This review will be brief. I re-watched 2012. This is the disaster movie with John Cusack. I first saw this movie at the theater on a date. On the big screen is was a fun, stupid movie to watch. All disaster movies have pretty much the same set up and plot points. You just fill in the blanks with whatever new technology you have available to make it seem more "real".
This film consists of set piece after set piece of the planet earth totally consuming it's self and everything / everyone in it's way. Except of course for John Cusack and his family which (of course) narrowly escapes death every 15 minutes or so.
The movie is absurd in both its conception and execution. There is absolutely NO REASON to see this on a small screen. Every cliche and stereotype is taken to it's furthest reaches then pushed even further.
Upon my second viewing at home (I just needed something stupid to clear my head) I actually became offended by this movie. Both for the way it portrayed many of the different nationalities and races in the picture. Picture a bus filled with a buck toothed Charlie Chan China man, the soft shoeing negro, the Eskimo in full fur coat with a spear in one hand and a clubbed seal in the other, a drunk native American, the fat Russian billionaire dick head, and the heroic white guy American. That was basically the way people were portrayed in the movie. The other thing I was offended by was the ending. ***Spoiler Alert*** The world does not end. It seems that things weren't as bad as everyone thought they were going to be. The continent of Africa was almost not affected at all. They totally went for the happy ending and ruined any sympathy and concern for the hundreds of thousands of people we see die through out the movie.
As far as disaster movies go you can do a lot better. I guess just because computers will let you depict a tidal wave knocking over the Washington Monument and helicoptering giraffes over Siberia does not a movie make. I give 2012 a 2/5 stars. Check out the Trailer Park to see for yourself.
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