They should be ashamed of themselves by squandering so much money on such a putrid piece of work.
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
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Reviews Counted:203
Fresh:91
Rotten:112
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: A ludicrous popcorn flick filled with clunky dialogues, but spectacular visuals save it from being a total disaster.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense situations of peril
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:May 28, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $186,583,549
Synopsis: With THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, director Roland Emmerich (INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA) trades evil aliens and radioactive lizards in for some seriously bad weather. When a radical change in the... With THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, director Roland Emmerich (INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA) trades evil aliens and radioactive lizards in for some seriously bad weather. When a radical change in the temperature of the world's oceans causes deadly storms and sets a new Ice Age in motion, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) must race from Washington D.C. to save his son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), in the subzero climes of New York City. Elsewhere, tornadoes and hail menace the globe, leading to international disasters on an extraordinary level. Emmerich, who has proven to be a master of big-budget cinematic destruction on numerous occasions, aims to outdo himself with THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. Here entire cities are ripped apart, flooded, and/or frozen, adding up to one of the biggest disaster movies ever filmed. Although astonishingly rendered special effects rule the movie, adept actors such as Quaid and Gyllenhaal (along with Sela Ward, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, and others) turn in solid performances that help to balance out the meteorological mayhem. Surprisingly, Emmerich also uses the film as a vehicle for clever moments of social and political commentary, making THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW admirably smarter and considerably more entertaining than typical Hollywood blockbusters. [More]
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Ian Holm
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Kenneth Welsh, Austin Nichols, Jay O. Sanders, Perry King, Nestor Serrano, Adrian Lester, Sheila McCarthy, Glenn Plummer, Tamlyn Tomita
Director: Roland Emmerich
Director: Roland Emmerich
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Roland Emmerich
Producer: Ute Emmerich, Mark Gordon, Kelly Van Horn
Composer: Harald Kloser
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Reviews for The Day After Tomorrow
The patched-together human side of the story doesn’t stand a chance against the special effects, which are frequently fun to look at.
Beyond the often stunning visuals, I found most of the movie boring, worried it wasn't going to end until at least the day after tomorrow.
A shambles of dud writing and dramatic inconsequence which left me determined to double my consumption of fossil fuels.
'Emmerich es un cineasta que tiene estupendos momentos de entretenimiento a pesar de que a media película todo se vaya a la borda.'
Emmerich’s reign at the top of the mega-movie empire doesn’t show any signs of dissipating with this unmissable treat.
In 2004, watching downtown skyscrapers collapse...should cause more queasiness than the filmmakers intend, even if the buildings are located in Los Angeles.
...the visual highlights are unable to stand on their own; they get buried behind a screen of shoddy characterizations, useless subplots and cheesy ploys for tension.
It's like Deep Impact as made by Michael Moore, and that's a good thing, or a good enough thing.
Each set piece is good, clean apocalyptic fun, and that's what I paid to see.
The movie settles into a generic soap opera broken up with enough fancy effects shots to cut a nifty trailer.
The Bush and Cheney look-a-likes took a pretty good beating for being the heads of the evil administration that brought on all the trouble.
amazing imagery, moody score, ludicrous science, mentally challenged dialogue and eyeball-scratching acting
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