Day After Tomorrow, The (2004)
Global warming/freezing gets very out of hand.
Here comes The Day After Tomorrow, the latest blockbuster from Roland Emmerich, auteur behind Godzilla, Independence Day etc., though this time without his usual producing partner Dean Devlin.
While this doesn’t depart too far from his formula of blowing up historic landmarks and making vague patriotic statements, it manages to keep a solemn enough mood to at least make a stab at being a serious thriller. The science still sounds like gibberish, but the cast (including Dennis Quaid and Ian Holm) keep an admirably straight face and the effects are terrific, particularly an eerie flooded New York.
While the product placement isn’t as obvious as in, say, I Robot, there’s a particularly jarring scene involving a televised football game which has to be seen to be believed. And the old disaster movie cliché of the seriously ill child lives on here, although minus an accompanying singing nun. Regardless, it takes a lot of nerve to make a movie this daft and keep a straight face, and it’s much better than I expected.
Rating: 
[imdb]0319262[/imdb]
