The Day After Tomorrow is so bad!

[Chris]

It deserves to be listed on here.. you know a movie is bad when people watching laugh out loud at the romance scene.  The CGI wolves, the instant freeze weather system that can be outrun, the raining ice blocks, the kid suffering from cancer (what was the point in having him in the movie? it just made no sense).  I could list loads more, the actors must have been embarassed to be a part of this piece of s**t.

[Menard]

But the important question is: is it so bad that it is entertaining?

[Chris]

It made me laugh.

[Menard]

Cool!!

[blkrider]

I liked the scenes of things being destroyed, tornados in L.A., etc.  That's the only reason to see disaster movies in the first place.

[AndyC]

This one had the honour of being the first new release to be reviewed in my So Bad It's Good newspaper column. It's a rare treat to find a current big-budget pic that offers as much cheese as a classic disaster movie. I loved it.

[Master Blaster]

Deffinately a Godzilla level of destructive silliness. Thumbs up!

[Writer]

Haven't seen it myself, but it's my understanding all that makes it bad is its politics, which it drives home with a sledgehammer. Having a moral point is all well and good if it can fit into the story, but when the point comes off as needlessly alarmist and silly, the film's credibility suffers. As for the disaster imagery, no complaints there. (It looked fine in the previews.) With what little plot held it together, though, Hollywood should try using it for what it really is: high-quality stock footage! Next time you need a movie about a city getting flooded or snowed under or something, just dip into this repository.

The movie? Probably fun to watch if you just turn off your mind and don't think too much about the bad science and bad politics. Trashing big cities, especially New York City, has been a favorite plot device since the old pulp novels of the Depression, when a lot of people felt civilization had failed them and might as well be swept away. In Japan, it's the same way with the Godzilla movies except that it's Tokyo that got trashed, and what little political subtext there was in those movies had to do with the nightmarish reality of atomic weaponry and the possibility of more cities being leveled because of it.

The Austin Powers films had quite the right idea about what to do with this kind of film: use it to threaten the national leaders when you're trying to extort money. "That was a very realistic simulation of what's going to happen to you if you don't pay me!"

[trekgeezer]

It's about on par with Emmerich's other silliness.  It's a good popcorn movie (which does try to be preachy),  which in the end is worth watching for all the destruction.

Just like Independence Day, once you walk out of the theater it dawns on you just how illogical it was.  Still it was enjoyable.

[Conrad]

It appears to borrow liberally without acknowledgement  from a book called "The Sixth Winter" by Orgill and Gribbin, written about 20 years ago.  The book, need I add, is far more entertaining than the film.

[Jack Corbett]

No, it isn't.

[Cheecky-Monkey]

...so, yeah, it was bad.

[Jack Corbett]

NO, it WASN'T


(in my opinion, that is)

[Scott]

I found THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW a film worth seeing once, despite the bad drama and acting. It's true that I won't be caught watching it again though. Not bad enough to reject totally.

[Jack Corbett]

I liked it. Like always.