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I disagree with "familypet" because I was laughing considerably at this movie, especially the ending. That's the only reason I gave it 2 out of 10.

Let's have a quick look at the similarities to Day After Tomorrow

1. New York City is the centre of the universe for both movies.

2. We have to "rescue" one of the family members from certain death.

3. In both movies there is a sudden SUPER COLD CELL that freezes humans in split seconds, mind you, the difference is they EXPLAINED it in "Day After Tomorrow" whereas in this movie they just hoped you watched "Day After Tomorrow" so you could understand what happened.

4. Dad in both movies is a scientist associated with weather and involved in monitoring what is happening with glaciers and global warming or climate change.

5. Dad is estranged from the child that has to later be rescued.

Now you would think with all those similarities it would be at least as good as the movie it was basically copying but unfortunately for the producers of this movie, Day After Tomorrow had a couple of actors that could actually do a good job.

Okay, I understand being so focused on something that you basically are too busy to be scared but realistically, when you have chunks of ice the size of small office buildings coming down around you a little bit of panic might be in order rather than just staring out the windshield like some curious hamster.

My biggest problem is the one plot hole that nobody can close and that is they left Bangor, Maine just as the glacier was arriving and somehow managed to outrun it even though they said the glacier was travelling at 200 MPH. Now I could be wrong but last time I checked, a Ford Taurus was not capable of speeds over 200 MPH, especially on traffic choked and snow covered roads.

Oh, I almost forgot something, my favourite line out of the movie is when the daughter says, "You're declaring war on a glacier?" Okay, so these writers actually believe that they can STOP a glacier with explosives, even nuclear explosives, and they expect that ANYONE with more than one functioning brain cell would go along with that? I mean, I don't mind being asked to leave it at the door and go along for the ride but seriously, do I really have to leave my ENTIRE brain at the door for this movie?

All in all, give it a watch just for the laughs you'll get from the silly science and as someone else pointed out, the poor editing.

the negative things about this movie have been covered extensively already, but i just couldn't help myself. just a list of my top 6 favorite terrible things in this movie. (tried to do top 5 but there were too many)

6. the title of the movie is 2012 right? yet there is no mention of the year 2012 or its significance in the entire film! 5. the time line of the film has to be one of the most disjointed and poorly constructed in history. for example, i never knew you could fly a Cessna 100 miles, be "10 minutes away" from NYC, yet get there before a 4 minute timer on a bomb goes off. 4. every time some poor schlep or schleps gets wiped out by glacier shrapnel while the protagonist family are mere feet away watching or discussing something. 3. best line in a movie ever: "The visibility sucks balls!" 2. in a span of 5 minutes of movie time, they show the exact same scene of the family drive past in a van, only the lighting has been messed with digitally. i had to go back and check for sure because i couldn't believe it myself. exact same footage. 1. arrested glacier + family hideout in statue of liberty + abrupt cutoff = worst ending ever.

Why all the hate? Did people miss the brilliant plot? How? Snowmgeddon begins with Mt. Hekla in Iceland (or did the senator say Greenland?) blowing it's top; spreading Ice and snow all over the place which eventually gobbles up Maine, forcing the evil military to nuke every city it can find. Now how's that for a plot and a superb run-on sentence. Speaking about grammar, what about the script. Ya can't get much better than this one. It must have taken a great deal of self control and focus to pen a script solely out of monosyllabic words. Now truly good writing means nothing until it is properly delivered. Delivery means acting. Acting! That's what this movie is all about, actors who act - even when it is not needed. This entire cast doesn't miss a beat, at least as long as the beat is a 4/4 count. Each star's (yes, I said star) delivery list clear and pronounced, all without irritating emphasis. Drab you say? What a weak descriptive for such spectacular bit of happy agony. Don't miss this gala entertainment event unless you have other stuff to do.

Its really not that bad of a movie for a b movie. It is Kind of generic and its predictable but the story lines ok. Even though its a story line that youve seen in every weather related movie its a catchy movie. Once i started watching i had to keep watching, it had me wanting to keep watching. Bad weather strikes and the father has to save his child in new york or somewhere cold, total rip off of day after tomorrow. Anyways it was something decent to watch on freevee at 11pm lol........ OkThe father just found his daughter julia lol...you would think that it would be over now but no its not. Theres still like 30 min left....omg its over and its a really bad ending, thats all ill say, i dont wanna give it away too much ....

I don't know where to start with this film. There's a family who are too stupid to live, an appalling script which relies heavily on the word 'ok', and unbelievably bad special effects. After 30 minutes, I was definitely rooting for the glacier. There are so many holes in the plot that even a glacier 1000 miles long would have no trouble slipping through. The father looks like an overweight Grissom and it's implied that he works in some sort of 'glacier watching' place. How he got the job there is beyond me, I wouldn't employ him as a cleaner. His wife appears to be equally thick and the daughter, who we're told is more than capable of looking after herself, depends heavily on her boyfriend rather than do so. The son looked suitably horrified throughout the whole film but I think that may have been horror at being in the movie rather than horror at the imminent glacier. The special effects mainly consist of shaking the camera rapidly and lots of white dots superimposed on the film. We have people freezing to death next to people who are running around in t shirts, a shelter where all the extras face the wall and wear hoods (presumably not wanting to be recognised and associated with the film). I admit that I've never been to the USA and know nothing about New York other than what I've seen on TV, but I'd be amazed if people living close to the place really do keep planes in their garages, especially garages that don't have enough room for the wing span. In fact the garage was a bit of a miracle place all around, since the man trapped in there in a shirt and jeans didn't freeze to death despite being seriously injured and unable to move. Seriously, don't waste your money.

Seeing the moon falling onto Earth would not shock you as much as this movie - yes, it's that bad. It's not easy to watch, but if you manage, you'll see some of the most amazing things in your entire life bar none, because this baby is packed:

SPOILERS below !

• you have a giant glacier the size of Australia running wild around the country side crushing everything in its path for a plot,I kid you not. You are shown volcanoes erupting somewhere north and in a matter of minutes the glacier is already ravaging entire cities in the US. They estimate the speed at 200 mph, but it's most likely 10 times that( I mean the glacier traveled from it's initial location to the city where the action starts, faster than our characters could get from the airport to their home to pack their bags) - wow, that's a pretty fast glacier. First of all the Great icecap is at the south Pole, not north Pole, but never mind that as the brain must be completely shut down in order to prevent permanent damage

• some time later you have an emergency plane landing due to the lack of fuel, however as soon as it touches ground the fuel is flowing from the airplane's tank until it explodes like a giant gas tanker in a huge ball of flames. Moments later the plane is shown to be only little burnt...

• now how do you find your missing family member ? Well, after you spend most of the movie traveling to New York in order to find/save her you find out that she actually ended up in New Jersey. Luckily, you remember that you have the phone with you which can easily track any other phone even though phones barely work. Even James Bond would be envious of such a gadget and skill. And what do you do with that phone which is your only mean of finding your lost sister ? Well, you drop it in the snow, of course ! And even though it's just half a meter away, no, you don't pick it up, because there's no time for that. It's easier to grab a pistol from a frozen policeman and start shooting. Now, if you're a girl caught in a storm with big chinks of ice falling everywhere, trying to escape from a huge glacier's path and you hear gunshots, what would be your first thought: a) hide/move away from the gunshots b) let's go meet the guy, it's probably dad looking for me ! Yeap, you choose b) - congratulations you are saved :)

• and finally, how do you stop a giant glacier the size of country against which even nuclear bombs had no visual effect ? This is simply hilarious no matter how you think of it - how would nuclear weapons have no visual effect on a glacier ?!? at the very least it would make a huge explosion and the heat from an H bomb would melt a chunk the size of a city in it, but hey, our glacier is very tough, not even planted explosives have any effect on it. The glacier is impervious to the most powerful weapons mankind has at its disposal, BUT not against a few small rockets fired from jet fighters. It only takes a few hits from those and what do you know, the glacier is stopped dead in its tracks...

If you made it this far, you would deserve a reward. I though no movie would ever beat my No. 1 worst "Journey to Promethea", but this is just as bad if not even surpasses it.

Conclusion is the same as the title: I wish that glacier would get all of them, including the director, the writers and anyone else who helped produce this stinker and prevent them from making more movies as bad as this.

Bad acting, bad effects, general stupidity. It's a cheap knock-off of "The Day After Tomorrow" and it's really not worth seeing.

The logic is flawed, where a minivan can outrun a glacier said to be 200 mph. And the teenage son, Nelson, apparently gets internet. While flying in the air during an "ice age" where a glacier has wiped out a lot of places. Wouldn't everything, including power and all of that, go down?

Nelson seemed to be more like a spoiled ten year old than whatever age he's supposed to be. His laptop was more important to him than anything else and concerning the danger that they were supposedly in ...

The father seemed like the person you should not go to when in crisis. He barely pays attention to anything, and actually puts his family in danger by flying in this sort of weather. I'm pretty sure that the plane wouldn't remain in the air with so many twisters and things like that ...

When the family stopped to talk about the people on the side of the road, the people just continued to stand there. They seemed more like cardboard people. They probably couldn't afford real extras. I would have thought they'd go up to the car or do something. I'd imagine normal people would have been trying to flag them down for help if they saw a car driving past.

Instead of listening to what people were telling them and going west, they decide to go save the daughter, Julia, from what they see as near-death. And once they learn Manhattan was hit, they still think she's there? They seem to think she's really stupid.

I wasn't paying much attention at that point, but where the hell did he get a gun?

When the boyfriend of the daughter, Logan, tells her that his dad's in Oslo which was one of the first places hit, he looks so unemotional that I had to stop myself from hitting my head repeatedly on a table. The acting is that horrible.

Anyways, yeah. This isn't a movie I'd see again.

For two reasons I will give this movie a one, first, I cannot score it any lower and, secondly, for all you brave people who watch movies like these out of morbid curiosity, be warned! Be sure to be doing something better while watching this as a fourth priority at best...

The special effects are just plain sad. The CGI was possibly better in the 1990's.

The story line is thin at best and the acting is as believable as a giraffe with sunglasses trying to slip into a country club for polar bears.

In one scene the dad indiscriminately fires a pistol into the air...hello...ahhh hell, just too much to mention.

The Cessna scene with ice on the wings really did it for me when the ice sat there like chunks of cauliflower and grew by the second...really now? Does this director think we are total idiots?

Plainly said, rather go knit with one needle and no wool, you might just find your 90 minutes or so much more productively spent!

This is my first review. If I'm watching a bad film, then I'll read the IMDb reviews to see what other viewers think.

The 10 stars is for all these hilarious Ice Age:2012 IMDb reviews - I'm having more fun reading them, than watching the film.

The film deserves NO stars as a film, but is worth watching for the sheer stupidity of it, the poor acting, ludicrous script, lack of scientific basis, ZX Spectrum effects, lack of empathy with the characters.

The moment you see the (alleged) F16's fly over, you know they're going to bomb the glacier.

I'd say that it was worth making the movie, just to see these reviews.