Sharknado 5: Global Swarming

TV Movie
2017
TV-14
1h 33m

IMDb RATING

3.9/10

7.2K

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Tara Reid, Ian Ziering, and Cassandra Scerbo in Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017)

With much of America lying in ruins and the rest of the world bracing for a global sharknado, Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them.

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With much of America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for a global sharknado, and Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them.With much of America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for a global sharknado, and Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them.With much of America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for a global sharknado, and Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them.

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IMDb RATING

3.9/10

7.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

Trivia
The Tele 5 anchors are played by Oliver Kalkofe and Peter Rütten, the hosts of the German show The Worst Movies of All Time (2013) (The Worst Movies of all Time), in which they show and comment on bad movies (they have presented every Sharknado movie and are one of of the reasons for the success of the films in Germany). Both previously had a cameo in Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015) as rollercoaster riders. Additionally, Oliver Kalkofe's colleagues Dietmar Wischmeyer (cabaret artist) and Oliver Welke (host of heute-show (2009), writer on Kalkofe's Wixxer movies) also have a cameo.

Goofs
(at around 15 mins) One of the characters states "London Bridge is falling down", however, the bridge that was falling down was in fact Tower Bridge, which is often mistaken for London Bridge.

Quotes
Fin Shepard: Sharks. Why does it always gotta be sharks?

Crazy credits
A couple of the opening credits (including the title) are shown with the same font as the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) credits. The rest of the credits don't appear until the 21-minute mark, through the franchise's regular title sequence.

Connections
Featured in The Worst Movies of All Time: Sharknado 5 (2017)

Soundtracks
Good Morning London
Written by Robbie Rist, Seth Andrew Gordon and Anthony C. Ferrante
Performed by Quint
God Bless Captain Vere (ASCAP)/One Eye Open Music (BMI)/Zero Charisma Publishing (ASCAP)

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Featured review

3/10

Obnoxiously Ridiculous

Let me start off this review by stating that I legitimately enjoyed Sharknado 1-4. I found them to be quite entertaining with their fast-paced style, but Sharknado 5 makes the mistake of being too over-the-top without being as original as the previous films, making it a chore to sit through. Sharknado 5 starts off with an Indiana Jones parody and slowly unravels as the Sharknado is able to warp around, causing damage all over the globe as Fin and April chase after it. There are a few memorable moments but a lot of it is pretty forgettable, and the sheer ridiculousness of the whole film is it's downfall since the whole thing just feels like a bunch of dumb random moments sewn together. By the end of the film I was exhausted and just couldn't care as Fin and the Sharknado popped up in different places, unlike previous entries in the series where I was generally having fun watching the silly chaos unfold on screen until the credits rolled. I can't really recommend this film unless you are dead-set on going through the entire series, in which case you're probably going to see this anyway. But to anyone else I would recommend just watching one of the first 4 films instead.