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Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C
Source Brief Review Grade*
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
"The movie gives you your money's worth. Is it a masterpiece? No." more... B+
Chicago Tribune
Matt Pais
"The technology's new and improved, but nothing else is." more... C-
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
"I enjoyed the nerve-racking silliness of this newest, loudest exercise in destruction." more... B  
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
"Rest assured this is a popcorn movie, and an incredibly stupid one at that. " more... B-
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
",,,I’d gladly pay $12 to watch Los Angeles gloriously sliding into the Pacific." more... B  
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
"...Roundly fails to deliver." more... D+
Reelviews
James Berardinelli
"...So over-the-top ridiculous that it's impossible not to break out laughing." more... D+
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
"...Sheer, cynical, mind-numbing, time-wasting, money-draining, soul-sucking stupidity." more... D  
The Boston Globe
Ty Burr
"...One huge, overlong, cornball Armageddon - a work of shlock and awe." more... C  
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
"If you rolled every disaster movie into one spectacular package, you would wind up with something close to 2012. more... C-
USA Today
Claudia Puig
"The movie is an undeniable visual spectacle, but just as unequivocally a cheesy, ridiculous story." more... C  
* Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)
 
 


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