Highlight Reel w/a DVD Review

The Day After Tomorrow

This morning's Highlight Reel begins with a micro-review of the latest DVD release, The Day After Tomorrow. Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal camp it up in a preachy little cautionary tale of exaggerated calamity and cataclysm. This is pretty standard stuff, really; a typical disaster flick all the way and I was getting really tired of the political jabs along the way--a President that does nothing who resembles George W. and a Vice President who strongly favors Dick Cheney and supposedly runs the country long before the President's motorcade gets frozen in ice (which we never get to see, by the way.) As if the global warming issue isn't political enough. There were times in this movie when I felt like I had a front-row seat at a Greenpeace convention. I don't like my films to be so political and I didn't like much about this film at all. It's just that... The effects are REALLY cool. So I watched it twice. RENTAL

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