'You're possum enough for me!'

Rating: Null/10 (19 December 2006)

This is a very delightful and funny animated movie. It was almost 4 years ago when I saw the first Ice Age cartoon movie, where Diego, the Sabre Toothed Tiger (Denis Leary) bonded with the other animals, forming a big family of sorts. Now, in this movie, they are faced with the ice age ending, and a wall of water building up behind a weakening ice dam threatens their survival. So in much of the movie they are migrating to higher ground.
Once again Ray Romano voices Manny, who his friends think is the only surviving mammoth. So part of the story is to see if Manny can find other mammoths. John Leguizamo is again good as Sid the Sloth and Denis Leary is again Diego.
Queen Latifah is a new entry to the cast, voicing Ellie who believes she is a Possum. Because as a small child was raised with what she thought were her two brothers, Possums. But she is actually a Mammoth that hangs from a tree limb at night to sleep. Will Manny and Ellie get together to insure survival of the species?
(The movie actually begins with Chris Wedge voicing Scrat, the Saber Toothed Squirrel, desperately trying to reclaim his acorn, in a very funny, laugh out loud, sequence.)
SPOILERS. At the end, after everyone survives, a whole herd of Mammoths approach them. Ellie's instinct is to follow the herd, but Manny wins her heart. He even tries hanging upside down from a limb, which soon breaks. Lying in a heap, Ellie looks at him and says, 'You're possum enough for me.'