Powerful

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I'll try and keep this short. The acting is really bad and the script is weak. I'm surprised that the celebrities they had playing the lead roles in this film actually agreed to do it; knowing that upon it's release it would be almost certain "career suicide" for them. It's almost like a group of nerdy high school students shot the whole film in a weekend and made the script up as they went a long. Unbelievable story lines, shallow and predictable characters, weak script, cheesy special effects, and the entire film appears to have been shot with a Sony Handicam with a cheap pair of sunglasses placed over the lens to give contrast in light levels. Watching this motion picture was like watching a train wreck. I really feel embarrassed for anyone who had a hand in its creation and distribution. My idea of hell would be the Devil forced us to watch this movie over and over again. I gave it a 1 only because negative numbers aren't possible.

Pros of Category 7: Graphics/Special Effects EXCELLENT Cast: Gina Gershon, Shannen Doherty, Randy Quaid, Robert Wagner, Adam Rodriguez, Swoosie Kurtz, Tom Skerritt Multiple Locations Continuous Action Humor (the flog segment) Involves the Bible (the frog plague) Some Romance NO profanity Cons of Category 7 The church scenes (Swoosie Kurtz) The fly scenes. The reasons that I knocked off points: no earthquakes. The movie is very consistent without any major slow points. Hurricane Gustav inspired me to watch this movie. There was absolutely no gore in this movie. The whole rocket thing was a nice touch. You should give this movie a shot.

First of all --it is a television movie, so you have to give it some credit for all the special effects and story lines. It's nice to see some older TV personalities employed and working.I've seen a lot of comparisons to another movie that evidently Category 7 borrowed some scenes from. Well I didn't see that movie, so I wasn't disappointed by the footage in the slightest.It had a lot of action, drama, and several plot lines going on, which kept my interest. I was on the edge of my seat watching. As for Randy Quaid, it was enjoyable seeing him reprise his similar crazy Independence Role. It was funny the first time, and was definitely the comedy relief needed a second time--for this movie.Most of all, the whole family can watch it, enjoy it, and actually think about the whole synopsis behind it.

This was the perfect DVD to watch on a Friday night after everybody else had gone to bed. Since I watched with headphones I got to really enjoy the sound effects.No, this was not LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. If I'd wanted a serious drama I know just where to find them at the video store.The movie had Brilliant Scientists, Brave Pilots, Adorable Children, Amoral Politicians, Greedy Televangelists, Fearless Hurricane Chasers, Killer Frogs, Evil Kidnappers, and one Senator Who Places the Public Good above Personal Safety. Wow. And the character you'd most like to see fried by lightning in front of a large crowd does get fried by lightning in front of a large crowd.The characters you expect to live do live, the characters you expect to see die do die. And three nasty characters who richly deserve this ignoble fate are last see being sucked through the roof or doorway, their arms and legs waving wildly.Paris is destroyed (heck, we're had at France anyway). Mount Rushmore is doomed. Not only is the Statue of Liberty destroyed: it's destroyed twice. At the beginning of the New York sequence we see news footage of tsunami waves smashing Lady Liberty, then just before the end of the New York scenes it's destroyed again and this time part of the statue flies inland and narrowly misses two characters. Oddly enough, the 'science' in this science-fiction scenario seems plausible to this old cowboy. Rising heat from cars and the generating of electricity in cities (or, I guess, reflected off the roofs of mobile homes or sands of the Egyptian desert) add extra power to these super storms. The idea that cutting the electric power to Washington D.C. can completely stop a storm in its tracks seems odd, but this isn't real life.This is a world where two sympathetic characters can see a full size mobile home lifted off the ground and fly toward the air toward them and survive because they're standing behind a light pole. You don't have to read that sentence again. It's just what it says. And a pilot flies from San Antonio to Washington D.C. in what I figure to be about twenty minutes.Remember the old Flash Gordon serials. Flash and Dale would be trapped in the pathway of a lava flow and then To Be Continued would flash on the screen. The next week would start with the narrative "After escaping from the lava flow, Flash and Dale continued their pursuit of Ming the Merciless," and the story would go on.Power poles completely deflect the impact of full size mobile homes. People walk, run, drive cars and hold conversations in a 200 mile per hour wind. This only proves my theory that movies are way better than real life.The special effects are pretty decent. This wasn't one of those $200 million projects. No shot is held long enough for us to see the seams in the special effects. The scene in Paris is especially well done, concentrating most of the action around the brilliant colors of a carnival at night. The flooding of New York is surprisingly convincing. There's one scene of a reporter standing in front of a destroyed building that doesn't look all that great- just shows you that holding a shot for too long lets people see too much.In the early part of the 20th century a lovely lady named Sally Rand was a sensation dancing nude carrying huge fans. She'd move them so quickly that nobody ever saw more than decency would allow. Her motto was The Hand Is Quicker than the Eye. That's what editing is about in modestly budgeted sci-fi movies.And there are three bonuses here.First, and most important, it's good to see key roles played by older actors. Randy Quaid is well into his fifties, and Tom Skerrit and Robert Wagner are both in their seventies (although I think that Wagner has had lots of work done- Lord knows what he looks like at seven in the morning).Second, the story deals with some nice themes about the relationships between adult children and their parents.Best of all, the central character is the gorgeous and brilliant Director of FEMA, played by by Gina Gershon who survived playing the evil Crystal in SHOWGIRLS so nothing can daunt her. The idea of a smart person heading up FEMA is more science fiction than any other story element at play here.The movie lost two points because it's about an hour too long. The footage with the kidnapped children being chased after escaping their kidnappers runs way too long, as does a scene with a homicidal follower of the evangelists.Good popcorn movie. I can't wait for the sequel to come out on DVD>