Nerds That Geek Movie Review - 'Sharknado 5: Global swarming'

Written by Scott 'Sharky' Edwards

Everyone has their weeks that they look forward to and there is nothing wrong with that. As some people wait all year long to watch Shark Week or the Super Bowl, I have become a huge fan of the SyFy channel’s Countdown to Sharknado Week. Giving us a handful of new shark movies after the real shark stories are off the air makes it just that much more enjoyable. I know I am not the only one that loves these movies, as Twitter has been lit up this week with the new titles, but none trended higher last year than the much-anticipated Sharknado 5: Global Swarming.
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With his wife April and son Gil, Fin Shepard has been invited to NATO to pass on all he knows about the Sharknadoes and what the world can do to rebuild from the last attack. But before Fin is able to enter the meeting, he is called by his old bartender Nova to come and check out what she has just found. In a cave hidden underneath Stonehenge, ancient paintings show that Sharknadoes are not only a problem of the present, but of the past as well. Venturing into the shark infested cave, Nova and Fin find an artifact that they believe will help them to combat the Sharknado problem at hand, but it opens up a new breed of the storm that will change the world forever.

As Stonehenge crumbles and a new Sharknado has been unleashed upon London, the family Shepard is caught right in the middle of it again. Being able to protect himself in his new helmet, young Gil is whisked away by the storm and his parents must find a way to free him before he becomes just another shark appetizer. With the plan in place to enter the vortex of the storm, the two are transported across the world and wind up in Australia. Needing time to recover, Fin and April find out that Nova is in a secret organization, the Sisterhood of Sharknadoes, who combat these threats across the world. With a new ally in their fight and April getting a major upgrade, the two are ready to not only battle the storm for their son, but also to save the world. Jumping into the storm once again and almost reaching Gil, the couple is transported once again, to Rio.

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Getting a cheerful greeting in their new surroundings, Fin and April are taken to meet with Vega who explains the origins of the storms and what needs to be done to stop them. Keeping the artifact with her, April and Fin are shocked that they can summon their own Sharknadoes for means of travel. But someone else is looking for this power as the artifact is stolen and the couple heads out on a chase across the world once again. Arriving in Rome and getting the artifact back, Fin sees that even his Holiness has a plan to end the storms. With a new holy chainsaw, Fin has a new weapon to take on the storms with more power than he could ever imagine. 
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Still needing to find and free their son, Fin and April make it to Japan as a new nuclear waste shark has hit the shores. With thousands of sharks acting as one, Sharkzilla has taken to the streets and devours everything in its path. With the military reacting, along with the Sisterhood, there is no way that this storm will survive, but at what cost. Blowing the new storm away, Gil is lost, and Nova is not able to survive. Losing their family one by one to the storms, April and Fin are in disbelief that they are the only ones left who can end this once and for all. Wanting to give up and just return the artifact, they are transported to Egypt where there might actually be a machine that can control the storms, but is that the only thing it can do?

Well, another Sharknado movie is in the books. I didn’t know what to expect with this movie, as I wanted to be surprised and avoided the trailers at all costs and I was happy that I did. With nothing off of the table and plenty of movie parodies taking place, it is hard to look at this movie and not laugh out loud. I will admit that I liked the family fights between the characters and even being in the wrong, Fin is able to keep them all together. With fun effects being used, there seemed to be more squashing people with the sharks than eating them and while it was fun, I do prefer people being eaten by sharks. The cameos were outrageous in this latest installment and I was just blown away as always when it comes to who gets to be next in the long line of shark fodder. With a global swarming of Sharknadoes, people being eaten and squashed, some new shark kills, Bret Michaels, more cameos than you can swing a shark at and an ending that will leave you wanting more, I cannot wait to see what the SyFy Network and Asylum Productions come up with next. I enjoyed the heck out of this movie and will be watching it several more times, because I am sure I missed a ton of stuff the first two times of watching and laughing. Of course, the saga comes to an end tonight and while I'm disappointed Asylum didn't use my title suggestion, Sharknado 6: Shark to the Future, I'm going to tune in to The Last Sharknado: It's About Time to bid a proper farewell to this magical franchise. Stay Sharky.

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