The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

The day after tomorrow is a mammoth of a movie. The story revolves around a true modern day issue, that being global warming. A scientist, Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), a specialist in climate believes that the northern hemisphere is going into another ice age, well he describes the actions of the previous one however, he puts his ideas to that of what the Atlantic ocean is showing, the Atlantic becomes colder and rougher seas settle in disrupting the ...
...dad never really sees him. The main story revolves round these two and a band of survivors, the northern hemisphere does freeze over and Sam and three friends and a few strangers are trapped in New York's library. Jack believes he must do something so him and his two other work mates set out on a trip to New York to save them, however they are become at the eye of the storm which ultimately freezes everything in its path. You can find out the rest ...

zx737 11.02.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

...so. This is the story: A government climatologist Jack Hall (played by Dennis Quaid) discovers some strange storms coming down from the Arctic. Temperatures seem to be dropping rapidly all over the northern hemisphere. The polar ice cap is melting which in turn plays havoc with the world climate. This is all a consequence of global warning that world leaders have ignored for years. Cue lots of tidal waves, flooding, blizzards and rapid freezing. ...
...have survived the tidal waves and freezing conditions try to head south. Jacks son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) has survived and is holed up in a New York library with his friends trying not to die from hunger or the extreme cold. He manages to call his father who then decides to try and rescue him. And that's it! The effects though are spectacular, although this is not surprising as director Roland Emmerich's previous films include Independence Day and ...

TallPaul73 24.03.2005 (25.05.2005) · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

...sucker for sappy mushy plotlines. The end of the world is nigh, but love prevails and somehow millions are saved - disaster averted. Again, and again, and again. I feel sorry for those Hollywood folks - they've faced the apocolypse more times than I can remember. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect from this film. I assumed it would be very remniscent of the Armageddon/Deep Impact style films set to a different world-ending disaster. I wasn't far ...
...world where the new Ice Age is overtaking America - all due to global warming. Global Warming is an issue which we are constantly reminded about and is continually under great debate, so it was interesting to have an interpretation of what may happen, albeit a Hollywood interpretation. It might just be a little bit of political propoganda. The story follows the predictions of Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) who is a climatologist forseeing the potential ...

Frayed 12.07.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

...SPOILERS AND PLOTLINE! The story starts in the arctic and 3 climatologists are taking samples. All of a sudden, the ice cracks and they nearly fall into the chasm below. We now go to India where there is a Global warming conference with representatives from all over the world. One of the climatologists, Jack Hall (played by Dennis Quaid) is giving a talk telling the people that he thinks there will be an Ice Age within 100 years. His claims are ...
...quiz team in New York. The bad weather means Sam cannot get home. We then see strange weather events happening around the world. The results are devastation to many cities in the USA. Jack and Dr Rapson realise that his theory is coming true and tries to get the governments to listen. However they are too late. A huge tidal wave engulfs New York. Sam and his friends find shelter in the library. Sam rings his father who tells him that everyone in ...

rufusredcoat 20.11.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

...that I could see and the only thing the film had to offer was "From the director of Independence Day", which I think they milked for all it was worth. However, I still dragged myself along to see it, and found that there weren't as many people watching it as I thought there would be. They all seemed to be in Harry Potter, what with it being half term and everything. The opening sequence was nicely done as an air shot over an ice shelf where some ...
...not really bothered about. The action starts quite quickly here (spoilers ahead in this paragraph). The ice shelf suddenly cracks right down the middle of it and some of these "cores" are left on one side of the crack and the people are on the other side, including Dennis Quaid. He takes a step back and jumps it with ease, grabs the cores and makes a magnificent jump back over, but then the edge of the shelf that he is holding breaks off and the ...

SurveyMasterNico 03.06.2004 (04.06.2004) · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

The Day After Tomorrow Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall informs the government that global warming could eventually alter the Earth’s climate with devastating effect. His prediction is correct, except for the timescale. And as tornadoes tear-up Los Angeles and tidal waves pummel the Eastern-seaboard Jack’s son becomes trapped in New York. In true Hollywood bravado-style Jack vows to reach his son and ‘rescue’ him, please do try to stifle your laughter ...
...little stereotypical. Dennis Quaid plays the slightly estranged father, eager to regain his son’s trust. Jake Gyllenhall is his troubled but academically gifted son and Emmy Rossum is the fellow-genius-come-beauty-Queen who he falls in love with. These human subplots are extraneous at best and are no stretch for actors of Quaid and Gyllenhall’s calibre. Both are convincing throughout, as is Rossum. But it’s no surprise that The Day After Tomorrow ...

Kevin_Stanley 04.06.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

...Translator The Day After Tomorrow is one of the most unbelievable - believeble movies i have ever seen!! A one of a kind movie which will really grasp your heart and not let go until the end. Are you ready for the Day After Tomorrow? After a couple of years of the warning of global warming Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) - uncovers something spectacular yet amazingly disturbing. That his preditions of the worlds climate and overall changes where going ...
...in their bid to survive the most fascinating, scariest ordeals of their lives! You are invited to join the world in a fight for survival as hail stones the size of canon balls will be crashing down totalling cars, demolishing roofs and kiling hundreds of people, watch in horror as Hurricanes and Tornados the size of States collide their way through every city north of the border swifting cars like they are plastic toys and ripping up floors as if ...

mikegoodwin 10.08.2005 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

So the new ice age is coming? Load of codswallop I thought upon seeing the adverts on TV, what a ridiculous idea. I only went to see it because of Jake aka Sam Hall the boffy but fit student with a secret unrequited love for a fellow boffy but sickeningly pretty student played by Emmy Rossum. Story starts out with usual background stuff with Dennis Quaid as paleoclimatologist (think i spelt that right) Jack Hall who predicts the northern hemisphere ...
...to support his theory like the melting of the polar ice cap and hail stones the size of footballs etc but the ice age isn't going to come in the next few hundred years like Quaid predicted but in the next week! This was slightly unbelievable to start with but soon the special effects blow you away. The sub plot between Jack Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum adds to the plot which is otherwise a little unsteady in parts. I shant give away the ending but ...

ra_lau86 13.06.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

...once again after already creating the huge blockbuster hit 'Independence Day'. The two films can be closely compared due to the patriotic acting and the overall devastating destruction of parts of the world. The basic plot is climatologist Jack Hall (Quaid) has uncovered some startling news. Global Warming could cause another Ice Age if no action is taken. His predictions however aren’t even close to the time this may occur. He is quick to ...
...cause excessive damage aided by the spectacularly stunning special effects. Special effects are not over-used, or under-used. In fact they're executed perfectly when the audience expects. They're not just used to salvage a dead story line. Much credit must go to Emmerich. What i defiantly did not expect when I walked into the cinema was to walk out touched by a deep moral message. However, this is what occurred. The film is not complete fiction. ...

Araam101 11.06.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

...not change our ways. The so called plot drags on for just under 2 hours. At first it gets you thinking about the effects of global warming, but by the end of the film you just can't be bothered, and you're more interested in what you've got for dinner. I also love the fact that at the end of all these movies...Independence Day, Godzilla etc. the world is restored to it's former glory, as if nothing had happened! If a real disaster were to happen ...
...what contraversy that gets with the movie reviews! One thing you cannot quibble over with this film is its fantastic use of CGI. Pretty much the whole film is CG, i wouldn't be suprised if the actors were too! The Visual Effects team, comprising of just over 400 people (one of the biggest visual effects teams ever used - not including special effects, stunts etc) has provided a masterpiece when it comes to CGIs. The worlds most famous landmarks ...

Shiggi 14.09.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

...on to Ciao to read the reviews of this film, as my friend was dragging me to see it last night. The outlook wasn't great; everyone seemed to say the same thing - the special effects are amazing, everything else, well, basically, isn't. And, now I have my own experience to go by, I can only agree with the previous reviewers. Utter rubbish! The not-very-well-thought-out plot is ridiculous; the idea that one man would trek hundreds of miles in minus ...
...inconceivable. At one point, the room begins to freeze in an instant around a group of six people, (because the temperature is dropping ten degrees per second) yet, because they stand next to an open fire, they are absolutely fine. What rubbish. The film's only saving grace, and I mean only, is that the all-intelligent Americans could do nothing to stop this climate change; all they could do was try to survive it, aclimatise, and learn from their ...

nearlyfivefoot 23.06.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

Rating: 12 ( i think the rating is right for this film) Genre: Action/Adventure/Sci Fi/Thriller Run Time: 118 minutes (1hr 58 minutes) Release date in the UK: 27 May 2004 Short plot: A climatologist is trying to figure out how to save the world from global warming., in the process he figures out the planet is having a complete change due to global warming a lot quicker then predicted before. His son a mathematical genius is stranded in New York ...
...in Special Visual Effects at the Bafta Awards in 2005 and many other award which I believe in 2004 it was one of the best disaster films out there. Roland Emmerich Roland directed this film as well as writing the story and the screen play a very talented person he was also know for producing 10,000 BC, Eight legged Freaks, The Patriot and many more as well as directed for Godzilla, Independence Day, and Stargate and many more. He knows how to bring ...

MotherMacLean 17.01.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

...that this film is at the right direction. **The film*** In my opinion, the most important ingredient in a film is the script. "The day after tomorrow" is a sci-fi film that is not about extraterrestrial threats, space exploration etc. Science? There are many opposite opinions about the use of the term "science" in sci-fi films. It's true that the screenplay is full of incidents that would never have happened under normal conditions... but we have ...
...I guess that this is the deeper meaning of the film. In fact I can say that "the day after tomorrow" contains balanced fiction and science. I will not copy-paste the story of the film (as many other reviewers do in their reviews) as it's easily accessible in any of the DVD websites. In any case, this review is not about the film itself... it's about the DVD. ***Beyond the film*** A two-DVD set is always better than a single DVD, as long as you ...

bcnlondon 03.03.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

...be a shorter review than the others, because I'm quite new! Went to see this last week. The storyline about Global warming has a big effect because everything you see in the film could actually happen in years to come. Although in the film, it happens very suddenly, hence the title The Day After Tomorrow. I went to see it in Leicester Square, and I think they put the air con on because we actually felt cold through some parts of the film! There ...
...a lot of danger. The special effects are brilliant. If you look close enough when the tidal wave goes through the streets of New York, you can see all the little cars being washed down the road. This film, like 95% of all others does include a love storyline. Two of the characters fall in love, but it's not mushy like a lot of films. This film has a good balance. Romance (although not mushy), comedy (there are a few good lines), drama and action, ...

alwaysthequietones 09.06.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

MY OPINIONS ON THE FILM This film is a great one to watch as it has a great story line to it. I really enjoy watching the film over and over again as it has great graphics, music, special effects to it. A great gripping story line from start to finish. Its a great story about mother nature taking a toll on the earth and how mankind may be influencing the envrironment by polluting it with the use of fossil fuel's. kinda makes you think about other ...
...happening. I watched this at the cinema when this came out and i came out expecting it to have actually happened outsude. To which it didnt though. Its a very touching heartfelt story following a group of young college adults and one of their dads is a climatologist who helps to reach them and make sure they are ok. WHAT ITS ABOUT Its about global warming to which they wont think wont happen in our society yet. But it does happen and it hits new ...

keepsmiling86 15.03.2009 (22.03.2009) · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)