Definitely worth watching on the big screen. The effects are absolutely spectacular. Not much of a storyline, but you barely notice it. The visuals tell a far more powerful story than the teenage romance that they cheesily forced in.
Great soundwork, effects, a political message inside, lots of technobabble to cover up for scientific exagerration.
And did I mention unbelievable effects?
Al Gore also liked the movie and the environmental message in it :D
the best part of the movie was that when the americans started crossing the border into mexico illegally
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Al Gore said that???? I thought Al was smarter than that. I would expect these comments to come from Dan Quayle or George Jr.
saw the movie yesterday and my city gets hit by two tornadoes today - 
haha.. mexico part was hilarious!
cool effects, cheesy dialogues/storyline.
Looks like the same old stuff.....
Omg!
The visual effects were unreal!
But tht's the only thing there was to the movie. Could have done so much.
The visuals of the movie are breath-taking. The concept is a bit thin. US refugees lining up at the Mexican border was hilarious and even more hilarious was that the US President gets a deal from Mexico to allow refugees and in turn write off all debt for Latin America. 
Cheesy, very cheesy!
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But the sub-plots are completely stupid. Imagine, the best scientist in the US who had so daringly predicted the affects of global warming etc walks all the way from DC to New York just to rescue his son, while there are huge snow storms, and most of New York’s population is killed. Where the heck is the perspective and the big picture??
Then our hero surives in a thin camping tent in freezing snow storms, while the President of the USA is travelling in such a rubbish motorcade that he dies! Blah!!
The most remarkable point about the movie was that there was actually no solution. In other movies like Armageddon, Deep Impact, Core etc, you actually have a solution and our hero saves the world. In this one, there is just no solution… wait-it-out is the theme. The previous ice age lasts, what, 10000 years… This one lasts 2 days… a big blah!
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Definitely something to be seen in the theaters. You will lose much if you wait for DVD at home.
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Let me say that I'm generally not a fan of summer blockbusters, especially ones with any sort of comedic element involved (because, naturally, mass-scale comedy is usually very, very dumb). But I do like summer movies that don't necessarily take themselves too seriously and do as much with some sort of redeemable quality. "The Day After Tomorrow" is one of them.
I give the movie a solid 3 stars. Why? Because it's a grand-scale spectacle, a big, bad Omnimax movie designed to thrill audiences for 2 hours and perhaps leave a lingering image or two or three. What it achieves in terms of audiovisual sensation is nothing short of exceptional, and in regards to this criteria, it's a grand slam. On a base scale, it succeeds quite easily. It's not trying to be anything above and beyond a simple (albeit massively-scaled and expensive) summer movie. I like that. I also like the leftist tone of the film, but I won't go into that.
The plot, dialogue and pacing were all conspicuously flawed and some of the acting was subpar, but for the most part it all held together (even if it did require continual duct-taping provided by the phenomenal FX shots). Gyllenhaal and Quaid performed admirably despite their cardboard roles, and Ian Holm gave a pretty decent performance as well (though I would've liked to have seen more of him). There were the expected million and one subplots, each of which served to flay the main story and render it increasingly out of focus and the ending was too abrupt and anticlimactic, but these things are to be expected of a film as jam-packed as this. The special effects were some of the best I've ever seen from any genre.
If you walk into the theater expecting anything other than a summer blockbuster, you'll be disappointed. If you walk into the theater wanting to see a summer blockbuster that actually delivers on the level it's designed to deliver on and stays with you after the credits roll, then you'll be in for a pleasant surprise.
Oh, and Dick Cheney would never admit he was wrong!
Some of the effects were really really bad too, like the CGI for the wolves! Dabbah movie.
They hired Game Designers for it, pretty cool effects over all.
Nice review PT
It was pretty cool, I was on the edge of my seat. Afterwards, when my sister and I came home, it started to rain and we were completely paranoid! Now we keep telling each other, "the storm's coming, the storm's coming!"