That was cool. Okay lets do this now.

Rating: 3/10 (20 June 2004)

This hodgepodge of special effects makes Twisters plot seem like English literature. The compilation of happenstance, political commentary, lack of scientific fact (especially in meteorology, climatology and geography), and bizarre twists fill this disaster flick with more clichés than the Irwin Allen disaster schlock of the 1970's.
Here we have an intelligent climatologist studying glacial core samples in the arctic. He is dedicated and a genius (but not too much of genius not to be working on a thin shelf of the arctic that happens to break of in the middle of his camp). Flash forward to the same scientist speaking to a meeting of the UN in a snow New Dehli, which just happens to be co-chaired by the evil, greedy, "Dick Cheney" look-a-like of a vice president who becomes a central 'evil-doer'. Flash forward to character development, let's give the scientist an estranged wife and son in the States. I could go on and on.
This movie does its work in a nonsensical manner adding layers of gee whiz special effects, stereo typical characters and comments about the lack of political process and America's greed as means of trying to establish a plot.
And what a plot. The genius scientist has discovered that the earth is facing "abrupt global warming". The polar ice caps are going to melt very fast, disrupt the natural flow of the oceans and then cause an ice-age. How fast? 6 to 8 months.
Whoops. That will take too long in story time. 6 to 8 weeks. That major change in time frame is probably why only New York is besieged with a torrent of water putting most roads 30 feet or more under water but leaves the rest of the coastal US unscathed. That was cool. Okay now lets flash freeze the Northern Hemisphere. **ZAP** Now the majority of the "Western World" is frozen solid. But of course not the oceans.
The best of this movie is in the special effects and the unintended comedy. (A main character places a phone call from a hardwired, submerged pay phone while the power to everything else has been shorted out. A president, too inept that he has to defer to the advice of his vice president. The ability of a person to but their bare hands on metal surfaces in sub-zero temps without ripping the flesh from his bones. The absolutely worst depiction of animals through the use of CGI. Americans crossing the Rio - which should have been 10 times wider than depicted because of the melting ice caps - desperate to sneak into Mexico. -...and I could go on and on)
This idiotic, mindless drivel would have been better had they used a variation of Twister's plot, which was to show some cool effects and admit that there really was no plot.
So how bad was it? "The Day After Tomorrow"'s plot made "The Core"'s seem completely realistic.