Monsternado

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.

Needless to say that I wasn't harboring any expectations to this 2023 movie titled "Monsternado". I had not heard about it, prior to stumbling upon it by random chance, and I sort of figured that it would be in the likes of the cheesy "Sharknado" movies. And since I had not heard about it, nor seen it before, then of course I opted to give director Tyler-James a fair chance with this movie.

The storyline in "Monsternado", as written by Derek Miller, is generic, so very, very generic. If you have seen any of the "Sharknado" movies, then you have essentially already also seen "Monsternado". So yeah, you're not in for anything grand here, aside from a generic and predictable plot and storyline. There is a sense of lack of coherency to the storyline, as it is a bit all over the place, as if writer Derek Miller wanted to be everywhere all at once. And it made zero sense that people would go about their daily business and routines on the streets whenever you saw streetviews in the movie, especially since there was supposed to be a massive storm with deadly creatures wrecking havoc on the city. It was just not logical.

There wasn't a single familiar face on the cast list, and that was actually something that spoke in favor of the movie, well aside from Danielle Scott. Yeah, I've seen enough questionable movies to reckognize her. I like seeing unfamiliar talents on the screen when I watch movies, so I was in for a treat here, if you will. The acting performances in "Monsternado" were fair enough for a movie of this type. Just don't go expecting award winning performances and you're not setting yourself up for disappointment.

You would assume that the waters around a massive water spout would be turbulent and tumultuous, but apparently not in this movie. And also, people with long hair near the spouts didn't seem to have billowing hair about them. So there were some serious issues going on with how nature works.

The visual effects in the movie are a mixed bag of nuts in "Monsternado". Some of the CGI looks corny, and some look rather rigid and fake. But then there are some effects that actually look good. But at least they tried their best. And in all honest, then the CGI effects in "Monsternado" weren't among the worst of effects I've seen in movies, and that counts for something to the overall impression of the movie, doesn't it?

And why is it that creature features like this always need to have growling sharks?

While I did manage to sit through all 81 minutes, I can honestly say that "Monsternado" is not a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time.

My rating of "Monsternado" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

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.

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.