Sunday, March 15, 2015

Movie: Sharknado 2: The Second One(2014) – My opinion

Oh god they made another one. The production company, The Asylum, is back with the sequel too the terrible Sharknado. I do think there is an audience for these kind of movies but the first Sharknado was truly terrible. For more info on Sharknado please see my opinion on it posted on the 24th of February 2015.

So this is Sharknado 2: The Second One, yes it's actually called that. Just like the first one this is a movie sold only on its name(sold is maybe not the right word since it's a straight too TV movie). The plot is also the same as the first Sharknado movie except this time we are in New York City and by chance our hero and his ex-wife from the first movie is in New York City to promote a book she wrote called «How to Survive a Sharknado and other Unnatural Disasters»(hey, i have that book). You would think that if the weather is getting so bad that there could be tornadoes there would be some kind of early warning system or a weatherman or something to warn people but i guess not. The movie says no to that, no warning. This comes out of nowhere.

Ian Ziering(Beverly Hills 90210) and Tara Reid(American Pie,Van Wilder,Alone in the Dark) return to play their characters from the first movie, Fin and April. Not much have changed, Ian is kinda good and Tara can't act. I still don't understand why Fin wants to be with April so bad. She is so unlikable it's almost ridiculous. There is a lot of cameos in this movie too, a lot. I will probably forget some of them but the ones i saw was Andy Dick(The Andy Dick Show), Billy Ray Cyrus(Hannah Montana, Musician, Father of Miley Cyrus), Wil Wheaton(Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Big Bang Theory), Kelly Osbourne(Austin Powers in Goldmember, Daughter of Ozzy Osbourne), Robert Hays(Airplane), Sandy «Pepa» Denton(From musicgroup Salt-n-Pepa), Kurt Angle(Wrestler known for his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment) and Richard Kind(Spin City, Argo). That's not all though because we got some famous people with bigger roles than cameos. They got Judd Hirsch(Independence Day,Numbers), Vivica A. Fox(Independence Day, Kill Bill vol. 1, Kill Bill vol. 2) and Kari Wuhrer(Tanya in the videogame Red Alert 2). I have no idea why all these people wanted to be in this movie but i guess that if they had asked me i would probably say yes to.

The productionvalue is still the same, bad. The special effects looks like it's been done by a highschooler on his familys computer. It's really bad. The dialog is so badly written it almost hurts. I was almost crying 15 minutes into this movie because of the dialog alone. There are some good ideas for scenes, situations and locations, like things happening down in the subway but it's just too poorly executed. It's also way to predictable which character is doomed from the start. There is also an extreme amount of bad puns. I love puns, puns are great but these are just to bad. But it's not all bad. Fin has a speech that although cheesy is kinda badass. Also when Fin gets a chainsaw everything gets better. The climax of the movie is better than the climax in the first movie. The whole movie overall is better than the first one. The run time is 95 minutes is ok. They are kinda pushing it and i believe that if they make these movies any longer it's going to overstay its welcome. Now we just play the waiting game for Sharknado 3.

TL;DR

Dumb movie with really bad dialog. You really need to like bad movies to watch this. Do not watch it alone, get your friends together and make fun of it. A lot of cameos. Same plot as the first, different location. Very bad effects. Better then the first one and a way better climax then in the first movie.

My question for you:
Do you like these kind of bad movies?
Are you excited for Sharknado 3?


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