Review of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) by Alexander Z — 24 Apr 2011

Of course, I saw the Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus movie. If you didn't see it, well, you didn't miss much. The entire movie was either CGI, a set, at a beach, or a zoomed in video of a guy with a gun in front of a building where the next scene takes place.

Half of the videos are repeated. There's one clip where the shark swims from center to the right that is repeated about ten times in the film. Some of which are just the video mirrored so the shark swims to the left.

The movie's favorite effect is the camera flash in between scenes or clips. The acting was pretty sad. Any action scene in the trailer was not followed by anything else in the movie; the shark attacking the plane was the same in the movie as it was in the trailer.

Half of the time I had no idea what anyone was doing, or why some scenes had anything to do with the movie. Nobody had a good plan in the movie, and people just were doing stupid things. At one point in the movie they thought about just nuking both of them.

Overall, the movie could have been condensed into a half an hour. Every action scene was followed by nothing. They didn't say anything of what happened to the plane, the Golden Gate Bridge, the numerous boats and subs, or anything else.

Nothing in this movie was thought out. Why were the pheromones actually green glow sticks poured into a container? Why was the picture of Megalodon the same one that I have seen before on the internet? How did the two come back to life after being frozen? Why did the scene where the two broke out of the ice look like the scene in Jaws III where Jaws broke into the control room? The answer is it was a very cheap movie with cheesy CGI by Little Juggernaut, and it deserves one star out of five.

It was as stupid as I thought it would be.