A disaster movie has to be about more than the cool effects.
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05/27/04
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
161 - 180 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
There's none of the adolescent goofiness that ruined Independence Day and Godzilla.
05/27/04
Resembles disaster films of the 1970s, where big-name stars battled flood, fire and capsized luxury liners.
05/27/04
The film weakly trades reliable popcorn action for a story about blossoming young love, puzzling fatherly heroics and overwrought messages on the dangers of global warming.
05/27/04
[Roland Emmerich] again wipes out enormous swaths of humanity and real estate, but this time the overall tone is funereal, sober.
05/27/04
Top CriticYou'll be swept away by sights that you'll never be able to see on The Weather Channel.
05/27/04
The script's hackneyed dialogue and predictable dramatic situations will be difficult to take seriously even by those who are most sympathetic to the earnestly delivered environmental theme.
05/27/04
Director Roland Emmerich wows us with end-of-the-world special effects while doling out the usual schmaltzy plot and cornball dialogue.
05/27/04
Emmerich builds his global disaster invigoratingly and the special effects team are to be commended, but the screenplay is a holey assemblage of cliche and borrowings
05/27/04
[Emmerich] crams the film with enough digital wizardry to make you wish he had jettisoned the script altogether and simply paraded the visual effects with chapter titles such as Snow Over New Delhi and The Hollywood Sign Gets Totaled.
05/27/04
The film exists primarily to stir the senses, and on that score it is an overwhelming achievement.
05/27/04
A badly wasted opportunity.
05/27/04
The first half delivers enough of what people want and expect from disaster pictures, and there are enough money-shot special effects, that auds probably will be more satisfied than not.
05/27/04
Top CriticThe Day After Tomorrow deserves praise for rightly identifying the human race as the evil-doers who are responsible for the destruction of the good earth we inhabit.
05/27/04
A summer snow job that produces the season's first perfect storm of pleasure.
05/27/04
Teems with illogical action, improbable coincidences.
05/27/04
Wonky science aside, this is exactly what you want from a disaster movie.
05/27/04
The ads for The Day After Tomorrow ask, 'where will you be?' If moviegoers have any sense, they'll be at Shrek 2, Super Size Me or Harry Potter...
05/27/04
The picture is most entertaining when it acknowledges the swaggering cheesiness of [the melodramatic calamity freak-outs of the early 1970's].
05/27/04
Top CriticThe second half ... is comically bad moviemaking.
05/27/04
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