The Day After Tomorrow - Two Disc Edition

Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Dennis Quaid	Jack Hall
Jake Gyllenhaal	Sam Hall
Emmy Rossum	Laura Chapman
Dash Mihok	Jason Evans
Jay O. Sanders	Frank Harris
Sela Ward	Dr. Lucy Hall
Austin Nichols	J.D.
Arjay Smith	Brian Parks
Tamlyn Tomita	Janet Tokada
Sasha Roiz	Parker
Ian Holm	Terry Rapson
Ken Welsh	Vice President Becker
Perry King	President of the United States

Director	Roland Emmerich
Producer	Roland Emmerich; Mark Gordon
Writer	Roland Emmerich

Supreme silliness doesn't stop The Day After Tomorrow from being lots of fun for connoisseurs of epic-scale disaster flicks. After the blockbuster profits of Independence Day and Godzilla, you can't blame director Roland Emmerich for using global warming as a politically correct excuse for destroying most of the northern hemisphere. Like most of Emmerich's films, this one emphasises special effects over such lesser priorities as well-drawn characters and plausible plotting, and his dialogue (cowritten by Jeffrey Nachmanoff) is so laughably trite that it could be entirely eliminated without harming the movie. It's the spectacle that's important here, not the lame, recycled plot about father and son (Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal) who endure an end-of-the-world scenario caused by the effects of global warming. So sit back, relax and enjoy the awesome visions of tornado-ravaged Los Angeles, blizzards in New Delhi, Japan pummelled by grapefruit-sized hailstones, and Manhattan flooded by swelling oceans and then frozen by the onset of a modern ice age. It's all wildly impressive, and Emmerich obviously doesn't care if the science is flimsy, so why should you? --Jeff Shannon