A few billion dead people, and a f***ing happy end?!

Rating: 2/10 (19 February 2012)

If there were a belittlement of the film "2012", then it would probably be "The Day After Tomorrow". Indeed there is no tidal wave going over the Himalaya, but a completely frozen New York has nothing to do with the reality. You can call it a minimized version of the disaster movie "2012". In the following review I will show you the most important aspects of the doomsday movie "The Day After Tomorrow".
"The Day After Tomorrow" was directed and produced by Roland Emmerich. The main actors in the film were Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum. The film deals with natural disasters change like tornadoes, tidal waves, hurricanes, etc.. This disasters were caused on account of the climate change and the tearing off the Gulf stream. Furthermore there is the climatologist Jack Hall who wants to warn and evacuate the people in the USA. Moreover his son Sam and his classmates are in New York fighting to survive the beginning of a new ice time.
This is part is relative realistic in contrast to the rest of the story. Well, a helicopter freeze while it's flying, but people can survive in a completely frozen library by burning some books?
In first place the effects look really impressive, but you can see immediately that it is only animated. One example is the huge tidal wave in New York which is so extreme slow that the people can easy go to their cars, get their baggage, save some stuck families and reach the library. No problem.
Indeed the message is creditably, but the implementation is so overdrawn, that the film seems ridiculous. Thus, naturally the message gets lost too.
At least the music, camera work and the setting is well-chosen. A good scene to show that is the opening in the Arctic. As well as the location, the music is very epic and the camera looks like it is flying over the white landscape.
In conclusion I can say that there was done a good job on the secondary aspects like music or camera work. However the substance of film, like the story, connection to the reality or the effects are abysmally poor and exaggerated. So if you don't use your brain and do not want to watch a film with a deep meaning, then "The Day After Tomorrow" is the perfect movie for you. Definitely only for your eyes.