In Roland Emmerich’s newest cataclysmic flick 2012, it seems the director took some tips from Michael Bay and sacrificed plot for loud explosions. Based on the asinine idea the Mayan calendar somehow predicted solar activity, plate tectonic shifts and volcanic eruptions, 2012 shows the world crumbling and disintegrating for no reason.

From pitch to finish, the movie is filled with plot holes bigger than the cracking earth. If the earth’s crust is changing and the magnetic poles have reversed, GPS and compasses wouldn’t work, meaning the crew could not narrowly escape a molten fireball and navigate to China. Perhaps there’s a reason they call these movies “disaster films.” They’re simply tornadoes of stupid.

Still, the most brainless element of 2012 is playing on the fears of a voodoo conspiracy theory. Remember all the people who came out of The Day After Tomorrow thinking an ice age was going to happen the day after tomorrow? Yeah, these same audiences are now worried about a date three years from now, which proves the real apocalypse threatening the world is stupidity, not vague Mayan predictions.