WOW!

If you like cheesy movies with wooden acting, bad CGI, bonkers plots, no reality to scientific laws and principles... then please STEP RIGHT UP!!

When I approached this film I wasn't expecting much at all, I was even ready to press the STOP button but I was so mesmerised and baffled by what was happening that I couldn't help but watch on. Soon the people in the room were laughing along, cheering the deaths, and wondering what the hell was going to happen next.

I really don't want to include any plot details in this review because it's that shark-s**t crazy that I want you to watch it and make your mind up.

Go forth and watch this for laughs and entertainment rather than edge of the seat white knuckle thrills ride.

Far from great, and it is easy for anybody- regardless of whether they are taking it too seriously or not- to criticise it, but Sharknado is also one of SyFy's/The Asylum's more tolerable and most fun to watch movies. That is saying a lot actually because usually with a few exceptions they are terrible(sometimes irredeemably so) There are some negatives that is difficult to overlook. The worst asset was the acting of Tara Reid, she doesn't look as though she was having any fun at all and acted at times like a porn actress trying to act, very mechanical and ill at ease. John Heard also has moments where he overacts to a painful degree, but still he looks as though he's trying so he isn't as problematic. The next worst thing were the special effects(nearly always one of the worst assets of their movies, so that was expected),they are some of the better effects to appear in SyFy's/The Asylum's output but the fact that they look so artificial and though they were made in a rush doesn't make that say very much. Thankfully, the melodrama and exposition is mostly kept minimal, but when Sharknado does go into that territory it falls flat with some overwrought clunkiness and where things lag slightly, not a surprise because exposition and melodrama has always been one of SyFy's/The Asylum's weak points. And if you are looking to see if there is any plausible science, look for another movie because the science here is rather dumb and impossible, enough to make scientists or anybody studying or teaching it despair.

Flaws aside, the exotic locations and photography that looks as though effort was made into making what was happening on screen coherent made for a movie that for how bad the effects are was serviceable technically. The music has a couple of creepy moments without being too derivative, but generally it stays true to the snappy tongue-in-cheek nature of the writing and story. The script can go overboard with the corniness at times but mostly it is witty and tongue-in-cheek, the banter is very amusing and the "looks like it's that time of the month" line is a classic, as well as snappily delivered. As for the story, really we can tell from the premise alone what to expect from Sharknado and what the quality is going to be. Reading the premise, it was clear that Sharknado was going to be ridiculous. And it was, and it was also clear that the movie and those behind it knew it as well. The difference was though that it was entertaining too(and the most original SyFy/The Asylum have had in a long time),the movie is surprisingly well paced and actually has a cohesive structure at times, helped by that it's not as melodrama/exposition-heavy as some of their other movies and that it actually knows what to do with itself. The sharks are not very well designed, but they actually have a personality, sometimes menacing but often with a goofy sense of fun, which makes their scenes fun. Their scenes admittedly are hilariously chaotic and incredibly dumb but interweave within the nature of the story very well, there are even scenes that are bust-a-gut-laughing-worthy, like character chainsawing their way out of a shark. The characters are not well developed, neither are they annoying. Likewise the acting isn't award worthy, but there's been much worse. The best of the lot is Ian Ziering, he's very funny and has good charisma, the character starts out a little obnoxious but you actually grow to like him.

All in all, not a great movie with some obvious flaws and maybe overpraised by some reviewers, but it is a lot of fun to watch and for a SyFy/Asylum movie it is one of their better ones. Not a 10/10 movie but nowhere near bad enough for a 1. Personal rating would be a 6/10, sort of a decent/guilty pleasure rating. Bethany Cox

One fine sunny day in Santa Monica where the boys and girls are enjoying a day at the beach and onlookers are enjoying the sight of young male and female scantily clad bodies on the beach. Some are drinking at Ian Ziering's beach front bar. All of a sudden a storm of titanic proportions, a class 4 baby comes and from out of the ocean sharks come flying through the air devouring what they can while they can breathe out of water for a bit.

They get in every, even swimming through the Los Angeles county sewer system devouring who and what they can.

This was the first of several Sharknado movies for the ScyFy Channel one dumber than the other. But when you make six of them somebody has to be looking.

God only knows.