ICE AGE 2- Bollywood style

Recently I had been to Chennai and my NUS friends made plans to watch Ice Age 2 at their multiplex Satyam. I had already watched the movie after the Physics exam on the computer but thought it would be worth watching it in the theatre with all the sound effects and all. So was sitting next to Anu and Magesu. The seat behind us had a little boy who had an extremely weird laugh, kind of like a snort and a grunt mixed and Anfield and his friends erupted into a laugh whenever he laughed at a kiddy joke! That was the only source of entertainment aside from the movie which was now boring because I knew the twists and the comic timings of the movie. Then came the scene when the mammoths were in the thicket and Ellie the female mammoth started realizing that she was a mammoth and not an opossum. That is when Manny (I think it is spelt that way) goes around to comfort her (awww). That awww was the first thing on my mind for that perfect romantic moment when it was interrupted by Magesu’s vicious laugh. Anu and I turned to him and he says to me,”Hahaha! This is so typically Bollywood! Hero and heroine running around between the trees trying to romance. Hahaha!” Anu and I went berserk at the way he said it. He even went on to describe how the two monsters in the water can act as villains and separate the two love birds… erm love-mammoths from each other!
That is when I had the bright idea of this post. Here are a few observations we made that make Ice Age 2 a typical Bollywood flick!!!

• The mammoths in a thicket
• The hero and heroine meet by chance. They end up fighting and bickering in the beginning, which slowly turns into LOUUUUUVE!!
• Two family members who want to prevent the blossoming of this love (the two opossums! Ok not a great factor, but yeah well it counts!)
• Song sequences in the middle of the movie-Food, Glorious food…
• Villains- the two gross creatures in the water under the ice sheets and the vultures flying in the sky
• Multi-star cast which is the new fashion in Bollywood with supporting actors- Sid and Diego
• The comedian like Johny Lever or Paresh Rawal- that little sabertooth squirrel that kept coming and going out of the frame.
• Lastly, like a typical Bollywood comedy with slapstick humour
  

I feel like a movie critic but a more creative one at that. Muhahahahaha! Go watch the movie and tell me if u observe anything more… And Hollywood says we copy their storylines... Phooey!!