Enjoyable disaster film, but there are a lot of flaws.

Rating: 6/10 (17 April 2006)

The Day After Tomorrow tells us about why global warming is bad. In a sped up time frame, we are shown as global warming causes weather impossibilities all over the world, cultivating in a giant super storm that covers 3/4 of North America in ice.
The movie starts out good, establishing characters and adding some emotional drama into the budding story. The special effects are amazing when the storms start to happen, and it's almost worth the price of an admission ticket. The tidal wave hitting New York was obviously the climax of the whole film, and it was amazing. We focus on a group of survivors fighting to stay alive in the freezing New York Public Library and on the rescue effort on the way to save them.
Unfortunately, this movie resembles a TV disaster film way too much toward the end. What I mean is that throughout the whole movie, it is predicted that the super storm will get larger and larger, and realistically, the entire cast should die and the world should be in ruins. Instead, only North America is destroyed, and the storm just clears itself up, no problem. Also, everybody lives. Just a little ridiculous. Also, Dennis Quaid's acting is only worthy of a TV movie. Everybody else in the movie like newcomer Emmy Rossum and relative newcomer Jake Gyllenhall does a good job.
Overall, this is an enjoyable movie, but don't expect it to be the most amazing film you've ever seen.
6.5/10