The film makers obviously had the resources to make a superlative sci-fi disaster flick, but they wasted their efforts with ridiculous, unbelievable narrow escape sequences and imbecilic attempted humor. If you're making an end-of-the-world movie, maybe just forget the comedy and stick with believable special effects and building your characters a little bit. They really threw everything in this mess which wasted what could have been an epic disaster flick. The whole family dynamics thing was just too cliche, with the disaffected son who learns to love his real dad again and the wife who comes back to the poor writer dad, even though step-dad is a good guy himself. The special effects were nice but the comic book narrow escapes ruined the suspension of disbelief. Really a difficult movie to watch for sci-fi fans.
