You know you’re in deep doodoo when that
planet-destroying comet on a collision course
with Earth isn’t your biggest problem.
Your biggest problem: You’re the scientist who
discovered the darned thing but nobody has the
patience or the bandwidth or the political will to
believe it. And it’s coming. In six months. That’s
a fact.
That the comet is a stand-in for climate change
is hardly a secret going into “Don’t Look Up,”
Adam McKay’s exceedingly watchable, funny
and star-studded yet somewhat chaotic satire.
For one thing, its star is Leonardo DiCaprio, for
whom climate change awareness is a passion.
What becomes clear soon enough is that the
film is also about the pandemic, and vaccine
resistance, and the tendency in American
society for issues that have nothing to do with
politics to become hopelessly political.