TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

rdambroso OK..picture yourself with a battleship sized Hoover vacuum cleaner and you suck up all of the B and C actors on the planet into one cheesy movie. That would have to be SUPERVOLCANO. Perhaps if you were a vulcanologist, you would look past the horrible script and acting, and find the theoretical possibility of the event somewhat compelling, and be able to sit through it entranced with the science of it. For the rest of the human race, I can only say that it was laughably inept. I could almost see the director holding up queue cards behind the camera saying.."OK..BACK TO THE POUTY LOOK". I wont even attempt to give spoilers. There really is nothing to spoil. It's sort of Twister meets Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. SO, unless you are really fascinated with the prospect of Yosemite blowing up a wreaking havoc on the good old US of A, I'd give it a pass.

Theo Robertson This was hyped up with a massive amount of trailers and one of the things I dislike about a lot of programmes these days is the hype they receive . I also noticed it was one of those very multinational productions like THE GRID so I was expecting a very mid Atlantic flavour full of bed hopping , mawkishness , action scenes , really poor dialogue and of course a happy ending but what I got was something unexpected The first episode is a bizarre mix involving soap opera , disaster movie build up and an episode of the BBC science show HORIZON . The characters are introduced and some of them are interviewed for camera . Instantly I thought this was a mistake since the interviews are conducted in the past even ie if they are interviewed then we know they'll be seeing the final credits and won't die . However when the supervolcano erupts setting off a chain reaction of other volcanic eruptions it becomes clear that the interviewees are out of the line of fire and the ones in danger haven't been interviewed hence they might die . So much for my conclusion that we'll be having an optimistic ending . What does become clear is that the human race may suffer the fate of the dinosaurs ! SUPERVOLCANO is gripping , informative and downbeat . It's maybe not as shocking as the BBC docudrama THREADS but in its own way it's just as effective . It's not flawless , for example the special effects look a little too like CGI in some scenes and there's bits that just don't ring true like people in Britain stocking up on food and water in the face of a coming disaster , sorry but we don't do that in this country - We just sit back in an apathetic manner in front the television with a cup of tea in our hands . Brits give fatalism a bad name . If I have one serious problem then it's the fact the narrative is too short . We find out that the ash in the atmosphere has blocked out much of the suns light meaning we have a " Nuclear winter " effect whereby even at the height of Summer the Earth's temperature will cool leading to all sorts of geographical disasters like famine in the third world where millions will die but this is only referred to in passing while another effect - The collapse of the American economy and all that entails - is not mentioned at all . But despite the flaws this is a pretty good speculative drama simply because iit's all too credible

JRmf Didn't expect too much from this docudrama but was very impressed by the science as well as being entertained by it as thriller/sci-fi.These days when people doubt that the Holocaust ever happened, or think that it is technically easy to destroy a clutch of incoming MIRVd ICBMs, such might discern little difference between SuperVolcano and The Day After Tomorrow (which bear some obvious similarities), but I found SV vastly more credible in concept than Day After.There IS a vast lava chamber under Yellowstone Park (as well as a dozen others in other parts of the world) which DOES have the potential to erupt in a continent and world devastating way, as a SuperVolcano. It has erupted at least twice in the past, roughly every 600,000 years and is statistically due for another eruption "about now". Of course with a timescale uncertainty of some ± 100,000 years, one is rightly skeptical about it blowing next week, but SV dealt with even this aspect of the event in a convincing way. The inevitable doubts - "it couldn't possibly..." - ultimately had to give way to what Nature was actually doing. At that point, denying what was happening amounted simply to a cover-up and cost many lives.I liked the frequent cutaways to scientists' giving informed opinions/facts about the event. The other big uncertainty in the event, as to how devastating it will be, is the nature of the lava in the chamber. Is it sufficiently fluid to be "eruptible"? At present we simply do not know. Perhaps in a few hundred years (assuming the planet is still habitable and that anything at all matters), technology will have advanced to the point where all these questions can be answered, the eruption's timing and impact can be accurately predicted and appropriate measures taken to minimise destruction, or maybe even to stop it from happening at all.10/10

enisor Not bad at all for a made-for-television disaster movie. Great not so famous cast with excellent acting. This movie depicts the events of an eruption of a supervolcano beneath Yellowstone Park. For those who don't know the difference between a volcano and a supervolcano - and missed the movie: A supervolcano is basically a huge hole in the ground, 30 to 50 miles wide, with a huge lava chamber under pressure, many many times larger than a typical volcano. No one alive has ever witnessed a supervolcanic eruption. The last one was TOBA in Sumatra about 80,000 years ago, which almost wiped out humans. A supervolcanic eruption would do to the planet what an asteroid would do if it were to strike earth. There's even some who believe all the earthquake activity in the Sumatra area may be the supervolcano there yawning and getting ready to wake up. Hmmm, a sequel movie? This was a great flick, fun to watch. Well made with special effects you might not expect in a TV movie. Way to go Discovery Channel!