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.
Release Date: May 26, 2009 Wide
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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 Wide
May 26, 2009
The Asylum
All Critics (20) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (17) | DVD (1)
Mega Swindle vs Giant Rip-Off
If ever there was a film that seemed designed with Mystery Science Theater 3000 in mind, this is it.
a goofy if not entertaining piece of filmmaking
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.
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.
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.
Daft, plain daft. With a few daft but spectacular stunts.
How could one hate a film where a giant shark jumps out of the sea and brings down a plane?
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.
This film is bad on every level. In fact, it's bad on levels hitherto unexplored by mainstream cinema.
What a drag. This grabby-titled disaster flick - splashing across the pond on a tidal wave of chuckly publicity - is a damp squib.
They fight, and look rubbish, and one eats an aircraft. Is bad the new good? I wish. Sometimes bad is just tacky.
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.
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.
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.
So simplistically done that it makes you feel like you could make a better movie than this on your home computer
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.
Better than Transformers 2!
With a bigger special effects budget Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus would be a guaranteed cult classic in the making.
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.
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, 2009Super Reviewer
They say this is the best asylum movie. I ask how?
February 5, 2012
Super Reviewer
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