Like others pointed out before me, complaining about goofy CGI or story lines in a movie called ” Sand Sharks” is useless. The basic fact that these kind of movies have these treats for us makes them fun to watch and if you have problems with the fore-mentioned goofy parts this isn’t the right type of movie for you.<\/p>\n
I was planning to see this as a doubleheader with 2 headed shark attack, another gem which has roughly the same premise and one actress in common; however my gf objected. We saw 2 headed shark attack yesterday and while she was trying to sink away in the pillow on the couch she murmured that it was like watching a porn movie without the porn; acting and set wise. So I choose to save the Sand shark adventure for today, while I was alone..which was the good choice relation ship wise. Anyway, back to the movie at hand; Sand Sharks.<\/p>\n
I am not going to tell you what the film is about, like all ” monster name in title” movies its rather self explanatory. The makers did make the smart move to not show the beasties too much – however, lots of people get munched on- and what we did see was the usual clunky CGI, mostly fins and sharks popping out of the..mmh.. sand ( really, how anybody can resist that with ” Tremors” or “Bloodbeach” in their nostalgia bag I don’t know).<\/p>\n
We have the usual town festival on the beach ( ” thousands of kids”; more like 30 extra’s) and we have the colorful figures that run around between the sand shark attacks. And those figures are colorful, we have a guy channeling a Johney Depp impersonation, we have the Robert Shaw derivative with even the exact same way of talking and last but not least..Brooke Hogan as a shark expert. And everyone is in on the joke, nobody takes themselves or the story really serious and the acting – for this kind of movie- is above par. And you need that in a movie like this were there isn’t enough budget to do great action scenes or big set pieces.<\/p>\n
And truth to be told, Brook isn’t doing a bad job. I remember seeing asylum movies with 80’s singers like Tiffany that were a hell of a lot worse. She doesn’t have to make room for any Oscars in the near future but she does an okay job ( which she also did in ” 2 headed shark attack”). I mean, don’t get me wrong, nobody is going to believe that she is a shark expert even if her life depended on it but she delivers the lines and on this level movie wise her acting chops are more then enough.<\/p>\n
So all in all a good viewing experience, just get into the right mindset, manage your perceptions and you will have a fun 90 mins.