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Critics Consensus: A ludicrous popcorn flick filled with clunky dialogues, but spectacular visuals save it from being a total disaster.

Judd Apatow's writing and direction took this decidedly somber flick from possible disaster to heart - tugging and poignant, and we love him for it.

Thanks to USA Today, we've got a couple of new images from director Brad Peyton's (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) upcoming disaster flick San Andreas, featuring Dwayne Johnson (Hercules) alongside Carla Gugino (Wayward Pines)... «After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot -LSB-...]

This time around we take a look at Mamoru Hosoda's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in a deluxe Blu - ray edition from FUNimation, Michael Felsher's Just Desserts in a stand - alone Blu - ray from Synapse Films, Jeremy Saulnier's critically acclaimed Green Room from Lionsgate Home Video, and finally Norwegian disaster flick The Wave from Magnolia Pictures.

The rest of the film can be rejected, even at the intellectually contemptible level of disaster flicks, for such inept conceptions as a volcano that throws fireballs nowhere except straight at the hotel, and a tidal wave that must be only about one block wide, for all that the tranquil sea views from just up the beach indicate; and for trembly special effects the like of which hasn't been seen since the DeLuxe Color Allens at the turn of the Sixties.

The Bottom Line: My favorite pick because it's more a monster movie than a disaster flick, this intriguing tale from 1962 (based on the 1951 novel by John Wyndham, who also penned THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS that spawned VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED on the big screen) begins with a meteor shower that liberally spreads killer crawling plant creatures around the globe — with everyone who has seen the celestial show going permanently blind.

Master of disaster Roland Emmerich screened the first clip from his ultimate global destruction flick 2012.

is based on a rather unsavory series of trading cards released by Topps in the 1950s, and it takes its cues from the same sources as this summer's Independence Day — old alien invasion flicks, disaster movies, and big - budget special effects extravaganzas.

«Dance Flick» should, theoretically, set itself apart from «Epic Movie,» «Disaster Movie» and every other sub-subpar genre parody of recent years.

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a»70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the true - life story of María Belón and Enrique Alvarez, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits.

The Wave (R for profanity and shocking images) Disaster flick, set in the fjords of Norway, about a geologist's (Kristoffer Joner) race to save a tourist retreat nestled in a narrow valley from a giant tsunami about to crush everything in its path.

Despite some engaging disaster porn, it's still pretty overlong, and you can see entire characters and plot progressions lifted wholesale from Emmerich's previous disaster flicks (Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tomorrow).

The site's general agreement states that it was An incredible popcorn flick loaded with clunky discoursed, however marvelous visuals safeguard it from being a sum disaster.

The fairly solid hypothesis of a slightly enhanced GHE from GHG emissions was / is being twisted into something more akin to a disaster flick in search of a disaster.