Rifftrax Presents Sharknado [Rifftrax Live Event Review]

I love Fathom Events. Well, more specifically, I love Rifftrax Live Events. I've been to quite a few... but this might be the biggest named movie I've seen them do. Even bigger than Birdemic.

That's it... Frack Physics.

And for the life of me, I have no idea how this movie became so popular. It may be the single... no it is likely the third stupidest movie I've ever seen. Only Manos the Hands of Fate (an old MST3K goody), and Birdemic outshine it in terms of sheer misery, of sheer malady, abuse, torture... these movies are just bad. Bad, bad, very bad.

Here is my typical Rifftrax rating. There are two, the first is for the movie without the brilliance of Nelson, Murphy, and Corbett. 

1.5 out of 5 stars

Now for the rating with the brilliance of the Rifftrax crew added in.

4.5 out of 5 stars

Why do I actually even allow Sharknado a one and half star rating? Because this has got to be an unintentional comedy, an accidental parody of every SyFy original. There is no possible way that this movie is anything else.

Everyone ignore the guy who buried his leg in the sand.

This was the perfect movie for Rifftrax. There was bad editing, utterly incomprehensible continuity, improbable physics, impossible physics, bad lines, stupid exploitation, accents so thick you could cut them with a knife, and second rate actors. 

Do not think about how stupid this actually is.

There are constantly running jokes about Ian Ziering and 90210. He plays a character named 'Fin' in a movie filled to the gills with sharks. How funny. John Heard is drunk and paws at women through his role. Tasmania is painted in a negative light... yes, Tasmania. No idea why.

Oh, and Chainsaws turn out to be great anti flying shark weaponry. I wish I was kidding.

Confused, hungry, scared, gassy? She doesn't know.

Scenes are cut so badly, that one minute you can be watching idiots standing in a downpour, and the next be talking on a dry overpass that has not seen rain in months. Houses fill up with water while the surround landscape is only lightly moist. Wind can pick up a shark, throw a man, but is unable to rip huge sheets of corrugated aluminum from a person's hand.

I'm only getting started. But I'm not really going to continue. The movie was just bad.

The Rifftrax crew was on top of it. The entire time. They do not miss a beat.

We are also treated to promos for their next event, a riffing of 1998's Godzilla. Yes, the one with Mathew Broderick. They also riffed a classic MST3K short, A Case of Spring Fever.

There is a second showing on Tuesday the 15th. If you missed it the first time around, It is well worth your time and money to catch a this upcoming showing.

Now I leave you with these wonderful animated images from Sharknado.  

Insult to Injury. Insulting to us at least, and the sharks.

Sharkpedo! I love how the sharks take no damage.

Here is the longer clip of that stupid scene.