The Day After Tomorrow - Favourite Movie Reviews...

I got the chance to see everyone's favourite big budget global warming fear-mongering flick last Friday night. I think it's best summarized in some of the following reviews...


Steven Hayward, Houston Chronicle - "The Day After Tomorrow is to serious environmental thinking about climate change what Hogan's Heroes was to serious representation of World War II prison camp experiences.

Peter Howell, Toronto Star - "Long before Dennis Quaid stares up at a frozen Statue of Liberty in the climate-change thriller The Day After Tomorrow, concerned moviegoers may feel moved to cry out like Charlton Heston in Planet Of The Apes: "Damn you all to hell!" The damnable "you" being not just writer/director Roland Emmerich, the uberschlockmeister who long ago should have surrendered the keys to the digital toy box, but also all the Hollywood suits who green-lighted this Greenpeace of crap."

Christian Toto, Washington Times - "Popcorn movies can be logically challenged, even a tad daffy at times. "The Day After Tomorrow" wears its lobotomy scars like a badge of honor."

David Edelstein, Slate.MSN.com - "Of course, if I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a pretty good time snickering at it—unless, like me, you think there's something to this global warming thing, and you shudder at the irony of a movie meant to warn people about a dangerous environmental trend that completely discredits it."

Oh - and by the way - my ultimate favourite comes from the National Geographic - "So should we brace ourselves for another ice age?
No, I don't think so. The scenario in the movie is fictional. Like some other Hollywood movies that claim to be based on true stories, there's a kernel of truth that is then pumped full of steroids and given cosmetic surgery."