I got stressed out, laughed, and then was over it.

Rating: 5/10 (1 June 2004)

The first, oh, hour or so--hour and fifteen--are great! Lots of action--lots of amazing special effects that honestly, stressed me out. I'm a pretty empathetic person and when I see people in times of great disaster or need--I feel for them, in a sense. And I found myself feeling for these characters.
That is, until all the special effects ended and the last hour of the movie began--it all went downhill from there. You don't really realize it, but the first half of the movie is not very dialogue intensive--there's far more visual going on than there is being spoken about. But the second half, they talk and talk and talk--and it's all rubbish. It really sounds like a high schooler wrote some of this dialogue--it was horrid. But then--then, somehow, the movie made an attempt to be a comedy--and does a fair job of it. But then it goes back to it's old, typical ways...and I lost interest again. I was itching to leave; my friends and I were laughing out loud at some of the lines being spoken--and we were not alone.
Overall, it's worth seeing for the visual aspects. But you tell me that when they try to tie in the "zoo plot" later on in the movie that the movie hasn't reached a low you didn't see coming. Putting aside all the dialogue and sophomoric plot--I give it a SIX out of TEN. Wait until it comes out on video.