Global Warming Disaster Flick

Rating: 8/10 (27 September 2012)

The Day After Tomorrow is a science fiction disaster flick depicting catastrophic effects of global warming in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and leads to a new ice age.Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset of an international series of crises brought on by the long-term results of the greenhouse effect.It stars Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal together with Emmy Rossum,Ian Holm and Sela Ward.It was co-written by Jeffrey Nachmanoff and Emmerich himself.
At the eye of the storm is paleoclimatologist,Jack Hall voluntarily takes on the preservation of the world in the dawn of the next ice age and all the disaster that comes along with it such as violent hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, massive floods and the likes. Hall must also contact his son Sam, who was in the middle of an academic competition in New York City when the chaos begun. In addition to facing the largest-scale onslaught of natural catastrophes in the history of humankind, Jack, in his journey north, must contend with the masses fleeing south in an attempt to resettle in a warmer climate.
Supreme silliness doesn't stop The Day After Tomorrow from being lots of fun for connoisseurs of epic-scale disaster commercial film.Obviously,this is a ludicrous but an entertaining flick filled with clunky dialogues, but spectacular visuals save it from being a total disaster. Director Roland Emmerich uses global warming as a politically correct excuse for destroying most of the northern hemisphere. Like most of his films, this one emphasizes special effects over such lesser priorities as well-drawn characters and plausible plotting, and his dialogue is so laughably trite that it could be entirely eliminated without harming the movie. It's the spectacle that's important here, not the lame, recycled plot about father and son that endure an end-of-the-world scenario caused by the effects of global warming.
Enjoy the awesome visions of tornado-ravaged Los Angeles, blizzards in New Delhi, Japan pummeled by grapefruit-sized hailstones, and Manhattan flooded by swelling oceans and then frozen by the onset of a modern ice age in this disaster film that practically offers nothing new.