 83%Disney+ · Included
Rio
2011 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 83%Disney+ · Included
Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006 · Movie · Director
Top 86%Disney+ · Included
Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow. But one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid— and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen.
Dir. Carlos Saldanha · With John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Anthony Anderson
Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life.
Dir. Carlos Saldanha · With Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Zooey Deschanel
Scrat tries to finish his rather large collection of acorns when things start going nutty.
Dir. Carlos Saldanha · With Chris Wedge
An environmental police officer uncovers a hidden world of mythological entities from Brazilian folklore when he finds a connection between the mysterious appearance of a dead river dolphin on a Rio de Janeiro beach and the death of his beloved wife.
Dir. Carlos Saldanha, Mirna Nogueira, Rodrigo Nogueira · With Marco Pigossi, Alessandra Negrini, Julia Konrad
Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.
Dir. Carlos Saldanha · With Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.
Dir. Carlos Saldanha · With Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann
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.
Dir. Carlos Saldanha · With Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary
It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.
Dir. Carlos Saldanha · With Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, will.i.am
