Almost as funny as this movie are the one-star reviews here where people took it seriously and were affronted that it's bad. Folks, it's supposed to be bad. It's pastiche. It's a comedy. It may not be a comedy at the level of Airplane or Tremors but it did make me laugh aloud a half-dozen times. And compared to how often I laugh at many Hollywood rom-coms, this thing wins, fins down.
The place I probably laughed the loudest is when the brainless MTV dance party kids are dancing, a coed about to strip off her bikini top gets eaten, and the drug dealer who enticed her to take off the top is splattered with blood. He throws his hands up and shrieks and , obediently, all the brain-dead dance party teens throw their hands up and shriek/whoo as cued. It's so perfectly encapsulates the hive mind of such kids, who I've always loathed, and it was cultural critique, imo, and funny at two levels. C'mon, how is that not funny?
The puns are groan-worthy. The acting is broad on purpose. To drive home the point about it being a pastiche, Roger Corman is mentioned in the dialogue. I think it's far better than Sharknado.
The place I probably laughed the loudest is when the brainless MTV dance party kids are dancing, a coed about to strip off her bikini top gets eaten, and the drug dealer who enticed her to take off the top is splattered with blood. He throws his hands up and shrieks and , obediently, all the brain-dead dance party teens throw their hands up and shriek/whoo as cued. It's so perfectly encapsulates the hive mind of such kids, who I've always loathed, and it was cultural critique, imo, and funny at two levels. C'mon, how is that not funny?
The puns are groan-worthy. The acting is broad on purpose. To drive home the point about it being a pastiche, Roger Corman is mentioned in the dialogue. I think it's far better than Sharknado.