Police Academy 8: Lava Spiders?

Tag line doesn’t make sense…but who cares? It’s Awesome!

 

That’s right move over Sharknado, there’s a new hybrid creature/natural disaster ridiculous high concept film in town. This film goes by the just as amazingly convoluted name Lavalantula.  According to the SYFY channel last week, Lavalantula will be their new creature film coming to us sometime in the year 2015. Normally the title and movie poster alone would get the fans interested and ready for such a film but oh no there’s more.  The film will take part as the closet thing to a Police Academy  Reunion the world is ever going to see.  That’s right, the film will have there action hero in the form of Steve Guttenberg! However that’s not all, the film will also co-star Police Academy alumni Leslie Easterbrook, and the man of a thousand voices, Michael Winslow.

Our Hero Ladies and Gentlemen!

 

The summary of the film so far is as simple as you can get:A group of giant lava spitting tarantulas will burst out of an ancient set of volcanoes in the middle of the Santa Monica Mountains, and wreck havoc in down town Los Angeles and it’ll be up to our cast of Police Academy cadets to save the day.

 

While this movie does sound dumb, it does have a saving grace. Director Mike Mendez of Big Ass Spider! (2013) fame is in charge of this production. Clearly this film is on the nose and going to be a comedy, and Mendez will be in his element there. The film is to be released this upcoming summer and I on hand can’t wait for this film to be released. I just hope Michael Winslow will use his amazing powers of voices to defeat the giant killer lava-spewing spiders.

Hopefully this will be the next Sharknado…and I actually mean that as a compliment.

 

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Sharknado Review

 

Behold the powers of photoshopping Sharks in a Tornado!

What happens when you get a former bankable actress, the 4th most memorable 90210 actor, and throw them to the sharks that work at the Asylum? You get somehow the profitable film that is Sharknado.

Sharknado is like any other B-movie disaster film…only with sharks. This means it comes with the same trope characters. You got the dead beat dad (Ian Ziering), the annoyed ex-wife (Tara Reid), the kids that don’t listen, the wacky accented side-kick, and the one actor you not sure is really acting ( John Heard). Not to mention all the pointless extras to be cannon fodder to the sharks falling out of the sky.

 

Holy Depth Perception Sharknado!

Sharknado is a film that is not only terrible…it’s self-aware of it. So self aware that the film continues to up the scales of the ridiculous factor. Runaway Ferris wheels, sharks in flying out of sewers, Tara Reid trying to show emotion, it has it all.

There’s jumping the shark…and then there’s jumping inside a shark with a chainsaw.

All in all Sharknado is just a ridiculous concept that is also just dumb enough to be awesome. The CGI is goofy, the acting full of ham, and the gore is over the top. You’ll be rolling your eyes and laughing at the same time. It truly is so bad that it’s good.

Actual Rating : 4 out of 10

Enjoyability Rating : 6 out of 10

Video From: CinexisBlog

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