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THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW

Last month saw the release of the high-concept, low-cost indie flick "The Day After Tomorrow", directed by a Hun.  The same Hun who directed that god-awfully saccharine "Independence Day" (I have never seen Eddie Murphy so terrible in that film).  The film page at the moment is largely about this "Day After Tomorrow".


The Poster

Director Roland Emmerich was severely told off for flooding the city to get the poster shot.

  The Fucking Review

To start with, this film has too much swearing.  I counted three cuss-words, which was far too much for its supposed 12A rating.

The plot, however, is interesting.  After leaving Middle-Earth with the elves, Bilbo Baggins returns to his younger self and sets up in Scotland, with a football hooligan and a nigger.  He finds out that a new ice age will hit the Earth, so he telephones his American professor friend Jerry Lee Lewis (the paedo who married his 13 year old cousin in "Great Balls Of Fire") who has to save his son from the New York Public Library after the ice and snow cover the city.

Good set pieces and some good acting, along with good Germanic direction, make a highly entertaining film.  Here's hoping for a sequel, preferably with more fox-hunting.

***/5