Review 248: The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow is profoundly silly and preposterous as hell but what surprised me about it was the fear factor and 

When Global Warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, torrnadoes 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 they've ever encountered: Mother Nature!

This film tackles the very serious issue of climate change in a rediculously enjoyable fashion and delivers an important if admittedly heavy handed message on Global Climate Change and respecting our planets resources.

Of course if you know anything about Climatology or climate change in general you will know full well that a new Ice Age is impossible and anyone with half a mindset can clearly tell this movie is not in any way, shape or form scientifically accurate but the implausibly is part of the fun.

In typical Roland Emmerich film fashion this film talks about its admittedly fascinating, topical and important subject mater in rediculously exaggerated fashion.

Ok it’s silly but is it fun? Ehh

Roland Emmerich’s direction is  the cinematography is  the score by Harald Kloser is spectacular, the special effects are stupendous wether it's creating a tidale wave about to swallow New York or snow burrying skyscrapers, The Day After Tomorrow is nothing short on spectacle. The production design is  the costumes are 

Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid do a solid job with the silly material they’re given and the father/son bond between them comes across as very genuine and sincere amidst

Sela Ward is luminous playing Jack's wife Lucy and is given her own little subplot which she ploughs through nobably which involves the little cancer patient named Peter.

Even Ian Holm provides the film with some much needed legitimacy playing Prof. Terry Rapson an Oceanographer who shares Jack’s views of the inevitable climate shift. 

 

4/5.

 

The Anonymous Critic.