{"id":674,"date":"2009-06-18T22:17:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T12:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2009-06-30T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:48:21","slug":"mega-shark-versus-giant-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus<\/em> is a film that never quite delivers on the potential of such a great premise.\u00a0 I think the worst accusation you can throw at a production about an oversized shark and octopus fighting to the death is that the film actually manages to feel quite dull at times.<\/p>\n

It might just be that I’m quite particular about how I want these movies to be: comically gory, starring likeable down on their luck b-grade actors and love interests with big permed hair-styles.\u00a0 Oh, and low budget special effects.<\/p>\n

That last point is something that I think I may have to grudgingly let go as its probably cheaper and easier nowadays to use computer effects rather than having people thrashing around fighting rubber tentacles or a guy in a shark suit.\u00a0 The days of seeing the types of effects in classics such as Crocodile <\/em>(animatronics), Rats <\/em>(puppies dressed in rat costumes) and The Toxic Avenger <\/em>(prosthetic limbs being torn off) sadly seem to be behind us and instead we get films that have entirely computer-generated special effects that have the same lack of physicality that plagues films like Star War Episode I<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The story stars a smart and sexy oceanographer played by Deborah Gibson, who teams up with a Japanese scientist and her old Irish college professor to help aid a government organisation battle a giant prehistoric shark and octopus who were freed from melting polar ice caps.<\/p>\n

The film has moments of promise.\u00a0 The guy playing Lamar, the Irish professor, has the worst accent I’ve ever heard.\u00a0 The surly FBI agent guy is pretty good too.\u00a0 And yet the main attraction, the monsters themselves, are a real letdown.\u00a0 I think its possible that they are too big.\u00a0 They dwarf entire oil rigs and navy battlecruisers.\u00a0 So there’s nothing like the classic imagery you get from Jaws<\/em> or King Kong<\/em> where the monsters come face to face with a hapless human screaming for help.\u00a0 Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus<\/em> is far too distant and removed.\u00a0 This made me pretty indifferent to the action.<\/p>\n

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Mega Shark eating an airplane is one of the film's few high points<\/p><\/div>\n

With rather bland action scenes, it falls on the dialogue and campy acting to carry the film and unfortunately, neither deliver strongly enough.\u00a0 There’s certainly nothing on par with the quality of dialogue from Megalodon 3<\/em>, thats for sure.<\/p>\n

Megalodon 3:\u00a0 a better film<\/em><\/p>\n

Ho hum. Such is life. I believe the rather successful advertising campaign for this film (over a million hits online for its trailer) will likely ensure a sequel of sorts. I’d like to recommend Mega Scorpion vs Giant Panda. I think that has potential.\u00a0 This film just felt like an opportunity squandered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shark versus Octopus in a battle for the ages. Well, not really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[237,236],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","tag-octopus","tag-shark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}