As you can imagine by the title, “Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus” was sort of silly.
But sadly, not silly enough.
If you’re going to be hokey, be hokey.
Make it fun.
This film had some hokeyness, but not enough to be entertaining.
Only enough to ruin the integrity of the movie’s “reality”.
In the opening scene, a pod of large whales swim past a submarine.
The woman in the sub wonders why so many whales are together.
A helicopter drops a device into the water which transmits low frequency waves which cause the whales to swim into the ice wall.
The woman in the sub detects the transmitter and says that’s why the whales grouped together.
But the whales were already grouped together before the transmitter was dropped.
Either poor editing, poor scriptwriting, or poor continuity.
But that’s not the worst of it.
Shortly thereafter, after the Mega Shark has revived --
[The whales smashing into the ice wall caused a Mega Shark and a Giant Octopus, that were both frozen in a fight to the death 80 millions years go, to be freed from their icy prison. Once, the ice around them smashed apart, they sprang back to life. Makes no sense. A volcanic eruption would have provided a sudden amount of heat which might have made a little more “sense” than simply having the ice break.]
-- The Mega Shark jumps out of the water and attacks a 747!
The altitude and speed of a 747 would make that impossible, regardless of the Mega Shark’s mega size.
But after such a hokey beginning, the rest of the movie seems a bit blah.
So I can’t even recommend this one for its hokeyness factor.
On the plus side, I enjoyed seeing Deborah Gibson, the recording artist formerly known as Debbie Gibson.
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