totally and completely mediocre

Rating: 3/10 (26 June 2006)

This movie was a major letdown after the first installment of Ice Age. The first movie had a compelling plot and the menacing tigers made for good enemies. It also had its funny points. This installment just intersperses squirrel-acorn segments with one dumb gag after another. The supposedly scary sea creatures only make an occasional appearance and in the first installment you got the feeling that the tiger could pounce at any moment. In this installment the tiger has become a cuddly kitten and Sid the Sloth is just not funny enough to carry the movie.
The possums are not as annoying as Chicken Little's Runt of the Litter character but they sure try to be. The only really funny bit is hearing Ray Romano tell the she-mammoth that she has a YOOOOOGE! butt, which works because you can just imagine him looking at Queen Latifah and saying, "no really, it's ENORMOUS!" Ray must have agreed to do this movie just so he could say those lines to her and live to tell about it.