The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow (Widescreen Edition)

Year: 2004

Length: 123 minutes

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Rating from : PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)

UPC for dvd: 024543135548

ID in Amazon.com: B00005JMXX

Rating: 4 out of 5

This movie is really something special. It comes to us from Roland Emmerich, the genius who brought us Independence Day, Godzilla (the crappy Matthew Broderick one), and Mel Gibson’s stirring politically-charged historical action epic The Patriot. The Day After Tomorrow also marks the first Emmerich movie NOT produced by Dean Devlin. And quite honestly, after watching this one, I think Devlin may have been the only bit of talent in that equation.

What to watch for:

+ Wolves! Don’t ask why, but hungry wolves play a big part in the action. And not just any wolves, but obviously-fake CGI wolves.

+ RUN!!! — It’s a cold front! The scene where everyone is running to avoid a cold front, and the cold is literally chasing them into a building — really something special.

+ The horrible Dick Cheney impersonator as “stereotypical cynical Republican politician”. We get it — the movie has political overtones (if we don’t all drive hybrids, this could happen tomorrow!). Do we really have to have the lead political figure look EXACTLY like the #1 villanous figure from the Bush Administration?

This entry was written by Kyle, posted on April 14, 2006 at 4:32 pm, filed under Bad Mother Nature (Disaster). Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. andy
    Posted April 14, 2006 at 4:38 pm | Permalink

    A few important safety tips that I learned from this move:
    Any material becomes extrememly brittle when cold ( just like the T1000).
    A wooden door stops cold that is moving so fast you have to run away from it.

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