Not as bad as I thought it would be.

A fine pop-corn movie, nothing more. It's actually a pretty dumb movie, has nice effects though... Kinda.

well most of the CGI were unbelieveably amazing and perfect ... but why was the story THAT weak and the logic of the movie so stupid, most of the time i was wishing for cusack's death, or one of the kids ... or just someone other than woody harrelson

Stupid, but after having seen "The Pagan Queen", this stupidity suddenly seems quite clever. Strange. Anyway, the effects are jaw dropping, althought it has so many terrible scenes it's impossible to count them all. And I actually rooted for the American bad guy who *SPOILER* actually wanted to leave without all those people who didn't get on board. It seemed as a reasonable choice when Cusack and co almost killed them all and without his superhuman lungs, everyone would have died. Stupid ending

Renders every other disaster movie completely obsolete due to it's absolutely massive scale. Good thing too because I, for one, am absolutely sick of these stupid films. Still, I have to give Emmerich credit, the sheer spectacle of 2012 is damn impressive.

Well, it really seems to be the mother of all disaster movies and the effects are as expected, really good. And the first 1 1/2 hours had some pretty decent moments actually. But after almost every great doomed action scene, comes a corny dialogue just out of nowhere. And the last half hour just sucks...but just for the action and effects alone, worth watching.

Don't come into this with any expectation of a good film. I was entertained, laughed a bit. I fucking wanted the poodle twins to bite the dust, whatever.

Ok, just a suggestion. If you're going to make a long movie, how about putting all the scenes with water at the beginning?

This is more of a comedy than a disaster movie. Enjoyable in it's silliness but it is cliche ridden.

This movie made me reconsider the numerous redeeming qualities of GI Joe. Such as how short the aforementioned flick was. The plot/dialog/etc is all exactly what you would expect. The characters however? Never have I ever hated characters quite as much as these jokers. I cheered when one was ground up into a pulp, terrifying the middle aged woman next to me. I am ashamed that humanity has been reduced to peddling crap like this.

as charlie said...

Welp that sure is one huge unforgiving disaster. The movie's overlong and over the top but it was still a decent thrill ride.

So many bad parts about this movie. The way that John Cusak and his family survived were based on the luckiest set of circumstantial events that it is one of the most unbelievable storylines in the history of film. Add to that the cliches and over-dramatic dialogue and you have yourself a stinker. It's only real saving grace (besides Woody Harrelson) is that it looks really good. And even though you put a pretty bow on the turd, it's still a turd. A stinky, stinky turd.

Pathetic. Just utter trash. Sure its pretty and has detail in its disasters but its mind numbingly boring. Any form of suspense is cut quickly as the airplane escapes get repetitive and then Emmerich just starts focusing on something else to blow up. The screenplay is about as focused as the camera. Conversations come out of nowhere and feel completely pointless. I guess Emmerich needed filler as being over two and half hours long just wasn't enough for him.

Week story, poor dialogue, stereotyped characters poorly illustrated by mediocre performances, sentimental ending, overuse of Biblical references... but damn it was entertaining. I can't help but give credit to a film that not only destroys America completely, but also floods the Himalayas. Hilarious.

Basically this is a standard disaster movie with the same script as all other disaster movies, and updated over-the-top special effects. There is no justification for such a long running time. Totally formulaic.

total insanity.

Who said massive special effects don't make for a good movie? A movie clichéd as hell, but at least there's a plot...

A hilarious over the top guilty pleasure masterwork. Yes, that disjointed sentence fits this film rather well.

Just as bad as you could expect, but with amazing special effect... as you would expect... It would make a great 45 minutes disaster-bonanza recut...

Enjoyable. Somewhat lost in it's own mood of having a good time while things are going very bad which takes away the impact of both. Not to be taken too seriously.

Watchable

Pointless and not even that much fun, apart from some hilarious over-the-top parts, which are easily the highlight of the movie. The coolness of the effects was spoiled by the trailer and the 'home video' look sucked. Not worth it, basically.

I don't even know where to begin! From the horrible plot and writing to the implausible situations and the hilarious way the characters get out of them, this film is the total summation of Terrible Disaster Flick. Plus it had the most product placement I've ever seen. Let me call special attention to the directing, too: while the CG looked fine, Roland Emmerich is such a by the books director that someone needs to keep him away from the camera. And yet, I paid money to see it. For shame.

Despite the many laughably stupid moments this still managed to keep my interest to the end.

A disaster in every way - except for one, great one-liner from Zlatko Buric

Even if you were expecting to see a braindead specialeffectfest with no expectations at all, you'll be bored before you realize the film has another 3 or 4 hours to go before it's finally over.

Every inch as dumb as it looks, overpopulated and direly overlong (I literally yawned through the better part of what was supposed to be the climax). But in its best moments it does have an awesome sense of spectacle, and Chiwetel Ejiofor is a great, underrated actor who can lend depth to paper-flat characters as written. Probably Roland Emmerich's best disaster film... whatever the fuck that's worth.

It all looks rather expensive and some sequences are downright apocalyptic, but 2012 fails miserably at portraying anything resembling true human emotion. Emmerich is a grand technician but a terrible director; any moment that is supposed to be big and horrifying ends up being absolutely laughable. It's a whole big bag of neat visual effects and nothing else. Roland, you need to understand that huge disaster flicks need true drama in order to work, not crack abysmal jokes every 5 minutes. Next!

just for the CGI, although the story isnt as bad as some make it out to be.

Nothing to do with 2012 but they sure fooled me. =(

It's The Day after Tomorrow 2. Twice as good effects, Twice as bad a story.

ridiculous!!--the whole world is falling into pieces but they got exact satellite pictures and handy connections ?? beside the fact that it´s so wacky, emmerich tells a boring story. the whole world stick together and opens the gate for the less-well offs *lol* as if... ;-) Emmerich wake up and watch the news there is no cohesion. only the strong ones will survive. boring hollywood crap forget it

Klise mi, evet. Gorsel efektlerine mi guveniyor, kesinlikle. Surukleyici mi, suphesiz. Ama ne kadar kalici bir film derseniz izleyiniz ve geciniz derim.

Great special effects, but the idea could have been worked out much better. Way too much Hollywood-drama.

Die Story ist nicht so besonders, damit habe ich aber gerechnet. Wirklich ärgerlich finde ich hingegen die Special Effects. Speziell die Fahrt in der Limousine sieht sowas von scheiße aus.. Das Fahrverhalten kommt auch nicht ansatzweise hin.

Lousy.

Watchable to the MAXXXX

the director can just go fall of a window for all i care... way to feed more fear to those who already believe in the 2012 calamity

The only reason why anybody should watch this movie is because of the CGI. The sound effects were also quite good. The first half was so stupid that it was funny. It was like watching the scary movie and then the second half was quite boring but could have been a better one if the story was more interesting.

Great special effects that I really enjoyed, but the screenplay of this cataclysmic Earth-shattering adventure is mind-numbingly predictable and just generally shamefully bad. This movie is all about the CGI, so if you like that, go for it.

Sad that such a spectacular event could lead to such an average movie. There are a couple of really great-looking scenes (e.g. flying a prop plane through a collapsing Los Angeles) but mostly it's just painted-by-numbers disaster movie stodge with a multitude of uninspiring characters. Flat, dead storytelling and everything we saw before in Deep Impact, Armageddon, Dante's Peak, and others. Films like this make me hope nobody survives when disaster does strike our planet.