The tornados destroying LA were quite cool. No, the dialog wasn't as bad, though the plot was sooo predictable. (What? Wolves have escaped the zoo? Hmm... now the heroic bunch has finally set foot outside, and what will happen?)
The science was horrible. Not sure you can outrun a super freeze, either. Loved the discussion of which books to burn. What a dilemna! Freeze to death, or burn books?
Oh... I thought this was supposed to be about a bunch of *bad* things happening. So... there's an upside to global warming after all, huh?
That's for sure! Some of the scenes I found particularly laughable:
1. As the tornadoes hit L.A., a guy in a news helicopter commenting on it states: "There are people just standing down there, taking pictures!" That's right buddy, taking pictures... just like you are in your news helicopter.
2. Ian Holm as the British scientist, talking to Dennis Quaid on the phone: "We have mountains of data to go through!" I leaned over to Rose and whispered, "Mountains, Gandalf!"
3. When the librarian is diagnosing the sick girl by using a medical text, and says, "You can do more things with books than just burn them!" You know, as if they wanted to burn the books, and weren't just doing it to survive.
4. Oh, and speaking of burning the books... After they've been burning books apparently for days, one of the teen heroes breaks up a chair to use the woven chairback as a snow shoe. Good thing they burned all those books and saved the wooden furniture for snow shoes!
You know, I could go on and on...
They were OK once they closed the door! The freeze apparently didn't notice the great big windows all around the room, or the chimney leading down to the fireplace...