I spent a year watching this movie once. Couldn't even get excited about the special effects which were mainly been-there and done-that (think Deep Impact with Morgan Freeman).The world (at least the industrialized, Western-Civilized portions of it) is coming to an end, and it's all our fault. We're bad, bad, BAD overconsumers, and now we must pay the price. Best of all, at the end of the movie the U.S. Vice President (formerly depicted as a meany) is humbled & grovels for forgiveness to 3rd world countries who "graciously" took in ice age refugees, in exchange for the U.S. forgiving billions of dollars in 3rd world debt.Made me want to run out, buy a Hummer, start smoking, and shellac my hair with Aquanet.