Come Back Irwin Allen, All Is Forgiven

Rating: 5/10 (9 June 2004)

Global disaster--now that's entertainment. Even if you haven't seen a disaster flick since the heyday of Irwin Allen, you know the plot of "The Day After Tomorrow"--global catastrophe brings cardboard-cutout people closer together and doth make the box office's heart grow fonder.
Yes, things do, indeed, get destroyed real good in this movie, but does it truly take us "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure"? Will it create a "Swarm" of business at the box office, or will it go up like a "Towering Inferno," or plunge to the depths on a "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (which was a disaster flick before it became a cheesy sci-fi TV series)? Will I keep working in titles of other Irwin Allen movies until "The Day Time End[s]"? (Well, "Ended," actually.)
At least Irwin wouldn't have given us cartoon wolves--a guy in a rubber snow monster suit draped in seaweed, maybe, but not cartoon wolves. And why does the world have to end "The Day After Tomorrow"? "A Week from Wednesday" would work better for me.