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Movie: The Day After Tomorrow Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, Ian Holm Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Reviewer: Jonathan Yost
My thoughts on how The Day After Tomorrow's idea came about... Roland Emmerich is sitting around with some producers, discussing a new movie. Someone asked "well, what worked before?" Emmerich sat there, and said Independence Day. They thought about it, decided an Independence Day 2 was not quite ready yet. Emmerich thinks a bit more..."What if we take away the aliens and the Fresh Prince?" And voila! The Day After Tomorrow is created. The plot's a bit different: Instead of Aliens blowing up the world, it's our fault. Global warming melts too much ice, ice water screws up the currents, currents cool down the planet, huge land-based hurricanes freeze the crap out of everything and the northern hemisphere becomes a giant glacier. So it's our own fault this time around. Of course Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) realizes what's happening (think of him as the Jeff Goldblum of TDAT), tries to warn the Vice President, who doesn't listen to him, citing the economy as more important than the planet. The Day After Tomorrow starts off boring enough, just like ID4, but soon, New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles have all their monuments destroyed. If there is ever a natural disaster or alien invasion, I'm heading towards the World's Largest Ball of Twine, because I've never seen anyone try to destroy that thing. Anyways, same locations, same destruction. Jack Hall is busy trying to figure out what's going on, and how it's going to effect the world, when his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) calls him saying that he is stuck in New York. And, cue the dramatic music. Now, we fast track the story about nature's fury, and focus on the new sub plot. Ok, go: Jack tells President to evacuate the country to Mexico (As a southern California resident, I thought this scene was funny as hell), then grabs some Antarctic gear, some buddies, and heads off to New York from DC. Of course one of the buddies dies saving the others, Jack saves the other by dropping him into a fast food place. In the meantime, Sam's saving everyone that's with him trapped in the New York Public Library. There's provisions to see to, books to burn for heat, a small romantic scene, and then the action scene. The action scene was cool enough, though I don't know how wolves got aboard a ship. At the end, there's the scene showing that there's still hope for humanity, with images of people being airlifted off of buildings in New York. There's an overall happy ending, as long as you don't think about the millions of people that just died, or that a lot of the areas left are pretty much useless to farming. I enjoyed the movie not because of the plot (though I was happy that they tried to stick one in), but because stuff got blown to hell, and I am a 20-something guy, and we love seeing stuff getting destroyed. Good times all around Click here for the Official Movie website
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