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An Exercise In Nonsense

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Just like we'd come to expect from the series, SHARKNADO 4: THE 4TH AWAKENS is campy B-movie-esque fun. A ton of crappy CGI, tacky one-liners and over-the-top acting.Watch it only after you've seen the other three installments, and only if you liked those. This one definitely caters for fans. No time is spent whatsoever introducing any of the characters—everything is taken for granted.If you do like the series, you're up for all kinds of -nados this time, bouldernados, sandnados ... lots of deliberate play with its own themes, infused with self-aware irony. I enjoyed watching this, although as far as B-movies go, I don't like the fact that they're now making a "B-movie" for the sake of making B-movie... while also catering to a mainstream audience. Some of the genuineness of true B-movies is definitely lost.

A study found that people who watch bad films on purpose is linked to being intellectual, so that's good to know, you'd have to be a genius to understand how the makers can continue making these trashy movies, probably because of the buzz from social media, I just watched this fourth entry for fun, and as a critic. Basically it has been five years since the last sharknado that devastated Washington, D.C., Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) has moved with his mother Raye (Cheryl Tiegs) and young son Gil (twins Christopher and Nicholas Shone) to a farm in Kansas, while April Wexler (Tara Reid) is thought to be dead, after being crushed by space shuttle wreckage. Tech mogul Aston Reynolds (Tommy Davidson) owns the company Astro-X, who have developed high-speed space travel, which was used to rescue Fin's father Colonel Gilbert Shepard (David Hasselhoff) from the moon, they have also developed technology capable of using radio waves to diffuse tornadoes, leading to the end of the sharknado phenomenon. In Las Vegas, Reynolds has built and opens a shark- themed hotel featuring a giant tank of sharks, a sandstorm tornado develops that cannot be diffused by Astro-X, the tornado sucks up the sharks, creating a new sharknado, the city is devastated, but Fin is there with his cousin Gemini (Masiela Lusha), his son Matt (Cody Linley) and Matt's fiancée Gabrielle (Imani Hakim) to work together and fight it. Following the new sharknado dispersing, Colonel Shepard is working with Astro-X, to help develop a weaponised mechanical suit, aided by his granddaughter Claudia (Ryan Newman) in San Francisco, as well as April's scientist father Wilford (Gary Busey), who has secretly brought April back to life, as a reconstructed cyborg. Fin, Gabrielle, Gemini and Matt on a train back to Kansas are forced to fight against a new sharknado forming and destroying the Hoover Dam, the Astro-X blowing up the Grand Canyon causes the tornado to suck up rocks, becoming a "bouldernado". When the train reaches Arizona, Fin meets Reynolds to get a lowdown on the situation, then he and the gang grab chainsaws and construction gear to fight the tornado, which has hit an oil field, becoming an oilnado, and then igniting to become a "firenado", meanwhile two other sharknadoes develop, one heading north of San Francisco to become a "hailnado", the other near Yellowstone National Park and its volcano to become a "lavanado". At the Kansas State Line, Gabrielle is killed by a tornado that picked up cows, a "cownado", to Matt's devastation, meanwhile April ignores her father's objections to stab in the laboratory, and goes to reunite with her family, including young Gil who has never met her mother before, he shuns her. Reynolds informs the group that Astro-X may have a way to shut down the new tornadoes, it works to stop the hailnado and lavanado, but the cownado has evolved further into a "lightningnado", and it gets worse when it strikes a nuclear power plant, turning it into a deadly "nukenado" with radioactive sharks. Using Colonel Shepard's mechanical suit, they must remove the radioactivity by drawing massive amounts of water into it, so they use the water of Niagara Falls, Reynolds appears to fall to his death helping to set off the device they need, and Colonel Shepard is swallowed by a shark before he can put on the suit on. Fin puts on the suit, and April with her robotic abilities assists, Claudia and Matt are also swallowed by sharks, the device is set, but Fin is electrocuted, the nukenado is neutralised back into a sharknado, and the storm is destroyed by the Astro-X technicians. Gil gets his own small chainsaw to cut open the sharks, Colonel Shepard, Matt and Claudia are all alive, and April and the Colonel use improvised CPR to revive an unconscious Fin. Gil finally accepts April as his mother, but before they can celebrate the end of the sharknadoes, the Eiffel Tower has been blown all the way from France and falls from the sky, they realise the tornadoes are now a global problem. Also starring Duane 'Dog' Chapman as Chop Top, Anthony C. Ferrante (also directing) as Fenwick, Aladdin's Gilbert Gottfried as Ron McDonald, Steve Guttenberg as Colton, Wayne Newton, Al Roker, Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson as Driver and The X Factor's Jedward (John and Edward Grimes) as Astro- X Techs. The acting in it is pointless mentioning, well known faces not taking themselves seriously in a dumb project, like the other three films it is deliberately trashy and absurd, the special effects are cheap and unconvincing, I may have tittered a little because of some deliberate obvious spoof references, e.g. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Wizard of Oz, and of course how ridiculous and idiotic it is, another sequel not to bother with, an unintelligent science-fiction horror. Poor!

'SHARKNADO 4: THE 4TH AWAKENS': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five)The fourth installment in the popular Syfy network television film series (which began in 2013). This chapter was once again directed by Anthony C. Ferrante, and Thunder Levin once again wrote the screenplay (the duo performed the same duties on all three previous movies). Actors Ian Ziering and Tara Reid also reprise their starring roles (for the fourth time as well). Other returning cast members (from at least the previous installment) include David Hasselhoff and Ryan Newman; they're joined by newcomers Tommy Davidson, Gary Busey, Masiela Lusha, Cody Linley and Cheryl Tiegs. Cameos (this time around) include Stacey Dash, David Faustino, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Gilbert Gottfried, Steve Guttenberg, Lloyd Kaufman, Vince Neil, Wayne Newton and Al Roker (for his third time). The film has it's moments, but it's not as funny (or as cleverly bad) as the previous three installments. The story takes place five years after the events of the third film; and there hasn't been a 'sharknado' in all of that time. Thanks to technical genius Aston Reynolds (Davidson), and his company's atmosphere stabilizers. Fin (Ziering) has been enjoying the peace and quiet, and he's now traveling to Las Vegas; for a family reunion. Unfortunately, he soon learns, that his break, from the sharknado action, is now over. All of the 'SHARKNADO' films are laughably bad, which makes them also somewhat enjoyable. In my opinion the series reached it's peak in 2014 (with the first sequel). Now I think it's definitely running out of steam. This chapter is still mildly enjoyable, and it's also not really any worse than the other three chapters (how could it be). Fans of the series will probably still enjoy it.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://youtu.be/AZDkLpTvRzc

Sharknado 4 (2016)** (out of 4) The fourth film in the series has a company creating a special shield that has prevented any future sharnados. Unfortuantly when Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) is in Las Vegas the thing breaks down and soon more killer sharks are flying around.You know, I remember when the original movie aired on SyFy and there wasn't a bit of hype. The film turned out to be a pretty good movie as far as creature features go but sadly it became a social media hit and the producers used this to promote the next three films. SHARKNADO 4 is pretty much the same thing we saw in the previous movies but this one here goes even further in the social media game by having countless cameos from famous and semi-famous people.For the most part the film is mildly entertaining and especially the first twenty-minutes in Las Vegas. I thought the film managed to have some fast and fun action and there were some creative shark kills as well. The non-stop parading of cameos was a bit annoying but that was to be expected. The biggest problem with the remaining portion of the film is that there just wasn't anything fresh or original. Ziering and Tara Reid did a decent enough of a job but folks like David Hasselhoff and especially Gary Busey were just wasted.