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The Day After Tomorrow

5 star:		(197)
4 star:		(176)
3 star:		(167)
2 star:		(119)
1 star:		(107)

 

 

The entertaining film features spectacular special effects. It delivers what it promises: an all-out, wild disaster flick.

Utilizing blu-ray interactive capabilities, this blu-ray edition introduces exclusive BD-J bonus features. In the BD-J "Global Warming Trivia Track" game, users can prevent Earth's temperatures from rising to worldwide destruction level by correctly answering questions about global warming.

Here are other specific bonus features and spec details (from Hollywood in Hi-Def):

* "The Day After Tomorrow"
+ Blu-ray Exclusive Bonus Features:
-- Search Content
-- Personal Scene Selections
-- Global Warming Interactive (Java Game)
-- D-Box
+ Additional Bonus Features: (standard def)
-- Commentary by Director/Co-Writer Roland Emmerich and Producer Mark Gordon
-- Commentary by Co-Writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Ueli Steiger, Editor David Brenner and Production Designer Barry Chusid
-- Ten (10) Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Director/Co-Writer Roland Emmerich and Producer Mark Gordon
... Scene 21: Kids Study
... Scene 25: Gary's Shady Deal / Taka Dies
... Scene 9-19 Hurricane Hunter / Kona Beach
... Scene A58 Gary Vs. Foster
... Scene 59: Tommy's Big Break
... Scene 100- 103: Stock Market Crash
... Scene 156: Ask Mexico For Help
... Scene 207A: Campbell & Co. / Last Exit to Brooklyn
... Scene 200-206: Wolf Chase Part 2
... Scene 209 - 210B: First Version of Jack & Jason After The Big Freeze

+ 50 GB dual-layer
+ Authored in BD-Java and AVC (MPEG 4 compression)
+ English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio plus French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound.
+ Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Cantonese, Korean

Highly recommended!

Let me begin this review by saying one thing, The Day After Tomorrow is an excellent movie. I loved it. The special effects were outstanding. It's good fun for a date movie.
But,....trying to take this movie seriously is actually hard. The story revolving around global warming and the world being hit hard within a week is a bit too hard to swallow. Too, there's just some things in the movie that I just don't see happening quite the same way if they were to happen in real life. I'm not saying that we shouldn't take the threat of global warming seriously but the way it is presented in this movie is ridiculous. If the writer of the film took more time to research the material on global warming, I think he(and Roland Emmerich) could have made an even better film. As much as I love disaster flicks(having collected the majority of them that has come out in recent memory), I really don't know if I could recommend this one for people to buy.
However, if you're hankering for a disaster flick to watch on a Friday night with family and friends eating pizza and popcorn, then- this is a rental that's sure to please.

This is not the best acted, and it's certainly not the best scripted film I've ever seen. But for the first time, one of Mr. Emmerich's offerings was so involving visually, that I was able to overlook the giant size plot holes, and the characters that seemingly came out of a box somewhere. This isn't any less ludicrous that Independence Day, or certainly Godzilla, but for once, the images were powerful enough to let me power my brain down for the afternoon and just sit back and watch the pretty colors.

Do not go into this movie expecting high art. But, in Gene Siskel's old maxim, it is more interesting than a documentary of the actors having lunch, and it's from that perspective that my inner film geek finds peace with his enthusiam.

Whether you belive that the greenhouse effect will harm the earth in the way the movie portrays, or not, this movie gives you such a realistic "what if", it will leave most viewers pondering about every act they perform that potentially harms the environment.

I am hugely critical of overdone special effects, but the weather disasters in this film were breathtakingly genuine-looking. This is perhaps the finest use of special effects that I have ever seen. I would recommend the movie on this alone.

(Don't read further if you don't want the plot spoiled)
The one flaw, was straining plot credibility past the breaking point.
The movie did overreach itself in expecting the viewer to buy into the father travelling from Washington DC to NY City primarily on foot, during a climatic natural disaster, and that half the United States could be evacuated anywhere in a short time and during these conditions.
These were poorly excuted and simply unbelievable.

Having said that, the rest of the movie is so well done, that I did not care, and highly recommend it.

The movie is clearly a popcorn thriller with apocalyptic intentions and some neat special fx to show for itself, which unfortunately are terribly frittered away because the film doesn't quite seem to be able to make up its mind -- should it have been a special fx entertainer, or should the characters have had depth?

Either/or would have been fine, but the Day After Tomorrow ends up being a cold mesh of predictable yet doozy disasters and empty characters/plot.

The message is noble. Save mother earth, prevent global warming. But it is drummed in too stridently with vacuous science (such events would take years, not days to transpire) and countless empty scenes thrown in (most scenes with the president of US, who got killed for the most moronic of reasons; a street beggar and his dog who add zilch to the film; a rich fratboy and his brother stuck in Philadelphia, about whom nothing happens; the whole thing about Dennis Quaid's wife and the child she is supposedly saving in a hospital; references to the third world; etc etc).

Then there are zillions of cliches to deal with. The minor character who sacrifices himself; the character who puts his/her life in grave danger for most inane of reasons; the ignorant authority figure who dismisses the intelligent warnings and puts dozens/hundreds/millions of lives at risk; etc etc. All here to comprehensively irk.

Political correctness savants were busy too. As you may expect, all races are factored in: the NASA representative amidst all this mayhem is a Japanese woman; a friend of Dennis Quaid's son is an African American; an important conference is held in New Delhi; you get the picture.

As though that were not enough, the plot gets suicidal with some obviously ludicrous elements, not the least of which is a couple of men floundering from Philadelphia to NYC in 24 hours, on foot, in metres and metres of murderous snow.

Some fx are cool, I admit, but nothing I have not seen in some form or the other before....hurricanes (Twister), frozen worlds (A.I.), airplane turbulence (Turbulence, Passenger 57), big wave floods (The Core) etc.

Overall, a watchable popcorn flick but the net result is rather pale and baleful in comparison to other movies from this genre. Especially when you think back about it.

1. An ice-age can take place in 16 days.
2. An artic hurricane can freeze helicopter fuel instantly but has no effect on normal household gas.
3. An experienced explorer can walk from Philadelphia to NYC in one day in the worst blizzard in history.
4. The President of the US will stay in the White House until the very end to "stay with the sinking ship".
5. Books being burnt look remarkably like wood being burnt and apparently last a long time.
6. In a massive flood in NYC, unmanned oil tankers will be able to circumnavigate the flooded streets to arrive at the door of the public library.

I'm sure there was a lot more I could have learned, but I was laughing too hard.

I have to say that this film really reminded me of Armageddon. Not in story or plot, but in the way that the movie can be so enjoyable and make little sense when it comes to science and common sense. The movie is loosely based on the book THE COMING OF THE GLOBAL SUPERSTORM and concerns massive climate changes and how they affect life as we know it.

The movie begins on an ice shelf where a climatologist is taking core samples. These samples combined with events on the shelf drive the scientist (Quaid) to hypothesize that a new ice age is in the near future unless we change our ways now. To keep things movie, Quad is wrong on the time frame and things begin happening very quickly and drastically. Like ID4, we follow a number of groups as they are affected by the events, especially Quaid and his almost estranged family.

Typical of this type of film, politics and politicians are painted as bad guys although some do come to their senses. The action never lets up and the special effects are absolutely stunning. There are a couple of deleted scenes on the disk that really help link a number of events better than they were in the final product, but the movie worked well without them.

If you are a fan of disaster films then this is one of the biggest you could see. Check it out.

The Day After Tomorrow has some of the most amazing special effects I've ever seen. The cast does an amazing job with what they have to work with,(Quaid and Gyllenhaal do a wonderful job as well as new comer Emmy Rossum). It does have some pretty funny moments as well,( Americans crossing into Mexico illegaly.) The script could be better as well as some parts of the story line. Altogether though it is a wonderful movie that I would recomend.

Ok, so this is a fun, good movie to see and even to own, with great special effects, and good acting, but i mean oh my goodness, thier are some very, funny things here. (I mean they aren't meant to be funny!) But it's very enjoyable! See it, Rent it, just maybey don't buy it.

This was a fun popcorn movie. Great special effects, heroes and heroines getting into all kinds of danger from moment to moment, etc. The science was a little silly, but, on the other hand, it's only a movie. The biggest downside was the clumsy computer-generated timberwolves (they couldn't have used real trained animals?). A lot of fun and definitely worth seeing if you like action/adventure movies.