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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 2140
Released: October 12, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than any they've ever encountered: Mother Nature!
Description of The Day After Tomorrow (Widescreen Edition):
Supreme silliness doesn't stop The Day After Tomorrow from being lots of fun for connoisseurs of epic-scale disaster flicks. After the blockbuster profits of Independence Day and Godzilla, you can't blame director Roland Emmerich for using global warming as a politically correct excuse for destroying most of the northern hemisphere. Like most of Emmerich's films, this one emphasizes special effects over such lesser priorities as well-drawn characters and plausible plotting, and his dialogue (cowritten by Jeffrey Nachmanoff) is so laughably trite that it could be entirely eliminated without harming the movie. It's the spectacle that's important here, not the lame, recycled plot about father and son (Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal) who endure an end-of-the-world scenario caused by the effects of global warming. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the awesome visions of tornado-ravaged Los Angeles, blizzards in New Delhi, Japan pummeled by grapefruit-sized hailstones, and Manhattan flooded by swelling oceans and then frozen by the onset of a modern ice age. It's all wildly impressive, and Emmerich obviously doesn't care if the science is flimsy, so why should you? --Jeff Shannon
The Day After Tomorrow (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
the day after tomorrow 
2009-10-31 - this is definitely one of the best action movies i've seen in a long time, acting was excellant, special effects the best ever. just a really fun movie to watch i was glued to my seat from start to finish, not many movies do this, the best movie ever....Day After Tomorrow [Blu-ray]
Absolutely the Best disaster movie EVER!
2009-10-17 - I have never seen a better disaster movie in my entire life so far to date, this move rocks, it is better than Twister, Volcano, 10.5 Apocalypse, Category 7 the end of the world, as well as many others I'm sure! The action and thrills just keep coming! This is better than spectacular, totally cool, or what a ride (comments by Jim Ferguson, Gene Shalit, and Joel Siegel)!!!!! This is NOT a movie that you sit through and then afterwards want to erase from your memory, it's just..................AWESOME!!!!!
Awesome Movie!
2009-10-03 - I would recommend this movie to everyone! It's one of my favorite movies to watch. It's also for sale on[...]
superior disaster flick
2009-09-21 - A surprisingly effective mainstream disaster film in the mould of some well-loved classics (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, etc) which doesn't stray far from the tried and tested formula but does nevertheless manage to feel inventive and modern... A good disaster film humanizes a tragedy by focusing on a small but disparate group of characters who are imperilled, and to whom we are required to form some sort of emotional attachment. When the disaster is on a relatively small scale (people trapped in burning tower, or upturned boat) this is easy enough, but as Emmerich seems to specialise in global destruction, it can be a more difficult formula to pull off. Independence Day struggled to present the viewer with anything very much to care about, with a motley assortment of two dimensional characters who never really had a chance to rise above the ridiculous plot and relentless action. TDAT is definitely more adult in its approach. It has a "message" and if the science has been 'tweaked' a little to suit a two hour film, then so be it. (Let's face it, watching a film which realistically depicts the scale of climate change would not be high on anyone's list of fun nights out.) I think he does a good job of dramatising the issues in a manner which does not seriously undermine the film's green credentials. This is helped by using the great Ian Holm to lend gravitas to some of the sciency stuff. It's a shame that Adrian Lester, one of the UK's finest actors, wasn't given a meatier role, but it's still refreshing to see a depiction of working climatologists which doesn't stereotype them as nerdy scientists with no inner life. It's also a film which at least pays lip service to there being life outside the US, with a number of scenes in Europe, and the aforementioned British actors talking about Manchester United in their Scottish hidey-hole. Which brings us back to the imperilled characters who inhabit the core of the film. For every scene in which nature wreaks havoc on a sizeable chunk of the earth (and credit due here for some truly outstanding special effects), there should be an emotional counterpoint. Dennis Quaid gives a very solid, charismatic performance as the father who mounts a polar-style expedition along the Eastern coast to reach his son. It's an interesting comparison with the Jeff Goldblum role from ID4 (also playing the "scientist who wasn't listened to and whose focus now is to save his family") and really points up the more fully fleshed out character in this film, and also the better performance. The scenes with Jake Gyllenhaal trapped in the library are also watchable, sprinkled with enough clever moments amongst the "as if?!" clichés to keep one's interest. The amusing debate over which books to burn between the bespectacled liberal and the female student ("Nietzsche?! Not Nietzsche!") was just the sort of quirky scene which elevated the film above predictable schlock. Some of the minor characters didn't do it for me - the hobo, who I guess was some sort of cypher for the less materialistic lifestyle we should be aspiring to (the simple life of the non-consumer ultimately rewarded with survival) and the dying boy patient (a little unnecessary when a whole hemisphere was about to be obliterated) both would have been more at home in Independence Day. The arrogance and ignorance of the vice president seemed very plausible, and his conversion-by-fire (or ice in this case) to accept the damage being done to the planet made for a dramatic large-scale conclusion to accompany the reconciliation of Quaid and son. The odd scene here and there veered into cheesy action flick territory. There was, as someone else has pointed out here, really no need for the "Jurassic Park with wolves" scene. And the "chased along street by lethal icy wind" scene into which it segued struck me as being risible. Quick! Close the door, before the nasty weather kills you... But none of this detracted from the enjoyment. Perhaps the most impressive achievement of TDAT is this it really did leave me with some memorable images - the ship stranded in the snow halfway up fifth avenue (or wherever it was), the icicles hanging down from the statue of liberty, the wall of water approaching manhattan, even some of the views of earth from space. In summary (no pun intended), better than expected and therefore pretty good.
SIMPLE BUT ENTERTAINING!
2009-09-12 - LOVE THIS MOVIE ON BLURAY AND SURROUND SOUND! MOVIE OVER ALL VERY SIMPLE STORM FILM AND GOOD EFFECT'S WILL KEEP YOU INTERESTED TILL THE END.
