Leave your thinking-cap off. Whoever wrote the screenplay didn't have much of a clue about cold weather. As a Canadian, I doubt that these characters would be so immune to the cold on the Greenland Ice Cap and in "minus 40" (Celsius) weather, when London gets frozen over with ice.
A family struggles to get together, (by sheer coincidences, in most cases), with a crisis every ten to fifteen minutes, (for TV commercial breaks), and mindlessly finds a way to escape every peril, (whether an airplane crashes or a building collapses). It's "The Day After" and "Earthquake" and every other disaster movie, with every trope played out by a half dozen characters, again and again.
It's "green" propaganda at its worst. An oil company drilling rig searching for oil in Greenland knocks the Ice Cap into the ocean, stops the Gulf Stream Current, and begins a rise in the ocean level. Millions will perish, (as environmental disasters already have wiped out a few countries, by 2020); but, the important thing is this "family" being reunited. Oh, yes, and the polar bear researchers; let's not forget about them, (as, by coincidence, they come to the rescue, and provide an airplane, to keep this roller-coaster going), 'cause polar bears are an important part of the environmental propaganda.
SPOILER WARNING.
After two episodes, or one very long watch, one understands why roller-coaster rides only last a few minutes; it's not the need for toilet breaks, but the tedium that sets in after rounding the same track,again and again and again. Mercifully, (spoiler), there wasn't a family pet that needed to be rescued, (again and again); so I'll give this frozen turkey one star.
A family struggles to get together, (by sheer coincidences, in most cases), with a crisis every ten to fifteen minutes, (for TV commercial breaks), and mindlessly finds a way to escape every peril, (whether an airplane crashes or a building collapses). It's "The Day After" and "Earthquake" and every other disaster movie, with every trope played out by a half dozen characters, again and again.
It's "green" propaganda at its worst. An oil company drilling rig searching for oil in Greenland knocks the Ice Cap into the ocean, stops the Gulf Stream Current, and begins a rise in the ocean level. Millions will perish, (as environmental disasters already have wiped out a few countries, by 2020); but, the important thing is this "family" being reunited. Oh, yes, and the polar bear researchers; let's not forget about them, (as, by coincidence, they come to the rescue, and provide an airplane, to keep this roller-coaster going), 'cause polar bears are an important part of the environmental propaganda.
SPOILER WARNING.
After two episodes, or one very long watch, one understands why roller-coaster rides only last a few minutes; it's not the need for toilet breaks, but the tedium that sets in after rounding the same track,again and again and again. Mercifully, (spoiler), there wasn't a family pet that needed to be rescued, (again and again); so I'll give this frozen turkey one star.