Sharknado 4
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| German title | Sharknado 4 | ||
| Original title | Sharknado: The 4th Awakens | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2016 | ||
| length | 85 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | Anthony C. Ferrante | ||
| script | Thunder Levin | ||
| production | David Michael Latt | ||
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Christopher Cano Chris Ridenhour |
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| camera | Laura Beth Love | ||
| cut | Ana Florit | ||
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Sharknado 4 (Original title: Sharknado: The 4th Awakens ) is an American television - horror film from the year 2016 . It's after Sharknado - Enough said! (2013, then one annually), Sharknado 2 and Sharknado 3 the fourth part of the Sharknado series. It takes place five years after the third film. As with the previous films, Anthony C. Ferrante directed again. Sharknado 5 followed in 2017 : Global Swarming . Sharknado 6: The Last One was released in 2018.
Was produced Sharknado 4 of The Asylum and the transmitter Syfy , where it was also first broadcast on 31 July 2016th The main characters are again Fin Shepard ( Ian Ziering ) and April Wexler-Shepard ( Tara Reid ), as well as family members known from the previous parts. New additions are Fin's mother Raye (Cheryl Tiegs), April's father Wilford ( Gary Busey ), Fin's cousin Gemini ( Masiela Lusha ) and Gabby ( Imani Hakim ), Matt's wife, who was newly cast after Part 1. Fins and April's newborn son Gilbert at the end of the third part also appears as an acting character. Apart from this family constellation, Tommy Davidson takes on a leading role as Aston Reynolds, boss of the fictional company Astro-X. This part takes place in the prologue in Los Angeles , then in various places in the States, including Kansas and Chicago .
action
It has been five years since the events of Sharknado 3. The technology mogul Aston Reynolds and boss of the company Astro-X has developed Astro-Pods, technology stations with which the weather can be stabilized and sharknados prevented; In addition, the space department of the company has brought Colonel Gilbert Shepard from the moon and is now opening a themed hotel "Shark World" in Las Vegas, surrounded by sharks in huge pools of water. Fin Shepard lives with his mother and son Gilbert on his farm "April's Acres". He goes to Las Vegas with his cousin Gemini to meet his son Matt on the roof of a hotel during his home vacation. This is just above the meeting point on an airplane from which he and Gabrielle, after they have previously said yes, do a parachute jump. At the same time, a sandstorm develops nearby, which the nearby Astro-Pods cannot resolve. Why they fail is not immediately clear. The strong dust storm makes landing difficult for Matt and Gabby, catches the sharks from Reynolds Hotel and floods the city with the leaking water. The group comes together on a pirate ship just before the “Sandnado” turns towards the desert.
Aston Reynolds is under pressure to find out why their technology has failed, so he contacted Colonel Shepard, who works for Astro-X, assisted by his granddaughter Claudia and April's father Wilford. The latter brought April, who is considered dead by everyone else, back to life as a half cyborg and subjected it to training. Fin's group is on a train to Kansas. The sandstorm has taken up rocks in the desert and has become a “bouldernado”, destroyed the Hoover Dam , creating a tidal wave and now moves on parallel to the train. A shark kills the driver, so Fin has to get over the roofs into the driver's cab and pulls the emergency brake. Meanwhile, Reynolds has caused a demolition at the Grand Canyon that will stop the tide; However, Fin refuses to be his mouthpiece for the public that everything will be fine.
Fin's group comes to Texas, pursued by the “bouldernado”, which first becomes an “oilnado” in an oil field, then becomes a “fire paradise” when ignited and finally becomes a “lightningnado” when it encounters power lines. At the same time, a "Lavanado" is being built in Yellowstone National Park and a "Hailnado" is being built on the Golden Gate Bridge , which Aston can dissolve with improved technology. April, whose father has shown her that her family is dead, learns that Fin is still alive and goes to look for him, where she first meets Claudia and Colonel Gilbert. Together they confront Wilford with their knowledge, who in turn presents Gilbert with the developed mech suit from Astro-X. Fin's group arrives at his farm in Kansas, where his mother and son hide in the shelter from a tornado that sucks in the farm's cows and becomes a “cownado” and then merges with the “lightningnado”. Gabriel is killed by sharks, the farmhouse and the others in the Nado are torn away, Fin's mother Raye is left alone. The farmhouse from which April Fin and her son Gil freed, but who is still closed to her, ends up on the mayoress of Chicago of all places.
While the entire family is looking for a solution for the "Lightningnado" with Aston Reynolds, the latter moves into a nuclear power plant and becomes a "Nuclearnado". In order to transform this into a sharknado again, a quantum box is to be used to drive cooling water from Niagara Falls into the storm. In a wingsuit, Aston jumps onto the cliff, where he activates a quantum box; however, one is not enough and it falls down. The family lands on site to try again. While Fin in the Mech suit activates the second quantum box, Colonel Gilbert, Claudia and Matt are eaten by various sharks; Gemini falls down the falls, as does little Gilbert in a barrel, who is saved from April by her cyborg technology. Fin in the mech suit is also swallowed by a shark, a link in a chain of larger species at the end of which a blue whale lands on earth. Gilbert hears his father from his stomach and climbs into the whale, in which he cuts open shark by shark and takes out Claudia, Matt and Colonel Gilbert one after the other. From the last one, they grind the unconscious Fin, whom April reanimated with a defibrillator made from two sharks. In addition, Gemini pulls himself up on the cliffs, so that the entire family is saved and everything seems to be over. A scene during the credits shows that Aston also survived.
But all of a sudden the Eiffel Tower falls at the feet of the rescued from the sky , making it clear that Sharknados have become a global problem. Nova appears on this after it became clear in the course of the film that she is on vacation in Paris.
background
production
The production of the fourth part of the film series was announced immediately after the premiere of the third part. The content of the film could be influenced by the fans, who already showed a high willingness to comment on Twitter for the first part, by using the hashtags #AprilLives or #AprilDies after the cliffhanger of the third part indicated a possible death of April April's fate could decide. The second teaser revealed that she is alive.
publication
The film was first broadcast in the USA on Syfy on July 31, 2016, and in Germany on Syfy (Germany) on August 4, 2016. The official release date for DVD and Blu-Ray in Germany is August 31, 2016, published by the studio White Pearl Movies / daredo (soul food). While the first three parts premiered on German free TV in the SchleFaZ show in a SchleFaZ version, the presenters of the show Oliver Kalkofe and Peter Rütten originally announced that the fourth part would not be produced. Nevertheless, the free TV premiere took place on December 2, 2016 in the SchleFaZ framework.
Cameos and movie quotes
After the first part triggered a surprising hype, both successors were already full of cameos. As in these, American news programs that report on the Nados are shown on the effect of pseudo-authenticity: for example, the weatherman Al Roker appears for the third time. The representation of politics serves the same effect, for example Stacey Dash in the role of Sandra Mansfield plays the mayor of Chicago, while Gary Herbert , governor of Utah, appears as he himself at Salt Lake Comic Con next to its founder Dan Farr .
In Las Vegas there are people from the city like the Chippendales , one of whom asks Fin if he would not even want to join them; Ian Ziering did this in 2013. "Mr. Las Vegas " Wayne Newton sings the song" Sharknado "from the third part.
Director Anthony C. Ferrante also has a cameo, the singers Jedward appear for the second time after the third part. This time Sarah Knappik from Germany is represented for a scene .
The roles of Alexandra Paul and Gena Lee Nolin , who could be seen with David Hasselhoff at Baywatch, allude to this in a conversation with his role.
Steve Guttenberg appears again after the third part as Colton West, his role in Lavalantula - Attack of the Fire Spiders, in which Fin Shepard again had a cameo and because of the sharks, no time to help him with the spiders. In Sharknado 4 , Colton is friends with Fin; he delivers a car to him and reports that a spider invasion has been managed. The car is Christine .
In Texas, Fin's group comes into a chainsaw store where the Dog works. An employee calls out, swinging a chainsaw against the fire adobe: "That wouldn't be Texas without a chainsaw massacre !"
That Fin has a farm in Kansas that is haunted by a Nado in this part leads to multiple references to The Wizard of Oz . The way there is paved in yellow by a storm. The farmhouse lands on Chicago's mayor, whose legs are still sticking out in black and white stockings and red shoes. In Chicago, Fin's son Gilbert asks, "We're not in Kansas anymore, are we?"
There are particularly many references to the Star Wars franchise, after the name was mentioned in the third part and there was a lightsaber chainsaw. The new film Star Wars: The Force Awakens (original title: The Force Awakens ), released in 2015, is parodied by the title, the film poster and DVD / Bluray cover; Before the plot of the film, a yellow text runs back against a starry background, which tells the intermediate events. Fin has a chainsaw with three blades, like the triple lightsaber in the new movie. April has installed a lightsaber in her cyborg hand and, after presenting this, utters the famous sentence of the series: “May the force be with you.” Claudia confuses the two franchises when the Colonel brings a quote from Star Trek . Colonel Gilbert and little Gilbert imitate the music from Star Wars as they approach Niagara Falls. The chainsaw that little Gilbert uses to free his family from the sharks he pulls out of a stone like the Excalibur sword .
criticism
The tendency at Rotten Tomatoes was that Sharknado 4 no longer had the silliness paired charm of its predecessors, the dialogues were awkward and monotonous and had lost their bite.
Björn Becher from the online portal Filmstarts supported the opinion of Oliver Kalkofe and Peter Rütten that the film could rightly no longer be included in the SchleFaZ TV series because “the filmmakers working with director Anthony C. Ferrante used the 'Trash-Film 'almost like a monstrance'. It went on: “While in the direct predecessor and especially in 'Sharknado 2' they dealt very playfully with the idea of the deliberately bad and showed a lot of self-irony, they now use their status primarily as a justification for a sloppy cameo number revue, in not only dozens of American “celebrities”, but also It girls from all sorts of other countries (for Germany for a few seconds […] “jungle camp” star Sarah “Dingens” Knappik ). In addition, there is only room for almost as many product placements, while the few good ideas are mercilessly lost. "
On Web.de it said: “Finally. 'Sharknado 4' is finally starting. […] Warning: buckle up! ”“ Favorite discipline ”of the film is:“ Find the allusion ”. The conclusion was: “'Sharknado 4' is a completely over-the-top, brightly colored fake blood spectacle with 80s neon appeal and special effects, which looks like a CGI intern screwed together on a Windows Vista PC. But that's exactly how it should be. "
Jens Maier wrote in Stern that Sharknado's plot sounds "absurd" and that "he [is] that too". The film series is still a hit. With regard to the fourth film, Maier said: “It will be terrible.” The critic continued: “As in the first three parts, 'Sharknado' has nothing in common with The Birds except for bloodthirsty animals from above : bad actors, clumsy trick technique and an outrageous plot - that's what the fans of the Hai series love so much. "
Web links
- Sharknado 4 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sharknado The 4th Awakens Videos, Cast, Trailers to the movie
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Sharknado 4 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Does April Live or Die? ei syfy.com (English). Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Sharknado The 4th Awakens DVD
- ↑ a b Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens at filmstarts.de. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens at rogerebert.com (English). Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Jens Maier: Sharknado 4 - start the chainsaw, the sharks fly In: Stern . Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- ↑ a b Sharknado 4 - The 4th Awakens - The King of Trash Film review at web.de. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Sharknado 4 at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
