Ozark Sharks

I watched about a minute of this, (maybe less) and the effects were the worst. If you want to see not how to do special effects, this is the movie for you. Ridiculous!! The acting was really bad. I didn't recognize anyone. And the Sharks looked like they came from a bad Scooby doo cartoon! I'm supposed to write ar least ten lines here so I will keep going. When they shot the shark with fireworks I actually laughed out loud. So stupid. Don't waste your time with this garbage. Have a sandwich and a beer and watch Zoo instead, or Jaws 3-D. Either of those would be better! There are so many better third rate horror/suspense movies that you could watch. This one just sucked!

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best ones. Of course that also would mean that you would not have any people dying or any action at all, right? So of course you can either be completely annoyed by this (and many - I mean many! - actions and reactions from the characters in this or you take it with a grain of salt (which I reckon is not in the water, since it's rivers and such).

If you do that and cut it some slack you can have some fun with it. My rating still may be too soft or too nice as I have heard other times before. I leave that up to you to decide. There are some quirks and low budget restraints that let me be a bit more lenient than others I reckon

I don't know why there are such a poor ratings. It's excellent 1980 comedy. I don't think I laughed this hard... well... in my entire life. 1980s effects are ahead of its time! Amazing writing, wonderful acting... I don't think I've ever seen some better movie

What is it about these lousy shark-movies that makes them so darn addictive? You know from beforehand the special & visual effects will be atrocious. You know the plot will be utmost preposterous and dumb. You know the cast will be full of stereotypes, and you can be certain their performances will also be horrendous. And yet, I can't help feeling joyful when a see another ridiculous shark dud appear on TV! There are two reasons in particular why I don't regret having watched "Ozark Sharks". Number one, being European, I never heard about this beautiful physiographic region called the Ozarks. Looks magnificent! Secondly, at least this trash-flick features a different type of shark species, for once, namely the Bull Shark. The script even contains characteristics about this species that are accurate, like their freshwater tolerance and habit of scavenging up rivers and lakes.

Of course, I don't want to sound too positive, as "Ozark Sharks" naturally remains another umpteenth and worthless shark dud. It's enjoyable enough, if you can tolerate the derivative plot, the bland characters (including the mandatory hillbilly gun-freak and dimwit stoner-boyfriend) and the shark attacks so amateurishly fake they make "Jaws 3-D" look genius. There are several (unintentionally?) hilarious moments, like when grandma's head gets bitten clean off, and nobody really seems to care that she's dead. Beware, for bad shark-trash fanatics only.

Sharks in the lake of a mountain range in the middle of the USA? It is original, but the explanation that they swam there via the rivers to breed? Ridiculous!

Were also ridiculously bad at Ozark Sharks: The special effects, the plot, the dialogues and every acting performance. Actually, the film can be called very bad overall. There are a lot of things about the movie that are also very strange and illogical. I wondered if some of it was meant to be humor? Most remarkable scene: the granddaughter who reacts very much when her grandmother is eaten by a shark. Almost as strange I find the help of the friendly redneck with the harpoon cannon on his truck. You might come across these kinds of characters in the middle of the USA, but I don't think they are very hospitable.

I understand that the budget for this film will have been very small. But of all the bad lowbudget shark movies, Ozark Sharks really has the most laughable rubber fins. I never found the film exciting. The only reason I kept watching was because I was curious how bad the next scene would be. And indeed, it only got worse. In short, not exciting, not gruesome and a very childlike style of humor. Have I accidentally watched a really bad kids horror movie? These horribly bad special effects will probably make them unable to sleep!