Sharknado - 1 star out of 10

Sharknado - 1 star out of 10

"Sharknado" is a film of "Birdemic" proportions!!!!!!  I was actually worried for the first couple of scenes that this could actually be good, but the film was thrown into a tailspin the minute that they blatantly revealed the cause of the Sharknado: Global Warming.  I hesitate to even say this, but the plot was not only pretty believable at first, but incredibly interesting.  I don't think that any film has ever had sharks swimming through the streets due to a flood but it actually worked!  I really hesitate to say this as well, but the acting actually wasn't too bad at first, either!  The film really got to a "Birdemic" level once Tara Reid came into the film.  She's the most famous actor in this film, but she was the worst one of them all!  You could tell that she had no desire to do this film and just needed a paycheck.  I blame the whole thing on her.  Including the terrible CGI.  Once things got bad, the intentional campiness really started to come out.  "I just rescued a bus full of kids.  High fives all around!"  And I like the kid whose arm is bitten off by a shark and he dies as the shark chews on his leg.  And then they drop another shark on top of him for good measure.  And was it really necessary to blow up that entire swimming pool just to kill one shark... particularly when they show an underwater shot of the shark that was obviously filmed in the middle of the ocean?  I'm pretty sure that this is the only movie in history where a shark can attack a helicopter in mid-flight.  As the story crumbles apart, so does the acting.  The acting gets worse as the movie progresses, as if the actors slowly gave up.  With the exception of Tara Reid's two children, who someone obviously plugged in there as a favor - they were awful from start to finish.  Amidst the terrible CGI effects and dialogue that is intended to be bad, this atrocity still managed to be better than "Shark Night 3-D."  And "Shark Night" was a serious film!  I would say that you need to savor the experience because a film like "Sharknado" doesn't come around often, but the previews for the Sci-Fi Channel movie that followed this one, "Blast Vegas" starring Frankie Munez, made me realize that as long as there is a demand for it, we can count on produces to give the people the terrible films that they want.  And I can't wait to see what they have in store for the sequel to "Sharknado."