Cold as ice - Ice Age: The Meltdown Reviews

So here we have it folks, 'Ice Age: The Meltdown': filled with a slow story, corny jokes, & absolutely horrible acting. I expected good things from this movie but was just let down. It starts off good, or so it seems but descends into darkness once the trying-to-be-funny jokes began to flood the movie. The only time I laughed out loud was at Scrat's attempt to trick the mother hawk into thinking he was a baby chick. Other than that the other jokes were mindless & predictable. But no, that's not all that contributes to this atrocity of a film. I can't forget the slow story. There's really only 2 things happening here, Manfred meeting & getting Ellie to realize she's a mammoth while at the same time helping the rest of the gang to hurry & avoid the flood. I think it's amazing these 2 things were drug out to fill 90 minutes. Of course, there was Sid's idiotic scene where he was kidnapped & proclaimed the Fire King by a tribe of sloths-yes, a very unnesscary scene indeed. And last, and maybe least was the horrible acting. Now I do realize that this is in fact an animated film & it's not the same as live action. But the actors sounded as if they were preoccupied with something in the studio while saying their lines. It's hard to enjoy a movie when the people saying their lines say them with as much personality as an orange. Hopefully once the third installment of 'Ice Age' comes around these things will all be fixed. So should you see 'Ice Age: The Meltdown'? Yes, but only if you have absolutely nothing else to do. You're going to have as much fun as you would if you were to stare at a wall for 90 minutes.