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| Director: | Carlos Saldanha | Plot: | The ice age is well and truly in control and the animals are loving it. Things start to change, however, as the ice starts to melt and the animals realise they will soon be in one big swimming pool. Add to that the defrosted aquatic prehistoric predators and we have an interesting race on. | ||
| Writer: | Gerry Swallow | ||||
| Starring: | Dennis Leary | ||||
| Ray Romano | |||||
| John Leguizamo | |||||
| Genre: | Comedy | Cert: |
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I loved Ice Age, I thought
it was one of the funniest and prettiest animated movies for a long
time. The story entertained me, and the characters interested me. For
this reason I approached Ice Age 2 with both excitement and trepidation. What if it was another crap sequel? How would I ever cope? Thankfully I didn't have to, because although not on par with the original, it is still an extremely entertaining movie. The usual suspects re-appear, with Sid still being as annoyingly brilliant as the first. Scratch has a larger part to play, and I can honestly say I could sit through an entire Scratch movie quite easily. Then there's Manny, the mammoth. The sub-plot this time around is Manny's conviction that he is not the last mammoth, and he's proved right when a (shock) female mammoth crosses their path. But here's the curveball, she thinks she's a rodent. Ha ha ha. It really only works in a few scenes, after that it becomes a slight annoyance. Thankfully though, it's not enough of an annoyance to ruin the movie. The script is as sharp as the first, missing only a few of it's carefully selected targets, and once again the animation is gorgeous. I really believe with output the standard of this there could be room to make Disney work harder |
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