Day After Tomorrow

Pros: A really fun disaster flick.
Cons: Some stupid situations. Feel free to laugh.

I found myself totally blown away as I sat through the latest SFX-laden sci-fi disaster movie, "The Day After Tomorrow." It's a bit hard to sit and watch with apathy as you see your home -- in my case, New York City -- being devastated by the terrific ...

Pros: special effects, Harald Kloster's haunting score, campy elements (the wolves)
Cons: bad-bad dialogue, too many subplots and guaranteed “safe” characters

Roland Emmerich’s “The Day After Tomorrow” is not at all about the day after tomorrow, but instead the day before tomorrow, and finally tomorrow. And along the way to tomorrow we are treated to several sub-plots of main characters assuring us that even ...

Pros: Acting, Special Effects, Plotline
Cons: Spends too much time on the middle, not enough on the end

I’ve made no secret of the fact I live in Invercargill, the closest city to Antarctica. We’re located right at the bottom of New Zealand. The weather is cold, windy, raining – and that was just summer. We had 8o Celsius recently, which is considered warm ...

Pros: enjoyable disaster scenes...
Cons: cliche-ridden...and then there's those digitally created wolves?

Hollywood’s latest doomsday thriller, “The Day After Tomorrow”, has finally been released on video. Just when everyone thought they’d seen it all, comes the digital special FX movie of the year. Yes, this doomsday thriller is right ...

Pros: Special effects
Cons: Everything else

This is a disaster movie with all the good and bad thing of the genre. The movie is directed and written by Roland Emmerich a man who seems to have some sort of fetish for large scale destruction. He has also directed Independence Day in 1996. and ...

Pros: Superb visual effects; somewhat effective cautionary ramblings
Cons: Poorly written characters; papa Emmerich don't preach

Early in THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, Dr. Terry Raspin (Ian Holm) is holed up in a remote, Scottish climate observatory. In the threatening midst of a deep Arctic freeze set to beseige Europe, he patches an SOS to climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) in ...

Pros: Great effects, a few interesting characters
Cons: Over-acting, iffy script

The Day After Tomorrow has garnered some attention for its Independence Day-style depiction of the destruction of major cities. To a lesser-effect, it is successful for some of the same reasons. Jack Daly (Dennis Quaid) is a scientist ...

Pros: Decent effects. Resonant initial message and tone.
Cons: Too long. Direction. Poorly paced second half were spectacle and individualism negates initial idealism.

Following the commercial success of Independence Day action director Roland Emmerich lost his marbles and directed two of the most magnanimous and rabble-rousing flops of the past decade: Godzilla and The Patriot . Though ...

Pros: Superb special effects. Jake Gyllenhaal.
Cons: Most everything else. Script. Triteness. Melodrama. Etcetera.

(NOTE: Major spoilers only appear in the clearly marked paragraph.) Eight years ago, director Roland Emmerich exploded onto the mainstream movie scene with the summer blockbuster Independence Day, starring Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum. Now ...

Pros: Awesome special effects
Cons: Infantile plot and poor acting

~ ~ The mad cabbie and daughter went to watch the latest in a long line of Hollywood ‘Armageddon’ movies last night, the new blockbuster “The Day After Tomorrow” (henceforth DAT) from Director Roland Emmerich, who also gave us such classics ...

Pros: Very, VERY good special effects which I think saved the movie from its story line.
Cons: Some of the ideas presented in the movie are a little whacko.

I just watched this movie on DVD and I still don't know what to make of it. I am used to disaster movies. There have been tons of them over time such as The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure and Earthquake. It seemed like from the '50's on down ...

Pros: special effects, comparatively tight pacing, and pretty funny
Cons: predictable plot, no character development

Empty your bladders and dress warmly. You are about to go for a wet and cold ride. Plot Summary: Paleo-climatologist Jack Hall (played by Dennis Quaid) believes that man-made global warming can have dire consequences. Unfortunately, the ...

Pros: Odd entertainment factor
Cons: The film preaches more than a southern reverend

Roland Emmerich, the ultimate hit and miss director of all time. Perhaps Ed Wood with a big budget? Now, I almost feel bad to give this film a negative review. I like Roland Emmerich as a person, and he's always managed to make entertaining, though ...

Pros: the astounding visuals and superb editing
Cons: it's a disaster film. Fill in your own cons based on genre expectations.

I hate it when advertisers grovel, and I also hate it when political grandstanding becomes the order of the day in a movie. This happens usually toward the end when a phony moral message is tacked on at the end. Roland Emmerich's latest disaster opera ...

Pros: None
Cons: Bad acting, story, and lines.

In the new film “The Day After Tomorrow” a bitter chill will envelope the audience as they realize that they have just spent money to watch one of the worst films in history. This is the reaction that many unsuspecting theatergoers are going to have this ...