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The Day After Tomorrow Details

2004 Certificate 12
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Scientists talk about the planet being threatened by a possible climatological disaster. In this big budget feature the threat becomes a reality in quick time. The planet's oceans become cooler sparking deadly storms. A new ice age begins. Read more

Starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum
Director Roland Emmerich
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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The Day After Tomorrow

Scientists talk about the planet being threatened by a possible climatological disaster. In this big budget feature the threat becomes a reality in quick time. The planet's oceans become cooler sparking deadly storms. A new ice age begins.

Starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum
Director Roland Emmerich
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time Blu-ray: 1 hr 59 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Hearing-impaired English
Released DVD: 18 Oct 2004
Blu-ray: 28 Apr 2008
Production year: 2004
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (3) of The Day After Tomorrow

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    This jaw-dropping disaster movie makes director Roland Emmerich's previous outings feel like expensive dress rehearsals. For all their epic destruction, his previous features Independence Day and the lacklustre Godzilla are damp squibs compared to this astonishing, cautionary tale. Rooted loosely in scientific reality, the film piles on the Hollywood excess to deliver a US-centred thrill-ride in which global warming abruptly pushes the planet into a new ice age during one incredible, worldwide superstorm. Though there's a human element, focusing on climatologist Dennis Quaid's cross-country journey to Manhattan to rescue his trapped son, Jake Gyllenhaal, it's the weather effects that take centre stage. Putting aside the anticlimactic conclusion, this is cinema as pure spectacle, as tornados, flash floods, hurricanes and snow demolish cities including LA and New York. Never mind that the dialogue is frequently laugh-out-loud cheesy and the performances often melodramatic, what counts here is the enormous entertainment factor.

    • Radio Times
  • 1 stars out of 4

    Enjoyably silly disaster movie with spectacular tidal waves and other disasters in the destruction of Emmerich's least favourite places; the survival drama that follows is less interesting.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 43 out of 57 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Same Structure As Independence Day

    This was very similar in structure to his previous blockbuster Independence Day. As in that film, all the main characters were introduced in episodic form in the first half hour, then the catastrophe happened, then came the anti climatically end play. The first half of the film when the global warming and the new ice age started were of a high standard, the second half (The rescue) pretty mundane and predictable. OK for a summer blockbuster, but after all the hype, I had expected something better.

      • Laurie from East Grinstead, England
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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    important message - too bad about the story

    Roland Emmerich has very good intentions. He wants to remind us - especially those who live in America - that if we don't stop our evil, polluting ways that we will suffer some pretty serious consequences. The premise is based on real scientific theory about the drastic climate changes that could result from polar ice melting, but the way it is told is not only completely implausible but pretty hackneyed as well.

    This disaster format feels a bit tired and is a waste of acting talent like Jake Gyllenhall, Ian Holm and Adrian Lester. There are some amazing visual scenes, but they do little to compensate for the tidal wave (sorry!) of cliches throughout the film.

      • Karen Morash from London, England
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