Excellent sequel

Rating: 9/10 (2 April 2006)

Excellent sequel to the original Ice Age. Scrat's appearance is superb, even better than in the original. His devotion to collecting nuts was used by the creators to the max. He sure made me laugh a lot. The trio Manny, Sid and Diego are once again inseparable. They became the "herd" that they talked about in the first movie.
The mixture of the story and the theatrical/musical-like interludes make this movie very entertaining. This mixture makes the movie enjoyable for everybody and for all ages. It reminds me of the old Disney movies, where colorful and art-like interludes where always part of the movie. The movie contains a lot of humor, it contains danger, of course love, fear.
What the creators could have done a little better, is to change the look of the characters a bit. After all, some time has passed between the original and this movie.
Sound effects are very good. I can hardly wait for the DVD-version. Hopefully they release it in DTS, and not in DD first and later in DTS (the Special Edition) like they did with Ice Age 1.
Highly recommended.