Leofwine_draca THE 4TH AWAKENS is the latest in the interminable series of SHARKNADO films by The Asylum. The first couple were fun, cheesy B-movies, but the last two have been dumb comedies full of cameoing stars and stupid in-jokes. By now the franchise is a joke, each film worse than its predecessor, and this one's no exception. This is a amateurish movie packed with mindless plotting and terrible CGI effects throughout. The dialogue is deliberately stupid while cameoing actors Gary Busey and David Hasselhoff are dragged through the mud constantly. Tara Reid and Ian Ziering do their best to look earnest but are an embarrassment, while the film's effects take some beating in terms of cruddiness.

Bodo Just like we'd come to expect from the series, SHARKNADO 4: THE 4TH AWAKENS is campy B-movie-esque fun. A ton of crappy CGI, tacky one-liners and over-the-top acting.Watch it only after you've seen the other three installments, and only if you liked those. This one definitely caters for fans. No time is spent whatsoever introducing any of the characters—everything is taken for granted.If you do like the series, you're up for all kinds of -nados this time, bouldernados, sandnados ... lots of deliberate play with its own themes, infused with self-aware irony. I enjoyed watching this, although as far as B-movies go, I don't like the fact that they're now making a "B-movie" for the sake of making B-movie... while also catering to a mainstream audience. Some of the genuineness of true B-movies is definitely lost.

Jackson Booth-Millard A study found that people who watch bad films on purpose is linked to being intellectual, so that's good to know, you'd have to be a genius to understand how the makers can continue making these trashy movies, probably because of the buzz from social media, I just watched this fourth entry for fun, and as a critic. Basically it has been five years since the last sharknado that devastated Washington, D.C., Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) has moved with his mother Raye (Cheryl Tiegs) and young son Gil (twins Christopher and Nicholas Shone) to a farm in Kansas, while April Wexler (Tara Reid) is thought to be dead, after being crushed by space shuttle wreckage. Tech mogul Aston Reynolds (Tommy Davidson) owns the company Astro-X, who have developed high-speed space travel, which was used to rescue Fin's father Colonel Gilbert Shepard (David Hasselhoff) from the moon, they have also developed technology capable of using radio waves to diffuse tornadoes, leading to the end of the sharknado phenomenon. In Las Vegas, Reynolds has built and opens a shark- themed hotel featuring a giant tank of sharks, a sandstorm tornado develops that cannot be diffused by Astro-X, the tornado sucks up the sharks, creating a new sharknado, the city is devastated, but Fin is there with his cousin Gemini (Masiela Lusha), his son Matt (Cody Linley) and Matt's fiancée Gabrielle (Imani Hakim) to work together and fight it. Following the new sharknado dispersing, Colonel Shepard is working with Astro-X, to help develop a weaponised mechanical suit, aided by his granddaughter Claudia (Ryan Newman) in San Francisco, as well as April's scientist father Wilford (Gary Busey), who has secretly brought April back to life, as a reconstructed cyborg. Fin, Gabrielle, Gemini and Matt on a train back to Kansas are forced to fight against a new sharknado forming and destroying the Hoover Dam, the Astro-X blowing up the Grand Canyon causes the tornado to suck up rocks, becoming a "bouldernado". When the train reaches Arizona, Fin meets Reynolds to get a lowdown on the situation, then he and the gang grab chainsaws and construction gear to fight the tornado, which has hit an oil field, becoming an oilnado, and then igniting to become a "firenado", meanwhile two other sharknadoes develop, one heading north of San Francisco to become a "hailnado", the other near Yellowstone National Park and its volcano to become a "lavanado". At the Kansas State Line, Gabrielle is killed by a tornado that picked up cows, a "cownado", to Matt's devastation, meanwhile April ignores her father's objections to stab in the laboratory, and goes to reunite with her family, including young Gil who has never met her mother before, he shuns her. Reynolds informs the group that Astro-X may have a way to shut down the new tornadoes, it works to stop the hailnado and lavanado, but the cownado has evolved further into a "lightningnado", and it gets worse when it strikes a nuclear power plant, turning it into a deadly "nukenado" with radioactive sharks. Using Colonel Shepard's mechanical suit, they must remove the radioactivity by drawing massive amounts of water into it, so they use the water of Niagara Falls, Reynolds appears to fall to his death helping to set off the device they need, and Colonel Shepard is swallowed by a shark before he can put on the suit on. Fin puts on the suit, and April with her robotic abilities assists, Claudia and Matt are also swallowed by sharks, the device is set, but Fin is electrocuted, the nukenado is neutralised back into a sharknado, and the storm is destroyed by the Astro-X technicians. Gil gets his own small chainsaw to cut open the sharks, Colonel Shepard, Matt and Claudia are all alive, and April and the Colonel use improvised CPR to revive an unconscious Fin. Gil finally accepts April as his mother, but before they can celebrate the end of the sharknadoes, the Eiffel Tower has been blown all the way from France and falls from the sky, they realise the tornadoes are now a global problem. Also starring Duane 'Dog' Chapman as Chop Top, Anthony C. Ferrante (also directing) as Fenwick, Aladdin's Gilbert Gottfried as Ron McDonald, Steve Guttenberg as Colton, Wayne Newton, Al Roker, Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson as Driver and The X Factor's Jedward (John and Edward Grimes) as Astro- X Techs. The acting in it is pointless mentioning, well known faces not taking themselves seriously in a dumb project, like the other three films it is deliberately trashy and absurd, the special effects are cheap and unconvincing, I may have tittered a little because of some deliberate obvious spoof references, e.g. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Wizard of Oz, and of course how ridiculous and idiotic it is, another sequel not to bother with, an unintelligent science-fiction horror. Poor!

Marshal Phipps It's been five years since the last sharknado event, Fin has moved to a farm in Kansas, where he lives with his mother Raye and his young son Gil who thinks his mother is a shark since he was born in one in the last film, yeah. April is believed dead after being crushed by the wreckage of the space shuttle, later on it's found out she was reassembled as a cyborg in secret by her father. Aston Reynolds, a tech mogul, has developed a new type of high-speed space travel with his company Astro-X which was used to save Fin's father from the moon. Astro-X has also developed a technology that is capable of using radio waves to diffuse tornadoes. When Fin goes to Las Vegas and a new sharknado appears, things goes balls off the walls crazy from there.Besides sharkandoes, we also get other types of crazy and unrealistic tornadoes with the exception of the firenado which is a real thing.The movie is packed with movie references all over, some examples are The Wizard of Oz, Twister (with the cows in the tornado), Snakes on a Train (when the sharks attacks the Amtrak train), and Christine. Let's not forget the new line of celebrity cameos like Gary Busey, the Chippendales Dancers, Gilbert Gottfried, Wayne Newton, and Dr. Drew Pinsky.Out of all the Sharkando films, this one is definitely the most insane. Despite the thrills this movie delivers it loses the ludicrous charm of its predecessors and consequently much of its bite.