Monsternado

I usually like to watch these kinda movies when I am drunk, but unfortunately this movie still couldn't add to my drinking fun time.

What the hell is actually going on? They tried to take it to seriously. In Sharknado (which i love BTW) the acted seriously, to sell the un-seriousness of the obvious ridiculousness of they movie-making fun of itself. They tried to hard to "talk" everything out, no real eminent disaster, try to have to many character story lines, and stop sitting around and talking out the plot lines.

With that said, as a filmmaker myself, THEY STILL MADE A FEATURE FILM and I haven't yet.

So cheers.

I typically enjoy cheesy monster and disaster sci-fi movies. I think I have probably seen all of them in the past 20 or 25 years. This one, however, is awful! It is the worst of the worst. I stopped watching it after about 30 minutes because it was a complete waste of time. The plot at that point was utterly ridiculous. The acting was laughable at best. The script was mostly expletives with very little actual dialogue. This is supposed to be in the Action and Horror category. Comedy of Errors would be a better category. I have watched a lot of bad movies all the way through. This one I chose not to because it wasn't getting any better and I wasn't wasting anymore time.

Inspired by one of the worst, although knowingly stupid, film franchises of recent years and brought to you by the production team of that awful Winnie the Pooh movie earlier in the year and countless other low budget, soft 'prawn' movies.

Everything is terrible. The acting, the plot , the script, the CGI, the direction......everything.

So why give it a two. Well at least they tried. They did succeed in getting a movie movie produced and released ( although I do think that this one actually escaped).

Also, why did a mostly British cast in a movie filmed in the UK speak with American accents. I know it was set in the states but clearly was filmed in London.....whatever.

A movie called Monsternado will of course never win any awards, but I have seen a lot worse movies this year and if you have some drinks this is almost watchable. The acting is okayish, and the production value for a low budget trashy spoofy monster flick is not so bad. This is very amateurish, and you can tell from the bad CGi sure, but even more so comes to audio- and directing.

This is very generic, very basic, and as any of these 'nado movies you know what you get. Watching this movie is like eating at a bad McDonalds restaurant.

I cannot recommend this, and I give it a 3/10 because the film value and production etc it does not deserve anything higher. But this is also not complete trash and its sort of fun in a goofy way. I applaud the effort on the low budget, and I can see a few nuggets of light here and there.

So apparently, the Director and producer got together and decided that they would approach a hotel in the backside of nowhere in the middle of London.

As far as I can see everything was filmed inside the hotel except hilariously for two shots which were in the street outside. I'm not kidding. I checked it out on Google Maps and it's right outside the front door.

My theory is that they persuaded somebody in the hotel that this would be great PR and they all had an absolute blast running up and down and sticking badly rendered CGI in the background, in return for a few free nights accommodation, and no doubt some epic drinking sessions.

One of the highlights of the film was the flyover Dublin city. Particularly the Liffey. I think they reversed the shot in order to try and hide it but they just flipped it over. The Dublin Civic offices were on the wrong side of the river. A stock shot which they bought no doubt.

Finally, I couldn't help, but notice that several of the women look like men in drag. I have no problem with that, but you'd have to ask yourself the question why? I would say hangovers.

In conclusion, this is worth the five minutes I spent fast forwarding through it and laughing heartily throughout. Fair play guys. You did it and enjoyed it and some people watched it. Destined to be a cult classic. If you can get this thing made, you can do anything! It.