(Re: the movie. Great special effects, used relatively well if not quite sparingly enough to illustrate and dramatize a rather simple science-fictional premise; the subtle performance of Kenneth Welsh as a Dick Chenney-like U.S. Vice President who winds up getting a hard lesson in ethics--which I rather doubt the real Cheney would be able to understand--stands out in my mind; and it's always a pleasure to watch Ian Holm perform, even in a small part. Plotwise there's lots of dumb stuff though--particularly the bits involving an unpiloted freighter floating into a flooded Manhattan and conveniently stopping in front of the New York Public Library where the hero's son is holed up . . . and the wolves escaping from the Central Park Zoo, showing up at just the right wrong place and time to make things extra tough and exciting . . . ? Hmm. Then too, I'd tend to think that with any emergency evacuation of the population of most of the United States into Mexico, while it makes for a good ironic laugh--gringos swimming the Rio Grande--things might not go off in the diplomatic way they do here; and granted that it gets its lesson in environmental ethics across, The Day After Tomorrow basically still elides the rather big, looming question of just exactly what kind of world--socially and politically--might emerge if a huge portion of the northern hemisphere of planet Earth were quite suddenly covered with ice; it would have been interesting to see some of that territory explored. And jeezus I didn't mean to write a film review.)

(There is, by the way, a website dedicated to the scientific realities which the science-fictional film plays with: dayaftertomorrowfacts.org)