The risible special effects and the clumsy acting recall not Roger Corman productions but the ineptitude of Ed Wood, though the result is far less endearing.
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08/11/09
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:2
Rotten:16
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: With shoddy FX, acting and directing. This isn't so bad it’s good. It's just so bad it‘s terrible.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Teeth and tentacles fly in this epic creature-feature, the story of a showdown between two massive prehistoric beasts. One has jaws that could tear down the Golden Gate, the other has suckers that... [More]
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Reviews for Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
1 - 18 (sorted by date)
How this ever got released is a mystery. Unwatchable, almost unreviewable, this stupid monster movie makes the Bela Lugosi swan song Plan 9 from Outer Space look like a masterpiece.
08/11/09
Like a feud between Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole, you don't care who wins, but it's fun to watch. Alas, the preceding 80 minutes aren't. Great title, lousy film.
08/11/09
Daft, plain daft. With a few daft but spectacular stunts.
08/07/09
How could one hate a film where a giant shark jumps out of the sea and brings down a plane?
08/07/09
Perez's film ought to be an hour-and-a-half of beery, dumb-ass fun. Instead it has the weary air of a genuinely disastrous disaster movie. Size, it seems, matters after all.
08/07/09
This film is bad on every level. In fact, it’s bad on levels hitherto unexplored by mainstream cinema.
08/07/09
What a drag. This grabby-titled disaster flick - splashing across the pond on a tidal wave of chuckly publicity - is a damp squib.
08/07/09
They fight, and look rubbish, and one eats an aircraft. Is bad the new good? I wish. Sometimes bad is just tacky.
08/07/09
For those of you familiar with the trailer, you may as well stop here because you’ve already seen the best bits, pretty much in their entirety.
08/07/09
Shonky script, shonky FX, shonky acting, and less money than Michael Bay gets out of bed for make this a disappointment after the chuckles generated from that hilarious promo on YouTube.
08/07/09
The acting is terrible (and not in a good way), the script is boring and if you've seen the trailer you've already seen all the effects shots.
08/07/09
So simplistically done that it makes you feel like you could make a better movie than this on your home computer
08/07/09
So bad, it's gone past good, hung a left at awful, went screaming down hackwork highway for 50 miles and ended up somewhere in the vicinity of terrible- but-actually-quite-good-fun.
08/07/09
With a title like Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, you probably don't expect a classic film-which is a good thing, because The Asylum's latest release is a terrible movie.
08/02/09
Better than Transformers 2!
07/13/09
With a bigger special effects budget Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus would be a guaranteed cult classic in the making.
06/25/09
Schlock may be an acquired taste, like caviar, foie gras, and Arby's, but it's hard to see how anyone wouldn't enjoy this extremely tacky dish.
05/18/09
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