Rating: Half-Full

 

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum and Sela Ward

 

Director: Roland Emmerich

 

Writers: Roland Emmerich and Jeffrey Nachmanoff

 

Producers: Mark Gordon and Roland Emmerich

 

Music by: Harold Kloser

 

Oscar Nominations: 0

 

Rated: PG-13 for intense situations of peril

 

Release Date: 05/28/04

 

Favorite Character: Sam Hall

 

Tagline: Now it’s fiction… Tomorrow it’s real

 

Quote: “I will come for you, do you understand me? I will come for you.”- Jack Hall

 

Fun Facts: South Park (1997) Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone managed to get their hands on a copy of this film’s script during its pre-production. The two planned to secretly shoot the same film with puppets instead of actors, word for word, and release it on the same day. The duo abandoned these plans after their lawyer convinced them that such a film would never get released.

 

20^th Century Fox decided to preview the film for a group of scientists but they were pretty unimpressed with the science stuff in the film.

 

Lindsay Lohan was in talks to play Laura, and came close to signing a contract to star in the film. She had to back out last minute due to major scheduling conflicts.

 

The film was promoted with Countdown-to-Doomsday style clocks in Cinemas.

 

Summary: When the northern Hampshire plunges into ice age, a paleoclimatoligist must get to New York City to find his son and his friends.

 

The Review: As disaster films are fun for me, this one is pretty unrealistic. I mean, I love films that take you places and the story is great, but how in the world would things freeze real fast like that? On the other hand, it’s a thrill ride with excellent visual effects.