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.
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... 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 can sink a submarine; when they go head to head in the San Francisco Bay, no one--not even the folks on land--will be safe from the carnage. [More]
Starring: Lorenzo Lamas, Deborah Gibson
Starring: Lorenzo Lamas, Deborah Gibson
Director: Ace Hannah
Director: Ace Hannah
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Reviews for Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
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.
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.
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.
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.
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May 13, 2009:
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What do you get when you put Lorenzo Lamas and Debbie Gibson together with a mega shark and a giant octopus? Duh, that's easy: the trailer for "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus." More...
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