Welcome to the new Ice Age

Rating: 10/10 (27 May 2005)

I've just seen The Day After Tomorrow for the first time and found it brilliant.
The world is suddenly hit by adverse weather conditions due to global warming. Tornadoes hit Los Angles, New York gets heavy rain, a tidal wave causing flooding and then turns to snow and freezes, Britain and Northern Europe also get very heavy snow and huge hailstones hit other places. Once the storms pass over, a new Ice Age will begin. A professor, Jack Hall heads for New York to find his son, Sam who is there as part of his schooling. He and a small group of others including a dropout and his dog are in New York Library where they have built a fire to avoid freezing to death. He falls in love through all this too. His dad appears at the end and they are rescued.
The special effects in The Day After Tomorrow are fantastic.
The cast includes Dennis Quaid as Jack Hall, Jake Gyllenhaal as his son Sam, Sela Ward as his wife, Ian Holm and Emmy Rossum as Sam's love interest. Excellent parts from all.
If you haven't seen The Day After Tomorrow yet, you are missing a treat. Fantastic.
Rating: 5 stars out of 5.