OK, let me throw in MY little complaint about the movie.

Rating: 3/10 (4 January 2005)

Granted, the whole massive-climate-change thing is ludicrous, the hike to New York on what must be at least 30 feet of snow is crazy, and the huge waves that come into Manhattan without doing much damage to the buildings is unrealistic.
BUT, what I want to know is this: Why do people freeze so fast? The air can't be THAT cold. Cold air has to come from somewhere, it's not just manufactured by elves down in caves somewhere. The coldest air available to be swept down into the lower latitudes would be polar air, which rarely gets cold enough to freeze exposed skin instantly and kill a person. Even if we got some butt-freezing arctic air, it would be warmed at least a little by ambient ground temperature, the Atlantic Ocean, and the little bit of sunlight that gets through the cloud cover. But that's OK because Dennis Quaid seems to be immune to it anyway.
** out of *****