Spectacular special effects but the biggest disaster is the humans

Rating: 6/10 (12 July 2010)

Whiny, annoying, preachy, with over the top ham handed idiocy for Glover, Harrelson, Cusack, and double for the President's daughter and that moron science adviser. I can hardly fault them for what was written into the script but a barf bag should have been provided for stunts like the President suddenly deciding to stay behind and the science adviser risking the survival of the human race for what was a drop in the bucket group when billions had already died.
Worth seeing for the utterly spectacular disaster special effects, even if many of them are tongue in cheek as when the novice pilot flies a plane through the collapsing buildings of Santa Monica. Still, much of it looks like it might actually look given some latitude on science and the unlikelihood of a tsunami cresting the Himalayas.
Somebody in the studios should get smart and release a version that spares us all the histrionics and keeps the special effects.