![]() ![]() This last example is a good indicator of the movie’s primary problem - an uncertain sense of its audience. A well-designed Busby Berkeley-style dance number to the Oliver! song “Food Glorious Food” is sung by vultures hoping that the characters we are rooting for don’t make it, so they can feast on the “putrid” meat. Phil show instead of a life and death struggle to save members of her group, it is less likely to be amusing for children and their parents than annoying. ![]() When their very un-possum-ish sister natters about her feelings as though she was in the middle of a Dr. On the contrary, they serve as a distraction, especially the resolutely un-cute and un-cuddly mischievous possums. The primary relationship issues between the three leads were resolved the first time around and the new characters don’t add much interest or do much to propel the story. Instead, itt has a cluttered plot with a formulaic mix of potty humor, mostly kid-appropriate scariness, and some encouraging lessons about responding to fear and the imprtance of family. There are brightly funny individual scenes, especially the “Fire King” encounter (though it seems to have been taken straight from one of the Hope and Crosby “Road” movies - or, come to think of it, all of them), but it doesn’t have the power or imagination of the original. And every now and then we get to see the continuing saga of Scrat the prehistorical squirrel and his Sisyphus-like quest to get and keep an acorn.Įven by the low standards of sequels (it’s fair to expect at least a 30% drop-off in quality), this is a disappointment. And all of the characters face predators and other obstacles as they try to beat the water to the edge of the valley. Sid meets up with some miniature sloths who think he is their Fire King. This time, they have to lead their friends out of the valley before the ice melts and it becomes flooded.Īlong the way, Manny wonders if mammoths are about to become extinct because he seems to be the only one left, until he meets Ellie (Queen Latifah), a mammoth who thinks she is a possom. Once again, as in the first Ice Age, wooly mammoth Manny (voice of Ray Romano), sloth Sid (John Leguizamo), and saber tooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary) set off on a journey. ![]()
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