Roland Emmerich's "2012" has been getting better-than-average reviews with critics claiming it to be over-the-top, ridiculous fun and falling into the "so bad it's good" category.
Roger Ebert gave it 3 1/2 stars.
"The mother of all disaster movies (and the father, and the extended family) spends half an hour on ominous set-up scenes (scientists warn, strange events occur, prophets rant and of course a family is introduced) and then unleashes two hours of cataclysmic special events hammering the Earth relentlessly."
Lisa Schwarzbaum labels it a guilty pleasure.
"God forgive me, but I enjoyed the nerve-racking silliness of this newest, loudest exercise in destruction."
Well, there's no denying that Emmerich is offering up exactly the reason audiences are going to see this movie, and that is to watch Earth get destroyed in incomprehensibly catastrophic ways. Looks like this one may be a surprise success.
But, one still must wonder, will December 21, 2012 itself will be this much fun?
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