Bad special effects, rubbish sets, ridiculous story line, poor, unconvincing acting - including a has been pop star - why do they keep churning these stupid, trashy movies out?? For suckers like me to keep watching!! Some of these Mega movies are funny because they are so stupid but this one can't even achieve that. Avoid

Released in 2009, "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus" chronicles events after an illegal military experiment accidentally unleashes two prehistoric creatures frozen in mid-combat: A Megalodon shark and an equally colossal octopus. The beasts start wreaking havoc on the world, attacking ships, oil drills, and even airplanes at 28,000 feet. A marine biologist (Deborah "Debbie" Gibson) teams up with her former professor (Sean Lawlor) and a Japanese man (Vic Chao) and they, in turn, hook up with the military (lead man played by Lorenzo Lamas) to provoke a fatal battle between the shark and octopusConsidering the cheesy title and the fact that this is a The Asylum movie, you basically know what you're going to get – A Grade C creature feature with cartoony non-special effects. Whether it's entertaining or not depends on (1.) how compelling the story is and (2.) the quality of the cast. While the story is only mildly compelling and sometimes downright dull, the likable cast makes up for it. There's a palpable warmth to the relationships of the four protagonists (despite some gruffness here and there); and the way two of 'em hook-up romantically is almost touching, not to mention you can tell they all had a good time making the flick. There are also a couple of laugh-out-loud moments, which shows that the filmmakers regarded the material in a tongue-in cheek way, as in "Yes, we know this is schlock, but we're going to have a good time and hope the viewer does too." There are also numerous cool visuals (of the sea, mountains, beaches, etc.) plus an intense stand-off in the last act, which is pretty effective. Lastly, Debbie is still cute and a pleasure to behold. But none of these positives can redeem the movie from what it is – a mildly amusing low-budget giant monster flick with weak effects. Nevertheless, it's worth seeing IF the positives trip your trigger. The film runs 88 minutes and was shot in the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California.GRADE: C-

After being released from the Arctic, a biologist joins with a military operation trying to track down and destroy an escaped Megalodon and a giant octopus who've rejoined an ancient feud that's destroying the world.While this one was a slight disappointment, there's still a lot of enjoyable elements to this one. What really works in this one is the film's briefer attacks here, as there's plenty of fun, exciting sequences that are fun, short and immensely cheesy and manage to include both creatures getting ample screen-time to accomplish this. The octopus here manages to get a great attack on an oil rig ripping it to pieces and getting a fine ambush on a fighter jet, while the shark gets the highlight as it takes out a jet up in the sky and a spectacular battle in San Francisco Bay where the military battle leads nicely into the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge. The shark manages to hold on with several other great scenes here with the submarine chase out in the high seas which is incredibly thrilling due to the high-speed-chase nature of the scenes and the close encounters of the attacks against the subs, and a huge lead-in to the sea-caverns escape gives this a lot to like overall. Even the titular battles comes off great, as there's a few opening rounds before getting to an extended, drawn-out battle that's incredibly fun and exciting as the battle switches up the aggressor and who's in charge of the fight in a spectacularly cheesy scene that nice nicely follows the type of cheese featured in the rest of the film. As well as the cheesy fun, there's more fun in the opening release of the creatures in the midst of the traveling whale pod that makes this one come off really well and gives it a lot of enjoyable times here. These here are enough to make this one enjoyable even though there's a few problems in here. The biggest issues in this one is the absolutely ridiculous CGI here, which is a lot more prevalent here than in most others out there. There's the usual feature of keeping the creatures looking obvious and unrealistic by being completely low-tech versions that rarely interact with their surroundings all too well, but another issue strikes up here with the film prolonging the action by either repeating shots from elsewhere over and over again or keeping in a series of shots that don't really mesh together all too well. Scenes like the destroyer battle out in the open sea or their final battle together in are both highly appropriate forms of this one as they're both CGI heavy that are just woefully executed and aren't really good enough to be cheesy with the repetition of these flaws through along the scenes. The other big flaw here is the really troubling pace here that keeps the action stifled to a few isolated segments here as the film takes on several different plot lines that keep the shark action in favor of these lame story lines, from the contrived romance and the scenes of the group talking tough with the military that eats up so much time that it keeps the creature action out of this one. These here are the film's real flaws.Rated R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.

This movie was a 5. I gave it a ridiculous 10 to offset someone's ridiculous 1.I can't imagine what sort of person watches a movie like this and gives it a "1" plus writes a review saying how bad it is. Were they expecting Shawshank? This movie is for a certain type of sci-fi nerd (such as myself) to pass a little time and have some fun in the process. I think if you are the B-movie sci-fi nerd type you realize this is far from the worst thing ever made and you will enjoy while others sling mud at it and criticize it like it was made to compete with Transformers or something. Truth is, I bet you take all the people out there that gave it a "1" and put a camera in their hand and give them some money and see what they could do, they would realize quickly what their skillset is.No doubt if you were drunk or high this would be much better and if you have a buddy or significant other to enjoy it with it would be even more enjoyable. I don't do either of the first 2 and my wife was at work when I watched this, but still I enjoyed it for what it was.It is for a certain demographic of folks to enjoy and no doubt a small demographic, but we are out there.My point is, it saddens me to think there are people out there who rare this a "1" because they think it was "crap". The truth is they just didn't have realistic expectations and or were stupid enough to really think this was supposed to be a theatrical masterpiece. Are there people this dumb?