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#287
My Rating:
8
Seen It:
Yes
#287
My Rating:
8
Seen It:
Yes
USA / English
| Dennis Quaid | Jack Hall |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | Sam Hall |
| Emmy Rossum | Laura Chapman |
| Ian Holm | Terry Rapson |
| Sela Ward | Lucy Hall |
| Dash Mihok | Jason Evans |
| Ken Welsh | Vice President Becker |
| Jay O. Sanders | Frank Harris |
| Austin Nichols | J. D. |
| Perry King | President of the United States |
| Arjay Smith | Brian Parks |
| Tamlyn Tomita | Janet Tokada |
| Sasha Roiz | Parker |
| Director | Roland Emmerich |
| Producer | Roland Emmerich; Mark Gordon; Ute Emmerich |
| Writer | Roland Emmerich; Jeffrey Nachmanoff |
| Cinematography | Ueli Steiger |
| Musician | Harald Kloser; Thomas Wanker |
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 emphasises 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 pummelled 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
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