Worst movie I've seen in a VERY long time

Rating: 1/10 (31 December 2005)

Well, this is the sort of garbage you get to sit through when you go to visit your parents for Christmas and they rent a movie, coming home with something that was recommended to them by the video store clerk. "It has a lot of special effects" being the precise quote.
First off, it's an utterly run of the mill disaster flick. Every cliché known to modern man is piled on here. The main actor walks 40 miles through the blizzard of the century to save his kid, in a couple of days. His wife is a doctor who is willing to face certain death, just so she can be there with her little cancer patient. His son is so brilliant that his calculus teacher flunked him for excessive brilliance (It's more than a bit obvious that the people who wrote this never made it past 7th grade math). In the end, guess what? All the main characters survive. After causing the death of his buddies by making them go on this ludicrous trek, dad arrives to save his son, who doesn't need saving at all. They hug and dad announces that they'll spend more time together, you know, playing catch and stuff. Mom successfully finds an ambulance to drive hundreds of miles through 15 foot deep snow, and her little cancer patient survives, opening his eyes as the happy theme music swells in the background. For the love of god, this thing just sucks.
There are enough subplots to fill an extra large chamber pot, all of them sappy and idiotic and totally unbelievable.
The special effects are pretty lousy as well. Although the scene of New York getting hit with a massive tsunami looks okay in spots, it looks pretty bad in other spots. Most of the other special effects just scream COMPUTER GENERATED EFFECTS!!! There's even a pack of wolves running around that are obviously CGI.
As far as the science behind this "very serious" global warming propaganda piece from your left-wing liberal folks in Hollywood, well, there's really no sarcastic put-down that even comes close to summing up the idiocy of it all. As someone else said, it's like the aliens from Independence Day came back, this time armed with a big freeze ray. It makes one wonder - if the people who are running around yelling "the sky is falling" are really this utterly imbecilic when it comes to science, well, my god, why are we listening to this tripe?
I would recommend this movie only to people who say things like "I loved the new Star Wars trilogy. Jar Jar Binks was my favorite character!".