The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 211
Fresh: 95 | Rotten: 116
A ludicrous popcorn flick filled with clunky dialogues, but spectacular visuals save it from being a total disaster.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 44
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 26
A ludicrous popcorn flick filled with clunky dialogues, but spectacular visuals save it from being a total disaster.
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Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset of an international series of crises brought on by the long-term results of the greenhouse effect. At the eye of the storm is paleoclimatologist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather patterns throughout the ages) Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), who voluntarily takes on the preservation of the world in the dawn of the next ice age and all the disaster that comes along with it -- violent
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Cast
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Dennis Quaid
Jack Hall -
Jake Gyllenhaal
Sam Hall -
Ian Holm
Terry Rapson -
Emmy Rossum
Laura Chapman -
Sela Ward
Lucy Hall -
Dash Mihok
Jason Evans -
Kenneth Welsh
Vice President Becker -
Jay O Sanders
Frank Harris -
Austin Nichols
J. D. -
Perry King
President of the United... -
Nestor Serrano
Gomez -
Adrian Lester
Simon -
Sheila McCarthy
Judith -
Arjay Smith
Brian Parks -
Glenn Plummer
Luther -
Tamlyn Tomita
Janet Tokada -
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Kenny Moskow
Bob -
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Joe Cobden
Zack -
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All Critics (224) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (100) | Rotten (120) | DVD (47)
Many of the clichés in this movie predate the last Ice Age.
Top CriticA shambles of dud writing and dramatic inconsequence which left me determined to double my consumption of fossil fuels.
... the situations are just so ludicrous that it really detracts from the quality of the special effects ...
An exceptionally stupid movie.
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.
It fulfills its summer air-conditioning duties with flippant ease, and its enjoyably cloddish attempts at political relevance add a fascinating layer of incongruity.
"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.
Some cool special effects...that's about it.
This is a popcorn film with a fact based concept, and that's all it is...
The ecological theme is not advanced with any subtlety, but so what? The film works with the broad brushstrokes appropriate to a popular entertainment.
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.
Don't even get me started on the hilarity of the scene where a bunch of people outrun a blast of freezing air and close the doors on it.
this is one film viewers might want to put off until some time long, long after the day after tomorrow.
Audience Reviews for The Day After Tomorrow
Super Reviewer
Once again Emmerich sacrifices any logic or any possibly interesting ideas that this film could have had under his massive CGI creations. And like in earlier films like Godzilla or Independence Day there is not that many character here to root for or even care of.
Actors like Dennis Quaid and Ian Holm are wasted completely here and same goes for Jake Gyllenhaal who has nearly anything to do.
I guess there are audinces for these kinds of film which are only based on special effects, but it is not impossible to make film with good special effects which also has some sense in it. The Day After Tomorrow is just nothing but a pointless waste of potential.
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- Terry Rapson: Nothing like this has ever happened.
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- Jack Hall: Professor, it's time you got out of there.
- Terry Rapson: I'm afraid that time has come and gone, my friend.
- Jack Hall: What can we do?
- Terry Rapson: Save as many as you can.
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- Jack Hall: Where's the library?
- J. D.: It's supposed to be... right here. [looking at frozen town]
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- Jack Hall: [on the phone to Sam] I will come for you, do you understand me? I will come for you.
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- Terry Rapson: Are you mad? That's a 12-year-old scotch!
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Foreign Titles
- Le Jour d'après (FR)
- El día de mañana (ES)
