Review of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) by Brian M — 10 Oct 2013

I expected that with Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus everything would be crap and boring but I hoped that the humourous small elements would be somewhat entertaining.

I appreciate the premise in Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, because the idea of the intentionally cheap visual effects and plot of a fight between a Mega Shark and a Giant Octopus is an original idea which is tongue-in-cheek hilarious for The Asylum to tackle.

The problem is that for a film titled Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, the titular two characters make very little appearance in lieu of comedically unconvincing terrible atmosphere which attempts to convince us that serious scientific study is going on which really its just a bunch of poorly unconvincing dialogue and shoddy acting which is fairly laughable. But it does make the film easy to watch, although its only really worth half watching so that you can do something else to keep yourself entertained while this boring and hilariously poorly scripted comedy-disaster film.

And when it comes to the visual effects, well, if you look really closely you can see that the Mega Shark and Giant Octopus are fake, as well as other things.

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus could have been a lot better if the titular two characters had more than 60 seconds of screentime within the first hour and if the fight wasn't the same footage again and again from alternate angles, because really nobodies gonna wanna see Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus for its actors instead of the actual f*cking Mega Shark and Giant Octopus destroying stuff and fighting. That's the ultimate downfall of this film and its ridiculous.

So frankly I could have lived through the poor acting, script and atmosphere because its rather humourous, but I cannot survive about 3 minutes of footage of the titular Mega Shark and Giant Octopus stretched over 89 minutes.