The Day After Tomorrow (12A) Reviews

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Good Points: Some cool effects
Quite entertaining

Bad Points: There was never a feeling of impending doom
Cliffhanger ending (I hate those)

General comments: The Day After Tomorrow - From the maker of Independence Day comes another disaster film (these guys need therapy) that is highly entertaining despite its flaws.

The pace of the film is pretty fast, and it quickly introduces the characters before all hell breaks loose. And it does with a bang, as we see some cool tidal waves and tornadoes and the like. What's lacking is an interesting story that could have made this film a lot better. But I guess it would have drawn our attention away from the apparent enemy here: mother nature.

The premise: a massive storm caused by global warming strikes the Earth, and in doing so engulfs some major cities in ice and snow.

Jake Gyllenhaal plays the son of a meteorologist played by Dennis Quaid. When the disasters begins, Jake and his friends are stuck in New York, and dad goes on a journey halfway across the country to save them. The performances here aren't Oscar material, but they are okay and don't bog down the story. However, Gyllenhaal stands out as the distressed and brave student; a performance that could definitely earn him more high profile roles.

The film does prove highly successful in the effects department. Your eyes will be glued to the screen as tornadoes and floods sweep people away before the entire of NYC freezes to death. The film is somewhat a cautionary tale, as it shows what could happen if we don't take care of our atmosphere, but knowing that something like this couldn't happen within a week (which it does in the film) takes away all feelings of impending doom and fear. Nevertheless, this was meant to be an entertaining and exciting film and it manages to entertain and excite to its full potential. A great film to watch if you feel like the world is treating you badly.

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I remember when I went to the cinema and I saw they'd made a film called 'The Day After Tomorrow' and I thought who is going to see that, then I saw the trailer and got quick excited, why, I don't know. After reading a few reviews I decided to watch it, expecting to laugh at a flimsy plot. I was right and it kind of entertained me and annoyed me in equal measures. Right from the start I was annoyed to see Dennis Quaid fall to his certain death only to find that some miracle force had put an i ...

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The Day After Tomorrow - There's something inherently cheesy about a disaster flick. Whether it's the illustrious "Towering Inferno" or the rather ignominious "The Core," the mere fact that the entire film is necessarily full of gloom and doom (excepting, perhaps, the ending - depending upon one's point of view) invariably means that the macho posturing and clich heavy lines come out of the woodwork.

In that respect TDAT is no exception, but then we've come to expect these things from a good ...

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The Day After Tomorrow was generally a film that lacked a good plot, and that could have shown more features on the subject of graphical information, (for example, more situations which involved special effects).

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When you are making a big, blockbuster film - the first rule is you need BIG stars to be in it. That was the first problem with The Day After Tomorrow. The lead character was Dennis Quaid. When was the last time he was the lead, in anything - "Innerspace"? Sela Ward is one of the most attractive women over 40, but she wasn't even a true TV star, and is definitely not a movie star.

The movie has to do with global warming. Quaid and his team had just come back from studies in the antarc ...

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Director Roland Emmerich has a hobby of destroying American cities. In Independence Day the White House was blown to pieces by invading Aliens, in Godzilla an enormous monster terrorised Manhattan and now, in The Day After Tomorrow Los Angeles is demolished by tornados and New York is drenched by an massive tidal wave.

Dennis Quaid plays a scientist, warning an indifferent American government that if they don't do something about global warming an ice age may descend on the earth in a few ...

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The Day After Tomorrow is a journey of courage for Dennis Quaid (Frequency) to rescue his son Jake Gyllenhaal (The Good Girl) after the world is effected by the meltdown of the polar ice caps. As a scientist Dennis predicts the meltdown to happen in 100 years and of course in movie terms 3 days later the storm comes. Jake is in New York for a geography competion and desprately tring to win over Emmy Rossum (Mystic River). Dennis is in DC after an urgent phone call from Jake he decides to go on a ...