Shannon Muir’s Take on the Animation World

Did a PPV viewing of this movie this past week after hearing my sister and her family rented it. I saw a screening of the original ICE AGE, but was not able to make it out to the sequel one nor did they ever send a screener.This movie was OK. It was far less about the destination than about the side journeys on the journey (which turned out to be the funniest parts, the actual journey itself wasn’t all that exciting and the climax goes by quick). And let’s put it this way, this clearly wasn’t the Great Flood that put an end to some of the Ice Age species — we wouldn’t have been able to have had an all ages film otherwise.Skrat, the little nut-hunter who captured everyone’s interest in the side film, has his own runner plot that barely interesects the film’s main line going throughout. It’s also in a way used as as transition between scenes of the main movie. Generally it drove me nuts (pun so intended), and the gag wore thin at points, but they do finally come together at the end of the movie in a way I’m not quite sure pays off but at least Skrat doesn’t exist in isolation the whole film.

I very much enjoyed the Queen Latifah mammoth character who thought she was a possum and her Possum Brothers.

My biggest problem was that it felt like I’d seen lots of the movie before… between trailers, behind the scenes, and stuff like that I may very well have.