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SOURCE-Joe Bob's last Drive in on Shudder
Yea I have seen this many times. Was sure the year it debuted I covered it here. Nope.
Many years ago I heard that The Asylum,makers of many mockbusters,had a new film coming out in July on SYFY channel. Sharknado was the title. Looked and it was airing right around my birthday. Watched it and loved it. Each year for 4 or so every year in July was a new Sharknado film. The series ended and I just forgot about them.
Was back in July. Wondered what Joe Bob was airing and saw it was Sharknado. Sadly this isn;'t one of the better episodes of the Last Drive in. It is great they got the director of Sharknado to come on. But his audio is low and hard to hear. Darcy appears to be stoned and barely can form sentences.
How is the movie? It is a blast. This being the first in the franchise it is way way more serious than the others. A hurricane is heading for Los Angeles. Ian Ziering runs a bar and wants to make sure his ex wife and daughter are safe. Exx Wife is played by Tara Reid.
The rest of the film is Ian,Tara,their kid and a few others trying to live thru a Hurricane packed with sharks. Wouldn't that make it a Sharkicane?
Yea the CGI is cheap. But for a low budget the film looks decent. The actors in the film that aren't known people are actually good. Like the lady that plays Nova. Never seen her in anything besides the Sharknado films. And she steals this first film.
I think part of the reason this film held so much appeal to me is as a kid in the late 70s I would see all the natural disaster movies and all the giant whatever creature attacks films with my dad. So this was a modern combination of those two sub genres.
This is the rare time that I would say skip the Joe Bob airing of the film. He adds nothing to it.
Sharknado gets a B+
