A terrific B-movie.
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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
121 - 140 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
The film shows us that an angry Mother Nature can be every bit as exciting as space invaders and giant fire-breathing lizards.
05/28/04
Doesn't really have any interesting characters to live through those disasters and its central storyline makes little sense.
05/28/04
Nothing about The Day After Tomorrow really engages us except for the computer effects, which are certainly impressive enough, in a Powerpoint-presentation sort of way.
05/28/04
An Irwin Allen movie on steroids.
05/28/04
A disaster movie that cautions against global warming but delivers its real enjoyment in scenes of mass destruction.
05/28/04
It turns out the real question director Roland Emmerich's movie raises isn't about how much this film's pseudo-science teases us, but how much bad drama it's willing to blow our way.
05/28/04
For all this expertly rendered destruction, the characters don't seem fazed by casualty counts that must number in the billions.
05/28/04
The special effects are on such an awesome scale that the movie works despite its cornball plotting.
05/28/04
Top CriticFor all its doomsaying, the movie fails to scare you into being a better citizen of the earth or even a riveted moviegoer.
05/28/04
It has drama, it has action, it has pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo, it has bloodthirsty timber wolves, and it has lots and lots of ice.
05/28/04
Content to parade out an endless, ever-wearying line of cliches, ludicrous plotting and dialogue, and paper-thin stock characters whom the viewer forms no relationship with.
05/28/04
With our beleaguered planet mired in a perpetual bad-news funk, what could be cheerier than a good old-fashioned disaster flick to remind us that things could be worse?
05/28/04
Despite the horrific dialogue, the forgettable characters, and the frozen performances, The Day After Tomorrow is rentable.
05/28/04
it becomes evident that Emmerich is as ill-adept at painting personal moments as he is as a maestro at crafting large-scale disaster images.
05/28/04
Surely, there are smarter, more compelling ways to make this point than Jack's whole-hearted, robust embodiment of U.S. remythification.
05/28/04
Despite spots which are sappy and unintentionally funny, The Day After Tomorrow does deliver what it promises: a big, wild, bring-it-on disaster flick
05/28/04
It looks good, but the rest of this flick will just leave you cold.
05/28/04
Top Critic...it basically delivers in all of the standard elements that we've come to expect from both 'event' and 'Emmerich' films...
05/28/04
I'm not saying that a date with this picture is all pleasure; but it's not all guilt either. My guess is that, waking up the morning after The Day After Tomorrow, you won't have much trouble forgiving yourself.
05/28/04
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