The fifth instalment of the Sharknado franchise is another ridiculous and over the top experience. This film seemingly takes bits and pieces from other popular films such as the Indiana Jones films as well as making several references to other films (as expected).
As a whole, this film felt confusing in its plot. Was slightly hard to keep up and understand exactly what was occurring. A lot of Juno scarves abs back and furry to different locations (felt like an Avengers film).
The main plot revolves around Fin and April (Tara Reid has her most screentime here out of the series) trying to rescue their youngest son Gil (played by a different actor than in the 4th film) from a Sharknado or vortex of sort.
Similar to the 4th film, this film sees April being retransformed and put back together in more depth as a cyborg/terminator type. It was a different look and looked odd at first but we got used to it.
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming looked like it had the biggest budget of the series compared to the previous 4, as they travel to Europe and Australia. It is essentially the same plot involving massive shark waves with Fin and crew trying to stop the Sharknados just in other countries.
Nova also returns as she shows a lot of depth and is given the most to do here. We see her storyline revolving around her group of "Sharknado sisters". Cassandra Scerbo delivers her best performance in the series and is lost notably one of the highlights.
The cgi does look cheap and as bad as Sharknado 4. This film didn't feel as overall fun and something was missing. Having a hard time remembering memorable or key moments. Though the infamous line by Fin stood out "Same shark, different day".
This film seemed to have the most drama and depressing moments where the fun was somewhat gone. It was more serious in tone yet of course over the top in what occurred. The very ending was entirely confusing yet of course set up the next film (now known as the final film of the franchise).
If Sharknado 5 is the worst of the franchise to date, it is not entirely much worse than Sharknado 4, or on par in a sense.
