I haven't (and probably won't) see the film, which seems a trite one to have produced in the continuing wake of Katrina. A comedy about a politician with knowledge of an imminent flood, who still can't protect his constituents before the dam breaks and the city is swamped? About how God favors WASP-y types when it comes to salvation? About how you won't escape natural disasters unless you've got a lot of your own capital to make the escape possible? David Plotz is right, the film ignores the spirit of the Biblical flood story. But we don't need to look so far back in history and literature to recall the horrible destruction that comes when a city is swallowed by the sea. What will New Orleans residents and exiles think of the film? Will they feel that the film trivializes their hurricane experience? With Katrina less than two years behind us, it seems almost ethically reproachable to put such a twee comic spin on a disaster that continues to adversely affect thousands of people.