Sharkanado 2: The Second One - A ‘one-joke’ film turned into two movies

Okay, the original ‘Sharkanado’ was bad, but it was bad in a (if not good) then quite watchable kind of way.  It was daft and it knew it.  That was one of its strong points.  At least the sequel (the imaginatively-titled ‘Sharkanado 2: The Second One’) also knows that it’s never going to win any credible awards, so also plays to its strengths... namely being pretty daft, too.

However, once you’ve seen one ‘flying’ shark come hurtling through the air, conveniently landing on someone’s head and devouring them without caring too much about the whole physics of the situation, then you’ve pretty much seen all the best bits of this film.

The plot... is there one?  Do you even care?  Another storm.  Another city.  More sharks.  You can probably fill in the blanks yourself.  This time, based on the popularity of the first outing, there are a number of cameos from celebrities (or at least B-list celebrities – oddly enough people like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt decided not to put this one on their C.V.) who turn up just to end up with a shark on their heads.

The special effects... well, they’re about as special as the first one.  Maybe less so in fact.  You would probably have to be blind not to tell that every flying shark is computer-generated.  I guess that’s part of the film’s charm though.

The acting... pretty ropey.  But, again, I don’t think high-calibre acting would really fit the tone of this film.

It’s kind of the B-movies of B-movies.  It knows it’s bad and plays on that.  This isn’t a bad thing.  In a cinematic world filled with ‘dead serious’ epics like the Bourne, Batman and (modern) Bond franchises, it’s nice to see there’s still a gap in the marketplace for silliness.  However, despite all the CGI blood and guts it still boils down to the fact that there’s still only the one selling point in the film: flying sharks.  And, as I’ve already said, once you’ve laughed at one killing a B-list celebrity, then there’s not that many places the film can go.

5/10 a hard trek, a bit like unicycling to Mordor and back