if you see only one movie this summer, PLEASE skip this!

Rating: 6/10 (29 May 2004)

Went into see this movie expecting exactly what i got, just a way to kill 2 hours eating food that makes you fat. anyway, onto the movie, this movie is one of those movies where you know the ending of the movie at the first 5 minutes, anyone who even suggests this movie has a decent plot line should be shot in the head. the effects are OK, in fact, the sound and effects are the ONLY thing that makes this movie somehow worth go seeing on a theater, if it wasn't for them i'd give it a "rental, MAYBE". the story is the biggest joke in the movie, and not a very fun one.. you know from the get go who will live, and who will die, and from the minute my girlfriend and i saw a dog in the movie we turned away from the screen, looked at ourselves and said: "many people will die, but that dog WILL survive" that's how predictable it is, and if you haven't noticed by now, in EVRY disaster movie the dog lives! there was rarely laughter in the theater, but when the news guys said "Mexican officials have closed the border" everyone laughed their butts off, living in Mexico, we found that very amusing, it would NEVER happen, we're not that kind of people =). but even MORE funny was when they said "Mexican officials have opened the border again, in exchange of making them debt free" now THAT had the entire theater kicking the floor in laughter, that would NEVER happen even if the entire US was in the verge of that disaster! the politics in the movie were for the most part, good in idea, but terrible in execution, the movie seems to want to make people realize how bad the US government currently is, but they could've done a far better job at doing it (talking about the vice president here, that resembles it's RL counterpart a lot... but for the president they ditched Bush and they put a hero instead, wich seemed to be from an opposing party...) anyway, this movie is nothing more than a decent popcorn movie, nothing more, if you haven't seen shrek 2, go see that one instead and you can thank me later.