The Day After Tomorrow

The Bill Murray movie, Groundhog’s Day, was filmed in Woodstock. The movie theater in town had a plaque up to commemorate this. The theater was showing “The Day After Tomorrow”. I was excited to see it. Wow, what a disappointment. The effects were cool, especially the tornadoes ripping through Los Angeles, but the story was insultingly dumb. It made me angry.

If you still want to see it, read no further as i’m about to ruin it for you.

Will Jake Gyllenhaal muster up enough courage to tell a girl, that he’s trapped in a life or death situation with, that he “likes” her? YES!

Will Dennis Quaid survive a completely unnecessary sub zero blizzard hike from Philadelphia to New York City? YES!

Are Sela Ward and the cutest little preteen cancer patient in movie history rescued from an abandoned hospital? YES!

Do any of the film’s major characters meet their demise? NO!

Even though the entire northern hemisphere is frozen over and millions are dead, can there possibly be a really lame happy ending to all of this? YES!

The movie is shockingly bad.

Posted by chuck at June 3, 2004 11:34 AM