Review of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) by Andrew C — 04 Dec 2009
Eighty five minutes of staggering technical and artistic incompetence on every level, this is as much fun as I've had with a film in ages. Ed Wood would be proud...
The acting is appalling; some people are playing for laughs, but some daft buggers play it straight. Debbie Gibson doesn't really play it at all, as she's had her emotions removed somehow. Lorenzo Lamas, I am sure, is a wholly CGI creation designed to make cavemen look more stupid.
The script isn't. It just doesn't fulfil any of the obligations a script is expected to. The dialogue is cliched, racist, risible and frequently hilarious. The science is entirely made up, as if by children. Even Akiva Goldsman would be embarrassed.
The effects (I omit the word 'special' for obvious reasons) are lamentable - the same unconvincing shots of the shark and the octopus are used over and over (and over and over) again. If there were a drinking game based on it, people would die.
You couldn't deliberately make a film this bad. It's not possible. This is catastrophic ineptitude on a scale nobody bothered to gauge until now.
I thought it was brilliant.
This review of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) was written by Andrew C on 04 Dec 2009.
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