The Vidiot Reviews...

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 2010)

2012
If you ask me, this whole end times hubbub is just a ruse concocted by a surreptitious group of anti-calendar rabble-rousers, orchestrated to prevent the populace from keeping their hair, brunch and mani/pedi appointments.
Unfortunately, this foreboding film doesn't address theories of a week-less world, but a temperature spike in the Earth's core instead.
When solar winds throw the planet's crust out of whack, causing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions all over the world, a writer (John Cusack) must get his ex-wife (Amanda Peet), their children, and her boyfriend to the Himalayas, where 400,000 people have been selected to board an armada of exclusive survival arks.
Inspired by the Mayan Doomsday Prophecy, 2012 is a schmaltzy, pseudo-inspirational disaster movie about making amends with estranged family members before the end.
However, in a real apocalyptic situation, that reparation would simply be a trick to get more fresh meat into the fallout bunker. (Red Light)