I have been on a bad movie kick. Some highlights include Mansquito, Plan 9 from Outer Space and Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus. None of them have been able to reach the bar that Sharknado has set for me. I watch these movies with the hope that they actually might be decent and I use the term ‘decent’ loosely. All I am really looking for is a movie that is laughably bad. Seeing as how I had already watched one Mega Shark movie, I decided to give the first one a watch, Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. Unsurprisingly, it was bad. Really bad. It dethroned Sharktopus as the worst SyFy Channel movie I have watched.
I cannot understand how Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus received a sequel. With a name like this, I expected to watch two creatures fight to the death throughout the entire movie. There are very few scenes that have footage of the shark and even less scenes that show the octopus. The movie focuses on bland scientists that interact with the US army to stop the creatures. The acting is dreadful and just left me wondering when the amazing action would happen. It never really did. There is a final battle between the shark and octopus at the end of the film but it is so lackluster. It is hard to make out what is happening and it looks like the same animations are being repeated. It is anticlimactic. Somehow the shark and octopus end up killing each other and they float to the bottom of the ocean. There was no payoff for sitting through all of the terrible acting.
I understand that these movies do not have the biggest budgets, but it feels like a lot of money was wasted in trying to create a compelling story. The movie is constantly changing locations and each location brings a new set of actors. Maybe if the movie took place in one central location, there would have been more money for special effects and deliver on the premise of a shark fighting an octopus.
The sequel, Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus, is a “better” movie and it stars Jaleel White so it has that going for it. Anything would have been better than the first. Avoid watching Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. Save your time and watch this 23 second clip from the movie. It is the only 23 seconds worth watching.
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