This Ice Age is Cooler

Rating: 8/10 (17 April 2006)

The animation is better, the humor is more intelligent and yet slapstick simultaneously! A mammoth believing they're a possum, and when you learn why - tears come to your eyes! How a sqrat can defend itself against a multitude of piranhas, using the fish themselves against each other! But if he's dying, leave him be, lol! Scrat, the main character to my mind, was both the problem and solution for the valley - he caused the valley to flood and also to drain in his immortal quest for the Perfect Acorn, and he nearly died for it too; not that he'd've minded!! Diego, an exiled sabre-tooth tiger, learns to overcome one of his greatest fears - is this supposed to explain why tigers nowadays like to swim? Denis Leary plays his character out well and sounds a bit like George Clooney still...
Manny finds love and a continuance of his lineage in the most unlikely place, as Ellie (another mammoth) appears to be the "sister" of two mad extreme-sporty yet hip-hoppy possum brothers! Ellie's voice is laid out by the very popular and eponymous Queen Latifah.
The definition of water and fur has vastly improved over the first and an absence of humans added to the concentration of following the story... This ice was really nice!