After climatologist is largely ignored by U.N. officials while informing them of an environmental threat, he make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City, to reach his son trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
... the situations are just so ludicrous that it really detracts from the quality of the special effects ...
Cinefantastique
July 14, 2008
The ecological theme is not advanced with any subtlety, but so what? The film works with the broad brushstrokes appropriate to a popular entertainment.
It fulfills its summer air-conditioning duties with flippant ease, and its enjoyably cloddish attempts at political relevance add a fascinating layer of incongruity.
For all of its dire premonitions, foreshadowings of horror and easy targets for Jay Leno jokes, The Day After Tomorrow is eye-poppingly awesome and wonderfully entertaining.
High-strung, melodramatic hogwash steeped in a measure of scientific fact. Emmerich takes it as seriously as he can and his movie, as a result, delivers more provocative fun than you might expect.
"Trite" really isn't doing justice to the degree to which [the film] has not a single thought, character, or line of dialogue that hadn't been run into the ground by the beginning of the '80s.