They should have read the books, not burned them

Rating: 4/10 (30 May 2004)

I like a good disaster movie as much as the next person. Ditto for science fiction. But when I passed a well-dressed, elderly woman in the lobby of the theatre talking excitedly and loudly about how "It's all true! It's happening today, before our eyes!" I got a bad feeling. The Day After Tomorrow lived down to my expectations. Good tidal surge special effects - the big freeze was done as adequately by Mr. Freeze in one of the Batman movies. A reasonable cast "all dressed up and no where to go" but forget the science part of science fiction. Climatology, thermodynamics, and physics be damned! On with the spectacle! The audience around me got a good chuckle when the actors started burning books. Looks to me like someone got the science collection into the fire before the scriptwriters had a chance to do any background reading.