Is this movie a comedy, a family flick, an animated feature or a serious film depicting the end of the world???

Rating: 2/10 (14 February 2012)

I finally got the chance to see this film on TV a few weeks ago, and I'm glad that I got to see this one for free because I wouldn't pay a single penny to watch this in theatres or in home media.
This is your typical B movie: an average Joe starts out small and ends up becoming the hero saving the day, all the secondary and useless characters that the audience has no attachment to die, all the important characters survive, more action and CG than story and one of the protagonists scores with the hot girl. Oh, and of course the film is full of additional cheese and typical clichés.
2012 is a movie that cannot decide what kind of genre it is. Is it an animated feature? Because 90% of the movie seems to have been done by a computer software. Or is it a family comedy? Because most of the time the characters popped out stupid jokes in critical life threatening situations and the main family seemed to survive by a hair the most extreme and catastrophic situations...and joke casually about it afterwards...ugh...Or is it a serious film depicting the end of the world, which is quite a big deal if all this doomsday BS actually occurs, as 90% of the time you see cities being destroyed and people being crushed by the force of nature.
So there is serious drama and destruction going on and on top of that the characters with screen time pop the most useless and inappropriate jokes, avoid sure death and on top of that there is an overdose of unrealistic and exaggerated CG...yuck! This movie deserves no more than the minimum (1 star). However, this movie does somehow address the issue of social inequality, which is a theme I think deserves attention.
So 2/10.