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  • Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders
  • Directors: Roland Emmerich
  • Writers: Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
  • Producers: Roland Emmerich, Kelly Van Horn, Kim H. Winther, Lawrence Inglee, Mark Gordon
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English, French, Italian, Japanese
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Oct 2004
  • Run Time: 124 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002GX9IW
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,497 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Turning pressing environmental issues into the theme of a big summer blockbuster, you can’t say that director Roland Emmerich isn’t willing to take his chances. And while The Day After Tomorrow does ask you to suspend fair chunks of disbelief, it is both a spectacle and a worthwhile blockbuster to expend your time in front of.

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid, The Day After Tomorrow is the silly-but-fun story of a new ice age arriving pretty much overnight. In the midst of it all is a father-saving-son tale, that takes little time to be reduced to the background in favour of an all-out special effects assault.

And what an assault. Criticise the story all you like, but as spectacle, The Day After Tomorrow has few equals. From extreme weather effects to the site of familiar landmarks under mountains of ice, the budget was clearly high, and it’s all there on the screen.

This is, of course, where the joy of high definition kicks in. The Blu-ray-driven, 1080p picture is simply stunning, and The Day After Tomorrow benefits heavily from it. As a film, it still has its flaws, but it’s still good fun, and it’s one mighty workout for your home cinema rig too. --Jon Foster

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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.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Better than Expected., 14 Feb 2005
By A. Webb "spider_al30001" (Sussex, UK) - See all my reviews
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I went to the cinema expecting this film to be a typical Hollywood big0budget film, and had very little hope of it being very good. I was quite pleasantly suprised at the film on the whole, although some of it was less pleasing.

Perhaps the best thing about this movie is the brilliant disaster scenes. The tornado and flooding is really enjoyable and shocking, and this alone makes the film worth watching.

The second half of the film however, slightly loses its way. The father/son relationship story is painful, and it is a shame taht they imcluded it. Luckily, the love interest between the two young protaganists is never too in your face, but again it could have been left out.

Do these plotlines spoil the film? No, I can't say that, as without them there wouldn't have been much to the film. They could, however, have been far better acted.

What I really wanted was some nice special effects and disaster scenes, I got these, and so the film deserves 3 stars.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Plot-challenged but visually stunning, 30 Nov 2004
Roland Emmerich once again sacrifices plot in his relentless pursuit of SFX, and who can blame him? He raked in the cash with films like Independence Day, so the dog-eared formula book for disaster movies is consulted yet again for The Day After Tomorrow. And as with Independence Day, who shall save the human race from utter destruction but the Americans? Thank your lucky stars & srtipes, folks! If American films are not re-writing history to make Americans the heroes (U-571 being the ultimate case in point; I still refuse to watch such revisionist drivel) they are presenting us with increasingly implausible near-future scenarios where they come to our rescue. Mind, killing off the entire royal family by freezing them to death seems a very good idea, Mr Emmerich! And respect for the effects, dude! Like, wow!
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45 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars If the world's future is threatened, find a public library, 22 Jul 2004
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The Day After Tomorrow is everything you'd expect from the director of Independence Day; spectacular special effects, a beautiful cast who manage to look immaculately groomed throughout - despite their lives being turned upside down - and a good stack of dramatic one-liners. In a surprise twist to the trend of big-budget action films depicting America as the good guy however, the writers should be praised for the alternative stance they take. The film is often thought-provoking in this way, and the political statement it makes regarding important issues allows it to stand out from the deluge of mediocre blockbusters of the same genre.

The story follows Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) as a government climatologist who, when he learns of the powerful storm forming a path of destruction across the world, treks through the killer conditions to find his estranged son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal). Sam, however, has found safety a long with a group of friends and fellow citizens, in the New York Public Library. As the storm closes in around the terrified crowd, they attempt to salvage food, warmth and - cheesy American film as it is - hope. The thing that most surprised me about the film is that it was often very funny. There are numerous memorable lines, and a clever use of ironic humour.

The special effects are, of course, outstanding. Then again, you'd expect nothing less from a film of this capacity. In particular, the birds eye view of New York City conveys the lengths the art department have gone to to create an authentic look. It is interesting to note that director Roland Emmerich (who also directed Godzilla) makes a point of emphasising the carelessness of the world's inhabitants, and the destructive effects their pollution is having upon the planet.

It does, of course, have its disgustingly sentimental moments, and is often highly predictable. Saying that, it is a film i'd watch again, not least because it seems to have somewhat of a prophetic air about it. It's well worth watching.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Day after Tomorrow: A see-again movie.
A very enjoyable and thought-provoking movie. Good effects. I've watched it 3 times. It makes you think about the possible effects of global warming and the changing climate. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars Missed potential
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1.0 out of 5 stars 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
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1.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Adam Oliver

1.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!
An attempt at a big budget, zeitgeist film that'll have `em queuing around the block.

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4.0 out of 5 stars ace!
an excellent achievement!i watched this with my family on a saturday night and it gripped me so much that i was actually freezing by the middle and needed extra blankets! Read more
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