2006 movieRating: 10/20 (Abbey: 20/20)
Plot: Global warming! Oh, snap! Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and Manny the mammoth must travel to a "boat" at the end of their valley in order to survive an upcoming hydrapocalypse. Sid struggles with his place in the herd, Diego struggles with aquaphobia, and Manny struggles with the possibilities of being the last of his species. Along the way, they meet a couple of annoying possums and a female mammoth and then everything is resolved exactly like you would have figured it would be five minutes into the movie.
From the script (which has some annoying adult humor) to the character developments to the animation, this whole thing looks half-assed. You've pretty much got the same characters doing the same things. The interesting landscapes from the first movie are gone and replaced with stuff not worth noticing. The new characters are annoying (the two possums actually reminded me of Thing 1 and Thing 2 from that terrible The Cat in the Hat movie), and the old characters quickly wear their welcome. The best parts of the movie are the bits with the prehistoric rat thingy (see above) and his attempts to procure an acorn, but even that is completely rehashed.
I guess I don't expect too much out of these. It does kind of aim at a 12 year-old mentality, um... but I like the colors and lots of stuff happens. I really like smelly Sid and the mean-voiced Tiger and the funny squirrel. I think the girl Mammoth is really dumb though.
ReplyDeleteThe preview for the next one looks terrible, so you might want to skip that one. I would give this about a 14.