Not to be taken literally, NOT to be taken lightly.

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2004)

Talk about hype for a movie, I had been excited to see this for months! I had been researching this topic at my University for a project we had to do.
While it is true that the information about the Atlantic Conveyor halting 10,000 years ago has been known since the late 1980s, it is only now when we are beginning to witness the effects of Global Warming that people are beginning to take notice. Unfortunately, not enough people seem to care about the factual implications of this very possible event. Although The Day After Tomorrow is VERY dramatized and some of the time lines (ehemm 6 weeks!!) are WAY off, it is an eye catcher of a film and may make people become aware of what has been happening. The producers of the film (if you look at the website you can see this) had created it not just to make profit but to bring this awareness to the public.
My only problem is, for those people not interested enough to investigate themselves, it looks just like Independence Day and not something to be taken seriously. Well, frankly, it should be taken seriously. It is important enough for the Pentagon to release a document to Bush telling him he needs to take action. In the document, the authors indicate that Bush should be putting this over the terrorism threat. Personally, if we are possibly facing a global ice age sometime in the next century (which is what the theory predicts) I believe we should be funding alternative energies far more than we are currently.
The Day After Tomorrow is not to be taken literally, nor is it to be taken lightly. You're interested, now look up the facts yourself.