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This movie is, in basic terms, a rehash of the first one. (not surprising since The Asylum produced it) This movie does nothing original whatsoever. Even the damn poster is the same as the first, just with slight touches to it. If you were one of the "lucky" ones to watch it on the day it premiered, you'll find that people tweeted crazily over some of the most stupid things thinking they were awesome. No. This movie causes physical pain to viewers who truly love and respect film. This is one of the worst sequels ever and is personally in my top worst movies, right next to Garbage Pail Kids. Pass on this when given the chance people.

There are a lot of people who enjoy watching what they call "B" movies because they can shut their brains off and just watch. This is the perfect movie for them because it seems that everyone involved with the making of this movie did just that, shut their brains off. There is a difference between camp and stupid. Unfortunately in this age of dumbed-down everything, that difference is blurred by the stupidity of the audience. Just try to imagine the person that the makers of this movie envisioned as fans when they were developing ideas (the fact that they tagged it as "the second one" after putting 2 in the title is a clue).

Ignoring the bad writing, bad acting (horrendous to be exact), lack of scale and production value, the movie is left with a completely ridiculous and incomprehensible premise. Inserting cameos of recognizable people (Andy Dick?, Matt Lauer?, Kelly Ripa?) to boost awareness (again for the nondiscriminating audience member)exceeded in only making the movie look desperate to hang on to the small target they were shooting for (advanced by the fact that these "celebrities" appear to be amenable to do anything for a paycheck). Fortunately, the movie was on Syfy, a haven for this type of garbage, and is unlikely to infect other outlets since Syfy has become the butt of these types of jokes. Some day I will forgive myself for wasting two hours of my life watching this disaster.

I gave this movie a 6 because it was thoroughly entertaining, once you switched your brain off to how totally ludicrous it was.

There were moments where Ian Ziering should get nominated for SOMETHING simply for saying the lines and keeping a straight face.

There were sharks, lots of sharks, in places where you will never ever see a shark. Sharks in the streets, on stairwells, falling from the sky, swimming down NYC streets - yep it was completely silly.

But, I still enjoyed it because all of the actors did a fantastic job of B-movie acting - not a single one of them acted like they thought the premise was stupid, or the dialog corny as all hell, or some of the special effects unexpectedly dumb.

If you're going to make this kind of tongue in cheek type disaster movie, this is the way to do it.

Great fun, beyond belief, but an entertaining way to spend a late night couple of hours.

It's got to be seen to be believed - don't just listen to what your friends say about it - watch it, it makes every other cheesy movie pale by comparison!

Favorite part? Ian Ziering's "shark walk" - watch it and you'll see!

Watching this film, during a certain point water just starts flooding the streets, but throughout the film there has been no rain. Yes, welcome to Sharknado 2, a film that tries to use The Army of Darkness humor and action and fails miserably to do so. The only thing that made these films do anything is a ridiculous concept that is already wearing thin during this sequel. I cannot believe 4 more of these would be made. The main difference between this film and the first is at least the first film had rain and a lot more sharks, yes, to me it seemed there was less shark action in this film; of course, they make up for it with D-list celebrities galore.

The story, the hero from the first film and Tara Reid are flying to New York when their plane gets attacked by flying sharks as they reproduce the scene from Twilight Zone. Tara loses her hand and the hero Fin lands the plane after the pilots are killed. This is pretty much the best scene in the film. After this, Fin must then go and try to rescue his brother-in-law at a ballgame while his sister has to escape Staten Island as the storm approaches. Fin comes up with plans to extinguish the tornado, but will the plan work and do we even care?

These SyFy shark films make those made by the Italians to capitalize on Jaws look so much better. We get lots of sharks, but like I said, it did not seem as many as the first and there seemed to be more blood in the first too. This one though did have several cameos if you call Andy Dick and Al Roker celebrities and we even get Jared the Subway spokesman, the less said about him the better. What a great list of cameos! You also get Downtown Julie Brown who wasn't relevant when she was relevant and one hit wonder Billy Ray Cyrus! Yeah, doesn't really inspire you to run to see this thing does it?

So we get lots of inexplicable action and strange things that take place for no reason. I know, you are not supposed to take a film like this seriously, but how does a hotel start flooding on the inside when just outside it isn't even raining and there is no water on the streets. Yes, the water had risen to the third floor on the inside and there was not a drop outside. There is being unrealistic in a manner that is awesome and then there is just being unrealistic and dumb and this is the latter. All that being said, it is still entertaining in a way, just not in a good way.

1. If you're wondering if you need to see the first one first, stop while you're ahead.

2. I haven't seen this much snow in New York City since The Wolf of Wall Street.

3. Keep in mind: Birdemic's excuse was lack of funds.

4. Dear God, let this tragedy take New Yorker's minds off that other, even worse attack on their city: 1998's Godzilla.

5. Just because your script is fully aware of how stupid this concept is, doesn't mean the writer was brilliant. It just means he was awake when he wrote it.

6. It can't be that insulting to mistake a female author named April with a male. After all, she might invite you to a signing within seconds of signing the book she'll eventually sign again for you at the signing.

7. Then, again, when she signs your book with penmanship of a three- year-old and can't blame it on the mild turbulence of the plane you're on, you might want to reconsider that book signing invitation.

8. Why was I always waiting for Tara Reid to meow like her cat children and bark at Gordon Ramsay at Amy's Baking Company?

9. "I was famous when I was a surfer. It cost me my family," says Fin. Yes. If you were to surf with your entire family in tow on the wave in Deep Impact.

10. I guess I missed the Mythbusters episode where they proved that movie bicycles can, in fact, outrace tornadoes.

11. Mets fans leaving the stadium in droves before the game ends… finally, some realism.

12. The scariest thing about the Sharknadoes is that they make the Twilight series watchable.

13. "Jump the shark" you say? Hahahaha, thank you 1990.

14. "If you don't come back (alive,) I'm going to kill you" is one of the heartfelt lines in this movie. It's also the logic, but I gave up believing in that long before the opening credits began.

15. Not since Ghostbusters II did New York City get associated with a bad movie involving an overextended Lady Liberty scene.

16. Great. Now, I just wanna watch Cloverfield again.

17. Did Tara Reid say her prediction of a real Sharknado would happen The Day After Tomorrow? Because that would make more sense.

18. "This is your Captain speaking. Please do not mind the large gaping holes in the side of the plane. Feel free to roam around the plane as you please as if they were the same large gaping holes in our storyline. Enjoy your flight!"

19. Breaking a bat across your thigh doesn't make you a badass. It makes you seventeen times stronger than Supergirl.

20. No, I am not hungry for Subway, Jared.

21. Okay, maybe for one of those flatbread pizzas. And it's not for your shameless product placements…They are really that damn good.

22. "(The sharknado) is a twister…with teeth," says Al Roker. Miley Cyrus would also be a correct substitute for that line.

23. Yeah, it's so hard to remember where you're sitting at a ballgame. Especially when your ticket sarcastically reminds you.

24. For only being 86 minutes, taking time out for a ridiculously irrelevant flashback set up by an annoying baseball fan spouting ESPN trivia to a player who should already know his own history and ending with no payoff on why he was not in the VIP section…pretty much sums up the rest of the film.

25. There is more running in this movie than The Running Man.

26. There is more running in this movie than Republicans for President in the last election.

27. There is more running in this movie than the Boston marathon. (And I'm not even a Yankee fan.)

28. The Second One isn't that clever of a title 32 years after Airplane! came out with "The Sequel."

29. Perhaps a better subtitle would've been Number Two.

30. I guess if you can safely navigate a helicopter into a tornado in the first movie, flying an airplane into one should be a piece of cake.

31. Ripping off The Twilight Zone with the "There's something on the wing!" bit or mocking names and scenes from Airplane! isn't an homage. It's insulting in a Sharknado sequel.

32. Although, mimicking Jaws: The Revenge is just perfect.

33. I am uncertain why the references to the Evil Dead series were needed especially within minutes of a slap across Doc Brown's face.

34. Of the 602 cameos, Judd Hirsch reprising his Independence Day role was my favorite.

35. Oh, and Andy Dick…you look terrible.

36. No. The stupid climax was not hilariously bad, intentionally or not. Nothing about this movie was hilarious.

37. Piranha 3D was fresh, hilarious and spot-on with their Richard Dryfuss/Jaws reference. And…Fuvk you, Sharknado 2, with your characters named Martin and Ellen Brody. "Fin" was bad enough; you had to spit on a masterpiece with your unimaginative humor?

38. Don't believe in evolution? Well, the evidence is clear when sharks learn to roar and aim when faced with a tornado lift.

39. By no means, this movie was not meant to be taken seriously, but when a severed hand amazingly finds its way back to its owner in the climax, I hated life when they gave less than a fvck on the fact it somehow regenerated most of the arm with inside the mouth of the shark who never bothered to swallow it.

40. If not for my loyal devotion to the fantastic How Did This Get Made? podcast, I would've never seen this. Here's (raising my Bud Light) to them putting on an entertaining discussion on how incredibly worthless this experience was.

It's another sharknado! Remember the highlight of Fin Shepard(Ian Ziering)using a chainsaw to rip his way out of a shark's belly in Los Angeles? Nothing I can remember is as ridiculous or cheesy this time around. Fin and his ex-wife April(Tara Reid) are New York bound, when the plane is attacked by swirling and diving sharks inside some bad weather. Fin, of course, is up to his hero thing again landing what is left of the plane. Now his chore will be to save the Big Apple from two sharknados ready to converge on Manhattan. Instead of the reunion with his wife and her family, Fin will be busy with his heroics...this time with the help of an old flame named Skye(Vivica A. Fox).

Iconic NYC attractions will be attacked by torpedo-like sharks; as they prove to be able to build up a good body count just by landing on their victims. Still, plenty of chomping as the blood and guts fly. And some entertaining methods of shark killing as you lose count of all the cameos featured: Kelly Osbourne, Robert Hays, Richard Kind, Al Roker, Matt Lauer, Michael Strahan, Billy Ray Cyrus and Kelly Ripa. Judd Hirsch plays a very helpful taxi driver and the Mayor of NYC is played by Robert Klein. Might as well line up writer Thunder Levin and director Anthony C. Ferrante for "atta boy" awards. I just don't know how much pride to expect for confessing to watching this. I do still feel a bit cheated by not getting to hear Mack The Knife by Bobby Darin.

Where the first "Sharknado" movie was more fun and entertaining given its spoofy nature and outrageous storyline, then "Sharknado 2: The Second One" was a struggle to get through and it was nowhere near the level of the first movie.

The story in "Sharknado 2: The Second One" is similar to the story in the first movie, only this time it takes place in New York. And of course it is up to Fin Shepard (played by Ian Ziering) to save the day and rescue New York from destruction.

Effect-wise, then "Sharknado 2: The Second One" was much similar to the first movie. The effects were adequate, but not really realistic.

They had managed to get a couple of more famous people to make small appearances in this sequel. Whether that was good or not, well I am not sure, because they only had very minor roles and they were eaten by sharks pretty quickly.

For me it was Judd Hirsh who carried the movie, but his demise was seen coming a mile away.

I must admit that I was actually disappointed by "Sharknado 2: The Second One", because I thought they would keep the same goofy level as in the first movie.

Before the sequel etched its way onto my TV screen, I watched the last half of the original 'Sharknado' - just as a review. What a mistake. I think the original was a classic, but absorbing the last thirty minutes - again – was like ingesting bile, ending up with a bitter after-taste sitting in my mouth and lasting for a lifetime. The first time I saw S-nado 1, everything was fun and fresh. The idea was original and the humor was oh so subtle, that the laughs almost seemed unintentional. It was a brilliantly crafted tongue and cheek satire, saluting the classic, 'Jaws'. So - why a sequel? This second movie was horrible. It was like everything was packaged and ready for production - and then a ton of last minute changes were introduced, immediately screwing everything up. I gather since the first edition was such a big success, overwhelming interest for a sequel naturally followed. Among other things, this attention created a massive chum-line for out-of-work superstars to latch their huge egos to. Star power can be a good thing…but it can also be bad. This time it was a massive fail. There appeared to be multiple ad-hoc one-liners chucked in only to appease the egos of the numerous "guest-mega-stars." The stifling chants by these cameo gasbags, transformed simple fun into some kind of ad-nauseam, narcissistic love fest. My fingers could not go down my throat far enough. Please…no more. Let the writers work on something else…no more sharknados…please.

WOW - this film actually got a sequel!!

OK, so, it's basically a rehash of the first Sharknado film but this one blows the bonkers out of the ball park and takes it on a 6 month adventure before bringing it back with more bonkers on it. This film see's Sharks hitting New York city and the film literally starts with what can only be described as 'Sharks on a Plain'. From there the wooden acting, the terrible CGI, the messy plot, the lack of respect for principles of physics carry's on where the first film left off.

Ziering and Reid make their triumphant return in this film, plus there are a whole host of cameos from other 'actors'.

If you loved the cheese of the first film and you are contemplating the second film then please please please watch it, if not for the shark- s**t crazy ending.

Soooooooo bad that it was good.

Loved it! I loved the sharks. I loved the actors. I loved all the cameos. Horrible acting but also horribly entertaining.

There were some ridiculous moments such as the saw hand and the end. OMG, it wasn't even the same length of arm, or even the same ring! Of course I was also hoping that some of the people who did die actually lived but it was par for the course of the movie.

Perfect movie to come home and unwind to.

Will also definitely look into the book: How to Survive a Sharknado

Can't wait for Sharknado 3!! YES!!

(Doesn't really contain spoilers, IMO, but some may think so ... hence the warning)

What a rotten piece of garbage this film was - so much so, I felt the need to jump on and write a review here.

The first SHARKNADO was fun, an entertaining B-movie (Big-Time!) because it took itself seriously - one of the markings of a good B-movie. It roughly set up the few main characters, the situation, let all hell break loose, and even with the mediocre acting and slightly worse special effects (seriously, does ANYONE expect decent special effects from a SyFy Channel production?) you could totally get into the campiness, sit back and have fun and enjoy the ride.

None of that exists with this dreck, the 89th film I've seen so far this year and by far the worst. Anchored by one of the most horribly-written scripts ever (seriously, this writer should be banned from Hollywood for life), this sequel takes NOTHING seriously and knows it. Even from the opening plane sequence, the entire film is forcefully always winking at you from its depths, as if to say, "This is crap, and we know it - but ain't it fun?" It's not even trying to take itself seriously, or be in any way "common-sensical" - and that's exactly what was so great about the first one; even with the outrageous, ridiculous goings-on in SHARKNADO, the film treated itself as if it could all happen in real life. It rooted an absurd premise in the real world.

But the world of SHARKNADO 2 involves things like a hole in the wall of a 747, plummeting toward earth, that does NOT immediately suck out a flight attendant who is standing in the middle of the aisle, not even so much as holding onto a seat (instead, a shark flying at her down the aisle gets her) ... yet, minutes later, another character is hanging on for dear life, about to be sucked out of the plane ... while a man lies on the floor next to her, NOT being pulled from the plane, and - worse yet - TOSSES A GUN at her, which lands on the floor of the plane below her, and just sits there, yet again the air pressure loss of the rapidly descending plane picking and choosing who or what it takes!

Not insane enough? How about a major character who loses their hand to a shark, is rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery ... and mere hours later is fully dressed and running around NYC driving a stolen ambulance, trying to help stop the devastation?

If that's not enough, you have the head of the Statue of Liberty rolling non-stop around Manhattan like a bowling ball ... or hordes of New Yorkers pulling machetes and chainsaws and knives and axes from their cars to shark hunt (yeah, I know, it's supposed to be funny, a comment on the preparedness of anything on the part of tough NYC residents - but one of the city's biggest fans, I felt it was pretty easy to see the insult through the humor).

And, a true sign of any truly awful film, cameo after cameo of out-of- work actors or "celebrities" (Jared, from Subway? REALLY?), jammed anywhere into the film the director could find room - effectively throwing you out of the story with, yet again, the film openly winking at your with its "Do you see this; do you SEE this?!?" mentality.

And all of THIS doesn't even take into account the amount of third-rate plastic surgery on display here, by not only most of the female actors, but even Mark McGrath (who should never attempt acting again while he still draws breath) looks like his face is plasticized. Enough of the actors in this film look like they've been to Joan Rivers' plastic surgeon, it's both distracting and a bit scary.

Bad acting, an unforgivable script, sub-par special effects (yes, even for SyFy Channel), extreme closeups used to hide the fact they didn't have the budget to show the real action, sharks that kill by landing on you instead of biting (a major theme, here), a total defiance of the laws of gravity (not to mention common sense), and more stuff I'd think about if I didn't have a headache by now all, add up to make SHARKNADO 2: THE SECOND ONE a smug, pretentious, self-inflated, trite, and absolutely dull-beyond-belief 85 minutes that I not only had to force myself to sit through (hoping SOMETHING good would happen, because I loved the first one so much) ... but remain, even now, absolutely mad at myself for having even watched.