Get ready to drown in stupidity.
But with a title like “Sharknado 2: The Second One,” you know what to expect: freak storms, sharks falling like raindrops — flailing, hungry raindrops — and a chainsaw.
The camp horror sequel to the 2013 social media sensation finds original cast members Ian Ziering and Tara Reid back as divorced couple Fin Shepard and April Wexler.
A year after Los Angeles was turned into chum, April has written a best-seller about the trauma, and the two are flying to the Big Apple on a book tour. But Fin is still grumpy. “Oh, yeah, I got eaten by a shark. How much fun do you think that was?”
A year after Los Angeles was turned into chum, April has written a best-seller about the trauma, and the two are flying to the Big Apple on a book tour. But Fin is still grumpy. “Oh, yeah, I got eaten by a shark. How much fun do you think that was?”
Never mind “Snakes on a Plane.” In what seems like an homage to the classic “Twilight Zone” episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” Fin spies a shark in the distant clouds.
Soon the flight — piloted by Robert Hays of “Airplane!” fame — hits unexpected turbulence and takes on some ravenous freeloaders. Amid the carnage, somebody loses a significant appendage.
As a wild weather pattern threatens all of New York City, there’s mild family drama on the ground. Fin doesn’t get along with sister Ellen’s (Kari Wuhrer, “Sliders”) husband, Martin (Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath), but nobody, not even the characters, particularly cares. (Martin’s last name is Brody, in case you’re looking for the obligatory “Jaws” reference.)
Scriptwriter Thunder Levin (can we just agree that’s the best name ever?) devises new knuckle-brained ways to get the finny fiends and the dumb meat sacks into close quarters — so we have planes, trains and cars, a high-rise, even the Empire State Building.
Vivica A. Fox is along for the inclement weather as Skye, Fin’s ex, who has never gotten over him.
Stop laughing.
The sharknado is so powerful, the Statue of Liberty is decapitated, and the head rolls along the streets of New York like a giant bowling ball.
Celebrities, including Kelly Osbourne, Perez Hilton, Andy Dick, pro wrestler Kurt Angle, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kelly Ripa, Michael Strahan, Michael Gelman, Sandra “Pepa” Denton (of Salt-N-Pepa), Al Roker and Matt Lauer have minor parts. Some — but not enough — end up as bloody McNuggets. Ziering attacks the material as if he’s playing Hamlet in the park — any park.
“Sharknado 2” doesn’t need any jokes about jumping the shark. It knows you’re going to make one and it beats you to it, literally.
