Catástrofes no Gelo

It was very close to being so bad that it was fun to watch, but it lacked the necessary tongue in cheek or at least going over the top. In the end it was boring, really boring, while taking itself seriously. For something that doesn't make any sense, the film ran like its makers expected viewers to take it seriously as well.

For me the only notable thing was that the main cast was mostly taken from the Continuum TV show. Other than that everything was really silly, just not silly enough to entertain.

But that's just me. If you believe in meteor(ite)s that can lead to growing ice crystals that suck the heat from an area the size of a small town, while not interfering with the rest of the world climate, then this is the film for you.

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!!!

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.

In a nutshell.....asteroid hits town starting to celebrate Christmas, Santa gets flash frozen, people scream, people flee and good looking lead actor and actress save town just before everyone is flash frozen.

Too bad Mystery Science Theater is not still on TV, because this movie is perfect for it. There is no story line, no character development, no acting of note, no anything other than wall-to-wall things/people being flash frozen. There is not even a point to who is/isn't flash frozen. But trying to find something positive to say, it does have a lot of actors who were in other shows/movies that were much better.

Its just a classically bad sci-fi movie and the kind of movie for people who are into such things.

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.