“Mean Girls” was pretty damned funny, but Tina Fey ain’t got much on the latest Roland Emmerich disaster epic. With hackneyed dialogue, “what-the-@#&%” plot points, and the occasional intentional humor that worked, this was hands-down the funniest movie I’ve seen all spring. I think the rest of our film society [that would be you, Bill] will back me up on this.
This script review sees clear problems but doesn’t go into enough details on the plot points you could drive a low-pressure zone through. Reason touches on a planned Parker/Stone puppet parody of the film. I think what this really needs is a Rocky Horror-style audience participation script. Barring that I would be willing to settle for a lengthy skewering in the vein of this legendary rec.arts.movies.reviews review of “Dracula”.
I should note that the special effects are fantastic. I love a good storm in real life [living in the Detroit area lately, I should] and I greatly enjoyed the imaginings of violent weather depicted in this film up to its ice age. I’m not even saying this in the “Yay, L.A. got torn to pieces” way that most LA’ers think that us midwesterners think, although that was pretty cool too. But the human dramedy crammed in amidst all the natural disaster leavens the tone nicely.
