So when there was the hubbub about the movie SHARKNADO I
didn't jump on the bandwagon knowing up front that the movie was probably as
bad as it sounded. I mean most of the made for TV movies that I'd seen on SyFy
were so bad that I wouldn't want to waste my time with them. So when I heard
that a sequel was in the works I felt the same way. Then it arrived on my
doorstep and I thought maybe I should watch just to warn people. Instead I
found myself laughing out loud a number of times, more than some of the recent
comedies I'd watched.
This is not to say that SHARKNADO 2: THE SECOND ONE
is a great movie. Rather it falls into that category of films known as "so
bad they're good". This designation is saved for movies that are either so
terribly made (unintentionally so) that you can't help but laugh at them or
movies that are the opposite, made this way so you can snicker at them and
laugh knowing up front that they were intended to be bad from the start. This
film falls into that second category.
Having not seen the first one, something I need to rectify
soon, it took me a moment or two to figure out that this film took place some
time after the first one ended. Fin (Ian Ziering) and his ex-wife April (Tara
Reid) are heading to New York to promote the book she wrote about surviving the
first sharknado. If you don't know what it is it's a tornado that pulls up tons
of sharks into it and then hurls them around and lets them lose at various
individuals causing much CGI spilled blood in
the process. The pair finds themselves flying in the midst of a freak storm and
Fin begins to see sharks flying beside the plane. He's told to settle down but
soon everything changes as one shark slams into an engine blowing it apart
while others begin to find their way into the plane. When the pilots are
eaten/knocked out of the plane, Fin comes to the rescue and lands it.
With all that's gone on by now you would think people would
begin to prepare right? Nope. Instead they go about their business including
Fin's sister and her family. The guys head to the ballpark and his sister takes
her daughter to see the Statue of Liberty. You guessed it, both are hit by the
shark filled tornados that fling more sharks at people and tear apart the city,
including Miss Liberty. When this starts happening the family decides it's time
to head back to their hotel to be with one another.
Amazingly (yeah right) Fin and his brother in law and nephew
meet up in this huge city and make their way to the hotel. Along the way they're
helped by Fin's old girlfriend and a cranky NY taxi cab driver. Fin suggests a
plan of attack on the sharknados. That's right; there are two of them heading
for one another which would turn them both into one huge sharknado spelling
disaster for everyone.
If you've gotten this far you have to be wondering if I'm
serious or making this up. I'm not. This is indeed the movie being seen. And
it's SO over the top that it becomes hilarious. Home made bombs put together
using small propane tanks, chainsaws used to slice up sharks and sharks
actually leaping from the water filled streets of Manhattan are all found in
this movie. And because it's so blatantly bad it becomes even more hilarious.
These were the sort of movies we were cheering years ago when we went to
midnight movies!
To cap things off there are tons of cameos in the film. I
won't spoil the actor playing the plane's pilot (it's that good of a joke) but
you'll find more than him here. Included in the film are Wil Wheaton, Judd
Hirsch, Downtown Julie Brown, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kurt Angle, Robert Klein, Mark
McGrath, Kari Wuhrer, Vivica A. Fox, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, Judah
Friedlander, Perez Hilton, Richard Kind, Biz Markie, Matt Lauer, Al Roker,
Kelly Osborne, Kelly Rippa, Michael Strahan and more all avoiding the flying
sharks (in some cases trying to and failing).
No this is not a movie that is
destined for the Oscars. But it will be one that you can laugh at and is well
worth the rental fee. It might even be worth adding to your shelf for one of those
nights when you want to pop some popcorn, sit down and make comments ala
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 2000. There will be plenty to laugh at and comment on.
Don't take it seriously but rather sit back and have some fun. This movie
offers that with a little bite to boot.
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