Cheese factor 100

Rating: Null/10 (4 October 2004)

Day After Tomorrow is another in a long line of modern disaster movies, more or less started by Independence Day. True to form it provides popcorn nonsense and appalling dialogue.
Dennis Quaid is Jack, a climatologist (Or something) who has, as they always do in these films, a troubled family life due to his workaholic mentality. However, being not too bad at his job (as they always are in these films) he discovers the Polar Ice Caps are melting as a result of global warming due to our usage of fossil fuels etc and the current of the Altantic is being altered by the flooding into the sea of the reservoirs of ice.
*phew*
Essentially he tells anyone who'll listen that an impending ice age is on its way, and fortunately a few kind souls believe him and give him time to prove it.
The next stage is the son, played by Jake Gyllenhaal who's isolated in Manhatten with some school friends and others as a result of the crippling weather. Yeah, you can predict the ending already...
This is pure utter fluff. It's hardly even worth skimming any more of the nonsense plot such is the sheer lightweighted nature of it. The substance, if that's the word, of the story is based on the appalling dialogue and cheesy delivery of it. The amount of cringeworthy material here is enough to sink the Titanic, never mind an audience's tolerance.
The special effects are the real star of this, and it must be said they're pretty darn good. The storms look breathtaking, and the tidal wave is fairly convincing. Furthermore the panoramic scale views of cities is pretty impressive as well.
Without question the effects save this from being absolute tripe, and fortunately the players here are aware this is hardly serious stuff and seem to ham it up on purpose. There are plenty of moments which give an unintentional laugh from the director's point of view, but intentionally from the cast. They never seem to take it seriously for a second. Well, either this or they're just *really* bad...
It's mindless drivel and absolute rubbish but it's personable enough entertainment for a couple of hours if you're bored.