Jake is yummy!

Rating: Null/10 (1 June 2004)

Jake Gyllenhaal (pronounced JILL-en-hawl, for those of you from Minnesota) was hot and fantastic as Sam. My only complaint is that the camera should have given us a better look at him in underwear! [DROOL!]. Sam was just as good-looking as the preppy pretty-boy who almost won over the woman in whom Sam was so interested. The special effects were great and the story of how ordinary people dealt with this global catastrophe was gripping.
It was interesting that the Vice-President looked exactly like Dick Cheney and it was more or less implied that he was the one who was really in charge all along. The President, who looked vaguely Dubya-like, even seemed to defer to the Vice-President at one point. How like real life!
At the end of the movie, the Vice-President went on TV and said that we were screwed up to think we could keep treating the planet and using its resources up the way we have been. As a result, Rush Limbaugh and his ilk are upset that this movie is fueling the fears of the "environmentalist whackos". Maybe Rush could give us some of his drugs to calm us down! :-D