Of all the bad movies in all the world, the SyFy channel has dominated the whole lot of them. They've tossed out one terrible idea after another, all shot with crummy low-quality budgets and horrid acting. They've covered everything from volcanoes, killer storms, the second coming of the ice age, a mega shark fighting a giant octopus, weird cosmic anomalies, giant piranha, and so much more. They even made Titanic II. They've pretty much spat out movies with all the ferocity of a tornado hurling sharks all over the place. On top of that, The Asylum has pretty much built its entire repertoire on equally stupid films, but usually with the approach of being self-parody rather than anything to be taken seriously.
Now, Sharknado storms into the scene with the most ridiculous, most self-consciously stupid premise possible. That's right, this movie ventures into the realms of sheer campy absurdity, as waterspouts swirl around Los Angeles and tosses sharks in all directions! Sharks literally rain from the sky, and they go on to devour, crush, and destroy tons of hapless civilians. The film goes on to deliver loads of blood and action, but with its cheap production value, stupid story, and terrible acting, the film delivers lots of laughs as well.
The story for Sharknado pretty much mirrors the same formulaic disaster-movie fare you may have seen in such cinematic gems as Birdemic. You know, a bunch of characters get together, run for their lives, figure out a way to stop things. Everything that happens in Sharknado, however, pretty much throws all logic out the window. There is absolutely no logical flow of events, no real good reason for why the characters do what they do, and there's certainly zero scientific realism involved. You could watch the whole movie and dig up thousands of things that just don't make sense. Such blatant disregard for logic is part of what makes this film so darn funny. Characters are pretty flat and stupid too.
This film is as cheap as they come. Photography is okay, but the editing is nutty. Acting and writing are quite daft. All the sets, props, costumes, and special effects are immensely cheap; you can tell that these filmmakers just went around LA and glossed over everything with horrid CGI and cheap camera shots. Music okay: the film's score is pretty generic, but the film does use a few decent songs in the beginning.
With Sharknado, the people at SyFy seem to have finally given up on trying to be serious, and just flung this crazy oddity at us so we can laugh at just how stupid, absurd, and cheap the whole thing is. Some viewers might prefer to laugh at truly bad films, which are unintentionally funny; I personally appreciate the lack of pretension in Sharknado, for it knows its place in the world and lives up to its name.
There may truly be no dumber film than this.
It's all about a shark tornado.
Sharknado.
Enough said!
2.5/5 (Entertainment: Good | Story: Quite Poor | Film: Quite Poor)
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