The FiFi Report 040

The Day After Tomorrow
Outrageous. Audacious. Over the top. And ridulous preposterous nonsense. Oh, I want to see it all over again! Talk about a movie! Talk about a disaster movie. If you have been living in oblivion let me fill you in on the plot. A huge cataclysmic storm caused by global warming hits the northern hemiphere and within days brings on the next ice age. The New York Times says The Day after Tomorrow is “more or less the same melodramatic calamity freak-out movie of the early 1970’s like The Towering Inferno and the Posieden adventure” And don’t we love a calamity freakout? Dennis Quaid plays the scientist who tries to warn the mean and evil US vice President (looking very similar to Dick Cheney) and the powers that be of the dangers of global warming. But they are all too evil and money hungry to care. Then the calamity freakout erupts and crazy things happen: Tornadoes rip through L.A and a wall of water crashes up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, followed by a great big Russian containership, and then the whole thing freezes over. Wow. It’s worth going to see it for all those special effects. This movie has been criticized for being scientifically inaccurate (incredible) but if you want to get the word out about global warming to all the dumb masses it has to be done with a big dumb movie. Dennis Quaid,who has fantastic intellectual scientific things to yell like “I think we’ve hit a critical desalinization point.” goes off to find his spunky son ( Jake Gyllenhaal) trapped luckily in the New York library so he can burn books ( outrageous) while his doctor wife stays to look after children with cancer. Of course (Check out her forehead: it’s frozen over too). But wait there’s more. The wolves escape from Zoo, everyone crosses the Rio Grande to get into Mexico (very funny) and people freeze to death but as one reviewer pointed out, there isn’t actually a calamity freak out at all. Bugger. No one is hysterical and no one needs a good old fashioned slap across their face like in the good old days. Everyone is too calm. What kind of disaster movie is this? Obviously way too cool .