Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2450 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-10-18
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English, French, Italian, Japanese
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 119 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
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 emphasises 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 pummelled 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

Special Features
Two Film Commentaries: #1 by Roland Emmerich and Howard Gordan #2 Co-writer, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Ueli Steiger, Editor David Brenner, and Production Designer Barry Chiusid

DTS and 5.1 Audio

Synopsis
With THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, director Roland Emmerich (INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA) trades evil aliens and radioactive lizards in for some seriously bad weather. When a radical change in the temperature of the world's oceans causes deadly storms and sets a new Ice Age in motion, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) must race from Washington D.C. to save his son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), in the subzero climes of New York City. Elsewhere, tornadoes and hail menace the globe, leading to international disasters on an extraordinary level. Emmerich, who has proven to be a master of big-budget cinematic destruction on numerous occasions, aims to outdo himself with THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. Here entire cities are ripped apart, flooded, and/or frozen, adding up to one of the biggest disaster movies ever filmed. Although astonishingly rendered special effects rule the movie, adept actors such as Quaid and Gyllenhaal (along with Sela Ward, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, and others) turn in solid performances that help to balance out the meteorological mayhem. Surprisingly, Emmerich also uses the film as a vehicle for clever moments of social and political commentary, making THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW admirably smarter and considerably more entertaining than typical Hollywood blockbusters.

Customer Reviews

pointless
roland emmerich has crawed up his back side since makin godzilla and spurned out drivel like this since.this is pointless rubbish that has some good effects in it

even Turner dosnt like it
This film is so stooopid its sily and wrong im gonna tell my mummy and my daddy and russell hoyle just how much this film really smells this film is stinky even Russells glasses couldn't handle it and Turners tennis shoes ran a mile.

Hilarious!
An attempt at a big budget, zeitgeist film that'll have `em queuing around the block.

I can just imagine the production meetings:

"Hey, I've got an idea. A disaster movie about man made global warming."

"But how do we pad the middle out with exiting stuff?"

"I know, let's get some wolves to chase some kids."

"Wolves, in New York when it's all under water?"

"Hmmm, hang on... I've got it! We'll have the wolves caged up on a ship that's floated into Manhattan."

"Why are the kids on the ship?"

"To get some prescription drugs. Everyone knows ships are full of prescription drugs!"

"Errrr, ok...but if the wolves are caged, why are they running about?"

"But the ships deserted because of the global warming, the wolves have got out by themselves.."

"...ok....."

I'm not exaggerating. This actually happens in the film just to provide some "Hollywood" diversion, just in case the tabloid audience were getting bored!

And at the end, we get the PC message: it's not too late to stop this if we just DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

Utter garbage.