I saw this film on the shelf at Tesco's one day and just had to buy it. Taking the idea of the now extinct Megaladon, commonly believed to have been a much larger, whale hunting ancestor of today's Great White Shark and adding in a massive Octopus capable of taking down Oil Rigs, Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus is simply a monster movie set in the ocean.
Featuring Debbie Gibson, the plot of the film is that millions of years ago the Mega Shark and Giant Octopus of the title were so caught up in the act of biting/strangling each other to death that they ignored the ice that was settling around them and ended up being deep frozen. Fast forward to the modern day and the U.S. Navy is secretly testing a banned sonar system that sends a nearby pod of whales stark raving bonkers so they bash themselves against the ice. This breaks the ice down enough for the two creatures to be released before going on to wreak havoc on the world.
What follows is a catalogue of hilarity as the Shark and the Octopus between take down a battleship, a destroyer, an F-18, a jumbo jet (the Shark deserves a gold medal for the high jump on this one), a couple of submarines and in one truly fantastic, side splittingly funny triumph of CGI, the Shark bites the Golden Gate bridge in half.
Add into this some truly bad acting from people who probably realised their film careers aren't going to take off anytime soon, along with repeated use of the exact same shot (admittedly it's a low budget film) and you have a film that is the perfect way to end a bad day because no matter what's on your mind, watching this film will make you forget everything else.
Overall I'm going to give this film a very good minus four out of five and recommend that if you see it in your local supermarket that you put in your basket. You won't regret it, too much.
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