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Sharknado (2013)
It's so bad, you'll laugh from beginning to end
My daughter and I watched this movie together, and we laughed until we couldn't see through the tears. This movie is so bad it's funny, but thoroughly entertaining from beginning to end. It couldn't possible have been intended as a serious movie, because nobody in their right mind could write a script like this with serious intent, right? It was intended to be a comedy?
It's not the poor acting or the cheap special effects. It starts with the absurdity that sharks could somehow survive up in the air, inside a water-filled tornado, for the duration of the movie. Somehow sharks fly out of the tornado just in time to slam through a billboard, hit a hotel sign, or shoot precisely into a manhole. Then the sharks pop up at all of the perfect times from the most unlikely and impossible places to chase our proponents, bite holes in things, or (my favorite) to gulp-down one of the pretty girls whole as she falls out of a helicopter. And miraculously, it just happens to be the same girl-gulping shark that encounters our proponents in a later scene so that the hero can cut the poor girl out. From the inside. With a chainsaw. And she survives.
There are times in the movie that it drags a bit with really silly dialog and drama, but you would expect that from this type of movie. It's enough to allow you to dry your eyes and recover from the previous hilarity.
How can you possibly hate a movie like this??? You just can't. It is wonderfully terrible, and extremely entertaining. It is destined to be the movie that kids will watch at rowdy slumber parties for the next fifty years.
King & Maxwell (2013)
Some good ideas, but weakly executed
This is the first time I've written a review of anything on IMDb, but seeing the lack of reviews for this show, I decided someone needs to say this.
The show is about two former law enforcement agents (former Secret Service and otherwise), King and Maxwell, who are trying to run a private investigative firm together and don't quite make enough money to pay the bills. Cliché.
Their investigations cross paths with two officious FBI agents, annoying the viewers with weakly-acted accusations of either interfering with an investigation or perpetrating the crime, in spite of proving themselves time and time again. The word 'cliché' doesn't begin to describe the poor writing and acting of these two guys. If it wasn't for the strong acting of the leads, these guys would be a deal breaker for this series.
A savant-of-sorts ends up joining the team to help them solve puzzles that are supposedly too difficult for anyone else to solve. This would be interesting if the puzzles weren't so mundane-- tracing phone calls, cracking an alarm system and (wait for it . . . another cliché) mentally absorbing their financial records and finding out that they need to make more money and that they owe taxes. The bad writing is acted out by Ryan Hurst. Given his performances in Sons of Anarchy, I would expect him to improve over time, but someone needs to sit the writers down in front of a real Savant or two. They can't decide whether the character is supposed to babble and grunt or use perfect grammar and pronunciation.
It's difficult to judge a series based on the first two episodes, and it could get a lot better once the actors and writers find their feet and fill a few problems. But if they keep going the way these two episodes went, this show won't last long. I would rather watch someone scratching a chalkboard.