The Day After Tomorrow (2004) Critic Reviews

The glacierization of half of the world's inhabited land is contemplated with barely a hint of horror. In fact, it looks kind of cool. Read the full review

When it comes to weaving personal stories in and out of the special-effects set pieces, the director has the most colossal antitalent since Ed Wood Jr. Read the full review

The Day After Tomorrow is filled with bad dialogue, stock peril situations, and sketchy character development, but it's a big enough spectacle that those things don't completely derail the film's capacity to be enjoyed.Read the full review

Seldom has grandeur struggled so mightily, and fruitlessly, with rampant goofiness.Read the full review

Emmerich now directs entirely in watered-down Spielbergisms, and his storytelling skills, never strong, have gone slack. His talent for stretching a concept that can be described in 10 seconds into a feature-length movie, on the other hand, remains impressive.Read the full review

A decent disaster pic comes down to the handful of colorful individuals who will live (or, depending on the prominence of their billing, die), as it has since the days of chewy disaster meatballs like ''The Towering Inferno'' and ''Earthquake.'' And the heaviest lifting in Emmerich's production falls to Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. Read the full review

The story is too silly, too woefully underwritten, to stake a claim on seriousness.Read the full review

It's the Weather Channel on steroids. Read the full review

Despite the clunky bits, "Tomorrow" still manages to deliver the blockbuster goods.Read the full review