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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)

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Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 17

With shoddy FX, acting and directing. This isn't so bad it's good. It's just so bad it's terrible.

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Critic Reviews: 1
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With shoddy FX, acting and directing. This isn't so bad it's good. It's just so bad it's terrible.

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When two enormous prehistoric creatures contend for supremacy of the sea, the California coast becomes the setting for a showdown that's been centuries in the making. Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah Gibson star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

May 26, 2009

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All Critics (20) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (17) | DVD (1)

How could one hate a film where a giant shark jumps out of the sea and brings down a plane?

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Mega Swindle vs Giant Rip-Off

March 1, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture | Comment (1)
What Culture

If ever there was a film that seemed designed with Mystery Science Theater 3000 in mind, this is it.

April 14, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | Comment (1)
Cinefantastique

a goofy if not entertaining piece of filmmaking

January 9, 2010 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures
7M Pictures

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.

August 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Observer [UK]

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.

August 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK)
Sunday Times (UK)

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.

August 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK]
Daily Mirror [UK]

Daft, plain daft. With a few daft but spectacular stunts.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

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.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

This film is bad on every level. In fact, it's bad on levels hitherto unexplored by mainstream cinema.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK]
Times [UK]

What a drag. This grabby-titled disaster flick - splashing across the pond on a tidal wave of chuckly publicity - is a damp squib.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

They fight, and look rubbish, and one eats an aircraft. Is bad the new good? I wish. Sometimes bad is just tacky.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph

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.

August 7, 2009
Little White Lies

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.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Sky Movies | Comment (1)
Sky Movies

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.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: ViewLondon
ViewLondon

So simplistically done that it makes you feel like you could make a better movie than this on your home computer

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall
Shadows on the Wall

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.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: News of the World
News of the World

Better than Transformers 2!

July 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page
Sci-Fi Movie Page

With a bigger special effects budget Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus would be a guaranteed cult classic in the making.

June 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Dread Central

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.

May 18, 2009 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment (1)
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Audience Reviews for Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

This was one of the funniest movies ive seen in a long time. Wonderful for its hilarity . . what its not suppose to be funny?I guess 3 1/2 might be too much . .
May 28, 2009
jmanard52

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It's hard to believe that a movie with a concept this good, could fail to be entertaining on every conceivable level, but somehow this does.
July 22, 2012
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