A meltdown of quality

Rating: 4/10 (26 April 2006)

I love animation movies, so this one was still pretty OK. But I must say I don't really understand what everyone finds so great about this average sequel. I laughed a couple of times, those opossums are the most hilarious characters I've seen in a long time ( even better than the squirrel).
But main-characters Manni, Sid and especially Diego have lost sooo much of what they had in the first movie (Diego has become colorless and soft. He should be the protective part of the herd. And Sid used to be way funnier). They were more likely to bore me with what they did or said. The two dinosaur-meanies didn't have character either and were such a little threat, the makers could have left them out, for they couldn't have survived in the ice anyway. An alternative, non-good-vs-evil-plot with the melting ice as the main threat seems not enough. Many situations through the whole movie were not quite convincing and weren't nearly as exciting or funny as they were meant to be. All-in-all it felt like a rushed sequel for video or TV release just following a schedule that didn't left enough time to fill the holes between some really good parts. Those guys can do so much better, what happened??