Fun way to spend a Saturday

Rating: 9/10 (7 December 2006)

The Day After Tomorrow is an old-fashioned, wonderful, Saturday afternoon, popcorn movie. The special effects are quite good. Quaid plays Jack Hall. Hall is a government climatologist. A man who realizes that the earth is in far worse shape than people realize. But he cannot convince the Vice President that things must change.
As a sudden and catastrophic climate event unfolds -- life on earth changes in an instant. And the fun begins!
Quaid is perfect cast in the hero role. And he is well supported by an able cast. Jake Gyllenhaal as Sam Hall, Quaid's son does an effective job with his end of the story.