I saw this back when it first came out with my moms ex and from the first 5 min two the last 5 mins you get nothing but silly action a love story emotion and a great adventure ride now yes this does kinda preach global warming but who cares its there to make a good premise for whats going on and why everything is freezing ect now... this had somewhat of an original story with a son getting trapped in Manhattan and his father going out to rescue him i liked it because despite not having a dad i always wondered what it would be like if i was that kid... which for some reason is my mom ex didnt like and ended up walking out not even an hour into it now with a cast of Jake Gyllenhaal Emmy Rossum Sela ward and Denis Quaid they all played there parts extremely well and the Cgi they used to me still stands out today amonset the best so to all the haters out there quit preying on the great movies dont't watch it if your going to rip it a new one

There is nothing better to watch than a crazy apocalypse based movie where you can see visual effects and CGI in all of their glory with your mouth left wide open. This is by far one of the most unic movies I've watched, especially because of the fact that the reason for the apocalyptic setting is a climate change, but a climate change where everything freezes with temperatures below -150. Nowadays, all we talk is about global warming, hot weather, warm winters, but this movie is something totally different from that, the complete opposite. Yes, the moment when Jake Gyllenhaal is pursued from one city to another by has father, while the whole world is crumbling is a bit to much, but hey, as long is Jake Gyllenhaal is the one we need to worry about, everything is alright, who by the way, does an awesome acting job, altho, at that time, is only 23 years old.

One of the most bogus films ever made. The plot is laughable. Climate and weather are not the same thing !!!

Not only does 2004 disaster film The Day After Tomorrow feature big names such as Jake Gyllenhall and Emmy Rossum, but dramatic scenes of hail, tornadoes, and tsunamis. And as entertaining as all of this may be, there are many aspects of the film that are not based in scientific fact at all. For example, the Ideal Gas law is completely ignored in the scene where it is argued that the frigid air descending on the people of Earth and freezing everything in its path was "moving too fast" to heat as it made its descent. This is not plausible, because the speed of the air would never make a difference in the temperature of the air, only pressure would. In real life, the air would warm as it descended. The movie also got several aspects of the storm wrong. For instance, the movie depicts several thunder storms merging together to create one huge blizzard with an eye at the center. This would be considered a hurricane, but hurricanes can only form over warm ocean water. A hurricane would also never be able to create a blizzard, as the temperature would never be able to drop low enough. The storm is also shown rotating both clockwise and counterclockwise in different scenes. However, due to the Coriolis effect all large storms in the Northern Hemisphere rotate counter-clockwise. The many improbable scenes add up to create a story that may be fun to watch, but it is truly science fiction.