The plot - perhaps "plot-like arrangement of discrete, arbitrary events" would be more accurate - follows as the happy creatures of some kind of utopian bestiary smell the coffee one warm day and realize that the snow's getting softer, the days longer, the sun hotter. Although Romano is by nature a slow, adenoidal talker, the piece is driven forward mainly by Leguizamo's yappy sloth, who's given so many lines he becomes tiresome. Those of you who don't find New York City's rhythms soothing are strictly out of luck. Are we in the Pleistocene or on 42nd and Broadway in the '30s? Who's writing this, Damon Runyon? (Leary, the outsider as a Bostonian, hardly registers.) Well, the linguistic conceit of the film is that the Ice Age vocal patterns reflect the harsh yammer of the New York streets. A romantic interest is added with Ellie, another mammoth (Queen Latifah). Rather, the film stays largely with the odd selection of creatures that dominated the 2002 hit - a sloth named Sid (the voice of John Leguizamo), a mammoth named Manny (Ray Romano) and a saber-toothed tiger named Diego (Denis Leary). Bush and Dick Cheney as ignorant Neanderthals batted around. One can be grateful that despite the ominous "Meltdown" behind the colon, the sequel to 2002's "Ice Age" doesn't turn into an anti-global warming screed and there are no cartoon exaggerations of George W. I say: Go, nut, go!Īlas, the rest of the time, nothing nearly as interesting transpires. Acorn, but the little nugget of protein seems always to find an avenue of escape. It demonstrates how much joy and communication can be found in pure movement as Scrat, driven ever further by desperation, twists into balletic dislocations of time, space and gravity to snare Mr. Coyote cartoons of Chuck Jones to the silent maestros Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and Harold Lloyd. Really, the mime struggle between Scrat and nut is far and away the most amusing few minutes in "Ice Age: The Meltdown." It recalls a grand tradition in movies: from the brilliant Road Runner and Wile E. Acorn manages to bound away in this direction or that, while all around the world seems to be ending. And the more Scrat struggles to consume, much less capture, the little devil-nut, the more Mr. It's not about to give anything up for Scrat, who appears to be some kind of saber-toothed squirrel, and it doesn't care that Scrat is represented by ICM, drives a super-yellow Hummer and has been seen dating Mischa Barton. But, commendably, this little critter fights like hell to stay out of Scrat's maw.
Okay, it - he? - has no lines, no personality, no cute cuddly face, and doesn't sing or dance. The most endearing character in "Ice Age: The Meltdown" is Scrat's acorn.
0 kommentar(er)
