Holy Wooly Mammoth, Batman!

Rating: 6/10 (8 June 2004)

Greetings again from the darkness. This could have been titled "The Poseidon Adventure's Towering Inferno on the Day after Independence Day". Cliched special effects with lousy script and mostly lousy characters from director Roland Emmerich who delivered the same with "Independence Day" and "Godzilla". Dennis Quaid is totally miscast as a super scientist dad to wunderkind Jake Gyllenhaal. Best performance comes from Emmy Rossum (Sean Penn's daughter in "Mystic River"). Did enjoy the tribute to "Planet of the Apes" (Statue of Liberty), but most of the special effects were beyond belief and not all that special. As with most mediocre movies, the real problem lies in the weak script. I kept waiting for Gene Hackman to show up and yell "If you want to live, follow me up this giant upside down Christmas tree". In the mode of the movie, I have very little else to say.