As fans of the
made-for-TV 2013 surprise hit Sharknado know, this aquatic disaster
franchise is meant to be mocked and ridiculed. That's why it came as
no surprise that last night's airing of Sharknado
2: The Second One
garnered 5.3 million viewers who tweeted 215,000 tweets during it's
two-hour running time. Snarks flew like the sharks in the movie with
such notables as director Roger Corman tweeting "Do I sate
myself? Do I soar? These are the existential questions that a shark
in a #Sharknado2TheSecondOne
must ask himself. So must we all" and Sharknado
star Tara Reid twittering "when something bites us we bite
back." So, without further ado, I give you my 6 reasons to love
Sharknado
2: The Second One.- Cameos! By the dozens! Seems like everyone wanted to be in this movie! From NBC-TV anchormen Al Roker to Matt Lauer arguing about whether to call it a shark storm or a sharknado before stabbing to death a shark that lands on their desk to Jared Fogel, the Subway Sandwich Shop shill, eating a subway sandwich while waiting for a subway train. In one scene that made me want to sing "Don't Break My Achy-Breaky Shark", songster Billy Ray Cyrus appears as Tara Reid's surgeon. If you've ever yearned to see rapper Sandra "Pepa" Denton gets squashed by a shark while riding a Citibike, this is the movie for you! Or if you've ever wanted to watch Robert Klein chatter with WWE Superstar Kurt Angle while they play the Mayor of New York and the Chief of the FDNY respectively, well, here ya go! Or the guy from Shark Tank get killed by the detached rolling head of The Statue Of Liberty, this one's for you, sicko! Two of the best might be Robert Hays, star of the 1980 film Airplane!, as the pilot of the airliner attacked by flying sharks, and Judd Hirsch, who starred as Alex Reiger on the 1970s series Taxi as, what else, Ben the taxi driver!
- It's terrifyingly easy to get access to weapons on The Big Apple. From napalm selling pizzeria owner Biz Markie to random citizens storing pick-axes, saws, machetes and machine guns in their car trunks, it's no wonder that this major metropolis area has such a high crime rate!
- Knowing that "during an EF5 sharknado," sharks can come down at a rate of up to "two inches an hour." And that they can do this even while being on fire! On fire while climbing stairs!
In what can only
be an homage to Bruce Campbell, Tara Reid's missing lower left arm
is replaced with a circular saw she uses to kill the same flying
shark that took her arm in the first place! After which,
ex-husband Ian
Ziering retrieves her chewed off arm from the sharks mouth, removes her wedding ring from the dead finger and, with sharks raining down all around him, drops to one knee and proposes to Tara! She says "Yes!", BTW. So, we can have romance in a disaster movie, right!?!
Climate change is
real. As blizzard-like conditions move in from the East and meet
with tropical storms coming in from the West, it snows in New York
City on a clear June day. Al Roker told us this so it must be
true and not a flimsy excuse to cover up the fact that it's
snowing and we can see the actor's breaths on what's supposed to
be a typical Summer's day!- And finally reason #6 … Sharknado 2: The Second One set a network record on Wednesday night with 3.9 million viewers for its premiere telecast. That makes it the most-watched movie in network history. What's more: It nabbed 1 billion Twitter impressions, according to the cable network. Less than 24 hours later the SyFy channel astounded and surprised no one by announcing the third installment Sharknado 3 has been green-lit for release next year! Keep checking with SyFy.com for further updates. Meanwhile, if you missed it's premier showing July 30, it's showing again Saturday, August 2 at 7 pm. and Sunday, August 3 at 9 pm. (ET/PT).
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