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The Day After Tomorrow (Widescreen Edition)
Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, and Jay O. Sanders
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Retail Price (not our price): $14.98
Release Date: 2004-10-12
Theatrical Release Date: 2004-05-28
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Run Time: 123 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Discs: 1


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
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 emphasizes 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 pummeled 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

2) Description
When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than any they've ever encountered: Mother Nature!

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5

1) Oh Please...   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
This is the end of the world as told through the lense of the most liberal production team in Hollywood. It comes complete with a cheesy enviromental message and corny special effects.I can't wait to see the sequel; "The Day After Two Days From Now" It's about when excessive airplane and SUV use knock Mars out of orbit...and send it hurdling straight toward earth. Peter O'Toole and Megan Fox star, Al Gore and Hilary Clinton direct.

2) I love it!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I absolutely loved this movie. Even though I don't think global warming is a problem, I thought the plot was interesting, and I loved the cute romance bits. The acting is amazing. The bonus features are a great plus too. I can't stop watching.

3) GIVE ME A BREAK   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Escapist nonbelievable viewing. Why does everybody act stupid and panic in these movies? And why do all the experts die on the way to the rescue? Give me a break. But, suspend your thought process for a couple of hours and it is escapist viewing.

4) More likeable than most disaster movies.   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
I had a hard time with this one, mainly because I really don't like disaster movies. To me they are likened to watching Jerry Springer. Nothing but that sensationalism of seeing people suffer through mind-blowing tragedy. To me it's a sad commentary on society when disaster movies continue to make a lot of money at the box office. So what's so hard about reviewing this one? Well... in spite of the clichéd disaster stuff in the first half of the movie it ends up not being bad. Keep in mind I still hate disaster movies and Day After Tomorrow still has a fair amount of the stuff I hate. It seems Roland Emmerich is focusing more on this sort of genre than anything else. Not since Stargate has he made any science fiction movie other than a disaster film type. So essentially Day After Tomorrow has the exact same plot elements as Independence Day and Godzilla what with the lone man trying to warn the officials while they give him the brush off. You also get the same sensationalistic slant from seeing various people die in various shocking ways that only a disaster film can give. And of course you get Manhatten being laid to waste (which also happened in ID4 and partially in Godzilla). Roland, Roland, Roland. You must have more creative ideas than this.Okay I did say it's not so bad. Most of the crappy stuff I mentioned tended to happen only in the first half of the film. The other half seemed to be a bit more engaging. Once the disaster stuff stopped and it was about trying to put the pieces together you started going away from much of the clichés, but not all. Dennis Quaid gives a fantastic performance as always, as does many of the cast. This is one of the saving graces of the film. The special effects are also very impressive. I do admit by the end of the movie I did stop and think about how bad a situation like this would be. That's more than what most disaster movies can hope to get from me, even if this particular disaster can't seriously happen as fast as it did. Basically if you like disaster movies you'll love this one as it is really well made. If you're tired of the same old formula I mentioned you might want to wait on this one until it comes out on cable or something. For the average Sci-Fi fan I suppose this is better than most in spite of it getting a little bit preachy with a line of dialog or two. In the end Day After Tomorrow is what it is, with all of the merits and limitations that has to offer.

5) Great movie, even better special effects!   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
This is an ok movie with a somewhat redundent plot, but that is not what makes this a great Blu-Ray in the first place. It is the special effects. In the L.A. tornado scene, you can feel the twisters swirling around you. I noticed tons of debree that i did not notice in the regular dvd. Video is a 5+.