Visual Trip down clichéd lane

Rating: 6/10 (28 May 2004)

To be perfectly honest the two things that first went through my head after seeing this movie and was allowed to think again is that director Roland Emmerich must really hold a grudge against New York, being that this is, I believe, 3rd movie destroying the city (previous ones being Independence Day and Godzilla) and the other is that he really enjoys bringing broken families together again as hes done that in several of the movies that he has written/directed. Now as for Day After Tomorrow, the best advice that i can give a person is to go out to dinner, have a big meal, a few drinks, then come see it. Now that you have been able to suspend any rational thought and just focus on the special effects you will at least fool yourself into thinking that you are seeing a good, suspenseful movie even if its not the case. The acting was clichéd, the story clichéd, but the special effects were truly remarkable and honestly i would recommend seeing it on a big screen just to truly experience it.
its a fun/campy movie with very cool special effects but weighed down by so many clichés (many of which he helped establish) that it makes it a bit harder to sit back and just enjoy.