Sharknado 2: The Second One

Plot synopsis:
Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) and April Wexler (Tara Reid) are on a plane headed for New York City for a signing of April's book, "How To Survive A Sharknado". The flight attendant (Kelly Osbourne) is a fan and asks for an autograph. She calls Fin a hero, but the events of the last "sharknado" in L.A. have left him rather traumatized and shaken. In a segment reminiscent of a Twilight Zone episode, Fin looks outside his window notices thunderclaps and strange things flying in the sky. He sees a shark hit the wing of the plane, and he starts to panic. The flight attendant and air marshal calm him down, but suddenly, a whole bunch of sharks start flying everywhere, and one gets sucked into the plane's turbines. The engine breaks off and opens a big hole in the plane, sucking people out and letting some sharks in. Both pilots (Robert Hays and Rachel True) are eaten, forcing Fin to walk into the cockpit and take control of the plane. April almost gets sucked out, but she hangs on for dear life. The air marshal passes her his gun. She shoots a scarred shark, which bites off her left hand. Fin manages to land the plane very roughly.In the next scene in New York's Times Square, we meet Fin's older sister, Ellen (Kari Wuhrer), along with her teenage daughter Mora (Courtney Baxter), Ellen's husband Martin Brody (Mark McGrath), and their 20-something son Vaughn (Dante Palminteri) sightseeing in the city. Fin and Martin were once best pals but they stopped talking to each other once Martin married Ellen. Martin and Vaughn go check out a Mets game at Citi Field while Ellen and Mora meet up with her friends Polly (Sandra Denton) and Chrissie (Tiffany Shepis) to go to check out the Statue of Liberty. They tell Ellen about the plane accident. She calls Fin, who is at the hospital with April. She is being treated for her missing limb and severe blood loss.Meanwhile, Matt Lauer and Al Roker (both playing themselves) report on the news that strange weather is hitting the Big Apple. There appears to be snow headed by, along with rain.Fin meets up with Martin and Vaughn at Citi Field since Ellen left him a ticket. He learns that since Citi Field is close to the water, the storm and the sharks will hit there first.There, he reunites with old friend Bryan (Judah Friedlander) and Skye (Vivica A. Fox). Skye apparently used to date Fin and still has feelings for him. She kisses him but he tells her he's with April. Bryan also meets one of his favorite baseball players, Harland "The Blaster" McGuinness (Richard Kind), who played a bad game and failed his father. The storm then starts to hit the stadium, with sharks starting to fall on the place. Fin tells his friends to grab what they can from the gift stand, so they grab bats to swing back against the sharks. Harland even ends up whacking a shark into the Citi Field sign.The sharks start coming down all over the ocean as the four ladies leave Liberty Island. On the ferry back to Manhattan, a shark lunges at them, mauling Chrissie's face until Ellen kills it. Chrissie dies from her wounds. Once they get off the ferry, they run for their lives. The storm intensifies so heavily that it breaks off the head of the Statue of Liberty, crushing a man in the process. The ladies make it onto a garbage truck, but the men operating it are also crushed by the head, so Ellen must drive them to safety.Meanwhile, Fin and company board the subway. He and Martin wonder to each other just why they stopped talking to each other when they used to be "the dynamic duo". Unfortunately, the train starts to flood, so Fin orders everybody to move to the next car. Bryan ends up getting eaten by a shark, as does Perez Hilton. Fin fights off the shark that has made it onto the train. Vaughn hits the emergency brakes, and everybody runs out of the subway. For a moment, Fin doesn't appear to get out of the train, but he shows up.On the street, the gang hails a taxi driven by a guy named Ben (Judd Hirsch), who gave Fin a lift to Citi Field and is also a fan of his heroics. Fin devises a plan to throw a bomb into the sharknado to stop it like last time. They just need to find a place that has a lot of weapons, including chainsaws and propane tanks. Ben stops at a pizza place where Fin finds an old friend who owes him something. He appears hesitant, until a shark falls through the ceiling. The man stabs the shark and Fin whacks it into the oven. The guy lets Fin take whatever he needs.The streets start flooding heavily. The cab gets flooded and sharks start surrounding it. They set up a rope to swing to safety. Skye and Vaughn make it across together, followed by Martin. Ben tries to swing, but he gets pulled down and killed by sharks. Fin hops onto the sharks Frogger-style to get to his friends, giving Martin a perfect opportunity to make a "jumping the shark" joke.Fin, Martin, Skye, and Vaughn make it to a hotel, where Ellen and Mora meet them after Polly is crushed by a whale shark. Fin and Skye ride the elevator to the roof to hurl their bombs into the sharknadoes. From their conversation, we learn that Fin and Skye did love each other, but Fin didn't have her father's approval. She says that should not have mattered to either of them. They get to the roof, where they make a slingshot and launch the bombs into the sharknadoes. However, they are not strong enough to make any significant damage. Instead, Fin sets the sharks on fire, which fall down and crush/burn everyone. Downstairs, it starts to flood, making Martin, Ellen, Mora, and Vaughn run upstairs. They are met halfway by Fin and Skye, who are outrunning the flaming sharks. They find a fire escape, but Martin and Fin must distract a shark to get the fire axe to break the door open. They get out, but not before Fin swings his axe at a shark.April makes her way out of the hospital as it starts to flood. She helps a young girl get out safely where she is escorted by a nurse. April then boards a fire truck and finds Fin and the others to take them to the Empire State Building, as a third sharknado is trying to merge with the other two. Fin stands among the New Yorkers and rallies them together, stirring up their confidence with New York pride (and the fact that he chainsaws a shark in half before everyone else), because when something bites New Yorkers, NEW YORKERS BITE BACK!Fin and Skye get into the ESB where they plan to take out the sharknadoes by blowing up a tank of Freon. Fin makes it to the top of the tower, with Skye staying downstairs to make sure the cables stick together. A lightning bolt hits the cables, causing the tank to explode and send an electrical surge into the sharknadoes. The explosion hurls Fin and Skye into the air, where Skye is ripped apart by a shark. Fin rides the scarred shark that bit off April's arm with a hook, impaling it on the top of the tower. All the other sharks come falling down, and the New Yorkers grab their weapons and take out every shark they can. Another shark comes down on the tower, but April takes it out with an electric saw attached to her arm.Fin pulls April's arm out of the scarred shark's mouth and takes off her ring, proposing to her again. She accepts and they kiss. The New Yorkers cheer them on, and a truck full of fireworks blows up, sending colorful explosions into the air. Fin tells April that he loves New York.The final word 'FIN' appears in the form of building lights on the Empire State Building.A scene during the end credits shows Fin eating a slice of pizza at the same pizza parlor where he earlier asked for help.

Tags: absurd

Review:
The ultimate in guilty pleasure, Sharknado 2 is equally as bad (good) as the original although you can tell they had a bigger budget for the sequel because the special effects are better and there are a ton of cameos.Ian Ziering, I have to give it to him here, he really gives his all and was fun as hell to watch running around New York saving the day, kicking shark ass with his chainsaw.Lots of laughs, a good time, exactly what I was expecting from a made for TV B-movie.
A freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished, iconic sites - and only Fin (Ian Ziering) and April (Tara Reid) can save the Big Apple.Whether or not this tops the first film is hard to say, but they pulled all the stops when it came to references for "Taxi", "Airplane", "Jaws" and maybe even "Evil Dead".
This brings about the rather fun and enjoyable pace which has all sorts of action spread throughout given the larger city-ground to play with, that gives this a much bigger scope with which to engage those set-pieces, and the confrontations are so much more fun including the chase through the streets by the dismembered statue's head that crashes through the cars and buildings, the battle on the subway car with the different passengers being taken out with the sharks and trying to escape from the flooded streets of Times Square.
Many of the one-off gags and cameos are designed to pay this off and follow the story throughout by constantly employing the sharks to serve as obstacles to overcome and that not only makes them a credible threat but also keeps the energy going by giving this the kind of silly universe that provides plenty of fun to be had not only with the idea of the creatures getting involved in the storm but also the rather goofy concept of providing commentary on the situation.
When Sharks Fly. Things have calmed down since the first "Sharknado" (2013), but not for long Romantically inclined Ian Ziering (as Fin Shepard) and raspy-voiced Tara Reid (as April Wexler) are on a flight to JFK International Airport in New York City.
Despite the fact that several passengers have their heads eaten by flying sharks, and others are whisked out of the plane, many people are reluctant to believe Ziering's dire warning about another "Sharknado".
Mostly oblivious to the foreboding weather, citizens go about their everyday business...Then, the shark hits the fan...For years, the Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi) Channel has been slaughtering science-fiction film aficionados with the some of the worst "original movies" ever to see the green light of day.
The acting is bad - but it's called Sharknado, the special effects can be done in about an hour with After Effects and any 3D animation software - but it's called Sharknado, the ability to survive an electrocution-enforced explosion on the Empire State building, forcing the person to chainsaw sharks in mid-flight but then surfs on one back down to the ground is impossible - BUT IT'S CALLED SHARKNADO.So, I really don't need to say who would like this movie and who wouldn't.
A freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished, iconic sites - and only Fin and April can save the Big Apple.In a sort of twisted sense, I kind of love this movie.
Ferrante, written by Thunder Levin and released by The Asylum film studio; which specializes in ultra-low-budget B movies and 'mockbusters' (like 'TRANSMORPHERS', 'AVH: ALIEN VS.
Ian Ziering and Tara Reid reprise their starring roles, from the first film, and this time they battle a sharknado in New York.
Fox, Mark McGrath, Kari Wuhrer, Judd Hirsch and a slew of celebrity cameos (like Robert Hays, Andy Dick, Judah Friedlander, Billy Ray Cyrus, Wil Wheaton, Downtown Julie Brown, Richard Kind, Kelly Ripa, Michael Strahan, Matt Lauer, Al Roker and many others).
After surviving a freak storm in Los Angeles, which caused sharks to be sucked up in waterspouts and dropped down on the city, Fin Shepard (Ziering) and his ex-wife April Wexler (Reid) are traveling to New York City.
He has to deal with some relationship drama as well; involving Ellen's husband (McGrath) and an ex-girlfriend (Fox).I normally hate SyFy Channel flicks (as well as most movies distributed by The Asylum) but I do enjoy watching these 'SHARKNADO' films.
I, for one, am going to invest in a chainsaw, and keep more propane and freon gas bottles around.No one is ever safe from this, just like all of Mother Nature's quirks.In this documentary, the possibility of combining a snownado with a tropical sharknado is explored, and what better setting than gritty New York?The star-studded cast lend credence to our most horrifying nightmare: Sharks in a Tornado, coming at you!Offsetting the grim realism of death by shark is the exploration of human frailty, and what it means to keep a relationship alive in an ever changing modern world, when fame comes easy, and for all the wrong reasons.Sometimes it takes going back to your roots, and the shared experience of tragic personal loss from a Sharknado, to realize who your loved ones really are, and how much they matter to you..
Sharknado 2 is never what you call dull and never tries to do too much or too little, there are plenty of funny moments- intentional and unintentional- like the ending, the saw hand and Ziering's rodeo ride on a big shark and while it is very corny the dialogue raises a number of laughs.
Sharknado 2 does however have its fair share of problems, starting with that the plot is too much of a tired re-hash at times except with a different setting and Tara Reid's unspeakably awful acting, completely expressionless and you know there is something wrong when her scream on the plane is her best acting in the entire movie and even that was bad acting.
That there are many new attractions in Sharknado 2 is admirable and while they are fun to watch a lot of them are too short in length and are further hindered from pretty bad to awful CGI.
The makers of this film knew people would watch and laugh at anything that had Sharknado in its title, and therefore dropped the ball and decided not to revel in the plots absurdities, but resort to continuity porn, product placement, and celebretard cameos.
After a dangerous flight to New York that shows signs of another shark attack, Fin (Ian Ziering) must lead his family members through a shark attack in the Big Apple in this new sequel.You must admit that the Sharknado films are original and there are no films like it.
It also shows how stupid human race, after the weather will be raining sharks, everyone in NY goes outside.My mates and I enjoyed the original and this was a film.we wanted to see but lacked the time to watch all of it so we had to skip the slower parts of the movie, but we shall go back and re-watch it.
In some scenes i was actually wondering if she did some artistic statement by trying to acting like a bad actor imitating a worse one, or just having some kind of a seizure ?There seems to be another one next year, lets hope it crank that sillymeter up even higher.
In my opinion, this was on par if not better and it even had more memorable moments while following sequel rules.People who like to bash these movies obviously don't know how to have a good time.
It's been a long time since there has been a good "B" movie and I do mean as in BAD, it's awful and I love it.
Your super bad acting is stooping to new lows, seriously you embraced this movie and roll like no one else could.
This film is the least bit enjoyable and I don't know how they got Kurt Angle in it I mean he must really be desperate for fame and money he's got to do these types of stupid movies just like the other film he made a couple years ago called Death From Above!
Instead I got treated to everything that makes a film poor with the added slap in the face being that it is not funny!The plot and performances are garbage with a special mention going to Tara Reid who is just in this for the money and can't act at all.
You were good as the bit*h in American pie Tara but time has withered away your looks and acting ability.Cameo are nauseating in this "film" with some people randomly appearing in the film just because they were asked to and needed to pay rent somehow.
For instance there is a scene where Richard Kind plays a homerun guy and hits a shark with a baseball bat then doesn't appear in the movie againI know how stupid that sounds but it is actually in this "film" for no real reason.
Having survived the Sharknado in Los Angeles, pro-surfer Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) and his ex-wife April (Tara Reid) fly to New York City to promote their book, How To Survive A Sharknado, where they find the same thing happening all over again, only on an even bigger scale.I usually prefer my crap movies to be bad by accident, although I do admit to enjoying intentionally crap disaster flick Sharknado just a bit more than I probably should have done.
Ferrante attempts to outdo his first film in terms of sheer silliness, and largely succeeds with some truly ridiculous set-pieces, but with essentially the same plot (full of gaping plot holes, not that that matters one bit), and equally dire CGI effects, I found that the novelty soon wore off, leaving me rather frustrated by the fact that there are now at least two more sequels, and a bloody good chance that I'll make myself watch them..
Ferrante Review It's happening again,O no another asylum piece of crap that is too stupid for words.They have made sequels to those Megashhark movies but know it's the return of the Sharknado.
After surviving a plane ride through the newly produced out of nowhere sharknado that same guy from the first movie lands in new york meets up with family and one friend in the past and go kill some sharks while trying to save his sister.
I expected him to put up a sign that says: "NEW, Shark Pizza soon".4)In one scene the hero says to his friend, "we need a bigger bomb', she should have said, "yeah, like Heavens's Gate".There were some of these missed opportunities, but overall a fun, fast moving film with good homages to other similar movies.
The acting is so bad, the effects are cheesy and there was always a character that died nearly every time they tried to get to safety of run for there dear lives It's not the worst movie but the first one kicked shark tush!
SHARKNADO was a surprisingly entertaining Z-grade movie, probably the most famous Asylum film out there, a film which achieved "so bad it's good" status.
A sequel would inevitably follow, this time shifting the action to New York and bringing back the two main cast members, Tara Reid and Ian Ziering.Sadly, it's a pretty dismal effort which turns out to be far less enjoyable than the ultra-cheesy original.
Saw the first one, had to see this one also, as the first one this is also crazy in many ways, well off course they have to do the most reasonable thing a sequel can do, so they have to top the first one and boy do they manage to do that :)This is New York, and in NY they are more bad ass, they are more though and the movie really tries to make that statement stick by saying it over and over again during the film and making speeches etc.There are less cool scenes in this one, they are trying to hard and not succeeding.
Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014)** (out of 4) Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) and his ex-wife April (Tara Reid) find themselves in New York City just as a massive storm starts to roll in bringing killer sharks with it.SHARKNADO came out of nowhere and become a massive success in its own right, although I think the title itself was "known" by more people than actually saw the film.
it would have at least been OK had the sharks looked real or even just the water.....cant stand anything with really bad graphics.I feel like there was really NO EFFORT in making this movie...
Sharknado – if someone were to tell you that a movie with that title would've ever been a success you would of laughed in there face, too bad it's actually true and low and behold after the Syfy channels greatest ever hit came and went a sequel was commissioned, the big decision being what to call it?
For bad or for much worse.Here I will attempt to convince you that this year's best worst movie needs to be seen.◦After the success of the scene in the first, expect more flying sharks being dispatched by chainsaws, this time with a super-sized chainsaw.◦If you love z grade celebrity cameos, my goodness will you love The Second One. Such royalty that graces the screen includes Kelly Osbourne, Billy Ray Cyrus and Andy Dick.
The first "Sharknado" is a bad movie that the audiences can watch with the crowd or group of friends and have a good time with.
Including funny Star Wars and Twilight Zone references, and a full Subway advertisement featuring Jared.-I can't really think of anything else to add.-It is violent, but stupid cheesy, so not too bad.-So Sharknado 2 is uber dumb with some very entertaining cameos and references and some pretty cool air fights with chainsaws.
I knew that this was going to be bad and it was just repeating itself again and again and that the acting was going to be bad too and that cameo's would appear by 'famous' actors from the horror genre and that the effects would be ridiculous from the beginning like a lot of CGI used for an airplane and for the sharks itself and I knew that it would be from the cheapest CGI you will come across and I also knew that the teeth of Tara Reid would be new and attract you from the movie and I also knew that continuity doesn't exist at all in this flick.
Fin and his ex-wife April(Tara Reid) are New York bound, when the plane is attacked by swirling and diving sharks inside some bad weather.
Sharks in the streets, on stairwells, falling from the sky, swimming down NYC streets - yep it was completely silly.But, I still enjoyed it because all of the actors did a fantastic job of B-movie acting - not a single one of them acted like they thought the premise was stupid, or the dialog corny as all hell, or some of the special effects unexpectedly dumb.If you're going to make this kind of tongue in cheek type disaster movie, this is the way to do it.Great fun, beyond belief, but an entertaining way to spend a late night couple of hours.It's got to be seen to be believed - don't just listen to what your friends say about it - watch it, it makes every other cheesy movie pale by comparison!Favorite part?
And of course it is up to Fin Shepard (played by Ian Ziering) to save the day and rescue New York from destruction.Effect-wise, then "Sharknado 2: The Second One" was much similar to the first movie.
hence the warning)What a rotten piece of garbage this film was - so much so, I felt the need to jump on and write a review here.The first SHARKNADO was fun, an entertaining B-movie (Big-Time!) because it took itself seriously - one of the markings of a good B-movie.
Bad acting, an unforgivable script, sub-par special effects (yes, even for SyFy Channel), extreme closeups used to hide the fact they didn't have the budget to show the real action, sharks that kill by landing on you instead of biting (a major theme, here), a total defiance of the laws of gravity (not to mention common sense), and more stuff I'd think about if I didn't have a headache by now all, add up to make SHARKNADO 2: THE SECOND ONE a smug, pretentious, self-inflated, trite, and absolutely dull-beyond-belief 85 minutes that I not only had to force myself to sit through (hoping SOMETHING good would happen, because I loved the first one so much) ...
That dynamic was able to jump the requirements for a great B-movie and made the experience fun even though you could feel the apathy coming off the film (with the exception of Ian Ziering, he clearly was giving his all and looked like he thought it was his comeback role).The problem the sequel has is that the producers and crew want to be a part of the joke and pretty much made the film one giant self-reference and it is done with such calamity that I half expected the director to lean into the shot and say, "Ha ha, we're making fun of ourselves.
These Sharknado movies have to be some of the dumbest things ever put on film.
Anyway, Ian Ziering and Tara Reid (and Vivica A Fox and Kari Wuhrer) all must survive in New York City as sharks spin out of tornadoes and fall from the sky towards people (and them).
Its campy and has so many great movie references from films like Airplane!