Summary
There are summer movies, and then there are BIG summer movies. Summer movies are quick, casual affairs, with a dash of special effects and maybe a movie star or two. BIG summer movies are so big, so epic, they start running previews at Christmas, come with their own line of action figures, make more money in a weekend than you would in three lifetimes and have credit sequences that take longer to finish than the Tour de France.
The Day After Tomorrow, directed by the man that brought you the Macintoshphobic alien invaders of Independence Day, is definitely a BIG summer movie. Though I doubt I'll be buying any Dennis Quaid "Kung-Fu Climatologist" action figures anytime soon, the movie is still very much a classic example of the BIG summer disaster movie, replete with rampant, computer-generated destruction and stilted attempts at human drama. It's entertaining all right, but the popcorn bucket will probably run dry before this popcorn movie ends.See the full content of this document
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The Day After Independence Day
If it's one thing these movies do well, it's build suspense and anticipation for the inevitable deluge of whiz-bang special effects. Our quaint little disaster movie begins with the fracturing...
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