Christmas Icetastrophe

The *only* good thing about this movie was the science lab scene with a rather holiday-enthused astronomer played by the brilliant Jonathon Young. Otherwise, this was the type of movie you only finish because you've already wasted so much time on it you have to keep watching to see JUST HOW BAD IT WILL GET... The story was ridiculous, the other actors were terrible and the special effects were worse than pathetic. I love a good sci-fi movie, but this was just a cheesy thriller with a crappy plot and nothing remotely convincing.

A meteorite brings ice and freezing temperatures, which threatens to harm the residents of a small Montana town at Christmas.

It would be nice to be able to say good things about this film, but there really is nothing nice to say. The script is nonsense, the science completely made up (remember when SyFy had heart?) and none of the actors seem anything special. The romantic aspect is garbage, with two overall pale kids pretending to be cold... and not trying very hard, because the girl never even puts her hood up.

Someone thought they were being clever by naming the rival families Ratchet and Crooge, an obvious allusion to "A Christmas Carol". The head of the Crooge family is Ben, clearly a shortening of Ebenezer. But the problem is that the name "Crooge" sounds so forced coming out of the characters' mouths... there had to be a better way.

Here's a quick science lesson from a non-scientist: a (y!)asteroid hits its target - a planet - travelling FAR more than the speed of sound (appx. 767 mph).

At this speed, air can't move fast enough around an object; there's a shockwave (the 'sonic boom'), and the air's speed causes it to heat up (that's called FRICTION). The higher the speed, the faster - and hotter - the air.

So, an asteroid hitting Earth will be travelling approximately 24-THOUSAND mph.

That will cause enough heat to ignite things without being lit with fire.

If you've read this far and understood this simple science explanation, congrats; you now know something most grade schoolers know.

Correction: you know what? Most people went to a semi-decent school and paid even a bit of attention (if they just like to watch shows on either science or even aircraft).

The point's this; it's frightening how stupid anything would have to be to come up with such idiotic tripe.

There are films that are purposefully made that are campy... over the top, and 'play' with reality and facts for fun.

This is NOT that.

It takes itself seriously. It takes its... (il)logic seriously.

I'm not going to go off and waste my time about how quickly THE SMARTEST nation on planet Earth has utterly destroyed its educational system, focusing on non-educational horse ca-ca, and people who believe in 'magic' (that's religion, especially as followed by Southerners) have totally helped disembowel the young's futures.

What do we get?

Garbage like this.

I really, REALLY hope every single person involved in this nightmare never works in ANY media again.

I'm lucky; I could tell that this was offal before it began, and I only watched a few minutes (mostly on fast-forward) to get a taste of this, but this was more than enough to leave me angry and disgusted that ANYONE would finance this, ANYONE would 'write' this (and others read it, and not only laugh and retch, but tell the crayon-scribbling mentally incapacitated person how idiotic this was) that I wasted precious minutes of my life? Minutes that could've been better used doing ANYthing.

I hope you won't be.

Is it incredibly stupid? Yes, and to its credit it knows it. Though we start in a university, any science accuracy is soon disregarded, for the bettter i think, it wouldnt have been half as fun if it had tried for seriousness or listened to science, no it is sdumb sure but like a knights tale, choosing to run on rule of cool, adding a bit of plot armor to its protagonists as they defy science magic and everything in between.

It also has a familiar cast if you watch canadian-filmed scifi which adds to the enjoyment in mt opinion.

I particularly enjoyed the line 'it isnt magic it is science' when the movie completely ignores science for the other 99.9% of the film.

And i must say i appreciate the lack of forced romance that is so damn common otherwise.

Okay, so I'll say this...the movie was nice but I could have done without all of the lead girl's screaming. She was a little annoying and I did not like her brother at all so I was glad when he was out of the picture. Other than that, I'd say that it's worth the watch. Side note: Her love interest, the young guy with the dark hair reminds me a lot of Edward (Robert P.) from the Twilight series. He's kinda sexy!!!