"Poseidon would be more fun if we cared about who got killed and who survived, but the writers don't do much for the characters and the fact that they are played by a lackluster cast of mostly second bananas makes things worse"
And another:
"Thanks to its simple construction, Wolfgang PetersenWolfgang Petersen's large-scale liner moves reasonably well, though anyone with the faintest memory of its 1972 predecessor will wonder where most of the plot went, and the dialogue is so stilted it can honestly be said the less the better."