Movie #133 -- Ice Age: The Meltdown

Title: Ice Age: The Meltdown

Director: Carlos Saldanha

Release Year: 2006

Plot Summary: Ice is melting. Animals who like ice are scared.

Thoughts: I never saw the first Ice Age movie. But, as the rule of thumb goes, very few sequels are as good as the first. Having seen this movie, I don't have much of a desire to see the first one. "Why did you go see this then?" you ask. I was on a date, she wanted to see it, and I thought that if I took her to see this movie we'd get to makeout later.

Anyway, a wooly mammoth named Manny (voiced by Ray Romano), a sabretooth tiger named Diego (voiced by Denis Leary), and a thing named Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) are made aware of their precious ice age coming to an end. They travel across treacherous terrain to get on a large boat so that they can survive the oncoming flood. Seriously. And also... Queen Latifah as a strange mammoth/sloth combination? Yeah...

Now, there were a few parts that did make me laugh out loud... I'm thinking Sid and his meeting with the crazy Sid worshippers and anytime that the squirrel was on screen.

As far as buddy/trip comedies go, you can do better... Sideways, Dumb and Dumber, hell... even EuroTrip. But as far as for inoffensive buddy comedies involving this much animation, it wasn't bad.

Rating (0-10): The movie on it's own = 6.5. Not essential to life and yes, this means I liked it more than Brokeback Mountain. The movie based on the fact that I later in the evening got to makeout = four trillion.

Recommendations: If you catch it on ABC or Disney or something in a few years or have to watch it, while babysitting or something, it's not bad.