Wait for rental for ‘Day After Tomorrow’

Wed., June 23, 2004

DNA Smith King Features Syndicate

“The Day After Tomorrow” isn’t really the end of the world, but after about an hour into watching this turkey, you’ll be praying for it.

I’ll admit that the part of the movie with Mother Nature Gone Wild was a lot of fun to watch. The tornadoes and hailstorms and flooding and all the global destruction was cool. That’s the reason I didn’t give this movie an F. The problem is, that awesome special-effects sequence lasts about 30 minutes. Which means there’s still 90 minutes of very bad movie.

Making the best of a bad script is Dennis Quaid, who stars as Jack Hall, a climatologist whose findings reveal that the planet is about to experience another catastrophic Ice Age. Hall reports his findings to the president, who dismisses the data as sensationalism. Big mistake.

Next thing you know, ice caps are melting and the whole planet’s weather goes higgledy-piggledy. If you like watching stuff blow up, see this movie at a matinee. Otherwise, wait for it to be a rental.

Grade: C-

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