best movie ever: ice age 2

so my family has a very tried and true christmas ritual. we don't change out of our PJs all day and we just watch movies. now in the past, my mom and sister have dominated this ritual with these terribly sappy made for tv movies where there is invariably a single/widowed/divorced parent and some sort of christmas wish by a child and a christmas miracle and the parent falls in love with some great future parent for the child. oh, or the year they gave jenny the BBC version of "pride & prejudice" and we spent the whole damned day watching that. i still haven't quite forgiven them.

well, i'm the only kid in town this year, and the tv guide said that "borrowed hearts" wasn't on this year (thank god. i think my dad and i might have doctored the tv guide to get out of watching it.), so today we watched ice age and ice age 2, neither of which i had seen before, and both of which are great.

but ice age 2: the meltdown is hysterical. i don't know who came up with the idea of a mammoth that thinks it's a possum, but it is SHEER COMIC GENIUS! oh god i loved it. i recommend it highly. i mean, A MAMMOTH THAT THINKS IT'S A POSSUM?!?! comic gold, my friends. comic gold.