A Must See on the Big Screen! Fantastic! A Thrill Ride!

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2009)

200 Snazzes on the 100 Point Snazz-o-Scale. OFF THE CHARTS! "2012" is SUPERB. You must see it on the Big Screen for the special effects alone. Devastation unlike any ever put to film. Entire cities destroyed, great monuments toppled, and whole countries deluged with massive tidal waves. This movie has almost every disaster movie ever made. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves, the Titanic, the Poseidon Adventure. The characters are great. Cusack does a fine job as an everyman, a bit of a loser in fact. His wife Amanda Peet is lovely. His daughter Moragn Lily is adorable, weird, and very observant. Woody Harrelson does a great job as a pirate radio nut-job who knows what's really going down. And I think the best character is Oliver Platt as a government official who not only makes the hard decisions but has some great lines. "What did you think we were going to do, sit around holding hands and sing 'Kumbaya my Lord?'" Later when an accident cripples the American Ark. "Something went wrong? SOMETHING WENT WRONG?!? Are you kidding me?!?! Of course something went wrong!!!" Fun, funny, fantastic and realistic. Although only partially delved into in the movie, 2012 also brings about some great thoughts. Who would you save if the world were ending? WHAT would you save? How would you act if faced with certain death? What regrets would you have? 2012 is worth seeing for the special effects alone but it much more than that.