Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus DVD Review

As you’ll gather from the title, Shakespeare it’s not. A creature feature B-movie with bad effects, terrible plot, lousy dialogue and ludicrously awful acting, this serves up exactly what Ed Wood fans might want from a Friday night no brainer.

Basically, shortly after marine biologist Emma (80s teen pop star turned wide-eyed ‘actress’ Debbie Gibson to whom time clearly has not been kind) discovers a, er, mega shark and giant octopus entombed in ice under the Alaskan sea, a military experiment accidentally frees the prehistoric behemoths and next thing you know tentacles are being wrapped around an oil rig and jaws is leaping 15000 feet into the sky to take down an airliner.

So, some American Government agent with a bad pony tail forces Emma, her Irish former professor and her Japanese counterpart and new lover, to figure out how to stop them. After conventional weapons fail, Emma hits on the idea of using pheromones to bring them together so they’ll kill each other. Cue lots of bad lighting and underwater shots of plastic submarines and rubber models. Which is all and indeed probably more than you need to know. Profoundly silly, incredibly stupid and enjoyably guilty fun.