2/4  Iffy Disaster Flick
The Day After Tommorow is an interesting disaster movie that sure'll catch the eye. but with a questionable ending, small character development, and confusing plotholes, this movie doesn't have really have a thorough sense of direction.
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1.5/4  Poor attempt at making a movie with a message
Wow, I can't believe I stayed up to watch this movie on HBO. It's such a disappointment.

The only thing that is worth seeing in this movie is the special effects, that is, the effects for tornadoes -- the snowstorm special effects are ... (read full)

3/4  The Day After Tomorrow
I've loved disaster films ever since I fell in love with movies. It all started with "Twister" and "Daylight." I don't know why a lot of people didn't like this movie. Were they looking for some kind of character development or a solid sto... (read full)

3/4  Warm cheese action.
Michael Bay along with Emmerich are my men at the time of making fun films. Some are really garbage, some are descent. With this one, well, you can catch me watching it everytime that's aired on TV. The twisters and big tsunami on NY is s... (read full)

3.5/4  A lot of fun to watch, underrated
I love this film. First off, I have to say that I am a big fan of apocalyptic movies. Second, the idea behind the movie, though it is way over the top in terms of a timeline, is plausible. Third, the acting, particularly of Jake Gyllenhaal... (read full)

3/4  The Day After Tomorrow Quick Review
i liked that it was on a world stage but it was a bad ending. The world won't be normal again after a week or so. Overall, it was still great.

2/4  The Day After Tomorrow Quick Review
A little too family friendly for an end-of-the-world flick -- with a ending a little too neat. I enjoy it despite myself . . . every time I watch it.

3/4  The Day After Tomorrow Quick Review
A huge chunk of this reminds me of Independence Day (though not as good). It has awesome special affects and a semi interesting story line. What's funny is that it looks like this movie could come true some day. Sometimes too much cheese.

2/4  The Day After Tomorrow Quick Review
A popcorn flick all the way - big special effects, the star-of-the-moment (Jake Gyllenhaal), the family in crisis - heck, it even has a sick girl in need of companionship. A little too neat and sweet for my tastes, but still enjoyable.

2/5 One of the Worst Disaster Movies Ever
  by Untitled (nowhere)
Michael Bay is sometimes the whipping boy of film fans for being the poster boy for movies with little "artistic quality", being movies that have explosions and special effects, flawed with lame characters, plot holes, no plot, stupid humor, being devoid of anything that makes a movie good. Sure, I'm not a fan of Michael Bay's movies, as most of them really do suck (although if you know my reviews, Transformers film series are a lot of fun). However, Michael bay doesn't even come close to sucking as much as Roland Emmerich. Okay fine, granted, Roland Emmerich doesn't exactly suck at directing. I don't think it takes no talent to orchestrate disaster scenes like he does.

First off, this isn't a terrifyling awful movie. The special effect scenes are amazing, as well as the many aerial shots. Watching the Tornadoes rip through LA, watching things crack, and the whole flooding scene of New York are all amazing scenes. New York City when it is frozen in ice near the end is another great site. There are some good shots and scenes that are cool to watch, but that's really the only thing they have going for it. I mean, the production values are fine, the settings and good, and the acting isn't that bad either. The actors are cool for the most part, but the actors give me absolutely nothing to grab onto regarding plot. This is the prime example of how money doesn't always make something good. The movie has absolutely nothing else to offer.

The Day After Tomorrow fails on the scientific front, filled with so many gaping plot holes and scientific inaccuraies that make the plot hard to deal with. It's another reason why this movie sucks, as this movie doesn't create interest about global warming and nature. What's the point of listening to the ramblings when you know most of it is absurd. At least Independence Day didn't fall back on much science, instead of being about Aliens. Aliens are science fiction and speculation, sometimes a fantasy creature, so there's no way that movie can fall into the trap of pure fantasy. Sorry, even as somebody who is sketchy about realistic fictional entertainment does not deal with the excuse of scientifically inaccurate.

Another thing wrong is the story. Oh dear god the story. The half assed, cliched father and son story is extremely cookie cutter, and even having Jake Gyllenhaal as the son doesn't even make me like the protaginist. Personally, his latest had me rooting for the protagonist (which actually wasn't that bad of a movie) being the fact that it's __________ John Cusack (he was cool in the movie too), but I don't really care about Dennis Quaid one bit. These characters are just so one dimensional and cardboard, so "realistic" that it makes me realize that watching these boring people has as much point as watching cooke cutter characters that are fictional. Oh wait.

The Day After Tomorrow's flaws are very obvious from the beginning. Just remember that if you are watching it for science, it is ultimately bull_____ . If you are watching it for a story, why do you care about fictional father and son? Don't you have your own son. if you are watching this for the disaster sequences, remember that there is about twenty minutes of cool forces of nature scenes in a two hour movie. While Roland Emmerich had sank even lower than this with Godzilla, this is still a poster child for intelligently insulting big budget disaster movies. There are better blockbuster movies out there, and then again, summer blockbusters aren't that great of movies anyway.

D+

5/5 the day after tomorrow
  by Gayle Teague (Dawson Springs, Ky.)
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]

5/5 Absolutely the Best disaster movie EVER!
  by pjthepanda
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!!!!!

5/5 Awesome Movie!
  by Sellbits.com (Las Vegas, NV)
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5/5 superior disaster flick
  by Felix Austin (Sacramento, CA)
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.