Global warming is serious. "The Day After Tomorrow" is not.

Rating: 2/10 (27 December 2005)

Oh well, it's the MARKET stupid and the market IS stupid and films like ideas are commodities and HAVE to be sold and have nice endings where the girl gets the boy and a few superfluous side-kicks get "kilt". Meanwhile...reality continues apace...the permafrost is melting and carbon based fuels are being burnt like there's no tomorrow while tough grass is starting to sprout in Antarctica.
This films stars your old Cecil B. DeMille favourites "special" "effects" and a few humans, a Border Collie and some fake wolves who, at best, are affecting a "made for TV" drama. The premise is true enough. If global warming gets to the tipping point vis a vis ocean currents, we're in for it AND, it looks like matters are going that way, courtesy of a system consigned to "invisible hands". But the nonchalance of most, including most of our fearless leaders, is matched by the "Hollywoodized" treatment of this very serious subject in "The Day After Tomorrow".
Don't worry babies. Lots of the human race will survive to continue to drive their Humvees. You've seen the worst. Ah, the vicarious, the virtual life. Now to cuddle up next to the fireplace, in pajamas even and dream about burning a few books.