Here's a recap of the past Mission: Impossible movies and what I thought about each of them: 1) Mission: Impossible (B) 2) Mission: Impossible 2 (C-) If someone asked me to describe Mission: Impossible 3, I would pick "popcorn fun." Why would pick that, it's because that's exactly what Mission: Impossible 3 is: "popcorn fun." It's a popcorn action flick with lots of exciting explosions and shootouts that is sure to keep you entertained throughout the entire movie, not only that, it has a decent spy story. I'm being honest here, this is the best Mission: Impossible film out of the three. I was quite surprised actually because I thought it would be the worst out of the three following the disappointment of part two. Why I liked part one is because it felt like a spy movie, it was smart and they show you the steps into completing an impossible mission. Why I didn't like part two is because it wasn't smart at all, it was stupid, the villian was stupid, and on top of all that, it was boring. But part three doesn't waste time to get the action starting, and on top of all that, the story is pretty smart, and Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a great performance as the evil villian. Yes, the action was impossible, but there was some crazy things going around here. There are missiles being shot, cars exploding, people jumping from buildings, windmills being blown off and destroying helicopters, and the special effects are eye-popping. I also loved when all of them had to sneak into the Vatican City, now that scene was smart and thrilling at the same time. The story starts off at the ending, you see Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) tied up and Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) telling him that he has an explosive in his head and he also has wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan), whom he's threatening to shoot if Ethan doesn't tell him where the "Rabbit's Foot" is. Right now, we don't know what he's talking about. Ethan tells him that he thought he gave him this "Rabbit's Foot" and tells him that he honestly doesn't know where it is. Owen gets mad and gives him until the count of 10 or else he shoots his wife. Ethan then begs him not to and says he doesn't know where it is. Before Ethan knows it, Owen reaches 10. We are then taken to the beginning where Ethan and Julia aren't even married yet, but are currently dating. We could see that they are in love and that Ethan and Julia love each other very much. We then see that Ethan is retired from IMF, which stands for the Impossible Mission Force. He is then asked back by an agent named John Musgrave (Billy Crudup) to rescue an agent who is a very close friend to Ethan named Lindsay Farris (Keri Russell) who was caught during a mission. Ethan doesn't want to go back to the field, but he knows he has to because Lindsay was like a sister to him. During the mission, he is reunited with his old partner Luther Stickel (Ving Rhames) and newcomers Zhen (Maggie Q) and Declan (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). During the mission, they rescue her, but she dies from a mysterious explosive planted in her head. They also find that it is the fault of Owen Devlan, who is an illegal dealer who sells very powerful weapons. Owen is also a man IMF has been after but has also failed at attempts to catch him. Ethan finds that it is his duty to catch Owen Devlan and find out what this "Rabbit's Foot" is. Don't worry, I didn't spoil anything from that synopsis, that all happens in the beginning. What I loved about this Mission: Impossible is how the whole story connects, which I found very smart. I also loved the beautiful and spectacular action scenes. I'm not saying Mission: Impossible 3 is a great movie, but it is a good action movie that does no harm. Although the ending was a bit predictable, I still recommend this action flick for anyone who has a thirst for explosions and shootouts on top of a decent spy story. My grade for Mission: Impossible 3: B

During The Sentinel, I couldn't help feeling that the whole problem with Michael Douglas' character being accused for treason could have been solved if anyone just used a little intelligence. The Sentinel just felt pointless, stupid, predictable, and very pointless by the unsurprising ending. The movie is also very unrealistic. Although the movie was sometimes smart, it ended up being a dull political thriller. The main character in the film is Secret Service agent Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas). Pete is a good and kind old-fashioned man who's looking foward to retirement soon. But Pete has also been doing a sin because he has been sleeping with Sarah Ballentine (Kim Basinger), the first lady. When a mysterious person blackmails Pete, because he claims he has proof of him having an affair with the first lady, Sarah tells Pete to do what he says. At the same time, the Secret Service find themseleves trying to solve who has been threatening to assassinate the President of the United States by sending disturbing letters to the White House. Agents David Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland) and Jill Marin (Eva Longoria) are assigned to the case. Oh yeah, Pete Garrison and David Breckinridge used to be best friends until David accused Pete of sleeping with his now ex-wife. Jill Marin is good friends with Pete and Pete recommended her to go to David Breckinridge for training to become a Secret Service agent. At the same time, there has been mysterious murders of agents. Pete is told to meet a coffee shop to give the mysterious person who has photos of him and the first lady fooling around and give him an amount of money. When Pete finally gives up because the person never shows up, he is then accused for treason and a planning to assassinate the president by none other than David Breckinridge, a man who hates his guts. What leads up to the signs: Pete acting all shaky, Pete going off work, Pete giving mysterious unidentified phone calls, and Pete meeting at the hangout of some gang, which is the coffee shop. Because Pete doesn't want to tell the true story of him sleeping with the first lady, he decides to make some dramatic exit by escaping and proving his innocence, which then starts useless yelling and useless shootouts. Going back to my very first sentence, do you now see why all this could've been solved if anyone just used a little intelligence? Here, if Pete or Sarah just told the authorities that they were having an affair, all of this would've been solved instead of watching Michael Douglas running around like an olympic runner in unrealistic shootouts. Yes, the President of the United States would've hated Pete and probably divorced Sarah, but guess what, Pete is sleeping with the first lady, what does he think was going to happen. Oh, the president and the first lady are not in love anymore, so I doubt he would be surprised that his wife is having an affair with Kirk Douglas' son. That's the main reason why I hated The Sentinel, because it stupid and it had such a simple solution that no one in the movie thought of. Yes, and when we get to the ending, there's so much questions left up in the air and we are given a last and final shootout with characters I'm supposed to feel sympathy for, but I didn't. The Sentinel is an example of a pointless political thriller doesn't deliver the thrills at all. My grade for The Sentinel: D+

Back in 1999, my cousin made me play a new game that he reserved. He told me it's like Resident Evil, but better. I had no idea what it is (I wasn't a big game fan back then) only that when I opened the PS case, there were these weird and scary eyes looking at me. When my cousin put it in, I was introduced to a widower named Harry, and his daughter, Cheryl. Almost immediately, I found myself interested in the story. Although I didn't think it was better than Resident Evil, I thought it was far much scarier than Resident Evil, and it had a much better story. It was only a matter of time until we were introduced with a Silent Hill movie.

About 7 years later, here we are, a feature film based on the video game, Silent Hill. From the 1st paragraph, you can tell that I actually enjoyed the video game. I think we all know that video games being adapted into movies never work and every time, we always get really bad video game-based movies; and I can say that Silent Hill is another addition. If you played the original Silent Hill on the PS and then saw the commercial, you can already tell that they have changed a lot from the story, including the most obvious, Harry is now a married woman named Rose (Radha Mitchell). Cheryl's name is now Sharon (Jodelle Ferland), and a character that wasn't even in the game: Rose's husband, Christopher (Sean Bean). The movie changed the story from the game a lot, I mean a lot. After a while, I just grew to accept it because I couldn't really do anything. I mean, they kept some of the things, but not enough. Rose is taking her daughter, Sharon to Silent Hill because Sharon always has sleepwalks and wanders off saying the words "Silent Hill." Christopher, Rose's husband, says they should get her help, but Rose thinks differently as she whisks her daughter away and takes her to the unknown Silent Hill, because she has to know. Sharon claims she doesn't even remember having sleepwalks and saying Silent Hill, but Rose feels that she needs to take Sharon there because there is something left unanswered. As Rose is driving to Silent Hill, she is stopped by a police officer named Cybil Bennett (Laurie Holden). When Rose is stopped, she sees the road sign for Silent Hill, she feels that she cannot take the risk of going to the police station, so she fastens her seatbelt and drives off. Cybil gets on her bike and immediately starts chasing her. Rose finds that Cybil is catching up, not paying attention, Rose sees a mysterious little girl on the road, and immediately twists the car so she wouldn't run over the little girl. Several hours pass, and she finds her car is not scratched, but finds the front door open and her daughter gone. Not knowing what to do, she walks off and is welcomed to Silent Hill. At the same time, her husband, Christopher, finds she drove off to Silent Hill, but finds that the town is on the list for most famous ghost towns, so he goes off looking for her. In all, Silent Hill is not that good of a movie, in fact, I really hated it. I think it's official, a video game can never be made into a good, or even decent film. The movie was just kind of boring, and it even gave me a headache. I noticed the camera angles in the movie tried to be a lot like the camera angles in the video game, which didn't work well at all. It gave all us movie viewers a headache. I know this is a long-awaited movie, and I also know that it was not well worth the wait. Another thing that was bad was the performances by everyone. All the acting performances were horrible. All the actors in the film aren't horrible, in fact, they're great actors (especially Radha Mitchell and Sean Bean), but this isn't their movie. I don't know who could of done better, but I definitely know that the cast isn't very good. In fact, I didn't really believe the performances. Although, I do have to admit that some of the environments and creatures did look very familiar. In fact, the environments in the film were absolutely stunning and beautiful, but the movie just seemed empty. I can't say that this is one of the worst video game-based movies because there hasn't been a good video game-based movie. Even this new story seemed uninteresting and had a horrible twist. You have to accept that the movie's story is almost entirely different from the video game's story, and the movie's story is a flop. Finally, the worst part of the movie was probably the ending scene, it was stupid. In fact, the whole movie was just stupid and lame, and they should just stop adapting video games into movies because it doesn't work. As I said earlier in the review, it's just another addition to those stupid, lame, and disappointing video game adaptations. I don't recommend it at all; now if you love the games that much and you feel that you absolutely must see the movie, prepare to be let down. I would give Silent Hill a D.

American Dreamz is, at the most, a unique, bizzare, and very controversial film experience.  From the outside, American Dreamz may look like a simple and lightheatred movie, but from the inside, American Dreamz is a controversial comedic satire that refuses to stay shut about the United States today.  From the poster (above), you can probably see that American Dreamz is bringing you into the very bizzare world of American Dreamz.  It is a fictionalized America.  During the film, you will be asking yourself why this fictionalized America is exactly the same as the America we're living in right now.  The story of American Dreamz is actually quite confusing, but I will do the best in explaining it.  What does a big-time host, an immigrant from Pakistan, a dream-filled hopeful girl, and the president of the United States have in common?  They're all going to be on the reality show, American Dreamz.  Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant) is the host of American Dreamz and is very depressed and confused when he meets an the "insta-celebrity,"  Sally Kendoo (Mandy Moore).  Martin has the dream life, he has tons of money, the whole world seems to be in love with him, so why is he so unhappy?  Omer Obeidi (Sam Golzari), an immigrant from Pakistan, was just just kicked out of a terrorist camp since he is useless.  His dream is to become a signer, as he was caught sining showtunes in one of the tents.  The president of the United States, President Staton (Dennis Quaid) was just re-elected president of the United States, has finally realized that he has no idea what is happening in the world today.  He is highly unhappy and very confused in life, and feels that the country doesn't really love him.  Chief of Staff (Willem Dafoe) wants the president to get up and be happy, so he gets him up on a publicity tour to show him that the world still loves him.  On his publicity tour, this includes judging the finale of the hit reality show, American Dreamz.  I probably really can't say much more as it would ruin the entire movie.  All the characters in American Dreamz are confused about the world around them.  They all have dreams, but they also have many fears, as you'll get to learn about them during the movie.  I loved American Dreamz because it's a comedic satire of the world around us, and it actually manages to give all of us a sense of hope.  American Dreamz had me laughing out loud while staying in tune with the story.  American Dreamz is a rare film experience, it manages to have us laughing while staying in tune with the controversial topic.  This is probably one of the biggest surprises of the year.  It does start off a little slow, but it picks up later in the movie.  Other than that, I highly recommend American Dreamz.  It's a bizzare, offensive, hilarious, and often very smart look at America.  I would give American Dreamz a B.

This critically acclaimed tale of violence finally gets its due on DVD, but is it even that good?

Film Review: Despite its rave reviews, A History of Violence is way overrated. To be honest, I didn't even like the movie very much. I bought the DVD because I've been hearing that it was excellent. A History of Violence doesn't really work at anything. It fails at being a drama, it fails at being an action-thriller, whatever it wants to be, it's not. A History of Violence could of been a good movie, if it had better dialogue, better build-ups, better characters, a better motivation, and way better acting. It was also way too short for the story it was trying to tell. I could see where director, David Cronenberg was trying to go with here, but the movie just kind of sucks, and it's very stupid and corny, especially the action. Although, I do have to admit that the movie does contain some cool-looking gore, you seem to not really care for anything in this movie. It has a flawed story and it could of used more background. Like I said, the movie ended up being stupid and corny, from the corny acting, to the stupid dialogue. After A History was over, it felt pointless, I also felt that I wasted my time. Although it did have good action, it wasn't that good. Don't believe the reviews. I would give A History of Violence a C-.

Special Features Review: A History of Violence is only one disc and it has a generic cover, but don't let looks fool you. Despite A History of Violence being a disappointing movie, the special features are well worth a peek. It has several interesting special features including director's commentary and a in-depth documentary taking a look at the making of A History of Violence. It also has three other interesting featurettes, incuding the very interesting "Too Commercial for Cannes" which is a look at when director David Cronenberg went to release this at the Cannes film festival. There are also side special features including deleted scenes and theatrical trailers, and a couple of previews for other movies. Despite A History of Violence being a bad movie, the special features were actually kind of interesting. I would give the special features of A History of Violence a B+.

Final Comments: Ok, the movie is horrible, and I gave it a C-, the only good things in the movie was the gore, other than that, it's a dumb, corny, and very pointless movie. I actually have more convincing flaws to the movie, but it includes spoilers. The special features are great and it is very interesting, despite the movie being bad. The case is not that great, there is no slipsleeve, it's just a plain DVD case. The audio and picture quality is pretty good, it's not bad. The DVD disc is actually pretty cool-looking, it's the barrel of a gun. Although the special features, audio, and picture is pretty good, I say you shouldn't buy this still, those reasons don't take the fact that the movie is bad.

Final Grade for the DVD of A History of Violence DVD: C+.

Here is a recap of the past Scary Movie films and what I thought about each of them:

1) Scary Movie (B-)

2) Scary Movie 2 (B)

3) Scary Movie 3 (C-)

I can say that it is official: the Scary Movie movies have ran out of juice.  Scary Movie 4 is the the worst Scary Movie out of all 4.  I think we can all remember when Scary Movie was actually funny, you know the ones that have the Wayans brothers involved in it.  Scary Movie 4 spoofs many films such as Saw, The Grudge, Brokeback Mountain, War of the Worlds, The Village, Million Dollar Baby, and much more.  To my surprise, they didn't spoof as much movies as they did the other films.  Of course, Scary Movie 4 continues the life of Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) and her very bizzare life.  That's all the story, you should know if you watched the other movies.  She falls for Tom Ryan (Craig Bierko), who of course is really Tom Cruise.  You want to know one thing: there were probably hundreds of jokes in this movie, and I only laughed three times total, yes I remember.  I was so bored in the theatre, this film had joke after joke, and almost all of them were lame, and most importantly unfunny.  I'm sorry, some of the jokes even went on for too long of a time, even when they started out unfunny.  You want to know the tradgic part, I saw many talented actors waste their time and get humiliated in Scary Movie 4.  A couple of examples include Charlie Sheen talking a whole bottle of Viagra pills and washing it down with vodka, James Earl Jones getting run over by a bus, Leslie Neilsen getting his clothes zapped (and we get the pleasure of looking at his rear end), Bill Pullman getting his nuts wacked by Carmen Electra, and last but not least, great actress Cloris Leachman getting bathed in her own pee by Anna Faris.  Wow, just wow, I think the reputation of all these fine actors were burned after Scary Movie 4.  I'm sorry, but that Brokeback Mountain joke was probably the lamest joke ever, everyone needs to stop saying that was funny because it wasn't.  The Million Dollar Baby joke was also very, very, very lame.  In fact, that's the word to describe this crap movie: lame.  I mean, I laughed three times, that is not even close to good.  You know,  I actually had a better time at Date Movie then I did at Scary Movie 4.  I had no fun whatsoever at Scary Movie 4, in fact, I really wanted to walk out of this movie.  Scary Movie 4 felt lame, generic, unfunny, and very unsatisfying.  I would give Scary Movie 4 a D.

Another CGI animation film of 2006 hits theatres, and it's Disney's The Wild. The Wild accomplishes one thing that I thought I wouldn't see: an animated film that is more lame than Ice Age: The Meltdown from earlier this year. Again, Disney takes a hit at CGI without the help of Pixar. Let's face it: Disney cannot make a decent CGI animated film without Pixar. Before you read any further, I want you to remember another CGI movie: Madagascar. Think, it's that one with Ben Stiller and Chris Rock, do you remember the story? That movie was also horrible, but just take a little time to remember it. Disney's The Wild is almost exactly the same as Dreamworks' Madagascar. Why? It's about animals in the New York Zoo who go to the wild, it may not be Madagascar, but it sure feels like it, and it's even worse. The Wild is about a lion named Samson, who is the king of the New York Zoo because he grew up in the wild and knows of the harsh realities outside the zoo. His son, Ryan, looks up to him, but his son is not as tough, in fact, his roars sound like cat purrs. Everyone laughs at him, his dad, Samson, doesn't know what to do. One night, after an argument between Samson and Ryan, Ryan decides to run away. Right at the last minute, he decides he doesn't want to go anymore, but unfortunately, the trucks close, and he's off to the wild. Samson sees his son, and decides he has to go after him. So, Samson the lion, along with a group, including a giraffe, an anaconda, a koala, and a squirrel, all team up to find Ryan. Please forgive me, I forgot some almost all of the names from the movie, and each actor portraying them. The cast is only ok, it includes Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, William Shatner, Janeane Garofalo, and a couple of more people. The story, as I just explained, is very lame and unoriginal. How many animated films have we seen that have a father looking for his missing son, it's so unoriginal. There were a lot of jokes in The Wild. Do you want to know how many times I laughed? The answer is zero times. That's right, this movie didn't make me laugh, giggle, or at least go ha ha. Every joke made during The Wild were unoriginal and very unfunny. So, since the story was lame, stupid, and predictable and the laughs were a zero, I guess that makes a very boring movie. I mean, take this, there were a lot of children in the theatre, they all cried during the movie because they were bored. I even some children begging their parents for the movie to be over. I wanted to cry along with them, especially for me spending over $9 to see it. The only, and I repeat, only good thing in this movie was the beautiful animation. I think it's actually one of the best-looking CGI-animation films I've ever seen. Other than that, it's just another lame, boring, unfunny, and inexcusable piece of CGI trash. I would give The Wild a D-.

I would say that The Benchwarmers is very stupid, but I'm not going to go around insulting a movie for something it was trying to be.  In fact, you should know by now that The Benchwarmers is supposed to be stupid.  To my biggest surprise, The Benchwarmers isn't as bad as I expected, in fact, it wasn't even horrible, but it's still an unsatisfying experience.  The film is about three people named Gus (Rob Schneider), Richie (David Spade), and Clark (Jon Heder).  They're three grown unathletic guys that feel bored with life.  Gus gets his trio of friends together to play baseball on the neighborhood diamond just for old times sake.  When they get there, they find bullys picking on innocent little children.  Gus get stand it, so he challenges them to a little game of baseball.  The problem is that there's only like three of them.  Somehow, they still win, and they find that they took a stand for the little guy, they all felt great about it.  In a matter of time, they're discovered by billionaire, Mel (Jon Lovitz) who gets them together to make a baseball team.  Gus, Richie, and Clark agree to make a team.  The only one with a problem is Gus, whose wife wants a child.  Later in the film, Gus finds that his hidden past is coming back to him, and it may cost the whole team of the Benchwarmers.  I think it's a little scary when Rob Schneider is actually playing the "normal" one out of the bunch; he's the realistic one.  Richie and Clark are the "abnormal" ones and are created strictly for laughs.  I think the funniest one out of the bunch is Richie played by David Spade because he says the funniest lines and he sometimes compares some situations to movies, because he works at a video store, which I love.  Jon Heder's character, Clark, is just downright annoying and unfunny.  He's actually a boring character.  Jon Heder can't seem to get any parts that have Napoleon Dynamite lines on it.  I mean, almost every line we hear from Jon's mouth in The Benchwarmers we've heard in Napoleon Dynamite, and I just tired of it after a while.  For the jokes, I'll be honest, I did get my fair share of laughs in the theatre.  Of course, there were probably more bad jokes than good jokes, but there were still some funny jokes that have priceless moments.  I think the biggest flaw of the movie is probably the storyline.  In fact, the movie seemed to almost have no story during the first 40 minutes.  Finally, when the story came up, the movie tried to throw you an emotional and dramatic sentiment near the ending.  I hate that when a comedy all of a sudden turns into a drama, why can't a comedy just ever stay a comedy?  Also, the film failed at trying to give an encouraging message at the ending.  Other than that, I still recommend this movie on video if you have nothing else to do.  You're bound to laugh a little at this mediocre comedy.  I have seen better comedies than The Benchwarmers, but this one is only ok, it was nothing special.  I would give The Benchwarmers a C.

If someone asked me to describe Lucky Number Slevin to me, I'd tell them it's a fast, bizzare, unpredictable, but unsatisfying movie experience.  From the first sentence, you probably can't tell if I liked or hated the movie.  The truth is, there was a little of both, the sad news is that there was more bad than good in this movie.  Lucky Number Slevin is a witty but wannabe slick crime noir that we've seen too many times.  The cast is a dream, from Morgan Freeman to Bruce Willis to Sir Ben Kingsley, there's a lot of talent in a movie that doesn't have a lot of potential.  Although this movie was an unoriginal idea, I still enjoy these type of movies, if it's done right.  I'm just going to say it now: this is probably the closest you're going to get to a Quentin Tarantino film that's not a Quentin Tarantino film.  From the weirdness right down to its fast and witty dialogue, it has Tarantino written all over it.  The bad thing is that I felt the director, Paul McGuigan did a horrible job at directing.  I felt like I was watching a film from Tony Scott, Terry Gilliam, Quentin Tarantino all combined.  The problem is that this director never thinks of his own things, he just copies a bunch of other directors, which is bad.  The story has stories and stories packed on top of the basic story, but I'll just tell you the basic story.  The movie is about a man named Slevin (Josh Hartnett), and Slevin is having a really bad day.  First, he gets fired, next he catches his girlfriend sleeping with another man, than he gets mugged, along with his nose getting broken in the process.  His friend invites him up to New York to forget his problems, so Slevin goes to find his friend's apartment door open.  So, Slevin makes himself comfortable and eventually meets the girl next door, Lindsey (Lucy Liu).  In a case of mistaken identity, he finds two gangsters looking for a man named Nick Fisher, which is the name of his friend who invited him.  The gangsters just end up picking him up instead, because they don't believe him.  They do ask for ID, but Slevin just got mugged that day, so he has no proof he's actually Slevin.  During the time, he finds himself in a crime war between The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley).  Why do they call him The Rabbi?  It's because he's a Rabbi.  On top of that, he finds that a trailed by a infamous assassin (Bruce Willis) and detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci).  That's the basic plot of Lucky Number Slevin, there's a lot more to the story, but I'm afraid if I say much more, it might spoil the experience.  There are things I liked out of the film, including the performances, the dialogue, and the very unpredictable ending.  I have to admit, even though I didn't like the film very much, the ending caught me off guard, which brought my grade up a lot.  Then there are things I didn't like, including the unoriginality and the very poor directing job done on this film.  I guarantee you that during the first half hour, you will have no idea what is happening in the film except that the words "Kansas City Shuffle" has something to do with the story.  Although there were a lot of flaws, this is a film worth seeing, only if you're a fan of Quentin Tarantino and are craving to see anything like this, then I say to go see it.  For me, I like Quentin Tarantino, but even though there were good things in this movie, I find myself very bored with this unoriginal idea, and the story sometimes went all over the place, but the biggest problem are probably the dull scenes scattered throughout the movie.  Other than that, it's a flawed but worthy movie I still recommend only if you're a fan of Tarantino.  I would give Lucky Number Slevin a C+.

You know, there's a moment in life when you realize you are just not a little kid anymore.  For me, I encountered this moment while watching a dreadful film called Ice Age: The Meltdown.  I liked the first Ice Age film, I thought it was quirky and funny.  Do you know why the first Ice Age film was a hit?  It's because it had likeable characters and a real story.  It also had the right amount of that hyper and desperate Scrat who was always getting into trouble trying to get his precious accorn.  Ice Age: The Meltdown gets all the reasons we loved the first Ice Age, and automatically trashes it.  Ice Age: The Meltdown was a dreadfully boring and unfunny film with very little storytelling and way too much Scrat.  I mean, there was a Scrat scene after every other scene in the movie.  I bet that if you cut all the Scrat scenes out in this film, you would cut over 45 minutes of this movie out.  I'm not kidding, there was that much Scrat in the movie.  Again, we are introduced to Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo), and Diego (Denis Leary).  They are together in peace with a lot of other animals, until they realize that the surrounding is melting down.  So, all of the animals migrate and walk in the other direction.  That's probably about all the story you'll get out of the film.  Nothing was exciting in this movie, it was all stupid and boring, and the animation looked terrible, it looked worse than the first movie.  Oh yeah, during the walk along the Earth, they run into an unfunny wooly mammoth named Ellie (Queen Latifah) who thinks she's a possum because of her two wild and very unfunny brothers (who are by the way possums voiced by Josh Peck and Seann William Scott).  The movie is just scenes of all of them walking, another Scrat scene, another scene of all of them walking, another Scrat scene, you should get the picture by now.  The film was not at all heartwarming and it was a big ugly-looking bore that was missing all the elements a good a cheery film needed.  The whole film just felt "recycled."  That means the whole film was unoriginal and it contained a lot of things we've seen from other movies.  The one thing that this film contained a lot of were jokes, and they were all bad, and very repetitive.  I mean, they repeated the same joke in different areas, thinking the audience wouldn't notice.  Before I walked into the theatre, I loved Scrat and his accorn.  Now, after seeing him too much in this film, I now hate Scrat.  Most of the Scrat sequences are the tv spots we've been seeing, it's nothing new, and yet the makers wtill think they can get away with it.  Scrat is a side joke, we shouldn't be seeing over 45 minutes of this little creature.  Here's my big mind-bobbling question: what happened to the humans?  There were humans in the first film, but none in this film.  Maybe the makers should of actually viewed first Ice Age again before they made the sequel.  I advise you to stay away from Ice Age: The Meltdown.  Just watch the first Ice Age, because that is an example of a good CGi movie, not this crummy and unfunny incomplete sequel.  I would give Ice Age: The Meltdown a D-.