Sharktopus starts as the US military & private genetic engineering scientist Nathan Sands (Eric Roberts) carry out a test on a project known as S-11, a half Shark half Octopus hybrid that has been genetically created as the ultimate weapon of the future. The fearsome Shark Octopus creature is controlled through electronic impulses but during the test the little electronic box attached to it's body is damaged & Sharktopus is free to do whatever it wants including swimming down to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico & start eating swimmers, tourists, sunbathers & just about anyone it fancies. The US military don't want any bad publicity so make Sands & his team track the beast down & try to capture it, two news reporters are also after the Sharktopus monster after they sense a big story. Can the tentacled sea creature be defeated?
Directed by Declan O'Brien this is yet more Sy-Fy Channel creature feature crap, to be honest Sharktopus feels like exactly the same film as the Sy-Fy Channel's previous Dinoshark (2010) which was also produced by Roger Corman, featured some monster eating tourists in Puerto Vallarta & was basically crap. In fact the only real significant difference between Sharktopus & Dinoshark are the two main monsters, personally I think Sharktopus is the better & funner creature though so that in itself probably just about makes Sharktopus the better film of the two although that's by no means any sort of recommendation. As one would expect the character's are broad clichés like the big game hunter brought in to track the beast, the nerdy scientist love interest, the evil genetic scientist who just wants to protect the creature, the sinister military yet again trying to create the ultimate weapon & even an ambitious reporter who will stop at nothing to get the big story. There really isn't anything we haven't seen here before, it's all clichéd stuff with every scene, every plot device & every character taken from some other film. I suppose Sharktopus has one or two decent moments, once Sharktopus uses it's tentacles to walk on land the sheer lunacy of such a concept & such scenes have a certain dumb fun about them even if they look daft. At only 86 minutes long at least it moves at a decent pace & is rarely boring, the only problem is it's rarely any good either with boring one-dimensional character's, a silly monster & a throughly predictable & clichéd plot.
The idea of a Shark Octopus hybrid is cool, if Sharktopus had a decent budget then I'm sure we could have been looking at a pretty cool monster but with predictably terrible CGI computer effects & poorly shot & edited attack scenes it's impossible to stop laughing. There's a bit of quick gore, someone gets their head ripped off, someone gets their throat slashed, there's lots of bloody water & the odd Shark sized bite. The attack scenes are a poor mixture of actor's splashing around, bad CGI & quick editing, the best attack is probably when a woman bungee jumps off a bride & the Sharktopus jumps out of the water & eats her in mid air. The whole physics of Sharktopus & the way it moves is wrong, the way it swims & can just stop dead in the water or float on the surface or do whatever it wants. Sharktopus also seems to randomly change size between scenes too, first being big enough to destroy a yacht & then only as big a normal man & anything between.
Probably shot on a low budget in the same locations as Dinoshark probably at the same time Shartopus looks alright I suppose, forget the bad CGI this has reasonable production values. The acting isn't great but again much better than in Dinoshark, veteran actor Eric Roberts probably needed the money or fancied a free holiday.
Sharktopus sounds like fun & I suppose it has a few moments that might be classed as such but overall it's another standard, clichéd, predictable & routine creature feature from the Sy-Fy Channel. It has one of the better monsters but really nothing else to recommend it.
Directed by Declan O'Brien this is yet more Sy-Fy Channel creature feature crap, to be honest Sharktopus feels like exactly the same film as the Sy-Fy Channel's previous Dinoshark (2010) which was also produced by Roger Corman, featured some monster eating tourists in Puerto Vallarta & was basically crap. In fact the only real significant difference between Sharktopus & Dinoshark are the two main monsters, personally I think Sharktopus is the better & funner creature though so that in itself probably just about makes Sharktopus the better film of the two although that's by no means any sort of recommendation. As one would expect the character's are broad clichés like the big game hunter brought in to track the beast, the nerdy scientist love interest, the evil genetic scientist who just wants to protect the creature, the sinister military yet again trying to create the ultimate weapon & even an ambitious reporter who will stop at nothing to get the big story. There really isn't anything we haven't seen here before, it's all clichéd stuff with every scene, every plot device & every character taken from some other film. I suppose Sharktopus has one or two decent moments, once Sharktopus uses it's tentacles to walk on land the sheer lunacy of such a concept & such scenes have a certain dumb fun about them even if they look daft. At only 86 minutes long at least it moves at a decent pace & is rarely boring, the only problem is it's rarely any good either with boring one-dimensional character's, a silly monster & a throughly predictable & clichéd plot.
The idea of a Shark Octopus hybrid is cool, if Sharktopus had a decent budget then I'm sure we could have been looking at a pretty cool monster but with predictably terrible CGI computer effects & poorly shot & edited attack scenes it's impossible to stop laughing. There's a bit of quick gore, someone gets their head ripped off, someone gets their throat slashed, there's lots of bloody water & the odd Shark sized bite. The attack scenes are a poor mixture of actor's splashing around, bad CGI & quick editing, the best attack is probably when a woman bungee jumps off a bride & the Sharktopus jumps out of the water & eats her in mid air. The whole physics of Sharktopus & the way it moves is wrong, the way it swims & can just stop dead in the water or float on the surface or do whatever it wants. Sharktopus also seems to randomly change size between scenes too, first being big enough to destroy a yacht & then only as big a normal man & anything between.
Probably shot on a low budget in the same locations as Dinoshark probably at the same time Shartopus looks alright I suppose, forget the bad CGI this has reasonable production values. The acting isn't great but again much better than in Dinoshark, veteran actor Eric Roberts probably needed the money or fancied a free holiday.
Sharktopus sounds like fun & I suppose it has a few moments that might be classed as such but overall it's another standard, clichéd, predictable & routine creature feature from the Sy-Fy Channel. It has one of the better monsters but really nothing else to recommend it.