very good of its kind

Rating: 8/10 (21 November 2005)

This story of the coming ice age starts off very well, as several people have pointed out. In fact it is rather like one of the great John Wyndham's stories (Days of the Triffids, etc.). The special effects are great. Unfortunately, it soon has to appeal to the teen market and instead of continuing on a scientific / political course, we have to become involved in the usual rubbish about a Dad who simply loves his son - but has had a row because the son got an F in his exam! We then have to follow the son (who looks about 30), mooning after a fellow-student - who looks like a well-preserved 32. The parents meanwhile are very distraught about their son. The chief scientist (father) goes to New York by car and on foot and finds him; the young folk are in the New Yortk Public LIbrary burning books. I was doing my knitting and making tea at the time, so missed a few beats. They seem to have access only to the more recondite type of books (no newspapers apparently - that they could use for insulation) - so that we have to endure another young idiot lecturing the resident intellectual about Nietzche and the Bible etc. Extraordinary that the intellectual pays any attention to the views of this silly person (it is of course a girl, PC reigns supreme in this film). However the special effects were great and all ends well - what a surprise! In fact my TV went on the blink in the middle - so I thought that a very appropriate end had been reached - but it was only a glitch!