Roland Emmerich's 2004 blockbuster, The Day After Tomorrow - premonition of growing climate crisis?

Introduction -

A series of extreme weather events is bringing global chaos. What is the science behind the sixth highest-grossing film of 2004.

Name of film: The Day After Tomorrow

Director: Roland Emmerich

Year: 2004

Official Poster

Trailer

Review

Originally planned for release in the summer of 2003, The Day After Tomorrow premiered in Mexico City on May 17, 2004, and was released in the United States on May 28, 2004. It was a major commercial success. Filmed in Toronto and Montreal, it is the highest-grossing Hollywood film made in Canada. Emmerich received mixed reviews when it was released, with reviewers praising the film's special effects, but criticizing its writing and inaccuracies.
Emmerich is known for his disaster blockbusters. He destroyed New York with aliens in Independence Day and squashed it with Godzilla.
In Day After Tomorrow, he takes on New York again, flooding it with a giant tidal wave and then freezing it over.
The supposedly serious global warming agenda here, becomes increasingly erratic as sea levels and temperatures rise due to melting polar ice caps and the film descends into popcorn.
It was apparently inspired by Coast to Coast AM talk-radio host Art Bell and Whitley Strieber's book, The Coming Global Superstorm and Strieber wrote the film's novelization. To choose a studio, writer Michael Wimer created an auction, with a copy of the script being sent to all major studios. They had a 24-hour window to decide whether to produce the movie with Emmerich directing, and Fox was the only studio that offered to take it on.
Emmerich reckons the film is solidly founded on environmentalists’ warnings, but the compacted time frame is unbelievable, allowing him to trash New York and then the whole northern hemisphere in about 48 hours flat.
Yet the special effects - scenes of the giant wave coming in on New York and a ship floating down Wall Street, still look good, although since The Day After Tomorrow was made, we have become very used to CGI to bolster up blockbuster epics.
The film falls down flat on the characterisation and script - both are unfortunately woefully thin. A sub plot involving a father, Dennis Quaid rescuing his son, Jake Gyllenhaal, from a frozen New York library, becomes the focus for the second half of this film, which plods predictably into sentimentality and a botched feel good ending, despite a cast that looks good on paper.
The Day After Tomorrow climaxes half way through to make this really just an underachieved and also unscientific, one-dimensional, heavily CGI reliant movie.

My favourite scene - It has to be the wave coming in to New York

**Number of SUBs out of 2 out of 10 **

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