I'm not sure if I can *spoil* anyone's enjoyment by telling you what is not in 'Supervolcano'.
No annoying child who refuses to obey his/her parents in a moment of dire emergency.
No cute dog to be dragged from the jaws of death.
No lean-jawed hero type performing super-human feats amid searing lava/magma/steam/boiling water.
No sweet young woman to grow progressively grubbier as she escapes impending disaster.
No tedious romance between the previous two characters.
No scenes of self-sacrifice as someone gets squashed under fallen debris - the squashed person gets out, and he lives!
No long winded,slow motion, pyrotechnic extravaganzas of major cities being blown up,crushed, swamped, engulfed, set on fire or otherwise obliterated.
We don't even have our main character trapped somewhere and digging himself out with a teaspoon - he waits in a bunker and walks out when things get better.
Maybe I'm labouring the point, but I did enjoy what is admittedly a fictional account of a possible future event because it demonstrated what could happen and the result. One gripe - the tsunami effect was pretty dire - looked like it had been done with a box of crayons.
So despite the lack of the 'usual suspects' in terms of plot, effects and stereotypes - it was nice to see a bunch of actors I'd never seen before - the effects overall were very good.
I enjoyed it very much, well done!
No annoying child who refuses to obey his/her parents in a moment of dire emergency.
No cute dog to be dragged from the jaws of death.
No lean-jawed hero type performing super-human feats amid searing lava/magma/steam/boiling water.
No sweet young woman to grow progressively grubbier as she escapes impending disaster.
No tedious romance between the previous two characters.
No scenes of self-sacrifice as someone gets squashed under fallen debris - the squashed person gets out, and he lives!
No long winded,slow motion, pyrotechnic extravaganzas of major cities being blown up,crushed, swamped, engulfed, set on fire or otherwise obliterated.
We don't even have our main character trapped somewhere and digging himself out with a teaspoon - he waits in a bunker and walks out when things get better.
Maybe I'm labouring the point, but I did enjoy what is admittedly a fictional account of a possible future event because it demonstrated what could happen and the result. One gripe - the tsunami effect was pretty dire - looked like it had been done with a box of crayons.
So despite the lack of the 'usual suspects' in terms of plot, effects and stereotypes - it was nice to see a bunch of actors I'd never seen before - the effects overall were very good.
I enjoyed it very much, well done!