![]() Picking up from where the surprise 2002 hit left off, three misfits, Manny the Mammoth (a giant elephant-like mastodon voiced by Ray Romano), Diego, the smylodon (saber-tooth tiger, Denis Leary) and a goofy three-toed sloth, Sid (John Leguizamo), are wandering through the late Pleistocene epoch. That's why it's as important as ever to have a deep, funny, coherent storyline to go with such technology. Otherwise, CGI, like the huge mammals of the newest 20th Century-Fox feature, "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown," seems to rule the known universe. ![]() The only recent exceptions being the intricately-drawn works of Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away," "Howl's Moving Castle") the stop-action efforts of Tim Burton ("Nightmare Before Christmas," "The Corpse Bride") and the silly claymation magic of Steve Box and Nick Park ("Wallace & Gromit"). Other movies such as "Shrek," "A Shark's Tale," "Finding Nemo," "Monster's Inc.," "Robots," "Toy Story II," "Valiant," "Chicken Little" and countless others have used this technology ad nauseam. Originally published on March 28, 2006: Computer-graphic illustration has pretty much taken over all animation feature films since "Toy Story," "A Bug's Life" and "Antz" arrived on the scene in 1996-97.
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