"First time flying on a pterodactyl?"
"Yeah."
"Scared?"
"Hell no."
Those lines are said - oh - about 8 minutes into The Last Sharknado: It's About Time (a subtitle that, once again, is more clever than anything in the actual movie). Yup, we're reviewing a Sharknado again. You can skip on down to the predictable score or just surf through my word buffet here, but - dammit - it's the final hurrah and we're here for it. Even if the buzz really isn't.
Yes, the "so-dumb-it's-smart" (but is it really?) silly, campy hubbub that swirled around the Sharknado series, like so many ferocious flying sharks, dissipated a while ago. The novelty of Syfy leaning into its purposefully schlocky Saturday night monster movies with this go-for-joke franchise, featuring a who's who of people who haven't been "who" in a while wore off years back and all that's left is a lot of noise. So much noise. The Last Sharknado is almost non-stop cluster-chaos.
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"Yeah."
"Scared?"
"Hell no."
Those lines are said - oh - about 8 minutes into The Last Sharknado: It's About Time (a subtitle that, once again, is more clever than anything in the actual movie). Yup, we're reviewing a Sharknado again. You can skip on down to the predictable score or just surf through my word buffet here, but - dammit - it's the final hurrah and we're here for it. Even if the buzz really isn't.
Yes, the "so-dumb-it's-smart" (but is it really?) silly, campy hubbub that swirled around the Sharknado series, like so many ferocious flying sharks, dissipated a while ago. The novelty of Syfy leaning into its purposefully schlocky Saturday night monster movies with this go-for-joke franchise, featuring a who's who of people who haven't been "who" in a while wore off years back and all that's left is a lot of noise. So much noise. The Last Sharknado is almost non-stop cluster-chaos.
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