Hollywood, Hollywood!

Rating: Null/10 (5 June 2004)

Hollywood excels at making movies that are all razzle-dazzle. "The Day After Tomorrow" is no exception. Under the slick surface, this movie operates on the level a ten-year-old, who understands nothing about science, but loves to watch things explode or freeze or come tumbling down into piles of twisted metal. To this remarkable talent for appealing to the lowest of tastes, Hollywood adds another tendency that is even less amusing, i.e. its insistence on building its ridiculous scenarios around the obsessions and prejudices of the Left. Many will see "The Day After Tomorrow" as just another disaster movie, an innocent way to kill 90 minutes. On another level, however, it attempts to promote the views of Al Gore, by "predicting" that if the US does not ratify the Kyoto Agreement and reduce greenhouse gases, no matter what that costs us, we may all wind up emigrating to Mexico. One of these days, perhaps someone will make a film in which the prophets of doom are proven wrong, as usually happens in the real world. But when that happens, it won't be a film made in Hollywood.