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Yup "Shark happens" This is definite junk food for the brain in a so bad it's awesome kind of way. The ultimate in guilty pleasure, Sharknado 2 is equally as bad (good) as the original although you can tell they had a bigger budget for the sequel because the special effects are better and there are a ton of cameos.

Ian Ziering, I have to give it to him here, he really gives his all and was fun as hell to watch running around New York saving the day, kicking shark ass with his chainsaw.

Lots of laughs, a good time, exactly what I was expecting from a made for TV B-movie. The opening scene with Robert Hays (Airplane) is awesome, it does drag a bit at times but filled with enough blood and epic cheese moments to make it through. Tara Reid is still god awful. The GMA guys were surprisingly hilarious. 7/30/14

"Sharknado 2: The Second One" is a 2014 disaster movie and a sequel to the 2013 film "Sharknado". The film is directed by Anthony C. Ferrante, and stars Tara Reid, Ian Ziering, Vivica A. Fox, Kari Wuhrer, Kelly Osbourne, Benjy Bronk, Judah Friedlander, Andy Dick, and TNA superstar Kurt Angle. A freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished, iconic sites - and only Fin and April can save the Big Apple.

In a sort of twisted sense, I kind of love this movie. Not that I think it's good from a filmmaking level, but on the amount of entertainment value "Sharknado 2" provided me. For any film I saw this year, it gave me some of the year's biggest laughs. Said laughs did come because the film basically murders logic in every sense of the world. Jumping the shark doesn't cover it. Compared to the first film, it both bigger and ridiculous, and it's so much fun. It feels like everyone behind the project knew what they are doing, and just have a ball with it, and so did I.

As I stated earlier, the film definitely isn't a master-class of filmmaking. The acting is the quality of what I expect from a film like this(Which is either average or really bad.). Also there were a few characters in the film I failed to see their purpose being in the story. Yet strangely though it strangely fit's the film absurdity, plus characters that actually play a part of the story, are pretty fun to watch. The visuals are pretty horrid form a technical perspective, though again, it's fits the movie better than if they were actually good. To avoid being repetitive, "Sharknado " does fail in what a film should do, but it gives it a charm that I can only find in this, and the original.

Having survived the Sharknado in Los Angeles, pro-surfer Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) and his ex-wife April (Tara Reid) fly to New York City to promote their book, How To Survive A Sharknado, where they find the same thing happening all over again, only on an even bigger scale.

I usually prefer my crap movies to be bad by accident, although I do admit to enjoying intentionally crap disaster flick Sharknado just a bit more than I probably should have done. With this sequel, director Anthony C. Ferrante attempts to outdo his first film in terms of sheer silliness, and largely succeeds with some truly ridiculous set-pieces, but with essentially the same plot (full of gaping plot holes, not that that matters one bit), and equally dire CGI effects, I found that the novelty soon wore off, leaving me rather frustrated by the fact that there are now at least two more sequels, and a bloody good chance that I'll make myself watch them.

The Sharknado series has to be one of the dumbest of all time. I don't understand what all the hype is about. People are saying they love this movie. Anyone who says that has obviously never seen a good movie. The first one was bad. The second one was almost as bad. The acting, the dialogue, the characters, the sharks, the story, the whole concept. They all suck.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for horror flicks that don't take themselves seriously. Piranha, for example. Or the Feast trilogy. Stupid, yet entertaining. Sharknado 2 is just plain stupid, as is the original.

Life is too short to waste on trash like this.

After viewing the tour DE force that was the original Sharknado (2013), most viewers were left in awe, and with a roaring hunger to enter this magical world again. Thankfully these brave viewers did not have to suffer for long as the Man Wizard, Anthony C. Ferrante, quickly got to work on his next masterpiece, Sharknado 2. Naturally Sharknado 2 was given the title "The Second One". What else would you call it. He quickly enlisted the A List of Tara Reid, and Ian Zering. Both probably swamped with scripts from the likes of the Coen Brothers and Tarantino said, "We need to revisit this story". And with that the world won that day. It is hard to think that a movie can end wars, hunger, famine, rape, but this movie can. I can imagine that after the national viewing tonight that the war raging in Isreal will likely sease and a wave of global peace and harmony will overtake the gentle minds of a soft warm generation. This is the movie we asked for, this is the movie the world deserved.

Caution: Falling sharks alert. Get out your buzz saws, or Kelly Rippa's high heels.

Once again, sharks have hitch-hiked along with tornadoes in order to dive bomb victims from the sky during a perfect sharkstorm. Our finny friends have flown 3,000 miles east of LA to hammer a bunch of cameo appearance stars in New York. Speaking of flying, we open with the finest Sharks-On-a-Plane sequence ever filmed.

The Weather channel's shark funnel graphics of sharks spinning around and the "War on Sharks" bit are comic genius. Shark density reports such as "sharks are falling at a rate of 2 inches per hour," so you will not be caught off guard. Unless, of course, you stay outside, where all the sharks are flying around, which seems to be what everybody in this movie does.

SyFy has been the biggest master of camp and cheese on cable, and they readily admit it with self-mockery such as this. It shows a lot of humorous imagination, and the many celebrities in cameos take a good turn at poking fun at themselves.

Whether you like this or not will depend upon whether the approach of psychotic silliness hits your funny bone or not. If you do like that style of humor, then I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Disappointing followup (which I enjoyed even less the second time I watched it) begins with an over indulgence of glaring Airplane references left and right, reference to the Twilight Zone episode, Terror at 40.000 feet, followed by some of the most obvious product placement I can recall. Subwaynado would almost be a better title for this one. I enjoy Subway sandwiches, I have them once or twice a week, but I don't want to watch a 90-minutes long commercial for them. More obsessed with product placement and cameo appearances than schlocky laughs, this drags for too much of its run time- not enough shark action this time around. Fin's brother was a pain to endure, his character served no purpose but to draw out the film's run time, and to add Mark McGrath solely for any name value he might bring to this one. The opening scenes of him in New York are curiously photographed from low camera angles and in constant motion, which made me feel like I was sitting in a chair, rolling around on wheels, and looking UP at them.

The makers of this film knew people would watch and laugh at anything that had Sharknado in its title, and therefore dropped the ball and decided not to revel in the plots absurdities, but resort to continuity porn, product placement, and celebretard cameos. They even sunk to using the exact same shark images for the promotional poster.

This Second One is almost a satire of the first film; a satire of a satire of bad horror films, with the screenwriters too obviously laughing at their own jokes. The opening theme song, "We're all gonna die in a Sharknado!" is an obvious example.

If (when) there is Sharknado 3, or Sharknado III, or Sharknado! Sharknado! Sharknado!, here's to hoping the screenwriters return to the enjoyable absurdness which made the first film so funny.

This second Sharknado movie has Ian Ziering and Tara Reid coming to visit some of Ziering's family in New York City. But they're not even arrived when while the plane is preparing to touch down and those ominous storm clouds appear and it's the Sharknado once again. They attack the plane but it's Ziering to the rescue as he brings in the big jet.

That's how it begins, but believe me folks it only gets more ridiculous as things go on. Like King Kong there's a climax on top of the Empire State Building, a romantic one. No Ziering does not marry one of the sharks.

There was an audience for these things. But they get more ridiculous as the sequels are churned out.

Who thought they could top the first Sharknado but they have. This time the sharknado hits New York City. From the opening airplane sequence to sharks in the subway to the Empire State Building Sharknado 2 is truly awesome. Who doesn't want to see sharks in a skyscraper?! There is a ton of celebrity cameos in this movie. There's nothing like Matt Lauer and Al Roker reporting on a sharknado. The terrible cgi in the movie makes it even better. The end of this movie is one of the most epic endings ever. It even tops the chainsaw scene from the first Sharknado. I don't think I could have asked for anything more from this movie. I don't know about you but I am for sure looking forward to Sharknado 3.

Worth it for the cameos alone! Not a good movie in any artistic sense, but if you want pure stupid enjoyment, here you go.

Things have calmed down since the first "Sharknado" (2013), but not for long… Romantically inclined Ian Ziering (as Fin Shepard) and raspy-voiced Tara Reid (as April Wexler) are on a flight to JFK International Airport in New York City. She is scheduled to give a speech, after authoring the successful book "How to Survive a Sharknado". He just wants a slice of New York pizza. Can't blame him. Accompanied by a theme song swiped from The Ramones, the opening credits get us off to a rollicking start. After an attack by sharks, whipped up by a sudden tornado, Mr. Ziering makes an emergency landing. Despite the fact that several passengers have their heads eaten by flying sharks, and others are whisked out of the plane, many people are reluctant to believe Ziering's dire warning about another "Sharknado". Mostly oblivious to the foreboding weather, citizens go about their everyday business...

Then, the shark hits the fan...

For years, the Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi) Channel has been slaughtering science-fiction film aficionados with the some of the worst "original movies" ever to see the green light of day. The cheap, lurid and derivative stories would sound promising during promotion – then proves themselves a cinematic disaster when viewing. The best of the quick, low-budget productions had a sense of humor. Spoofing the genre, "Sharknado" and "Ghost Shark" (2013) were surprisingly fun. Mindful of this, director Anthony C. Ferrante, writer Thunder Levin (his real name) and the "Asylum" crew respond by treating this sequel as a comedy. They seem to be saying, "We know you're laughing at us, we're laughing with you." The shark attacks are hilarious – and they wouldn't be funny with fantastic special effects and great acting. There will certainly be more "Sharknado" movies, but topping this one will be a challenge...

****** Sharknado 2: The Second One (7/30/14) Anthony C. Ferrante ~ Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Mark McGrath, Vivica A. Fox

Having survived the great Los Angeles Sharknado, our heroes Fin and his wife - back together - are on their way to New York. The opening scene on the plane might play like a dream sequence, but proves just how unpredictable these films can be.

Ian Ziering is back as Fin, and as handsome and sexy as ever! (Gosh, he looks so good on screen). 'Sharknako 2' features seasoned actor Judd Hirsch and country superstar Billy Ray Cyrus. The acting is much better than 'Sharknado', and the entire production in general is much better. The shark effects are still very bad, though - especially for a movie made as recent as 2014. You'd think with sharks being the film's main draw card, they'd spend more time and money designing the shark effects. Then again, I suppose this is the humorist look they were aiming for...

'Sharknado 2' was seriously very entertaining - in a strange kind of way. It is faster paced than 'Sharknado', with more action and more suspense (although still a comedy). The script and dialogue are also a bit better. There's great enthusiasm from the characters to stop the Sharknado. There are a number of very unexpected kills, and there are some very funny moments (some scenes are simply funny because the visuals are so bad!!). Either way - again - I enjoyed this much more than expected.

Would I watch it again? I think so, yes.

If you are an Asylum movie fan, this critter is right up your alley. It has all the sophisticated dialog to which you are accustomed. The logic of the story is impeccable. O. K., so you can fly a shark through it. At least the graphic blood scenes can rival 60s Italian sci-fi movies. This movie takes every opportunity at product name recognition."Eat Fresh."

For the rest of the world, one would wonder how such a thing can be produced and who these people are that watch it?

Still reeling from the first encounter from our initial movie, the characters are settling down to a comfortable airplane journey home. Here we borrow a few scenes from the William Shatner twilight zone movie.

So, it all begins again. This time we are joined by a cameo of Matt Lauer; we might also see a few other people that just could not stay out of the movie.

The importance of watching this movie is what you can take away with you. You may be able to solve some personal issues by watching how it has been professionally done. And such unfathomable information as the inside of the shark innards smells like chicken.

If you suffered or enjoyed or whatever through this movie you are in luck as there will be a shark Sharknado 3; the subtitle should be Fin for yourself. Hopefully, it will take place in Waxahachie Texas.

I vividly remember a sweltering Saturday night in July of 1975 when my wife and I stood in line with a couple of thousand other people at the Park Theater in Memphis, Tn. We finally procured our tickets, found a couple of empty seats and I purchased two large Cokes™ to quench our thirst and returned to my seat. Every seat was occupied as we prepared to watch a sizzling movie that changed forever the way humans viewed the ocean and it's horrifying contents. I'll never forget Clint's nails on the chalkboard and I'll never forget the 2 hours of the same that I endured last night as I watched a travesty called Sharknado 2.

Sharks have been on this earth around 450,000,000 years. I'm confident that if they could assemble and communicate, they would gladly agree to jettison 100 million years of streamlining evolution just to peacefully live in an era of time that did not include Asylum Films and Tara Reid. Never before in the history of film have these magnificent creatures been so misrepresented, disrespected, taken out of their natural element and Subway™ized.

I'm not going to waste a lot of time with this review. Sharknado 2 was awful on all levels of bad and was stripped of all the energy and humor of the first offering. The initial ten minute plane landing scene that was trying to tribute to Airplane was painful and seemed to drag on for an hour. My hopes for an early exit of Tara Reid's were dashed as she survived the mid-air shark attack and only lost a hand. I think that one huge reason that this movie went down the toilet is that they went out of their way to try to humanize Tara Reid in this issue, and failed miserably. Gone was the brooding indifference that we all loved in the first film. She was even more horrible when she tried to smile and act, and what in the hell was the point of the scene where she rescued Little Orphan Annie from behind the dressing screen at the hospital? WTF?

The plot was worse than horrible with Fin's goofy brother and family being in the way of everything...Why were they even there? As the movie mercifully progressed, we had flaming sharks from above and lurking sharks from rising waters below. Without going into any more painful details, the New Yorkers were rallied and with brooms, pitchforks, torches and Booyahs!, they managed to defeat the sharks and tornadoes and restore order to the city.

I must mention the relentless product whoring that began immediately with two Coors Light™ cans on the airplane and continued with Subway™ everywhere, with even that worthless Jared making a cameo. There were homages to Airplane, The Evil Dead, Happy Days w/Fonz and continuous product slutting with Yellow Cab™, Citi Bike™, more Subway™ and no telling what else I missed while I was dozing off. What made matters even worse were the incredibly long commercial breaks, but considering what I was watching, these may have been a blessing in disguise.

The first Sharknado aired on July 11 of last year and became a sensation for the SyFy Channel. I do admit that it was a film that helped me get introduced to the channel but Sharkando was really no different from what other films typically are on the Syfy Channel. It has a low budget, actors who careers are long gone or who are no-name actors and as Sharknado is, Syfy films are always filled with the most ridiculous plots.

Even if you didn't like Sharknado, Sharknado 2 was going to happen no matter what. It is a money- maker idea used to help promote the SyFy channel even more and yeah, the movie sadly had its fans. After a dangerous flight to New York that shows signs of another shark attack, Fin (Ian Ziering) must lead his family members through a shark attack in the Big Apple in this new sequel.

You must admit that the Sharknado films are original and there are no films like it. This sequel though can compare to sequels like Hangover 2 or Home Alone 2. They are all sequels with a different setting but they really do nothing new. Here, it's just that attacking-shark plot though it has less sharks this time around. The characters all have no substance. The budget is of course low and the effects are typical SyFy effects which to put it mildly isn't saying much. With the action scenes, let's just say I've seen enough of them, sorry.

Maybe the only thing that I got out of this movie was the atmosphere. As a fan of major league baseball who enjoys traveling to a handful of MLB Stadiums through the year, it is clever for this film to use actual shots inside and out of Citi Field. It has cameos every so often which is a little different considering this a SyFy film and shows ultimately what an impact the first film was that actors would want to do cameos for the sequel. It has a cheap little theme song which sounds kind of like that corny band Bowling for Soup with a similar vibe. These are nice little things to the film but not enough and nowhere close for this film to get by.

With a third sequel already set to come out next year, this series is far from over and I expect it to be no different from what we have already have seen. For a film trying to run off what they thought was previous success and old formulas, Sharknado 2 is a bore from beginning to end and actually the type of "boring" that requires an energy drink to keep awake. Yep, that type of bad.