dollar gross makes it the highest grossing Canadian film of all time. No stranger to

destroying American landmarks with outlandish destruction sequences, famed German director

Roland Emmerich, who made his mark on Hollywood with pictures like "Independence Day", "Godzilla",

and later "2012", tackles the issue of climate change in a ridiculously enjoyable way. Voted

as one of the least scientifically accurate films every made, the plot here follows the

events surrounding a father and son who attempt to survive a mammoth super-storm that is sending

New York, and the rest of the northern hemisphere into a deep, lethal freeze. Dennis Quaid stars

as a paleoclimatologist, who is somehow the only person on Earth who predicts the coming

of a new ice-age: and even following extreme weather like tornados in Hollywood or hail

in Japan, everyone is too stubborn to heed his good advice. His brave, but caring leading-man

persona is familiar, but acted well. Staying exciting and tense throughout, the briskly

paced 124-minute adventure adeptly meshes both the macro story of mankind dealing with

extinction-level storms, and the micro events of Quaid's personal battles. Jake Gyllenhaal

plays his son, who finds himself trapped in the New York public library struggling to

survive with his attractive classmate, Emmy Rossum following a tidal wave of rising ocean

water that quickly freezes over Manhattan. The two young leads share some passionate

chemistry amidst incredible visual effects and stunningly effective CGI, lamenting to

each other, "I've prepared for a future that no longer exists". "The dialogue isn't anything

special, but it does enough to flesh out the characters, and drive the plot forward, even

Ian Holm is able to turn in a decent performance. Commendably, this movie shares some important

messages about global climate change, and respecting our planet's natural resources,

else we'll slip into another ice age. Unfortunately, the gross oversimplification and extreme acceleration

of these worst-case-scenario weather events nearly diminishes the effectiveness of any

pro-environment message. Rather annoyingly, this picture all but glosses over the deaths

of millions of humans, but spends a great deal of screen time focusing on a single child

dying of cancer, which may have created an ounce of emotional resonance, had his character

not been bereft of any development or dialogue. Combine that wasted sub-plot with a nonsense

sequence involving escaped wolves on a Russian tanker ship, and this film could have stalled

faster than a frozen helicopter. Frequently delivering harrowing thrills via liberal use

of unrealistic weather dangers, like when our heroes are quite literally outrunning

cold air itself, many scenes are laughably enjoyable. If you're able to forgive the dozens

of meteorological inaccuracies, that compresses centuries of climate events into a week-long

timeframe, this can honestly be a rather entertaining picture. Generic music, familiar thrills,

but an irresistible package make this picture supremely fun: after all, who doesn't love

watching New York get destroyed by weather? The Day After Tomorrow", "Amazing visual excitement,

unbelievable plot." Well those were my thoughts on the picture, now lets see what you had

to say in the YouTube comments.

"The Day After Tomorrow"... a SIX and a SEVEN. You faulted this movie for its sub-par acting,

and ridiculously unbelievable premise, but still loved the monumentally epic disaster

sequences, scoring the movie a GOOD. I'm a sucker for a fun end-of-the-world escapade,

and Emmerich certainly delivers once again. Shallow, absurd, and emotional empty, I still

enjoyed this movie enough to rate is a COOL.