Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus

My post last week was about a film company called the asylum. This week I thought that it would be only fitting if I reviewed an asylum film. Now I have a thing for bad movies and one of the worst I've seen has to be Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus.

This was probably the first asylum film that I ever saw. Me and a friend of mine were looking some films an the video store that we were going watch that night and this particular film caught our eye and we rented it and just like Kung Fu Cyborgs, we got it purely because of he silly name. I mean, Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus just sounds ridiculous. The name draws you in, making you think that it's some sort of parody of the B-movie monster films that used to be popular and that it would get you some laughs and be genuenly entertaining. But unlike King Fu Cyborgs (which at least has the decency to be entertaining) this film was a complete and total bore, hell my friend fell asleep while we were watching.

Well, the plot is pretty much exactly what it says on the tin, a giant shark and octopus fight each, which should be entertaining but it just sucks. I honestly wasn't expecting a masterpiece or anything, if anything the title lowered my expectations and even then it still managed to disappoint me. The acting was so terrible the special effects were awefull and characters were completely uninteresting.

The film has this habit of reusing the exact same shot over and over again. I mean the first time you notice it isn't that bad but then they do it over and over and over and over (ect, ect). I counted seven times that a single shot was used. If you cut out every repeated shot then the film would probably be half as long, it really shows that your film has no substance when the padding is this obvious.

The characters are boring and bland, with barley anything memorable about them, he'll I can't even remember any of their names. All that I remember them as is the blond chick, the old guy, the Asian sceientist and the army general. No names, no personality traits, nothing. The actors themselves just look like a bunch of bored people waiting around to get their checks.

There is one good scene in it though. A plane is flying through the the air. One guy decides to look out the window (after a line about how he's getting married in three days that comes completely out of nowhere) and he sees a giant leaping 50 ft in the air to bite the low flying
plane in half. How? Why? Don't know don't care, at least it's the only decent thing in the film.

So that's my review of an aweful film and it s one that I advise you to avoid this film (and any other asylumn film for that matter) like the plague and if you've already seen it you have my condolences.

Anyway have an awesome week guys
DFTBA