Having survived the Sharknado in Los Angeles, pro-surfer Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) and his ex-wife April (Tara Reid) fly to New York City to promote their book, How To Survive A Sharknado, where they find the same thing happening all over again, only on an even bigger scale.
I usually prefer my crap movies to be bad by accident, although I do admit to enjoying intentionally crap disaster flick Sharknado just a bit more than I probably should have done. With this sequel, director Anthony C. Ferrante attempts to outdo his first film in terms of sheer silliness, and largely succeeds with some truly ridiculous set-pieces, but with essentially the same plot (full of gaping plot holes, not that that matters one bit), and equally dire CGI effects, I found that the novelty soon wore off, leaving me rather frustrated by the fact that there are now at least two more sequels, and a bloody good chance that I'll make myself watch them.
Sharknado 2: The Second One
2014
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Sharknado 2: The Second One
2014
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot summary
A freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished, iconic sites - and only Fin and April can save the Big Apple.
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October 08, 2014 at 03:33 PM
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The novelty is already wearing off.
A pretty dismal effort
SHARKNADO was a surprisingly entertaining Z-grade movie, probably the most famous Asylum film out there, a film which achieved "so bad it's good" status. A sequel would inevitably follow, this time shifting the action to New York and bringing back the two main cast members, Tara Reid and Ian Ziering.
Sadly, it's a pretty dismal effort which turns out to be far less enjoyable than the ultra-cheesy original. The spirit of endeavour has vanished this time around, resulting in a film which goes through the motions in a repetitive narrative. The format involves various bands of survivors getting picked off one by one by flying sharks while they try to figure out a way to combat the menace (resulting in the silliest denouement ever).
The fun only comes into it in the last third, and up until that point it's pretty, well, pointless. There's no gore to speak of, the CGI effects are terrible, and the acting even worse. Ziering and Reid were never this bad in the original, I'm sure. The Asylum throw in lots of pointless celebrity cameos (like Kelly Osborne and Perez Hilton) in a bid to keep things moving along, but unfortunately they fall flat, like the majority of this movie.
It's raining sharks in New York City
This second Sharknado movie has Ian Ziering and Tara Reid coming to visit some
of Ziering's family in New York City. But they're not even arrived when while the
plane is preparing to touch down and those ominous storm clouds appear and
it's the Sharknado once again. They attack the plane but it's Ziering to the rescue
as he brings in the big jet.
That's how it begins, but believe me folks it only gets more ridiculous as things
go on. Like King Kong there's a climax on top of the Empire State Building, a
romantic one. No Ziering does not marry one of the sharks.
There was an audience for these things. But they get more ridiculous as the
sequels are churned out.