Far-fetched fun

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2013)

Scientifically accurate it may not be, but it would take a certain kind of Scrooge to dismiss it simply on those terms.
The first half delivers some awesome set-pieces of city-wide destruction. Tornadoes, floods, a new ice age, it delivers whole-heartedly on the visual front.
After the FX set-pieces have finished, the film winds down into a frankly less interesting, and clichéd survival drama, with Dennis Quaid and friends snow-shoeing their way to New York to rescue Dennis' son, Jake Gyllenhaal.
Uneven, but good entertainment for a slow evening.