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And homeless guy's dog makes it! Hooray.
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Jack reaches his son in the library... I don't think there's actually anything he can do now he's there though. Sam's perfectly fine, having survived his own idiocy.
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
They get off the boat just in time for a temperature drop.

This is where the film abruptly turns to stupid. They have to outrun the ice.

And get into the library staff room I time to close the door!
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The wolves are probably the worst cgi here.
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Doggies decide to visit the SS McGuffin at the same time.
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Romantic interest is really just a damsel in distress. She's injured and infected.

This allows everyone else to risk their lives getting medicine from the SS McGuffin.
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Americans are illegally entering Mexico - see what they did there!
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Cop decides the weather has calmed so plans to walk out. Sam, in a rare moment of non-stupidity tries to convince them to stay.
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
So is the Vice President. His entire story arc is to ignore the scientist.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Other key character is clearly this black homeless guy and his dog. He's another one of those Hollywood stereotypes.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sam calls his dad in a rapidly flooding phone area.

He doesn't mention the flood to his dad, because Sam is an idiot.
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Scientists are drinking tea and eating biscuits whilst providing running commentary and retaining stuff upper lips.
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Anyway she makes the dumb decision to get a woman's bag out of a taxi.
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Still not quite sure what romantic interest's name is. Wasn't paying attention earlier and now it's being shouted against a lot of background noise.
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Sam decides they need to get home. Because he may be a genius but he's also an idiot.
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Oh yes. Jack's wife gets a subplot. It's completely pointless but Jack and Sam get plot so she has to have something to do.
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Jack is that Hollywood trope of "Dramatic Cassandra Scientist". He dominates meetings but ultimately everyone ignores him.
November 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As ever, Roland Emmerich goes for the landmarks. There goes the Hollywood sign.
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I will admit, I quite like the setup here. Lots of interesting weird weather like people sheltering from giant hailstones in LA
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We get all the excitement of a school quiz competition.
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Ah, New York traffic!
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
We have a subplot in a Scottish weather research station with the world's most stereotypically British researchers.
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Stewardess fails to secure a trolley. Should be sacked.
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Jack is trying to tell the world about this while simultaneously being an absentee father.

Sam - played by a Jake Gyllenhal young enough to shock @flickums.bsky.social .

We also establish Sam knows science.
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
So, we get a bunch of exposition including a dramatic scene of an ice shelf breaking followed by a scientist briefing the UN...

Long story short, Ice Age is coming.
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM