There's nothing too wrong with this movie

Rating: 8/10 (15 November 2009)

The question is, what's important if your world's coming to an end? Family comes to mind and the movie doesn't disagree. But this movie isn't really about answering that question; it's about having fun with the sheer spectacle of it. If it were really serious I'd immediately stage a protest for some of its politically correct answers. As it is it's easy to imagine yourself thinking some of these scenes through. It had to have been fun to do as many are wonderfully detailed and thought through. And that's where most of this movie's good times are. It's in the wildly lurid and imaginative scenes of mass destruction. All the leads and the supporting actors do quite well in selling the scenes and their reactions. But this is dessert and not a main meal.
In our case, my wife and I decided to travel 45 minutes to get to the area's largest screen and best sound system. We made a day of it yesterday afternoon and were not disappointed. It's a bit goofy but mostly fun. Go see and buy some popcorn.