while the new film doesn't quite reach the level of the 1970s Irwin Allen disasters to which it aspires, it does give you an idea of what Allen might have wrought if he'd had a 21st century CGI paintbox at his disposal
the briskly paced "San Andreas" works as a sort of guilty pleasure - but you may feel more guilt than you bargained for from a film where the Golden Gate Bridge is demolished primarily
an earthquake wipes out a fat chunk of California in San Andreas, but that's nothing compared to the destruction rained down on your brain cells by this movie's idiotically hilarious dialogue