Sharknado 2
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| German title | Sharknado 2 | ||
| Original title | Sharknado 2: The Second One | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2014 | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | Anthony C. Ferrante | ||
| script | Thunder Levin | ||
| production | David Michael Latt | ||
| music | Chris Cano | ||
| camera | Ben Demaree | ||
| cut | Ana Florit Vashi Nedomansky | ||
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Sharknado 2 (original title: Sharknado 2: The Second One ) is an American television - Horror of especially for low-budget films and so-called Mockbuster known film company The Asylum from the year 2014 . The film is the sequel to Sharknado - Enough said! (2013) and, like its predecessor, an in-house production by the TV station Syfy . In 2015 it was continued with the film Sharknado 3 .
action
Fin flies to New York City with his ex-wife April, with whom he has since reconciled , where they want to visit their school friend, Skye. During the approach, the plane gets caught in a storm, and Fin realizes that it is a sharknado , a tornado that carries sharks with it.
While April ends up in the hospital, with an arm bitten off by a shark, Fin searches for Skye, who is at the New York Mets ballpark with Fin's brother-in-law and his son . You can barely save yourself when the storm throws the sharks over the city. Together with Fin's sister Ellen, who was just able to save herself from attacking sharks with her daughter by ferry from Liberty Island , they take on the fight against the sharks flying around. These meanwhile devastate the entire city, including the Statue of Liberty .
Armed with chainsaws and self-made bombs, they take action against the sharks. It comes to the showdown at the Empire State Building , where Fin, April and Skye can prevent multiple tornadoes from combining into one giant tornado by exploding tanks filled with halogenated hydrocarbons . Skye is killed. At the end of the film, Fin kills the shark that bit off April's arm. In his body he finds her arm, pulls her wedding ring from her finger and asks April whether she would marry him again, to which she says yes.
production
The film was first broadcast in the USA on July 30, 2014. In Germany, the film was first shown on pay TV on Syfy on July 31, 2014. The first broadcast on free TV took place on November 21, 2014 as part of the program The Worst Movies of all time are held on Tele 5 .
To promote Sharknado 2 in advance of the broadcast, Syfy hired David Hasselhoff , who also alludes to his roles in Knight Rider and Baywatch in the commercial for the film .
The third part Sharknado 3 was broadcast by Syfy on July 22, 2015.
reception
When it premiered, Sharknado 2 had the highest audience rating that the TV broadcaster Syfy had ever been able to record. 3.9 million viewers saw the US premiere, 1.3 million of them from the advertising-relevant target group between 18 and 49 years of age. When it first aired, the term Sharknado became one of the most tweeted terms in the United States.
"The sequel 'Sharknado 2' clearly surpasses the debut in every respect: a more interesting setting, better gags, tighter action and a confident, self-deprecating game of one's own absurdity."
“It shouldn't be too difficult to put Sharknado in the shade with a sequel. In fact, trash fans can look forward to a film that surpasses its predecessor in all respects. Both sharks and humans bless the temporal in various ways in Sharknado 2: The Second One, in keeping with the variety of ideas. In addition, there are not only innumerable allusions, for example to Part 1 or the sports drama 42, the story also parodies an homage to the action film of the 90s bursting with sarcasm and self-irony - overacting, hypocritical dramaturgy and clichéd story development in favor of the protagonist included. All of this culminates in an explosive finale that could hardly have been more spectacular. "
Others
The taxi driver Ben is played by Judd Hirsch , who starred in the US sitcom Taxi . The scene in which Fin saves himself from the taxi by jumping over the sharks is a reference to the video game Frogger . In addition, the scene self-deprecatingly visualizes the American idiom Jumping the shark .
In the episode Portrait of a Scared Man (Nightmare at 20,000 Feet) from the mystery and science fiction series Twilight Zone , the pilot of the plane is called Bob Wilson, just like the pilot in Sharknado 2 . The opening scene of the film, in which Fin sees a shark on the wing of the aircraft, also alludes to this episode.
Many passages of Captain Wilson's text allude to Robert Hay's earlier role as Ted Strikers in The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Plane . So he asks u. a. his co-pilot asked whether she had eaten the fish or the chicken from the available on-board menus (in the original, the crew fell ill with fish poisoning. Striker, a former fighter pilot, however, had eaten chicken, did not become ill and was able to save the aircraft).
There are also allusions to the Jaws film series in Sharknado 2 . The characters Martin Brody and Ellen Brody have the same names as Roy Scheider's main role and his wife, played by Lorraine Gary . Furthermore, the character played by Billy Ray Cyrus, Dr. Quint on the shark hunter Quint, portrayed by Robert Shaw in The Great White Shark .
In episode 23 of the seventh season of The Big Bang Theory , the self-playing Wil Wheaton says goodbye to his fellow actress Penny ( Kaley Cuoco ), who were both recently fired from a low-budget film production, on the grounds that he had to become one Casting for Sharknado 2 .
In London, the TV broadcaster Syfy advertised the film in a fish shop with a shark dummy. The artificial shark was draped in the shop window and “jumped” at customers entering the shop.
Web links
- Sharknado 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sharknado 2 atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Sharknado 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 055 V).
- ↑ SchleFaZ: “Sharknado 2” opens new trash festival
- ↑ Sharknado 2: David Hasselhoff reaches for the chainsaw. The standard, accessed August 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! Metacritic, accessed July 24, 2015.
- ↑ US ratings: Sharknado 2 with a record audience. serienjunkies.de, accessed on August 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Sharknado 2 ensures record ratings and a Twitter hurricane. filmstarts.de, accessed on August 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Review: Sharknado 2. filmstarts.de, accessed on August 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Sharknado 2: The Second One. dvd-forum.at, accessed on August 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Shark dummy attacks unsuspecting British. RP online, accessed August 5, 2014 .