The Day After Tomorrow (Widescreen Edition)

Sales Rank: 5498 (DVD)
Actor: Dennis Quaid
Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor: Emmy Rossum
Actor: Dash Mihok
Actor: Jay O. Sanders
AspectRatio: 2.35:1
AudienceRating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FOX Home Entertainment
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Director: Roland Emmerich
EAN: 0024543135548
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Feature: TESTED
Format: Anamorphic
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: DTS Surround Sound
Format: Dubbed
Format: DVD
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
IsAdultProduct: 0
IsEligibleForTradeIn: 1
Label: 20th Century Fox
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 024543135548
Number of Disks: 1
Number of Items: 1
PackageQuantity: 1
PartNumber: 024543135548
ProductTypeName: ABIS_DVD
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
RegionCode: 1
Release Date: 12. October 2004
Running Time: 124
SKU: DVD-1N-01-0111121
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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UPC: 024543135548
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by: Roland Emmerich (Producer), Roland Emmerich (Writer), Kelly Van Horn (Producer), Kim H. Winther (Producer), Lawrence Inglee (Producer), Mark Gordon (Producer), Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Writer)
Price: $4.23

Description

When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than any they've ever encountered: Mother Nature!

Amazon.com

Supreme silliness doesn't stop The Day After Tomorrow from being lots of fun for connoisseurs of epic-scale disaster flicks. After the blockbuster profits of Independence Day and Godzilla, you can't blame director Roland Emmerich for using global warming as a politically correct excuse for destroying most of the northern hemisphere. Like most of Emmerich's films, this one emphasizes special effects over such lesser priorities as well-drawn characters and plausible plotting, and his dialogue (cowritten by Jeffrey Nachmanoff) is so laughably trite that it could be entirely eliminated without harming the movie. It's the spectacle that's important here, not the lame, recycled plot about father and son (Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal) who endure an end-of-the-world scenario caused by the effects of global warming. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the awesome visions of tornado-ravaged Los Angeles, blizzards in New Delhi, Japan pummeled by grapefruit-sized hailstones, and Manhattan flooded by swelling oceans and then frozen by the onset of a modern ice age. It's all wildly impressive, and Emmerich obviously doesn't care if the science is flimsy, so why should you? --Jeff Shannon