The Day After Tomorrow trailer looks… I hate to say “unrealistic” because that’s unfair to a sci-fi movie.

Actually, if anything, this movie just looks tired.

Disaster hits NYC. Putting aside all the post-9-11 commentary about how seeing NYC in ruins is in bad taste, it’s just a bit of a yawner. We already have seen giant waves hit NYC in “Deep Impact” and we’ve seen it under water and ice in “Artificial Intelligence”. Plus stomped in “Godzilla” (wasn’t that this director?) and vaporized in “Independence Day” (ditto) and smashed in “Armageddon.”

Plus, all this “we’ve messed up the Earth and have doomed ourselves to overwrought special effect-ridden deaths” was pretty well capped off and satirized in last year’s “The Core.” You know, the one where lightning makes stone architecture explode and concentrated sunbeams cause the Golden Gate Bridge to melt…though the people in the cars on the bridge are somehow still alive so they can suffer – seems someone hadn’t really studied melting points in making the movie. Actually, that was the movie where the science was so absurd as to make nitpicking comments pointless; not a bad way to deal with cynics in the audience, really.

Anyway, now we have the polar icecaps melting. Uh-huh. I’m getting a little tired of hearing all this global warming nonsense from Californians who find it credible because it’s always hot where they are. Take it from a guy who just saw more snow coming down outside in mid-March: IT’S NOT. If global warming is happening, we’re talking about maybe it’ll be a degree warmer fifty years from now than it was fifty years ago. Meaning instead of negative 10 in the dead of winter, it’ll be negative 9. It doesn’t mean the polar icecaps might be gone in a couple years.

Hollywood never learns. Remember “Highlander 2”, which was all about how the world would have completely lost its ozone layer by the late 1990s and we’d all be lying around dying of suntans in a scene reminiscent of the dead and wounded from “Gone with the Wind”?

Californians. Bah! They need to learn snow isn’t something you only see in Aspen.