Excellent but underrated film

Absolutely Fantastic

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

What did you expect from a SyFy original movie? It's badly acted, badly written, bad CGI, bad camera effects, stupid sex jokes, bad humor, stupid plot, bad script. It's perfect for a laughing fest. The whole movie itself was funny. Too bad somebody recorded the death scenes on YouTube and they got flagged Would have loved to watch that again! The way people didn't even react to people getting killed by "S-11" the genetically altered half shark have octopus monster, programmed by the military that went haywire. Yes, the characters are bland. Yes, death scenes happened at random, and were very stupid!! I still laughed my ass off at this movie, and I want the opening theme song on MP3, please!I honestly hope they make a sequel to this stupid but funny garbage. It's like Sharknado!!

I find movies like this difficult to rate. Why? Because instead of most people setting out to make a good movie (or even a decent one) these kind of movies are made to intentionally be a piece of crap with the occasional goofy moment. If you put this in mind then movies like this and Sharknado really aren't the worst movies ever made. At the end of the day for what this is trying to be it's not that bad.Okay so the plot, a scientific experiment breaks out of the scientist's control they must find a way to stop it and... After that you KNOW what is going to happen. There's this reporter who risks life and limb for a story and finds one in the Sharktopus who's the focus of the entire subplot, you know where this is going.Okay so the acting is goofy, the CGI makes PS1 games look like the effects from (Insert movie with good effects here) and most of the attack scenes are suitably over-the-top. But then again What did you expect. This came from a studio who's mindset is "Can we think up the most ridiculous titles ever and build a movie around it". This isn't boring like Frankenfish was (I watch way too many of these kinds of movies), if you enjoyed the goofiness of Sharknado then this is definitely a movie you should check out. If you don't like these kind of movies then... I don't need to finish this sentence, the movie's called Sharktopus, Just say the title out loud and think "Will a movie like that be good for a laugh" because, that's ALL you need to determine whether you'll enjoy it or not.

After about 15 minutes that's all I could think of - WHY?There is no logical reason to actually make a movie like this. It's not even in the "so bad it's funny" pile, it's just plain stupid and it's another movie in a growing line of movies that's ruined by bad CGI.A Scientist, Eric Roberts, is commissioned by the navy, along with his daughter, to develop a biological weapon to combat drug runners, pirates, slavers and anything else that the military might need it for, so naturally they set about splicing together a shark & an Octopus and manage to create the perfect killing machine apparently.As usual during a "routine" test of this creatures abilities, the device which controls this aberration of nature, is clipped by a motor boat propeller and gets damaged. The device is little more than a transmitter fitted with flimsy belt strapped around the creature, which they call S11, and once the scientists are no longer in control, the creature pulls it off, discards it and then sets about doing what every twisted freak of nature does best, travels to Mexico to feast on Chicas, boats, bungee jumpers and anything else you can wrap a CGI tentacle around.The thing that makes this movie just plain bad is that it actually tries to pull itself off as being a serious movie. Eric Roberts was either incredibly drunk when he agreed to do this or just plain desperate as he looks bored and bemused through the whole stupid mess. At a stretch if there was anything in this flick that could save it, it would be some of the scientific dialogue and that for once the action does not take place in the U.S but in Mexico instead, however even with that, this is a total disaster.Even if it were possible to splice together the genes of 2 totally different species like this, I don't get why it suddenly feels the need to come up on land to look for food. I've never seen an octopus do this except to get to the next rock pool before it dries out and what's it breathing? The CGI effects are terrible as is the faux reaction that needs to be done by the "actors" whenever this thing is supposed to grab them. I've also never known any shark that was impervious to a machine gun.A particularly brainless scene involves S11 coming ashore near some cultural dancers. It perches itself up on some nearby columns yet no one saw it come out of the water? One retard in the audience actually asks "is that part of the show" before all hell breaks loose. Another equally dismal scene has this bikini clad girl treasure hunting along the shoreline with a metal detector. She finds a gold coin but is pulled to her death by large tentacles. The whole scene is watched by an old man, who never warns her, never cries out for help, doesn't even appear shocked by what he just witnessed, he simply picks up the gold coin and walks off!And the movie goes on like this. The death scenes are way too predictable and clumsy, the effects are cheap, there's no acting at all and the fact that it exists as a movie is an abomination. Movie makers were doing stuff like this better back in the 1950's with "It Came from Beneath the Sea", with less of a budget and when you needed a working brain to create special effects. Even Jaws was made of rubber & fibreglass and it looked more real. Save your time, your sanity and your money and avoid this. If you must see this, get a cheap copy or borrow one and then rid the earth of it.

Reading some of the other reviews it seems strange that some people thought the acting was bad and the plot was lacking, this film is called Sharktopus. It is a film about a monster half shark half octopus. Don't expect Citezen Kane.The acting is above average for the genre the affects are not life-like but good enough if you can apply some imagination. The plot is completely stupid.There is a big semi-realistic CGI monster that eats people. Most of the budget went on bikinis for the numerous babes that populate the Sharktopus feeding grounds.This film is dumb and cheap but enjoyable to watch.