It's All In Good Fun

Rating: 7/10 (31 May 2004)

I'm sure you've heard all sorts of things... rumors about how cheesy the dialogue is, or the idea of "man-eating" wolves running loose in the streets of frozen over Manhattan. These are all true. The wolves don't actually EAT someone though... so that one is blown slightly out of porportion. As with any movie there are many factual errors. The ones in this movie are just in fun, so lighten up! This is a summer popcorn flick, and it does its job of entertaining. Even if there are parts where you want to say "yea right" and roll your eyes to (like when the tornadoes hit LA...), all-in-all if you want to see an icy independence day sans the aliens then you've got it. There's comedy (couple of lines delivered by Dash Mihok and a group of men stranded in Scotland), drama (come on, northern hemisphere ice age!), and of course no movie is complete without the romance (Gyllenhaal and Rossum).