Product Description The U.S. Navy's special group "Blue Water" builds a half-shark, half-octopus for combat. But the sharktopus escapes and terrorizes the beaches of Puerto Vallarta. .com Legendary schlock producer Roger Corman returns to the genre that he pioneered (and makes a hilariously chintzy cameo appearance, to boot) in this sensitive character study of a misbegotten shark/octopus hybrid that escapes the control of its navy handlers and begins to snork down surfers off the coast of Mexico. For fans of this sort of thing, all of the base elements of a superior creature feature are present, including cold-blooded scientists, beefy soldiers of fortune, and acres upon acres of postage-stamp-size swimwear. Unfortunately, while star Eric Roberts delivers a gloriously straight-faced performance as the creator of said majestic killing machine, much of the supporting cast indulges in the sort of broad winking at the camera that marks too many of the modern exploitation movies. Still, a concept this goofy won't go down without a mighty fight, and the sight of the titular character casually picking off bungee jumpers and crawling up on land (sure, why not?) to harass unsuspecting musicians is pretty irresistible. If, in the final accounting, the movie is only half as enjoyable to watch as the title is to say, that's still an awful lot of fun. --Andrew Wright
K**X
Great movie
Good price and shipping cost
M**A
Jump the Squark
If you're not a fan of bad horror movies, Sharktopus is likely the stupidest thing you've ever seen. To wit, it's a half-shark, half-octopus genetically engineered killer who spends the entire movie eating hot chicks in bikinis. It doesn't get much dumber than this.But if you ARE a fan of bad horror movies, Sharktopus is a sort of horror movie nirvana, combining every monster shark movie since Jaws and every giant squid movie since...well there really haven't been any giant squid movies that match the appeal of Jaws. If there was, Sharktopus would rip that off too.Sharktopus is an apex moment in Syfy's history, when fans of the monster movies the channel is known for suddenly became rabid advocates, eagerly awaiting the next monster's debut. Sharktopus has caused quite a buzz amongst this community, who eagerly discusses every sneak preview of Sharktopus in action: Sharktopus eating a bungie-jumper, Sharktopus eating a yoga instructor, Sharktopus eating a jet skier. All in a day's work for a half-shark, half-opus carnivorous beast genetically engineered to eat drug smugglers.Oh, right, the plot. Basically, a defense contractor known as Blue Water created a monster known as S-11 (not Sharktopus, of COURSE). When a boat's propeller accidentally slices off the thing's control collar, Sharktopus is free to snatch people from the beach from incredibly shallow water. Or, failing that, it just uses its tentacles to climb right up onto the surface and follow its prey there.And its prey is mostly hot chicks. The amount of T&A in Sharktopus may astonish even horror movie fans; while any movie featuring beaches inevitably features women in bikinis as well, the camera follows them everywhere with a point of view I like to call the ButtCam (tm). Yes, Sharktopus has a ButtCam.There are a dizzying number of inconsistencies in Sharktopus, but you've got to question why you would challenge the movie's logic when you're watching a film titled Sharktopus. If you wanted to see a realistic movie that made sense, maybe you shouldn't watch something named after a Spongebob Squarepants episode.Actually, Sharktopus wasn't even first. Dungeons & Dragons debuted the Squark in the Monstrous Compendium Annual, Volume 4 . If only they ignored the fact that nobody cares if the beast's name is technically accurate (it's clearly half-squid, no matter how much the actors repeat that "its behavior is unusual for an octopus"), things might have gone differently for the Squark. When you name your monster Squark, it gets slammed on Stupid Monster lists. When you name your monster Sharktopus, the Internet is abuzz in anticipation.And that's the difference between awful and awesome.
M**A
the pinacle of excelence
**caution:Spoilers Ahead!!**I don't know why, but I have found myself more and more drawn to SyFy channel movies. Dinocroc. Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus. Snakehead Terror. and countless others. Now, they give me an epic of titanic proportions, produced by Roger Corman, no less: Sharktopus. Just by the name given, you know that your in for a movie loaded with nacho cheese. I mean think about it, a Shark/Octopus hybrid escapes from the facility in which it was contained. Shark. Octopus. Combined? LUDICROUS!So, after missing the T.V. spot, I decided to purchase it.After it arrived in the mail I popped it into my DVD player and proceded to view a spectacle worthy of the Gods.And I must say, I was not dissapointed. I asked for bad acting, bad graphics, and little to no storyline. I recieved exactly what I asked for. Following the trend of most SyFy channel movies, the graphics for this movie suck compared to your big budget hollywood pictures, however they are astoundingly better than most other movies from the same channel. Same with the acting: Absolutely horrible for todays standards, but better than the average movie from that channel. Now let me get to the plot... There is very little that even resembles a plot in this film. 90% of the movie is overly dramaticized death scenes that involve scantilly clad women and bungee jumpers acting like fishing lures. They are so horrendously over dramaticized that I dare call it black comedy. I laughed. A lot.Another 5% of the movie is complaining about Mexican roads. The remaining 5% is the main characters lying through their teeth about wanting to kill the monster, when in reality all they want to do is lose the remainder of their clothing. Seriously, both the leading characters slowly loose their clothing throughout the film.monster wise, this creature was pretty good. The designers knew what they were doing, but I can't help but wonder what they were thinking when they inserted an octopus beak for a belly button.All in all, this movie entertained me far more than any other film that I have ever watched.4/5
B**R
Half-shark,half-octopus, movie.
It's another scientific experiment gone wrong.
J**T
Imaginative, low budget sci-fi ......
Actually, a very imaginative movie with not too bad special effects. The story is silly, but considering what it is, it's decent, low budget sci-fi. In my opinion, if you like this genre and can pick it up at a cheap price, then I would say go for it. It's also a good movie if you're in the mood for low budget Roger Corman material.
S**E
Exactly what you would expect.
10/10 cheesy low production shark movie. Covers all the bases.
T**O
I like it thank
I like it thank you
S**R
A Good B Movie
bought this expecting a decent funny B movie and thats exactly what I got. I recommend it to anyone who whats a few laughs.
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