Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)

  • 15% of critics liked it
    (20 reviews)

  • 22% of users liked it
    (51,941 ratings)

When two enormous prehistoric creatures contend for supremacy of the sea, the California coast becomes the setting for a showdown that's been centuries in the making. Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah Gibson star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

R, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By
Jack Perez
Genres
Action & Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
May 26, 2009 Wide
On DVD
May 26, 2009
The Asylum

Critic Reviews

  • Mike Edwards, What Culture

    Mega Swindle vs Giant Rip-Off

  • Steve Biodrowski, Cinefantastique

    If ever there was a film that seemed designed with Mystery Science Theater 3000 in mind, this is it.

  • Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures

    a goofy if not entertaining piece of filmmaking

  • Philip French, Observer [UK]

    The risible special effects and the clumsy acting recall not Roger Corman productions but the ineptitude of Ed Wood, though the result is far less endearing.

  • Peter Whittle, Sunday Times (UK)

    How this ever got released is a mystery. Unwatchable, almost unreviewable, this stupid monster movie makes the Bela Lugosi swan song Plan 9 from Outer Space look like a masterpiece.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • John M


    This was one of the funniest movies ive seen in a long time. Wonderful for its hilarity . . what its not suppose to be funny?I guess 3 1/2 might be too much . .

  • Michael M


    They say this is the best asylum movie. I ask how?

  • Ken S


    Not the best or the worst of the Asylum's output. But you do get to see Debbie Gibson fight a giant shark and a giant octopus, so it's not a total waste.

  • Justin Y


    Jack Perez goes ultimate B movie with <i>Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus</i> and it ends up ultimately terrible.<p>The title is the only thing this film has going for it. Sure, the plot sounds great, but everything that transpires throughout this so-called brief 80+… More

  • Alexander W


    There are plenty of other non-modern B movies than wasting your time with this. This is the sort of film you watch on tv after you lost your job. Horrible. Special Effects are better with my eyes closed. Just go to youtube and watch it first.

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