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Have made no secret in the past of intensely disliking, and even outright hating a lot, a vast majority of The Asylum's and SyFy's (near-universally maligned for good reason) output, though there is curiosity as to whether they are capable of making something good and compulsive about their output's badness. Admittedly, both The Asylum and SyFy do have a small group of watchable films and the occasional (big emphasis on that word) above average one, unfortunately outweighed by the lacklustre at best and often dreadful films they churn out.

Before anybody gets defensive, am well aware that films like 'Planet of the Sharks' are not ones to be taken seriously. Have seen my fair share of low-budget shark films, and any other kind of low-budget creature film, and will admit to finding some guilty fun in some of them (i.e. the first two 'Sharknado' films). There are far worse shark films, but is that an endorsement or saying much? Not really.

Take no pleasure in rating films low or leaving negative reviews. Actually always aim to be an encouraging and perceptive reviewer, and 1/10 ratings are extremely rare.

Sadly 'Planet of the Sharks' is just too amateurish to accept as a guilty pleasure, where nearly everything is just poor quality that it's insulting and there is nowhere near enough fun, intentional or unintentional, moments. Was not expecting anything intelligent here, am well versed now to know that it is not that kind of film, but it does feel like it was made by somebody who didn't know how to give a film brains, so much so that it'll make the viewer feel dumb and that is not a nice sensation to feel watching a film.

Got some marginal entertainment out of the opening scene as it was sort of fun, although it was also very predictable and silly. Unfortunately, it rapidly fell downhill, where ridiculousness and cheapness amongst other things were taken to extremes.

Visually, even when knowing what to expect, 'Planet of the Sharks' still looks really cheap. Any nice scenery that the movie has is difficult to appreciate when the movie is shot in such a drab way and when it's edited so amateurishly that bacon-slicer-like editing looks more refined. Worst of all in this regard are the effects, as it was made on low-budget it would have been forgiven a little if it was not great, but when the effects for the sharks look as if no effort was given in making them without looking so goofy and unfinished-looking that is hard to ignore.

Can say little better about the personalities. The sharks are not menacing, not scary and not fun, not even strong enough to bring any unintentional humour or goofiness, that's how bland they are. The music is very generic and adds very little, it's not always appropriate either and quite a lot of it is actually pretty annoying.

Writing ranges between incredibly bad to appalling. Any comedy is incredibly forced and is so cheesy it is enough to make the eyes roll in disbelief, while the more serious moments are very awkwardly written and as trite as anybody can possibly go. Regarding the shark attacks, some are rushed, others are badly drawn out. They lack any kind of suspense and the over-silliness to the point of intelligence-insulting stupidity, terrible shark effects, bad editing and even more gratuitous gore further cheapen them. To describe the story as weak is being too insulting to the word weak, it is a very lethargically paced and thin as ice story with lots of padding that is either badly written or serves no point at all to the movie, other than attempts at novelty value, which falls flat on its face because it all feels so tired. It is not fun, it is not scary and it is not thrilling or suspenseful, it's just nothing but tired stupidity.

As for the characters, that they're tired cliches isn't so much a problem, the problem is that they are either obnoxious with them constantly doing stupid things, so bland that it makes zombies seem more animated or both. Some of them are superfluous to the story or come and go out of nowhere constantly. The direction is as flat as a pancake, and the acting is amateur hour awful. The film may not unforgivably waste dependable actors, again that is saying little when you are watching actors looking bored or over-compensating to extreme levels.

Overall, awful. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Did none of you watch this on anything larger that an iPhone? The water scenes of the "floating" villages was shot in Houts Bay, south Africa. And in those scenes you can see the water breaking over the dock/seawall in the bay. This is supposed to be out in the middle of the deep ocean and the water is really about 6 foot deep. Notice how the anchoring ropes are almost horizontal indicating shallow water versus hanging straight down like an anchor in deep water. Of course in several scenes near the end you can actually see people (not in the movie) walking along the seawall in the deep background. Either they are walking on water or, most likely, the seawall. Hilarious. Then there's another scene where another boat motors by in the background. I won't even comment about the flying sharks as that was kind of expected.

Oddly enough Planet of the Sharks came from syfy channel but with a plot involved. Yes, you heard me right, you actually get to see more than just silly, cheap CGI, you will indeed witness a plot developing under you very eyes.

That is of course if you can make it through this movie as it really is as terrible as they get, a movie where the brain needs to be shut down, and you need to see the forest beyond the trees. All in all, for a syfy production it is slightly better yes, but is that really saying much?

So if you wanna see a movie with sharks, but not much more, I guess if all the other nature channels have nothing on, you could do this. Tho I recommend you do not!

Cheers!

Well, let's be honest, it is no big secret that when you sit down to watch any of the numerous creature features from SyFy, then you know that chances are more than overwhelming that you will be in for something cheesy and very low budget. And "Planet of the Sharks" wasn't a movie that broke that stereotype.

What do you get if you take elements from "Waterworld", "Planet of the Apes" and "Jaws" and put it into a blender and serve after one hour and thirty minutes of non-stop high-speed blending? You get "Planet of the Sharks", of course.

The story in this movie is about our planet having suffered from some kind of natural disaster which has left the entire planet flooded, and people live afloat some makeshift flotillas. But the waters are far from safe. The temperature is changing, which is causing plankton growth to diminish, which in turn is causing a massive drop in the fish population, which ultimately ends up in the apex predators of the sea, the sharks, to have nothing to feed on. And when there is nothing to feed on below the waves, the sharks seek to feed on the humans above the waves.

Right, well the story is not the cheesiest of story lines that I have witnessed from SyFy, but it wasn't a particularly convincing storyline either. And that was perhaps because of the poor CGI and lack of a captivating storyline as a whole.

As with most SyFy movies, then the effects in "Planet of the Sharks" were questionable. Sometimes the sharks looked alright, but most of the time they were poorly animated, and when the fins broke through the surface of the water, there were no visual effect of this, and it was painstakingly obvious that it was just poorly animated CGI shark fins.

The acting in the movie was adequate, well as far as acting in movies such as these go. I have seen worse acting, believe you me. So I will say that people were doing good enough jobs with their given roles and characters throughout the course of this movie.

"Planet of the Sharks" is one of those guilty pleasures. You know, a movie that is so bad that it is actually fun and sort of pseudo-entertaining to watch.

I am rating this movie three out of ten stars. SyFy have a lot of creature features, and many of them are better than this one. Sure, it is good enough to watch if you have nothing better to watch and just need a movie where you don't have to think a single though, but it is hardly a movie that you will watch more than a single time.

From someone who has always been obsessed with sharks and shark movies since I was a child, I love the new twists and plots they come up with

The storyline was alright and made sense, However the terrible acting and cringe factor really let this whole movie down.

I understand diversity adds something new to any

(MILD CHARACTER SPOILER AHEAD)... But when it came to the terrible attempt at a southern cowboy themed accent, pyscho woman dressed as a goth starting her little tribe inspired chanting let me tell you it does give you a good laugh. Had the whole family laughing so I can't deny we did enjoy the movie but probably for the laughs as you can't take it seriously

Stopped watching this about a third of the way through to go get food from the kitchen and talk to the dog for 5 minutes. Wasn't worth pausing as there's ALOT of talking babbling and repeating the same theory to the problem over and over again, hardly any action By the time I got back I carried on watching the rest of the film

Didn't miss much at all

Overall the storyline actually has great potential but the choice of cast let it down And my food break chat with my dog went well.

I would say its worth a watch as some people might really enjoy it

Enjoy the movie