Looks about right.

Rating: 8/10 (4 December 2009)

Just replace the science with what's actually happening, make the selfish bastards more selfish and a LOT more bastardly, add a major alien/UFO component, switch the big boats for vast underground bunkers/cities, ramp up the weirdness factor by including interactive levels of dimensional reality. . .
Actually, this film was the children's book version of population awareness preparedness. And what's wrong with that? --There's no giant dog, but "Clifford" was certainly a good way to introduce kids to literacy.
I actually enjoyed this film, which is saying something; I pretty much hated everything Emmerich has ever done. I find it curious that people are choosing NOW to get frustrated with his work. "Independence Day" was basically the same film as this, but everybody loved that honker. (A computer virus took down the aliens??? sigh.)
Perhaps the subject matter this time around cut a bit too close to home. You're all gonna die and the rich bastards are going to live and none of you are John Cusack. Maybe that was the problem. I don't know.
Anyway, as a thought-provoking super-simple children's myth of reality, this was pretty good.