Disappointment.

Rating: 5/10 (7 June 2004)

Out OF 4 Stars
The Day After Tomorrow
**
United States, 2004 5/28/2004 PG-13 35 mm
I thought that people in Hollywood knew how to make money. This movie proved that I was obviously wrong. I also thought they were smart, but this movie proved that their average I.Q. test score was below 50. These people have not noticed that lines like 'I love you dad.' 'I love you too son.' don't work anymore, because we have heard them over and over again in tough situations in previous films. That of course is not the end of it. The guys who made the trailer did something unforgivable. They showed almost all the special effects (except the sequence at the end) in the previews. So what are we left with-cliché lines and acting so awful it makes me want to see Gigli again.
The plot is simple and to the point. Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) plays a climatologist who is worried about global warming. Problem is that it seems he is the only one worried about it. In New Delhi his theory about Global Warming leading to the end of the world is ignored, by most, especially the Vice-President of good old USA (Kenneth Welsh), who looks a lot like Dick Cheney himself. Anyways things actually start happening (baseball-sized hail in Tokyo, snow in India, etc.) Even with that fact the Vice-President of good old USA still says that an evacuation is a stupid idea. By now you might be thinking to yourself as I was, what the president is doing. Well, just like in the real government he asks Dick, I mean Becker, for advice. You can guess what the advice is already. When things start to get really ugly and the stuff in the previews starts showing up on the screen evacuation begins to the south. Yet Jack Hall's son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) is stuck in New York with Laura (Emmy Rossum) and some other survivors. You can probably already guess the end but who cares. It doesn't matter. This movie has no redeeming value in it aside of losing a part off your life that you will never be able to get back. Not Recommended.