If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This review contains spoilers (sort of!). Everyone has given this film 1 out of 10, and I'm giving it 8 stars!!??? This isn't because I'm taking the mickey, or because I've gone completely insane. It's just because I love this kind of nonsense!A bunch of scientists who are immune to sub-zero temperatures have somehow discovered by looking at cave paintings that the earth is shortly to tilt on its axis, and thus create a new ice age that will wipe out humanity...except for the indestructible scientists of course! Will they save mankind? You betcha!!!This film has an absolute zero budget, a godawful script, incredibly bad acting, CGI that looks like an oil painting done by a 14 year old, sets that wobble and fall over, and incompetent direction. So, why do I like it so much? Well, just like the old Ed Wood movies (especially Plan 9) what shines through is that everyone involved in this mess tries so hard, so VERY hard to make some kind of statement - despite their complete and utter lack of talent. I just love this kind of sincerity! I can't help it!!!

The advertising for this appalling movie claimed that "Millions of years ago, a thriving planet earth was engulfed by a sudden freeze so extreme that it wiped out all forms of life. Plants withered and died, dinosaurs faded into extinction, oceans froze - this was known as the Ice Age and it is on the verge of coming back." The Ice Age was not a single event, did not happen suddenly, was not the cause of the extinction of dinosaurs - and apparently ALL other life on earth - oceans did not freeze, and it was not a state of absolute zero temperatures. They couldn't have been more wrong if they had tried. Ironic that in the movie someone says that science is never wrong.If there was to be a new ice age it would not start in Florida! Perhaps they would have been closer to the truth if they suggested that the big freeze started in the brains of Hollywood directors.

This film is so bad, it was fascinating--almost completely predictable, but in the fashion of a close competitor (The Evil Under Loch Ness), the writers or directors would at some points get bored and just veer off on a mad, inexplicable and obviously unexplained tangent. I love bad films and B-movies, but this...it hypnotises like the worst of car crashes. The production values were also just strange; Jeff Fahey looked like a sort of Liberace lovechild, Will Ferrell dropped in a pot of ink, the greedy administrator belonged in Jud Suss or something, and, well, Elena looked like she was crying off-set at the memory of under siege for most of the takes. You know you're in trouble when Steven Seagal movies are a past high point, and my advice to her is to maybe do something to rebuild--say organic farming--and buy gold coins with the royalties. They can be got very cheap.Not even Leslie Nielsen or Bill Murray could have deadpanned their way through this to save it. Watch if only to learn what not to do, or, alternatively, get drunk and set the audio to German or something central European.

David Koch (Jeff Fahey), a climatologist working for Miami-based Inter-Sci, is suddenly sent to Antarctica to investigate a change in climate. Some scientists on the icy continent were killed when there was an abrupt spike in temperature, resulting in shifting ice flows that sent them into the icy waters below. When David arrives down under, the remaining crew tell him that a "cave" has appeared, one that was not noticeable before, and which may have answers to the current phenomena. David leads a group to the cavern but, despite finding prehistoric "cave paintings" that suggest the climate on Antarctica was once warmer, the unstable weather creates death traps. Only David makes it out alive, natch. Back in Miami, David hooks up with a science colleague and his wife, Bryn (Erika Eleniak) who run data and come to the startling conclusion that the earth's "poles" are shifting and that Miami will become the new Antarctice in less than 4 days. Of course, the scummy, money-grubbing leader of Inter-Sci locks horns with David and insists to the United States military that the change in climate will evolve more slowly and that, in any case, the company has it covered. Ho ho, what fun is ahead! David, it turns out, is correct and soon folks sunning by the posh hotels' pools are being pelted with snow and sleet. With only a limited time to get everyone evacuated from Miami and into "warmer" New York and other upper regions, what will be the result? Actually, as far as "B" movies go, I thought this one was pretty entertaining. The cast is not stellar by any means, with Fahey and Eleniak, longtime B stars, looking older and tired and the others not doing Oscar work either. Then, too, the script veers off into silliness from time to time, as it tries to recount a long ago love affair between David and Bryn. But, when it gets down to science and special effects, the film fares much better. The whole premise is fairly interesting and the "chilling" of Miami is fun to watch. Yes, it takes a few pages from The Day After Tomorrow, with its rolling deep freeze frames. But, what the heck, if you love science fiction and chaotic weather situations, you would probably get a kick out of this one, especially on sweltering summer nights when re-runs are the only other options. Go for it.