Originally posted around Christmas time of 2012.
Family night in the Williams sick household last night. The kids waited since Christmas day to watch this movie last night, and the patience was rewarded.
I've got to admit I've got a soft spot for these series of films and I would have never thought these series of films would have spawned from the first Ice Age. I like seeing this story line progress with each new movie and how each film never repeats itself in the story line department but keeps the main theme of family at the forefront of the movie. Everything about this series emphasizes and actually supports the family structure, when everything in our country seems to be wanting to destroy that family structure. That is one of the best things I like about series, is it's continued focus on the theme of family.
This movie wasn't as good as the last one but then again Simon Pegg's character Buck stole that movie and was one of the best comedic performances I've seen in a long time, but this movie does have some very funny bits that had my son laughing out loud. It was just refreshing to see this family structure develop in completely different ways than in the movies before. Watching Dennis Leary's character Diego discuss his reasons for leaving the pack and staying with the herd was fun to watch as he continued to have this same mentality with Manny and Sid never once breaking his character. Unlike how McQueen completely broke character in Cars 2 towards his treatment of Mater which made no sense what so ever when it was happening, and that was from a Pixar movie, where they normally are in complete control of the story line department. This doesn't doesn't happen to Diego in here and in fact only happens to Peaches who is young and still learning about relationships unlike her adult parents. This sticking to a characters true character was fun to watch because the opposite happens so frequently in movies and is so annoying when it does. It saddens me when many cartoons now-a-days have better story lines, better character development, and, a lot of time, better direction than many live action movies. I know I've harped on this before but it's true and is a sad fact of the state of movie today.
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