Liam Sheji

Extended Learning
Movie Review
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow is a movie about how Global Warming turns the world into
ruins. After too much fresh glacial water melts, the North Atlantic current reverts and creates
natural disasters all over the world; tornadoes in LA, the largest hurricanes on record slam the
coast of Australia and the Philippines, flooding all over the world, and to top it all off, the largest
snow storm on record. The storm envelops the whole northern hemisphere with temperatures in
the negatives, freezing everything it goes over. Millions of people will die.
Climatologist Jack Hall is the first one to predict these turn of events. He turns his data
the the U. N. but is widely ignored, his research isnt accepted until its too late. Halls son, Sam,
is on a trip to New York with his friends, Laura and Jason, when the storm hits and they are
trapped in the city. Jack treks form Washington D.C. to NYC to save his son and his friends
before its too late and they freeze over.
The Day After Tomorrow was one of the first movies in modern movie making that
simulate the horrible effects of global warming. Personally its one of my favorite movies, it has
intense scenes of weather, millions of people are assumed dead, and nobody too important dies,
so its pretty good, the only drawback for me is that the CGI isnt the best for its time, but the
story is good enough for me. It was released in 2005 and made over $500 million in the box
office. It won the MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence, the BAFTA Award for Best
Special Visual Effects, and the BMI Film Music Award.