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A big storm, and I mean a really big one, is hitting LA, a storm that's
flooding the streets ... with not just water but also sharks - even the
streets of higher grounds like Beverly Hills. Of course, of all
Californians, only master surfer and bar owner Fin (Ian Ziering) has the
sense to ... well, always do the right thing and save people left and
right while never losing his goals out of sight, which are to fetch his
own family and to fight the storm mano-a-mano. In tow he has an old drunk
(John Heard) who's a regular in his bar (but who's soon to become
shark-food), handy-with-a-gun, shark-hating barmaid April (Cassie Scerbo)
- who's of course in love with him -, and an Australian (Jaason Simmons). After
a hair-raising trip to shark-infested Beverly Hills to save Fin's wife
(Tara Reid) and daughter (Aubrey Peeples), the rag-tag team travels on to
Fin's son's (Chuck Hittinger) hangar, while several cyclones filled with
sharks have already formed over the city. Fortunately, sonnyboy has
figured out a method to bomb the cyclones out of commission, and so he and
April jump into the next chopper to blast the cyclones away - but while
doing so, April gets swallowed by a flying shark. So Fin jumps into his
jeep to drive a busload (jeepload) into the mother of all cyclones, to
blow that one up - successfully, too, but he also gets swallowed by a
shark. As fate has it though, it's the same shark who also swallowed
April, and this shark, once the cyclone has been blown away, lands right
in front of sonnyboy's hangar, and as fate furthre has it, Fin had been
carrying a chainsaw when swallowed, and now he chainsaws his way out of
the shark, dragging April with him of course, and of course she's still
alive. Weirdly though (but totally in line with conservative US-values) it
seems that the son gets April in the end, while Fin reconciles with his
wife and daughter. If the laws of nature were policed in the
movie world, this film would probably get two life-sentences, and it's not
made any better that most special effects don't totally stand up to the
requirements of the outrageousness of some of the on-screen events ... but
that doesn't really matter with this movie, if a film's called Sharknado,
you don't expect a serious documentary about the behaviour of sharks
during tornadoes, do you? And in fact, it's the outrageous ideas that are
the charm of this movie, not only flying sharks, but also a ferry wheel
rolling through the streets smashing people or the letters of the
Hollywood sign flying about and cutting people apart. However, that's
not to say Sharknado's a good film, because frankly it isn't -
porblem is, the film actually takes itself seriuosly, despite the highly
comical premise and the enjoyably moronic title. But instead of
highlighting the irony of its story, Sharknado tells the
clichee-riddled tale of a flawless hero who manages not only to fight a
shark-infested tornado pretty much single-handedly, no, he in the course
of events also manages to get back together with his wife, find a girl for
his son, and reconcile with his daughter - and that's a pretty boring
story if you have sharks whirling through the air in the background. And
it isn't helped by lame dialogue, cut-out characters and a mediocre cast
(only Cassie Scerbo manages to shine occasionally). Of course, if you're
like me, you won't be deterred from watching the film by criticism just
like this, you'll just want to see sharks whirling around through the air
at whatever cost - just don't expect anything good beyond that from this
movie.
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