Sure, the scenery does look nice, but it's pretty obvious of what location they are in like a waterpark, or a forest, or a mountain.
If I had to criticize anything regarding the animation, it has to be the backgrounds and some of the character animation. While the cartoony element is mainly done on characters like Scrat, Ellie, and the possems, most of it is now a little more smoother than before. The same can apply to the character animation. Plus, with many of the new creatures, we see them alot more compared to last time and it gives alot of vairairty and life to the area. The overall design of the characters have recived a bit more of a cartoon flare this time, and it allows them to be alot more expressive. In The Meltdown, however, everything is improved. Not that the orignal Ice Age's animation was terrible or anything, but you can tell that film's animation has aged pretty poorly. If there is ANY sense of improvement that gets better and better as the series progress (aside from the soundtrack), it's that the animation of Ice Age gets more visually pleasing and it ages alot better. Sure, the writing may be melting for this movie, but Blue Sky did manage to write a good story nontheless. But here, the relationship does feel genuine and it does succeed in being emotional. While not AS strong as his relationship with Roshan in the first movie and much like Rio, you know both of them are gonna hook up at the end. This time, he's finding true love and he and Ellie are the last chance of saving the mammoth species. That, and it does rentain alot of heart with Manny. But even at that, the humor still gets a good amount of laughs, even with Scrat's antics. While yes, it is a bit more childish with more modernisms.
It does rentain alot of the elements of what made the orignal Ice Age really good like the humor. However, with all that said, I'm not saying that this is a boring nor a poorley written story. It doesn't help that Scrat's antics don't add much either. Mainly because of how it can be a bit long in some parts. Here though, sure, stuff does happen, but not nessarly as intense as before. But before, the adventure had a lot more happening. Sure, it does have much bigger threat to it with the whole gigantic flood that potentially kill the animals that reside as opposed to last time where they were on a time crunch to get a human baby back home. Compared to the first Ice Age, The Meltdown is not nessarly as adventerous nor as intense as last time.
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