Does the Gore Curse extend to the movies?

Al Gore wants everybody to see the upcoming disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow. Even he admits the movie is implausable, but he and his friends at MoveOn see global warming as an issue they can use to land a few blows on Bush -- so who cares about realism?

Gore has been the touch of death for Howard Dean and the left-wing radio network Air America. Can he turn $125 million of 20th Century Fox's money into dust too? Somehow I think a leaflet campaign by MoveOn isn't going to encourage the typical popcorn crowd. Summer movies are usually well-advised not to be preachy, and by tying the movie to an anti-Bush fringe movement they'll be alienating half their potential audience. It should be interesting to see what happens; it opens May 28.

I know I won't be there. I'd rather go see Soul Plane that weekend.