Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus (2009)

A B Movie of B movies

I watched this in October of 2009 with James and Josh

We roared through this. We stopped at the special scenes and used the slow mo to enjoy it yet more. Cruising along at 30K feet, a young man (“about to get married”) sees a giant shark leap out of ocean and bite his 707 in two. What I loved about this is the casting and the basic assumption.

The cast features Lorenzo Lamas, Deborah Gibson (yes, that Deb Gibson), and several other really un-gifted actors. The producers actually thought hard, apparently, about how to assemble a campy cast to pull off this idea from someone’s couch.

That brings us to the compelling plot. Scientists stumble upon a government experiment gone bad whereby two pre-historic enemies (the legendary megladon and a huge octopus) are unfrozen and thus allowed to attack high-flying airliners, take a bite out of the Golden Gate, and generally wreak havoc on the world until, again, science comes to the rescue. As the two main scientists make out in the janitor’s closet of some government project building, they realize that perfume would attract the beasts to each other (because sex rules the evolutionary world). And thus the world is saved. But wait, just as the two are about to sail off to study snails somewhere, another possible movie plot is brought to them by their sidekick and we have the basis for a possible franchise of horribly done movies to begin. I can hardly wait. Make the next one in 3D if you can!

Recommendation: Seriously? If you love to laugh, have fun. Oh what Mystery Science Theater 300 could do with this!

~ by u2isgr8 on October 29, 2009.