Ice Age 2: Meltdown

I watched the movie "Ice Age 2: Meltdown" last night.  It's an interesting animation movie. I've watched the Ice Age 1 before, but not the sequel.

In this movie, Manny found his love and Sid got a lot of followers.

The main plot of the 2 is still a long journey of the friends to seek for an escape of the basin, which will be flooded by the melting ice surround. They met two opossums and another female mammoth Ellie who thought she is an opossum as well. Manny felt the responsibility to save his race and he fell in love with Ellie. The journey is filled with funny stories happened between these two groups and Manny's pursuit of his love, maybe the only possible love. He finally won the heart of Ellie at the end of the movie by saving the life of Ellie from an enclosed cave.

There are also evil part in the movie, but not much. Only two stupid seemingly strong fishes. Anyway, this movie is good for kids, so there shouldn't be much violence.

Sid had a show in this movie as he got a group of followers who worship his ability of making fires. There isn't much show of Diego in this movie.  I thought he had enough performance in the first one anyway.

I read an article the other day about the sequel of movie.  It said that based on two studies of university professors, the sequel movie will usually make 30% more money than a standalone one. It makes sense to me as Hollywood will only create the sequel of a box office winner, not a loser.  So, it already has a good chance of winning again, as the first one has gathered some fans already.