2012

Huge-iosity has no truer practitioner than Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow), whose films offer the rush of throwing a sandbox tantrum. Here, he upends the whole playground. That date, 2012, happens to be the mystical year in which the Mayan calendar is said to end, along with the world. Or not. Perhaps what the ancients had in mind was a great amount of money spent on enjoyably silly special effects involving Cusack, floods, an exploding Vatican and a tenacious little doggie. Sony’s DVD includes—brace yourselves—an alternate ending to the disaster epic: an expanded coda that may actually be a shade more ridiculous than what they went with.

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