New writers Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow and Jim Hecht supply plenty of decent jokes that Romano, Leguizamo and Leary deliver with every bit of drollery they can summon, but there’s a small new anxiety to please that differentiates the tone somewhat from the first outing. Style and approach of the sequel are of a piece with the original picture, on which present helmer Carlos Saldanha was co-director (to Chris Wedge, who’s now exec producer). Through their journey, the wayfarers are threatened by a couple of nasty, big-toothed amphibians, and are followed by a flock of vultures, whose very clever reworking of the tune “Food Glorious Food” from “Oliver!,” performed as they peer drooling down on what they hope will be their next meal, reps the musical highlight. Diego demonstrably feels the same way, and one increasingly wishes he would succeed in his wish for a possum snack. Part of her problem - and the film’s - is she keeps incessant company with two manic possums (Seann William Scott, Josh Peck) who prove that one hyperactive character (a position already locked down by Scrat) is enough for any film. With Manny suffering from the impression he may be the last mammoth on Earth, the ponderous journey acquires a little emotional oomph with the arrival Ellie (Queen Latifah), a mammoth convinced she’s a possum, to the point that she sleeps hanging upside down by her tail from a tree. To avoid the coming flood, the beasts and critters must travel three days up valley to a waiting ark. As before, the Scrat running gag reps a memorable highlight that revives an antic Chuck Jones-style comedy of frustration.īefore long, the happy campers, once again dominated by sad sack mammoth Manny (voiced by Ray Romano), mordant saber-toothed tiger Diego (Denis Leary) and dufus-y sloth Sid (John Leguizamo), realize the doomsayers are right - the ice cliffs surrounding them won’t hold much longer. The first to notice something’s amiss is Scrat, the beleaguered rodent whose initial attempt to secure an ever-elusive nut is frustrated when he runs out of body parts to plug up holes in an increasingly bursting dam of ice. Doug didnt care much for the first one, will its sequel finally win him over Lets find out as we take a look at Ice Age 2: The Meltdown.Watch the new NC. Lest one imagine, however, that “Meltdown” is a socially conscious propaganda piece, in a way, the opposite is true global warming, rather than being blamed on anyone (all human characters have been eliminated this time around, so there’s no one to blame), is presented as a natural phenomenon with which the planet’s guests must cope. Blissfully ignorant of the climatic threat about to strike them, the happily integrated creatures live in a fool’s paradise, romping and sliding and goofing around in the verdant playground that used to be an ice palace. “This global warming is killing me,” an old-timer gripes, as he beholds the literal water park the previously frigid neighborhood has become.
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