Ice Age 2

The plot follows the structure of the previous episode. The big clues of the migration of the protagonists and the small clues of the squirrel and the pine nuts complement each other. As a result, the secondary line stole the limelight from the main line. The cleverness of this concept is that the major events in the play and the major turning points of the plot are actually caused by a small event, that is, the unintentional action of the squirrel. In this way, the drama and humor of the film are highlighted. Compared with the previous one, the plot of this one is relatively scattered, there is no neat dramatic structure, and the focus is mainly on the small burdens. That possum sang "I believe I can fly~" when it was ejected. I laughed so hard.
In the sequel, the screenwriters are often exhausted, and the common method is "there is not enough drama, let's make up the songs", keep singing and singing, and an hour has passed. Similar examples include The Lion King 2 and Beauty and the Beast. The latter has also become a classic.
Jiang Lang's talent is still present, the little squirrel is still cute, but at the end, the screenwriter really can't think of how cute it can be, and can't think of how to compete with the pine nuts, so he arranged a boring plot like dreaming, and also arranged After waking up from a dream, chasing after such a cliché and cliché ending is really boring. Such an idea is really not the same as the ending of the first episode. In the first part, the squirrel is knocking on the pine nuts at the beginning, and the result is big trouble; at the end, the squirrel is knocking on the pine nuts, the cracks in the glacier are getting bigger and bigger, and a bigger trouble seems to be coming. On the one hand, it responds from the beginning to the end, and on the other hand, it seems unfinished, leaving room for the audience's imagination.
Visually, I also prefer the first one. I don't like scenes with snow scenes in principle, this is purely a personal hobby. The animal shapes in the second film are also terrible. Those ugly monsters made me watch twice before I made up my mind to finish the movie. The warmth and humanitarianism of the first film are obviously more in line with my taste for sensationalism. Although the second film also has the righteousness and sincere love of saving species, there is not much focus on this in the film, and fun is the first priority. However, if fun and good-looking are not the first essentials of movies, what can be the first essentials of movies? Those meanings, realms, and realms are optional accessories, and they are also luxuries that can't be found.
I originally wanted to praise this movie, so I wrote it as I wrote it. An insomniac can't even praise people.

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