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It's all been said. This movie was as big a letdown, if not bigger than the Matrix sequels. This movie was an insult to the intelligence of anyone with an education beyond 8th grade. Nice to see the minorities represented. Hispanic janitor, intelligent Asian woman, homeless African American. Not to mention the stereotypical librarian. Jake Gyllenhaal was awesome in Donnie Darko so I figured if he was in this that it had to be at least decent. Sneaky bastard Jake! I don't know how he managed to do decent acting using the horrible script and the vomit inducing acting that took place all around him. Kudos to Jake for managing to keep his head above water in this one, despite the constant dragging of everyone around him. He obviously couldn't carry the movie but he made a valiant effort it would seem. I'm ashamed of how naive I was to think that this thing wasn't going to be as cheesy and corny as it was. I've seen few movies this chocked full of both. Even if you take it at a base level and look at this totally for the brainless entertainment factor, again, unless you're an ignorant moron, your intelligence is going to be offended. The action sequences, people managing to run several yards, up flights of stairs from a 14 story wall of water had me squirming to run out of the theater, in hopes that I might salvage the rest of my evening. Need I mention the emotional insult? Next to no character development, half assed at best. Unless you're extremely shallow, you're going to gag on the convenient store, prepackaged, freeze dried, preservative filled, single serving emotional scenes. This movie dropped the bottom out for how low the bar can go. I heard someone start to clap behind me at the end and I had to lie to myself that they were clapping because it was over, otherwise I would have had to strangle them.

Aside from the poor science, writing, acting, plot, etc., the single most baffling thing in this piece of trash was the burning of books. If you're in a metal box surrounded by books fine burn 'em. But there was furniture and fixtures and doors that would burn much better then books. They would burn hotter, longer, and more efficiently then books. So anyways watch this crap if you want to see some nasty fake storms. That's about all this film has to offer. On a side note though, seeing a fake Cheney having nature slap him in the face with devastation was nice. And the fake Bush being so insecure and weak willed that he couldn't make a decision without his VP explicitly instructing him on the "correct" course made me giggle.

The movie was a major disappointment for several reasons. The pseudo science it was based on was ludicrous, and the thinly veiled political propaganda that ran throughout this film made it painful to watch. The story line was pitifully trite, and the cast of stock characters only made the film more banal. Great special effects and multiple crisis situations were not enough to save this movie from what it was... a pathetic waste of time.

When I watch a movie, I don't want to know where it's going after the first five minutes. I don't want to be able to predict characters' lines or actions before they happen. I want a movie that keeps me thinking, and continuously surprises me as it unfolds. The only thing I thought about while watching this movie was, "When is it going to end?" The only thing that surprised me was that people actually paid money to go see it at the theater. (I got my DVD copy of it in a bargain discount 2-pack with the cartoon, "Ice Age". Hmm, maybe that says something about the movie.)

One of the movie's many inaccuracies that I can address with some authority was the scene where three RAF helicopters crashed on their way to rescue the British Royal Family at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Okay, I'll buy the bit that their fuel lines froze up, killing their engines. However, that would not have stopped the choppers' rotors from spinning. Helicopter pilots sent to rescue the Queen of England and her family would have to have been some of the best in the RAF. It is extremely hard to believe that these pilots and co-pilots would not have known how to autorotate their whirlybirds to a safe landing after their engines died. (I have over 1,000 hours of flight time at the controls of four different helicopters in years gone by, and have done countless autorotations. This is not a difficult thing to do. Even student pilots have no problem performing this basic maneuver.) However, this terribly flawed movie shows all three helicopters spiraling out of control until they impact the ground.

I guess I no longer have to warn people about wasting their money to go see it at the theater. It's long gone. However, if you're looking to add it to your DVD collection, wait until you find it in a bargain discount 2-pack for under $10.00. Don't load it into your DVD player until late at night, when you're having trouble getting to sleep.

I'm going to break this down piece by piece as I recall my experience with this film from last night.

Opening Credits: Could barely read them as they were horribly concocted, however, they did bring my only smile of the night to me when I saw Tamlyn Tamita's name warped across the bottom of the screen. Go Laurel Takashima!

Eventually, the first unrealistic event happens, a large chunk of the arctic shelf breaks off, amazingly down the middle of our hero's camp, and only a 4 or 5 feet wide crack is created through there.

You know, scratch it, I don't want to recount this movie. Let me just fill you in on what it is.

It's a rehash of Emmerich's tried and true destroy stuff disaster movies, and he even destroys the same round tower building in LA again, just like in ID4. Unlike ID4, there are no redeeming performances by Will Smith to make this movie bearable.

You will love this movie, however, if you think the U.S. is evil, believe our climate is very fragile, believe that 3rd world nations have it right and we will grovel before them, and believe that it is better to wipe out half the world to have cleaner air.

Emmerich also seems to think that North America only has 2 cities worth caring about being destroyed, NY and LA.

A horrendous 1 out of 10, and 2 hours of your life you will never reclaim.

Wow. That was my first word to my friend with whom I saw this movie as soon as I stepped from the theatre.

Wow because, to be honest I could barely believe that this movie made it past Hollywood quality control (not that it's been known to be all that efficient anyway).

There are 2 reasons I actually felt mental anguish watching this movie, and 1 marginally redeeming quality. To start with the latter observation, I have to give them credit for putting together some quality special effects. All of the disaster sequences were excellently done, and at no point did I feel that it was too computerized or lacked visual believability. It could be worth the watch just for the effects.

Now, on to the two big critiques... (and let me emphasize big).

1) Screenplay, Acting & Story.

Quite possibly the most painfully clichéd screenplay I have ever seen. Not to mention that it was not really written in English, but rather "Kindergarten". I mean, we don't go to big budget movies like this to feel inspired by philosophical dialogue, but come on, you can at least do better than this. I actually felt pained watching some of the scenes (especially those melodramatic ones from Dennis Quaid going after Jake Gyllenhaal in NY...) and I know I wasn't the only one. I had never heard so many groans so frequently in a theatre before. Furthermore, the wafer-thin plot about the "distanced father" who realizes his mistake of not paying enough attention to his son on account of being too committed to his job, etc etc etc is so overused and boring it does nothing but detract from the rest of the movie.

The acting was mediocre, but don't get me wrong, I like Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid... it's just that there isn't much they could have done with this crap.

2) The "Message".

Now, let me preface this by saying that I realize this is "just a movie", but still, it is a movie that is meant to have a highly political message.... and the way they pass off this supposedly wise message ensures that this movie goes down in my books as one of the worst I have ever endured. OK, global warming is a controversial issue, and there opposing opinions, and this is just one of them, fine. But, I felt that the whole time the makers of this movie were just trying to stuff every conceivable facet of social justice down my throat at every possible opportunity. It wasn't just global warming, it was third world debt relief, anti-statism, the rich-poor divide.... etc etc etc. Regardless of my personal view on climate change (I think it's a complicated issue, and I did my degree in evolutionary genetics and had all the opposing and supporting arguments driven into my head, so I am not just some left or right clone on the matter...) I couldn't help but feel somewhat violated by the constant presence of such an over-arching political agenda - almost as though the director felt I was an idiot and would buy these messages as profound or substantiated. Probably the worst was the new President's speech at the end when he starts talking about Americans "reaching out" to their 3rd world guests, and that whole line where he basically says "We used to think we could burn fossil fuels with reckless abandon. We were wrong. I was wrong."... I almost choked on the cheese. Another was the "classic" scene with the homeless man showing the rich-kid how to stuff newspapers in his shirt for warmth... how touching...and transparent. I mean, couldn't you guys have just stuck to the one message (global climate change), rather than trying so obviously hard to force every other possible social justice issue in? In some ways this movie may as well have been a propaganda film for the Green Party and/or Comintern. And for those that would respond to me by saying "it's just a movie", yes, it is, but so is "Triumph of the Will", and I believe this movie comes close to deserving the same skeptical treatment we give to that, otherwise well-done, film.

And also, before anyone accuses me of being a "Bush-Clone" or "right-winger" or some nonsense, let me point out that I would have equally scornful words to say about a movie that promoted the opposite agenda in such a ridiculous way.

On a side note...I can't imagine how anyone who is actually concerned about Global Warming or these other issues could really feel this helped their cause... if anything it presented the case in such an amateur and dumbed-down way that it actually takes away credibility from the issue.

So, overall, I conclude by saying this: Great effects, decent disaster scenes, but clichéd to the point of physical discomfort, inexcusably bad screenplay, and, worst of all, intolerably riddled with thinly veiled (if at all) political messages that are forced down your throat at all opportunities (appropriate or not).

One of the most bogus films ever made. The plot is laughable. Climate and weather are not the same thing !!!

I've been saying that this is the worst movie ever made, but that's not really true. Ishtar keeps that title. seriously folks, The Day After Tomorrow is bad. Really bad. the only reason i can think of to recommend it,is if you wanted to see just how awful a movie can be. the acting is atrocious. the storyline absurd. the character's solutions are ridiculous. Would have much better developed as a comedy. Honestly, i was laughing my ass off at this serious drama. I couldn't help thinking how mad i would be if i had payed good money to see this in a theater. I joined IMDb just so i could post this comment.Do yourself a great bid favor. Watch the clothes go around in the dryer, it's more entertaining.

The thing that makes this unbearable is that the movie presents itself as fact and very clearly is based on grossly overcompensated estimates of doomsday climatology. It would have been as believable to have a Death Star in the picture, sorry, more believable to have a Death Star in the picture.

There are some very neat special effects, the acting is alright, but the plausibility of what is happening in the movie detracts greatly from the otherwise good performances in the film. There are very dramatic moments in the film which do justice to the people who deliver the lines.

The major problem being the pseudo-science presented as likely possibility has ruined an otherwise fun film. It comes off as very preachy towards the viewers who paid just to see the special effects. The more disturbing part of seeing a film like this is that when you are walking out, you have to deal with the idiots who say to others, "This could really happen, and next week for God's sakes!!"

Worth a rental if you are bored, no more than that.

this movie lacks everything that made Independence Day great. no humor, no science, no personality of characters, no "we can do it" speech or anything to make you want to rally behind these people, no great plan. a child would do better writing the screenplay. the most ridiculous part to me was Mexico takes us all in because the US Clears their debt. if we were all froze to death why would Mexico have to pay any dept? I where did the wolves come from? people walking in below zero temperatures, no face masks, no shivering. Dennis Quaid's character's son was in a library in Manhattan just a few feet away from the Statue of Liberty, which is not in Manhattan. this movie is good for two things: watching ice glaciers on a very hot day and taking notes on how not to make a movie.

My holy hell. What an appalling excuse of a film. The second it ended I exclaimed - extremely loudly in the middle of the screening - "That was crap!". What was the point of the wolves? How the hell did they get to the boat? Of all the boats in the ocean, some wolves got to the same one as a small group of people? IT MAKES NO SENSE. In my eyes, this film should be dispatched to the murky depths of film hell, and have a rescue attempt made by everyone connected with it. Every time I see a clip, I nearly choke on my own despair - induced vomit. It is that bad. 6.2/10 - HOW IN HELL IS IT BETTER THAN ARMAGGEDON? Now THAT'S a good disaster film. Honestly

Well, this is the sort of garbage you get to sit through when you go to visit your parents for Christmas and they rent a movie, coming home with something that was recommended to them by the video store clerk. "It has a lot of special effects" being the precise quote.

First off, it's an utterly run of the mill disaster flick. Every cliché known to modern man is piled on here. The main actor walks 40 miles through the blizzard of the century to save his kid, in a couple of days. His wife is a doctor who is willing to face certain death, just so she can be there with her little cancer patient. His son is so brilliant that his calculus teacher flunked him for excessive brilliance (It's more than a bit obvious that the people who wrote this never made it past 7th grade math). In the end, guess what? All the main characters survive. After causing the death of his buddies by making them go on this ludicrous trek, dad arrives to save his son, who doesn't need saving at all. They hug and dad announces that they'll spend more time together, you know, playing catch and stuff. Mom successfully finds an ambulance to drive hundreds of miles through 15 foot deep snow, and her little cancer patient survives, opening his eyes as the happy theme music swells in the background. For the love of god, this thing just sucks.

There are enough subplots to fill an extra large chamber pot, all of them sappy and idiotic and totally unbelievable.

The special effects are pretty lousy as well. Although the scene of New York getting hit with a massive tsunami looks okay in spots, it looks pretty bad in other spots. Most of the other special effects just scream COMPUTER GENERATED EFFECTS!!! There's even a pack of wolves running around that are obviously CGI.

As far as the science behind this "very serious" global warming propaganda piece from your left-wing liberal folks in Hollywood, well, there's really no sarcastic put-down that even comes close to summing up the idiocy of it all. As someone else said, it's like the aliens from Independence Day came back, this time armed with a big freeze ray. It makes one wonder - if the people who are running around yelling "the sky is falling" are really this utterly imbecilic when it comes to science, well, my god, why are we listening to this tripe?

I would recommend this movie only to people who say things like "I loved the new Star Wars trilogy. Jar Jar Binks was my favorite character!".

A spoiler.

Roland Emmerich does it again. The man is certainly consistent. His movies are depressingly dull, turgid affairs... but... wait.. in this clinker, the great director experiments. Wow, he's putting the climax at the beginning. That's right. He's spent the sfx budget in the first half hour. After the usual explosions, we get to experience 2 hours of typically tedious 'Emmerichian' dialog, lots of polystyrene snow, and the inside of a library before the words 'The End' crawl on to the screen, in front of a comatose audience. Dismal. It's a Roland Ememrich film so, usual advice,... avoid.

Here they had a chance to make a worthwhile and useful statement about global warming. The special effects were great. They have gone to all this trouble to develop the set and then they COMPLETELY RUIN the delivery. Everything else was utter crap. B grade acting, plot, overall movie. I don't care how many time they destroy New York but it would be nice if once in my lifetime they could make it meaningful. I feel like this will never happen.

They are paying studios a fortune to make this crap and you are choosing to waste your money to watch it.

Two hours of your life you will never get back.

I registered to IMDb just so I could write how I really feel about this movie. Thank goodness I didn't pay to see it! I just saw the movie on HBO. I thought it would be an interesting movie, but boy was I disappointed. I can't believe I wasted two hours of my life on this movie! The political overtones in this movie are just intolerable. The obvious reference to the Bush administration -- even Vice President Dick Cheney -- and its environmental policies only cloud the message. They bludgeon you to death with environmentalist lingo and force feed you with prophetic cries for everyone to change their "wicked" fossil fuel consuming ways. G7 countries like the US, Great Britain, Russia, and Asia become dependent on "third-world" countries. This doesn't even include the fake CGI graphics, improbable plot, and dreadful acting. Enough said, I just couldn't stand this movie.

I finally made myself watch this and I wasn't disappointed. I liked the special effects and the cast but that was about it. The storyline was so full of holes that it was evident that this was a Hollywood election year statement rather than a movie offering. The uncanny resemblance of the President to Al Gore, and the Vice-President to Harry Truman had to be part of the mix, along with the diatribe on the Kyoto Treaty. This was a movie designed to attract the extreme environmentalists while providing a token of an action/drama movie for the rest of us. It's no wonder Box Office sales are down when Hollywood has resigned itself to movies such as this and poorly done remakes of earlier movies and TV shows.