Not appropriate for young children - Ice Age: The Meltdown Reviews

My kids were very excited to see Ice Age 2, since we are all fans of the first movie. I have three 3.5 year olds, and normally I try to screen movies prior to the kids seeing them. For this movie, however, we made an assumption based on the first movie. We were all shocked at the content of Ice Age 2. For starters, at the beginning when they realize the ice is really melting and a flood is imminent, one of the ice walls starts to break. One of the creatures then comments, "Dam!" with the intonation of using the curse word Damn! As adults we can discern the difference, but kids won't realize this. That one scene alone would have been enough to deter me from taking my kids to this movie had I known about it. But that wasn't all. They also had a story line with some ferocious-looking water creatures. As far as I could tell, these did nothing to help the story along, other than making it very scary for little kids. They were already trying to outrun the flood, why did they need to add the scary creatures? They killed a turtle - didn't show him actually being killed, but showed him swimming in the water where the creatures were, and then his empty shell being spit up on the shore. They also chased and fought with the Manny at the end. At one point my kids were so scared they had their faces buried in my chest and didn't even want to watch. I enjoyed the new characters of Ellie and her brothers, and the animation was wonderful. But I will not let my kids see it again and wish I had known these things beforehand.