Super-Duper cornball action fun!

Rating: 7/10 (4 March 2010)

Very funny film...and one of the most predictable movie you've already seen (besides the special effects)..
The dialogue is silly and manipulative....But it's a silly & manipulative disaster film what did one expect....A typical feel good movie with explosions and the earth all but destroyed.
So if you go in expecting an action, love story, family lovey-dovey get back together in the end, with great special effects this is exactly what you got...entertaining cornball stuff.
A fun predictable movie if you simply just go along for the ride and don't bring a thinking mind along with you.
Roger Ebert says it best...
"Like all the best disaster movies, it's funniest at its most hysterical. You think you've seen end-of-the-world movies? This one ends the world, stomps on it, grinds it up and spits it out.
The bottom line is: The movie gives you your money's worth. Is it a masterpiece? No. Is it one of the year's best? No. Does Emmerich hammer it together with his elbows from parts obtained from the Used Disaster Movie Store? Yes. But is it about as good as a movie in this genre can be? Yes"
I love the line, "Used Disaster Movie Store" perfect, so many clichés and formula story lines right out of the Used Disaster Movie Store...Still, great inventive special effects.