Movie Review

ICE AGE 2 - The Meltdown
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Well, as you saw in the previous post, we got to see this movie on Saturday after the show. While I think the first one contained a certain charm and newness that the second one lacked, I still think it is a movie worth watching. I will caution you to not do what we did and see it on a Saturday afternoon. We got to watch it with some strange folks: a guy who is the future image if I do not get my ass healthy, a man and his family that cannot seem to decide on a seat in a half full theatre, and a couple of women and their kids whom they did not seem to explain the meaning of "shhhhhhh" and actually allowed the little whippers to continue yapping at the start of the movie and even joined in until a resounding round of "shhhhhhhhhs" were bombarded upon their inconsiderate heads. Also, if the movie was a three hour epic, I can understand the likes of small bladders like DW's need to pop out after the large drink is consumed for a quick inter-movie tinkle. How the hell do you explain the need to do that in a sub-two-hour movie?

Anyhow, the movie was good with lots of funny parts' especially parts for the adults to keep them interested. I just checked out the offical site and I have to say I am a little puzzled. This movie has a rating of PG and the reason for this is cited on the site as "Some mild language and innuendo". Excuse me? The word "crap" is uttered and there is a reference to the need for procreation without uttering a word or anything crude that says to entities have to bump uglies. THIS is what the rating system has gotten to?

The original crew is back and the addition of Queen Latifah (in just about any movie of the quarter) is a good one. I think she could do a lot more animated voice work as she has a nice delivery on screen. Ray Romano is great as Manny the Wooly Mammoth , John Leguizamo is back as Sid the Sloth and Denis Leary returns as Diego the Sabre-toothed Lion. The jokes are the usual type: slapstick, physical, first movie references, adult-inside and silly for the kidlets. Pretty much what you would expect of a sequel but definitely not on the originality par that Shrek 2 delivered over the first movie. That said, it is a decent time-waster for the average family with kids; adults may want to wait for it to be released in video stores.

Ciao.