An otherwise excellent movie again ruined by modern-day 'filler' swill

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 2004)

This is the first movie I went to see since I saw Titanic. (Is the soundtrack in all movies now so darn LOUD?!)
The special effects were fantastic, but I can't believe that just about every movie plot line has (or so it seems) the squabbling divorced parents who 'make up' when the child is threatened. And the deep loves that blooms so quickly during the middle of disaster - out of nowhere. I realize the director is most likely looking for a little 'down' time to build the suspense, but can't they EVER dig up more original stuff? It was the same with Titanic and so MANY movies I've since seen on TV.
Other than this, a really good movie. My eyes flipped wide open during the first minute and pretty much stayed that way - at least, when the real (disaster) storyline was taking place.
This was just TOO lame, though: Wasn't there enough disaster going on already without the extremely unlikely scenario of 1)wolves getting loose from the zoo 2)somehow climbing aboard a Russian ship which was 3)iced-in on a New York City street - and menacing the show's heroes?
If the temp was really supposed to be at around -100 degrees, no one - the wolves or anyone else - would have survived it around a lit stove or fireplace, which was soon the only source of heat.
And at the end, you would have thought everything was A-OK, happy as the survivors were, despite much of the world being caught in a new Ice Age with so many of it's people destroyed!
Unless moviemakers go back to real plots and dialogue, it will be a long time before I go to see or even rent another movie (the "Coming Soons" looked really lame) though, like I said, the special effects are well worth the price of admission.