A lopsided mix of top-shelf spectacle and cut-rate casting.
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05/28/04
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
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Reviews Counted:203
Fresh:91
Rotten:112
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: A ludicrous popcorn flick filled with clunky dialogues, but spectacular visuals save it from being a total disaster.
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: With THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, director Roland Emmerich (INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA) trades evil aliens and radioactive lizards in for some seriously bad weather. When a radical change in the... [More]
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Ian Holm
Director: Roland Emmerich
Reviews for The Day After Tomorrow
101 - 120 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
It's just so very bad.
05/28/04
The Day After Tomorrow is less about serious issues and more about big-money special effects and shameless sentimentality.
05/28/04
The Day After Tomorrow isn't satisfying in every way, but in the ways that really matter, it's one superior disaster movie.
05/28/04
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05/28/04
Top CriticThe Day After Tomorrow has pretty good special effects and the body heat of pure kitsch.
05/28/04
Expensive cheese.
05/28/04
The only truly scary thing about this doomsday popcorn flick is the momumental ineptitude of the acting, writing and directing.
05/28/04
In the words of its star, Dennis Quaid, Emmerich has made 'the mother of all disaster movies.'
05/28/04
Frequently exciting.
05/28/04
Another day at the office for director Roland Emmerich, who has previously attacked American cities in Independence Day and Godzilla.
05/28/04
It is preposterous, old fashioned, high-cheese B-moviemaking, but you can’t say it ain’t entertaining.
05/28/04
Global warming is no joke, but this is pretty silly stuff. Still, the special effects are impressive and some of the ironies are amusing.
05/28/04
a cautionary thriller that delivers its dire warnings with about as much tact and delicacy as Chicken Little... often shamefully entertaining...
05/28/04
Delivers the expected thrills and groans.
05/28/04
Crammed full of disaster-movie cliches and cardboard characters.
05/28/04
The jaw-dropping special effects in the weather-gone- wild doomsday film The Day After Tomorrow sweep all else away -- including quibbles about bland characterization and dead-in-the-water dialogue.
05/28/04
Frigid, absurd film.
05/28/04
There's something perversely satisfying about seeing poor abused Mother Nature kicking mankind in the collective keister. That's precisely what Day After delivers.
05/28/04
The Day After Tomorrow is good old-fashioned popcorn entertainment that delivers all the fun and thrills it promises.
05/28/04
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