Planeta dos Tubarões

My fiance found this one Hulu I believe and thankfully we could watch it for free because I would have wasted money on this cause it is bad enough I wasted time. Though that is not fair, as it was very entertaining to make fun of this film, but riffing this film is like shooting fish in a barrel, just not much of a challenge. The sharks look horrid, like a screen saver coming across the screen and they don't even attempt to make them look real when they are jumping, you have people with accents that are barely audible and what made this one particularly bad was all the talking! I am like, don't cheapen yourself further by acting like this is some high end pretentious movie then throw super jumping sharks into the mix!

The story, the world is completely covered in water due to the ice caps melting and the fact that the people who made this film actually think that could cover the entire earth. Well we have this city called junk city population 72 getting attacked by the sharks right from the start with only one survivor...a girl who one would think is important, but really kind of pointless. Well another city with a population of over 400, though it looks like the same city and looks like it has less people and a scientific center join forces to combat the sharks! Not really, the strange leader of the one city speaks in what I finally figured must be a horrid Cajun accent tries to fight the sharks, and then there is just a whole lot of plans being formed that make no sense as white Ice T, hipster Bill Nye, pointless girl, fat comedy relief guy, surf board girl, Nye's girlfriend and Glen Close come together to talk a lot and once in a while fight stupid jumping sharks.

The actors and actresses in this film are just embarrassing. Honestly, had I gotten this script I would have said "hell no". They play it off so seriously and that somehow makes this all worse! When you see the sharks attack at the beginning this is not a film you are going to take seriously, but that is how it is played off. Not only seriously, but deadly seriously! Cajun lady had me laughing as her plan to fight the sharks was to stab them and have her guy friend then kick them...it worked better than that volcano plan!

So no, this film is bad to the highest degree. SyFy, used to be the SciFi channel and it was a great station. They would play animes, Godzilla films, horror films and they even had MST3K for awhile. Then they went to rather high end television shows and the occasional good home brewed movies. Now they seem to make their living doing mainly horrible shark movies, they should stop being the SyFy channel and just turn into the SharkFy station!

Well, let's be honest, it is no big secret that when you sit down to watch any of the numerous creature features from SyFy, then you know that chances are more than overwhelming that you will be in for something cheesy and very low budget. And "Planet of the Sharks" wasn't a movie that broke that stereotype.

What do you get if you take elements from "Waterworld", "Planet of the Apes" and "Jaws" and put it into a blender and serve after one hour and thirty minutes of non-stop high-speed blending? You get "Planet of the Sharks", of course.

The story in this movie is about our planet having suffered from some kind of natural disaster which has left the entire planet flooded, and people live afloat some makeshift flotillas. But the waters are far from safe. The temperature is changing, which is causing plankton growth to diminish, which in turn is causing a massive drop in the fish population, which ultimately ends up in the apex predators of the sea, the sharks, to have nothing to feed on. And when there is nothing to feed on below the waves, the sharks seek to feed on the humans above the waves.

Right, well the story is not the cheesiest of story lines that I have witnessed from SyFy, but it wasn't a particularly convincing storyline either. And that was perhaps because of the poor CGI and lack of a captivating storyline as a whole.

As with most SyFy movies, then the effects in "Planet of the Sharks" were questionable. Sometimes the sharks looked alright, but most of the time they were poorly animated, and when the fins broke through the surface of the water, there were no visual effect of this, and it was painstakingly obvious that it was just poorly animated CGI shark fins.

The acting in the movie was adequate, well as far as acting in movies such as these go. I have seen worse acting, believe you me. So I will say that people were doing good enough jobs with their given roles and characters throughout the course of this movie.

"Planet of the Sharks" is one of those guilty pleasures. You know, a movie that is so bad that it is actually fun and sort of pseudo-entertaining to watch.

I am rating this movie three out of ten stars. SyFy have a lot of creature features, and many of them are better than this one. Sure, it is good enough to watch if you have nothing better to watch and just need a movie where you don't have to think a single though, but it is hardly a movie that you will watch more than a single time.

Somebody needs to tell the people at SyFy that SHARKS DON'T ROAR! Almost every shark movie I've seen on the SyFy network lately contains roaring sharks that sound like lions--and those sounds were obviously taken from pre-recorded lion roars.

That said, the reason I'm giving this a 4 out of 10 because it's not as bad as "Sharknado". Yes, there is still--as in almost every SyFy movie-- some kind of disgusting & egregious use of pretty young girls getting all hot over young guys; SyFy just loves their pointless use of sexuality. However, at least the writing in this film's story isn't quite as awful as some other SyFy flicks. There are some (sort-of) likable characters and a decent story arc.

There is actually an okay story here; there's a decent beginning, middle, and end. Some like-able characters also sweeten the mix. Unlike "Sharknado" there are actually some well-edited bits of stock footage of sharks mixed into the film that don't look too out-of-place. The acting is naturally sub-par, but it's not total garbage. You can tell some of these actors at least rehearsed their roles and didn't push it or over-act them.

So while "Planet of the Sharks" definitely isn't the film you want to save for that special weekend night, it could be a good bit of entertainment to chuckle at with a buddy or your significant other on a rainy day. It is totally forgettable, but it's not so awful it'll make you angry!

4/10 for creative effort, some okay writing, and entertainment value.

Did none of you watch this on anything larger that an iPhone? The water scenes of the "floating" villages was shot in Houts Bay, south Africa. And in those scenes you can see the water breaking over the dock/seawall in the bay. This is supposed to be out in the middle of the deep ocean and the water is really about 6 foot deep. Notice how the anchoring ropes are almost horizontal indicating shallow water versus hanging straight down like an anchor in deep water. Of course in several scenes near the end you can actually see people (not in the movie) walking along the seawall in the deep background. Either they are walking on water or, most likely, the seawall. Hilarious. Then there's another scene where another boat motors by in the background. I won't even comment about the flying sharks as that was kind of expected.

Totally a B-movie. But the acting is so bad - you just gotta see it. Especially this one woman with the most fake texan accent ever. Love it. I enjoyed this movis about 100 times more than Deep Blue Sea 2