2012

"Grab-bag of disaster movie cliches will thrill less demanding audiences. (...) while it's entertaining for most of its excessive running time, the cheesy script fails to live up to the grandeur of the physical production. 

"This simultaneously spectacular and risible concoction looks likely to trigger a worldwide B.O. tsunami for Sony. (...) The visual effects are pretty sensational, delivering the cutting-edge CGI goods auds want and expect." 

"The mother of all disaster movies (...) This is fun. '2012' delivers what it promises, and since no sentient being will buy a ticket expecting anything else, it will be, for its audiences, one of the most satisfactory films of the year. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)" 

"Despite the frenetic action scenes, the movie sags, done in by multiple story lines that undercut one another and by the heaviness of its conceit." 

"God forgive me, but I enjoyed the nerve-racking silliness of this newest, loudest exercise in destruction. (...) rock-solid disaster-pic 
formula" 

"The movie is an undeniable visual spectacle, but just as unequivocally a cheesy, ridiculous story. (...) 2012 is preposterous fun, with boggling special effects. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)" 

"In the interest of fairness, I will say that the FX is killer (...) The rest is the absence of silence. Just the noise and cheeseball pyrotechnics that Hollywood regularly substitutes for intelligence and wit. Welcome to 2009. (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)."