Day After Tomorrow   Rating Symbols    Day After Tomorrow (NOSW)
You know how some people come home from a scary movie and sleep
with the lights on? My wife came home from this one and slept
with the electric blanket on. In June. Admittedly it had been an
unusually cold and wet spring.  Conspicuously missing from this
movie are most of my usual ratings. There are a couple of
pompous asses, but they all survive and even live to admit they
were wrong. There’s an attractive female NASA scientist, but she
acts more like a colleague than the clich Hot Babe Scientist.
The kids in the film are stranded but use their intelligence to
survive when the vast majority of the people around them don’t.
No doubt about it: the weather and the special effects are the
stars of this film, and the human characters are there mostly
for the plot to happen to. Although this film is far-fetched in
a lot of ways, it's mostly a matter of degree rather than kind.
Most of the phenomena depicted actually exist, but the film has
them happ