What do you expect from a film called Sharknado 2: The
Second One (2014)? Nothing good, but at
least you can hope to be entertained in how ridiculous the whole thing is. That is exactly what you get (and more) from
this sequel to the infamous Sharknado (2013).
Not long after the events in the first film, Fin Shepard and his ex-wife
April Wexler (Ian Ziering and Tara Reid, respectfully) are trying to patch
things back up while on April’s press tour for her book about the events of the
first film that have made them both celebrities. On a plane ride to New York Fin is paranoid
that it’s all happening again when he sees a shark on the fin of the plane
(great nods to The Twilight Zone).
There is indeed a new sharknado happening in New York and
before they can even rest on the ground Fin and April’s plane is brought
crashing to the earth but not before several passengers die and April loses an
arm to a shark bite. Before Fin can stay
with April in the hospital he has to go rescue family members at a baseball
game before the sharknado hits ground and New York’s streets are swarming with
sharks out for human flesh. Fin is in a
lot of trouble as an old flame Skye (Vivica A. Fox) also returns to add a
little complication to Fin’s reconciliation with April but April isn’t going to
lie still in a hospital bed this time as she’s gone through this once before
and survived and she’s going to do so again.
The cast and filmmakers of this sequel are having much more
fun with this film as they are intentionally making a bad movie but are trying
their hardest to make it one of the most entertaining ones you will ever
see. And they’ve brought all their
celebrity friends in on the joke as well since there are more star cameos in
this film than has been seen in a long time from Judd Hirsch, Downtown Julie
Brown, Billy Ray Cyrus, Andy Dick, Sandra ‘Pepa’ Denton, Robert Hays, Robert
Klein, Matt Lauer, Biz Markie, Kelly Osbourne, Kelly Ripa, Al Roker, and
Tiffany Shepis, to name a small few.
This is not a film that you can adequately critique as it
was meant to be the best party and drinking game ever and succeeds better than
its predecessor, so, if you can’t get in on the joke then don’t bother watching
the film.
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