Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Disaster, Suspense, Space, Military, Hollywood
Tagline: This year, a sweater won't do.
Plot: What if we are on the brink of a new Ice Age? This is the question that haunts climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid). Hall’s research indicates that global warming could trigger an abrupt and catastrophic shift in the planet’s climate. The ice cores that he’s drilled in Antarctica show that it happened before, ten thousand years ago. And now he’s warning officials that it could happen again if they don’t act soon. But his warning comes too late.It all begins when Hall witnesses a piece of ice the size of Rhode Island break off the Antarctic Ice Shelf. Then a series of increasingly severe weather events start to unfold around the globe: hail the size of grapefruit batters Tokyo, record-breaking hurricane winds pound Hawaii; snow falls in New Delhi, and then a devastating series of tornadoes whips through Los Angeles. A phone call from a colleague in Scotland, Professor Rapson (Ian Holm), confirms Jack’s worst fears: these intense weather events are symptoms of a massive global change. Melting polar caps has poured too much fresh water into the oceans and disrupted the currents that stabilize our climate system. Global warming has pushed the planet over the edge and into a new Ice Age. And it all will happen during one global super storm. While Jack warns the White House of the
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 The Day After Tomorrow is filled with bad dialogue, stock peril situations, and sketchy character development, but it's a big enough spectacle that those things don't derail the film's capacity to be enjoyed. Pass the popcorn and the cheese.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
In this inane special-effects vehicle, Americans desperately try to cross into Mexico to escape a frozen death. Audiences will do the same.--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
So, yes, the movie is profoundly silly. What surprised me is that it's also very scary. The special effects are on such an awesome scale that the movie works despite its cornball plotting.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
If Emmerich had taken his eyes off the money shots for just a moment and found a better way to integrate the message of the film, “Tomorrow” could’ve been the much more powerful and urgent cautionary tale it was originally meant to be. D+--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
The special effects are reason alone to see the film. Will they – or the directorial irony which has the world’s most powerful nation seeking refugee status in Mexico - change the minds of the powers that be about the global need to change to sustainable, alternative technology? I doubt it. 7/10--Avril Carruthers (Movie-Vault.com)
The tagline for this flick is "Where will you be?" Where will I be, the day after tomorrow? Not seeing this again...  --Brian Gallagher (MovieWeb)
Nothing screams Friday night like a good old-fashioned disaster movie!  --Joshua 'Clark' Bertram (MovieWeb)
Never in the history of the movies has "blowing it up good" been a more fun or satisfying ride. Nothing says snuggle in your seat and enjoy your popcorn like a good disaster movie. --Blake Snyder (MovieWeb)
Brilliant special effects are blighted by bland characters in The Day After Tomorrow, a join-the-dots disaster movie from Independence Day director Roland Emmerich. --Nev Pierce (BBC Films)
"The Day After Tomorrow" is preposterous, old fashioned, high-cheese B-moviemaking, but you can't say it ain't entertaining. --Kevin N. Laforest (Montreal Film Journal)
The real star here is some excellent computer-generated effects that actually look real. 74/100--Jamie Gillies (Apollo Guide)
One thing I really liked about this film was its extremely effective set-up, which lasts about an hour or so, and develops in it both the basic characters with whom we are going to spend time, the elements required to build the suspense to come and obviously...the superb special effects featuring cities like Los Angeles and New York being decimated by ravaging climactic anomalies. 6/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
Very much a film of two halves – “tomorrow” is great, with terrific, genuinely exciting effects sequences, but “the day after” is a mess of cheese, syrup and rubbish.  --Matthew Tutrner (ViewLondon)
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 | Emmy Rossum
Mystic River, The Phantom of the Opera, Poseidon |
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 | Ian Holm
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Fifth Element |
 | Dash Mihok
The Perfect Storm, The Thin Red Line, Romeo + Juliet | |
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Harald Kloser
AVP: Alien vs. Predator, The Thirteenth Floor, Comedian Harmonists | |
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