The Hungry Hungry Writer

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
My Rating: 7/10

I probably gave Ice Age (the original) a rating of 8 o r 9. It was smart, funny and entertaining. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown was funny… I guess… it was entertaining… I have to think about that… it was smart… NOT like the first it wasn’t. What I remember most about the first Ice Age movie was the internal conflicts each main character had. They tried to play that angle just a little in The Meltdown, the whole ‘family’ thing, but it really didn’t work that well.

Yeah, there were a few laughs here and there, but wheras I can sit and watch Ice Age whenever its on, I actually dozed during The Meltdown.

The kids enjoyed it. Sid is funny as usual. But there was no deep longing for something like they had before. All the characters had THE SAME goal - survival, but in the original Ice Age it really played the aspect of characters with different individual goals but coming together for one specific goal - survival - all brought together by a little baby.

The Meltdown dealth with survival but the pending doom was just pending. Seemed like they could have taken their time reaching their destination. The threat of attack was never that real throughout and they really didn’t fend for their lives all that much. It touched on Diego’s fear, Sid’s sense of belonging, and Manny’s existance or lack their of as far as his species was concerned. So they tried. But it only touched the surface it seemed.

In Ice Age Sid was the outcast who tried to keep the group together, Diego had a different goal - to lure and kill Manny, and Manny had another - to survive without his family with a touching moment of him seeing what had happen with cave drawings. It dripped with these interior conflicts. The Meltdown wasn’t ‘dripping’. It just dripped.

And that’s my review.

Wedding Crashers (2005)
My Rating: 8/10

Funny-funny-funny. Yeah, you got to get WAY past the, how would they get away with that angle, but after that, laughs after laughs after laughs. What more can I say about the movie except what its about.

Well, its about two buddies who crash weddings to get the girl. Except this one HUGE wedding, one of the buds falls for the girl. Which is a major rule breaker as far as their wedding crashing rules go. The movie then becomes boy chases girl. Of course as the formula goes, boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, it works. But then the movie also has that buddy-buddy movie aspect about it which also works. Buds through and through then something happens and they go their separate ways. The question is - does the boy get the girl at the end and do the buds get back together?

I wanted a light comedy. I got it. It was worth the watch and I recommend it… to adults.