Great, senseless ultimate disaster popcorn movie

Rating: 8/10 (30 November 2009)

I saw the trailer, and I knew exactly what I could expect from this movie. I deliberately made the choice to see this film in a cinema, on the big screen en and the hard noise coming from huge speakers. Hello people, it's Roland Emmerich, you know, the guy who make's these huge disaster movie's! (And I do not mean disastrous as in 'bad')
And it was everything I expected. Not more, and for sure not less. I hoped for 158 minutes of entertainment and I got just that. I also knew that I really, really, really not should think during this movie, I knew that there would be plot holes the size of - well - Earth, I knew that the characters would be two-dimensional but recognizable and easy to bond with.
As I said, really do NOT think for a second. The plot (While earth is being fried a father/ex husband is trying to save his family) is basically one plot-hole after the other. Nothing really makes sense. Every scene about illogical as can be. I went to see this movie with a friend, and just for fun we started to name the various plot holes. We had a very enjoyable evening since we had more than enough material to talk about. And new plot holes just kept coming up!
But to tell you the truth: who cares. The plot is basically there to connect the various stages (the first sign's, the bigger sign's, the really huge sign, all of earth) and sorts of destruction (Earthquake, volcano's, tsunamis) of Earth. And the film does just that with superb computer graphics. Really, do not believe those who say that the computer graphics where bad. This is 2009, it's Roland Emmerich, the guy really does know how to use a computer.
So, the film was cheesy, the characters where cheesy, the music was cheesy, the plot is cheesy but the film delivered what I expected: 158 minutes of pure entertainment delivered best in a movie theater. It fits perfectly in a line with Independence Day, Armaggeddon, fifth element, and the like. Nobody is asking that these films are logical, really not, but they need to be able to entertain me while I am watching. Those film's did it, 2012 did it as well.
I am giving this film 8 stars as it is a does exactly what I was expecting from this movie (pure entertainment) for it's genre (disaster movie).