Mega Shark vs. Giant octopus
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| German title | Mega Shark vs. Giant octopus |
| Original title | Mega Shark vs. Giant octopus |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Jack Perez |
| script | Jack Perez |
| production |
David Michael Latt , David Rimawi |
| music | Chris Ridenhour |
| camera | Alexander Yellen |
| cut | Marq Morrison |
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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus is an American horror film from 2009. It was produced by the film company The Asylum, which is primarily known for low-budget films and mockbusters .
action
Researcher Emma MacNeil observes whales from a research submarine off the coast of Alaska when she witnesses a secret army experiment. Through this experiment, two prehistoric creatures are freed from the eternal ice, unnoticed by Emma: a huge shark and an equally huge octopus. A short time later, a drilling platform off the Japanese coast was destroyed by the octopus, and dead whales were washed ashore on the California coast .
Emma examines the dead whale and discovers a fragment of a huge tooth in a wound. Together with her former professor Lamar Sanders and the Japanese scientist Seiji Shimada, she finds out that the tooth belongs to a megalodon , a huge species that became extinct 1.5 million years ago. Video recordings of the submarine also allow them to identify the monstrous octopus as such. The three decide to continue their research on their own, but are picked up by an army unit and detained on a naval ship. There they develop the plan to render the monsters harmless using pheromones . The shark is to be lured into San Francisco Bay and the octopus to Tokyo Bay , where they are to be captured and used for science. However, the plan fails, whereupon both the octopus in Japan and the shark in California cause enormous damage. The Golden Gate Bridge is also destroyed.
Emma, Sanders and Shimada are now trying to lure the two creatures back to Alaska with traces of pheromones, where they were originally freed from the ice. The plan to let both fight against each other works, the monsters sink after a bitter fight seemingly dead in the depths of the Arctic Ocean.
reception
The film received mostly negative reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes website awards Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus a score of 15% on the tomatometer, which means the film is classified as rotten (rotten). This evaluation was based on 20 reviews, of which only three were positive.
The film website already viewed.de awarded to Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus one of ten possible points. The film is a "marine animal horror pod, as one has seen endless times and seen endless times better". Above all, the “antique-looking effects”, “incompetent-looking dialogues” and the film's lack of self-irony are criticized.
On the website die-besten-Horrorfilme.de Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus three out of five. Above all, the German dubbing, the “superficial dialogues” and various inconsistencies in the plot were rated negatively. However, the film was also certified as having "nice, trashy ideas, in the style of the Japanese monster films".
For the film service it was “a ridiculous and cheap animal horror film with a hair-raising plot. The endeavor to create an ecological sign fails all along the line. ”“ Not funny even for trash fans ”, stated Cinema .
background
Lead actress Debbie Gibson was mainly successful as a singer in the USA in the 1980s. In the 2014 film Mega Shark vs. Mechatronic Shark , she again embodied the role of researcher Emma MacNeil.
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus was The Asylum's first film to be premiered as a feature film, albeit to a limited extent. The cinema release in the United States was on May 26, 2009. In Germany, the film was released directly on DVD on December 10, 2009 and was shown for the first time on television on September 17, 2011 on Tele 5 .
Web links
- Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Mega Shark vs. Giant octopus . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 676 V).
- ↑ Mega Shark vs. Giant octopus. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 25, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Christian Mester: Review: Mega Shark vs. Giant octopus. (No longer available online.) Schonhaben.de, archived from the original on May 10, 2017 ; Retrieved January 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mega Shark vs. Giant octopus. (No longer available online.) Die-besten-Horrorfilme.de, archived from the original on January 25, 2016 ; Retrieved January 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mega Shark vs. Giant octopus. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus on cinema.de
