Next up is Sharknado! My boyfriend honestly thought it was a joke when I told him that I’m going to watch this because he hadn’t heard about it before. Unlike him, I’d had multiple recommendations to see this and I’ve read a fair amount of reviews from all of you lovely bloggers. Suffice to say, this was tied with the highest amount of votes (separate categories of course) but it was the highest votes I had. I’m pretty sure at least a few of you will be happy to know that it got included 🙂
I’m actually pretty excited to get out of the slashers and thrillers and head into something completely requiring zero brain power! Lets check this out! 🙂
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante
Cast: Tara Reid, Ian Ziering, John Heard, Cassandra Scerbo, Jaason Simmons, Alex Arleo, Neil H. Berkow
A massive hurricane is about to hit Los Angeles. Champion ex-surfer and beachside bar owner Fin (Ian Ziering), along with his friend Baz (Jaason Simmons) and employee Nova (Cassandra Screbo) heads out to rescue his family: wife April (Tara Reid) and his daughter and son, despite the flooding that has brought sharks to invade land, sea and sky also.
I repeatedly use The Asylum productions for the famous Shitfest hosted at The IPC. One of the most memorably bad one was 2 Headed Shark Attack. Seeing as I saw that along with the even more destructively boring 100 Degrees Below Zero was not even close to anything along enjoyable, I had my doubts about Sharknado. I mean, what could I expect? Although, I always wonder if it could get worse (which I’m sure the answer is that it could).
Sharknado is the exception to these direct to video Asylum productions. Maybe it was because I had no expectations from it or just that I’d expected to be horrible and plus, I already knew what to expect: bad CGI, exaggerated acting, ridiculous dialogue and illogical storyline. Still, I’m here to tell you that Sharknado is an absolutely fun treat. Yes, it has all of those things and it does it in the most shameless way but who doesn’t like to see sharks everywhere plus, characters that make some pretty crazy decisions.
I seriously have no idea how to talk about a B-horror when its a treat. So here’s just a few pictures to show you a bit about Sharknado (and maybe a few of my personal comments) 😉
I think its the first Tara Reid movie that I’ve enjoyed so thats a plus. And as stupid as some of the dialogue was and the cast wasn’t anything special, I really liked the main dude Fin played by Ian Ziering. Plus, the girl who plays Nova isn’t bad either. No one was really annoying so thats another plus. The daughter still has issues she likes to talk about while trying to survive this craziness but hey, when’s a better time than possibly dying any moment than to talk about how important you are to your dad, right? 😉 Not a complaint, just an observation..haha!
What makes it great is the crazy action-ish scenes like this 😉 This is just the beginning of everything and it gets way out there. Thinking of those scenes actually makes me kind of happy. Ultimate guilty pleasure anyone? Yeah, this is definitely one of mine!
I could use so many more awesome gifs but then I’d be spoiling all the fun and we can’t have that. Whats showing Sharknado without some airborne sharks? I totally recommend Sharknado because its just awesome brainless fun. I finally found a movie I like from Asylum! Woohoo! 😉 Shut off your brain and enjoy this one! Its really everything you expected but completely not at the same time. Maybe that doesn’t make sense to you but it does to me 😉
Any thoughts on Sharknado? Did you find it entertaining? Are there any other Asylum movies you would recommend?
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