People are going to eat up the movie 2012.  It’s the mother of all disaster films and rated PG13.  That’s a lot of death for not being R rated.  Remember that explosion you liked in that one movie years ago?  It’s in here.  Remember that building that fell over and that other tidal wave that destroyed stuff?  It’s in here.

I really had fun with this one.  I certainly didn’t dislike it.  It’s a Roland Emerich movie.  They guy who brought us INDEPENDENCE DAY and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.  And with Emerich it’s all about the spectacle. 

The sold-out audience I saw it with applauded after scenes and clapped when it was over.  Two hours and forty-five minutes of John Cusack trying to get his family out of danger.  No lie.  That’s what Cusack does the ENTIRE movie.

And I love that guy.

But instead of telling you any more about the movie.  Let me make a list of things I learned from 2012.

In no particular order:

-  The Shitzu is the smartest dog in the world.

-  Every time the Sistine Chapel collapses, a crack will first appear between the fingers of Adam and God.  It’s just more dramatic that way.  And that’s the way God likes it.

-  Airplanes always outrun smoke clouds.

-  It never hurts to know a billionaire.

-  Vegas never survives the apocalypse.

-  Cusack is the BEST driver on the planet.  Bar none.

-  Give a Russian an airplane, he can fly.  Without one, not so much.

-  No matter how many thousands of innocent people that the movie audience sees die, they will still feel sad when they see a chicken get its head cut off.

Go and enjoy this ultimate popcorn movie.   My 9 year old nephew said, “I liked that it just kept going.  Something would happen to them.  Then something would happn to them.  Then they’d survive.  Then something would happen to them.”

 It makes you happy you live in Wisconsin.