An utter, incomprehensive, stupid, mundane disaster!!!

Rating: 2/10 (18 November 2009)

I really am not able to understand all the craze about this movie, its a 'disaster film' guys! I accompanied my friends to this film since I had nothing else to do and at least thought that this would be an entertaining, brainless fun movie but it turned out to be utterly stupid and silly, even though I do remember locking my brains in the car when I left for the movie.
The movie is very tiring , almost 158 minutes long, stretching into nothingness, because of which you don't care whether people are are dying or crying. I and my friends were cracking hilarious and vulgar jokes during the second half once we the movie had dehydrated us with its stupidity.
Apart from the length, the movie fails at many levels. The script is flat, filled with dumb jokes filled at odd places. For example, when the main cast enters the Russian plane to escape from the catastrophe behind them, the boy suddenly gazes in wonder at the cars and exclaims "Wow!" and the Russian man who owns the plane says haughtily "Its Russian". For god sake, half the world is dying behind you and you are in utmost peril and you wait to tell about cars. This is one of the many 'jokes' in the movie.
The actors too play complete stereotypes. For example, a failed, divorced author whose wife still has feelings for him but has another man in her life and the son who loathes the father but shows his affection during complicated times and the worst, an eccentric who somehow knows about what the government is planning ( How he knows about it isn't told) and keeps warning people in a crazy manner the world is going to end.
Acting too is not great with John being too dull (lifeless eyes), the wife being forgettable and the rest of the cast aren't even extraordinary. But I didn't care much about the acting, since I know its a disaster movie. The special effects are grand but highly exaggerated.
A bad movie that people are blowing out of proportion ( some of my classmates think it is the best movie ever. HA HA HA!) 2 out of 10.