I liked the first part, I didn’t like the second part. I didn’t like the sea monsters.

Teachers take note: Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is way more interesting than a textbook! Little facts about the Ice Age era are slipped into the storyline that led to a fascinating discussion on the way home about what some of the creatures are and what really happened during the end of the Ice Age . . . and the kids were the ones who knew the answers! As an adult, this movie is fairly unpredictable: mainly because WE know what happens to the Woolly Mammoth, the Sabre Tooth Tiger, and many of the other extinct creatures. At least three foul mouth jokes slip in there where a character uses a curse word’s literal meaning but said in a cursing way. Since extinction is one of the themes, there’s quite a bit of inferences and jokes about mating – fine, but I did have kids asking me “what’s a pervert?” For kids of all ages.