The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

When I reviewed the theatrical release of The Day After Tomorrow I told audiences they would be sorry if they missed seeing the special effects this movie offers on the big screen but Fox has done their very best to prove me wrong and it has a lot to do with the fact that the DTS audio track on this DVD is absolutely awesome!

As the entire northern hemisphere is being turned into an ice cube the appeal of The Day After Tomorrow is not the storyline or the dialogue as audiences are in for a visual treat with some of the best special effects ever offered up in a movie and after listening to the audio commentaries, it is better than I originally had thought.

Before going too far into the special features on this one let me first say there has got to be a two-disc special edition somewhere down the pipeline. This disc doesn't have a single featurette on the making of the film unless you use the DVD-ROM features, which if you ask me are one of the largest pains in the ass you could imagine, and this DVD doesn't make it any easier.

First off you have to install the new HOTLLAMA Player, then you have to get the new update for it, and then if you have Real Player installed on your computer you either have to uninstall it to watch the QuickTime and Windows Media clips or right click on the screen to open up the feature in Real Player. This is too much trouble if you ask me to be watching extra features ON YOUR COMPUTER!!

Enough of that though, besides the movie there are a couple of cool things to check out on the DVD that you don't need a computer for like the "Audio Anatomy" feature which allows you to single out several different layers of the audio from one of the scenes in the movie to see just how much is added to an action scene to bring it to life. There are also a couple of deleted scenes and two audio commentaries.

Of the two audio commentaries if you aren't sure if you want to listen to both then certainly check out the Emmerich and Mark Gordon track, it is the better of the two. Never before have I heard a producer be so entertaining on an audio commentary but Mark Gordon leads the way here and has a lot to say.

Overall, besides the DVD-ROM debacle on this one this is a great DVD, but beware if you are a DVD fan there is likely to be a Special Edition in the future.