2012 (2009)

The world is about to come to an end. Though world leaders have been given enough of a heads-up to build "arks" in which to ride out the worst of it and restart civilization, most of the population is unaware... until they're falling into huge cracks in the earth, that is.

I'm fairly sure that the intent here was to make a big old-fashioned disaster movie following several storylines, in the vein of Earthquake and Airport in the '70s. But this just wound up bloated and silly. Even the "cool" bits -- like the Washington Monument crashing to the ground or hundreds of people clinging to suddenly exposed skyscraper floors -- felt cartoonish rather than thrilling.

D+