San Andreas

Au point où on se demande si les auteurs n'auraient pas délibérément forcé la note, pour laisser croire à un second degré parodique qui, du reste, sonne aussi faux que le premier.

Ne reste donc aux spectateurs que le plaisir coupable d’assister à un genre déjà mieux exploité, écartant ainsi toute réflexion raisonnable de sa tête.

Avec ses scènes d’action explosives, son humour bon enfant et son utilisation pertinente du 3D, San Andreas s’avère être un divertissant amuse-gueule avant l’arrivée des gros blockbusters de l’été.

Les amateurs du genre seront donc servis, et la ration est grosse à avaler. 

(...) on s’amuse, on rigole, on obtient une solide dose d’adrénaline, mais il manque ce petit quelque chose qui fait qu’on a envie de le revoir autant de fois que Le jour d'après.

Somme toute, San Andreas est d'une idiotie toute particulière. 

I don’t want to make any claims that San Andreas is a great film. It’s not. But as mindless sensory barrages go, its fakery taps into something real: It shows us just how impotent we all are to control our planet. Unless, of course, you happen to be The Rock.

San Andreas is one of those fundamentally broken movies that makes you wonder how it could go through so many levels of development without someone pointing out the most critical and devastating problem that cripples every aspect of it.

The result is a pretty exemplary popcorn movie.

But, if you don't mind shutting your brain off for 110 minutes, San Andreas is goofy, cheesy fun even if it's not quite as fun as the classic seventies disaster movies its imitating.

While San Andreas won't exactly tip the Richter scale, it will clearly inject some fresh PG-13 action into theaters and could still resonate with crowds gearing up for summer vacation. 

And, oh that script! The work of Carlton Cuse, of Lost fame, who here has totally lost his bearings. After an endless repetition of "OMG" and "Oh, shit!," words seem to have lost all meaning. 

But as thoroughly cheesy and mindless as it is, “San Andreas” certainly isn’t glib about its central calamity, and no one is lining up expecting documentary realism anyway.

Sure, it’s a cheesy, old-school gimmick, but those adjectives can easily be applied, in a mostly positive way, to “San Andreas.”