I had to give this 'scary' sci-fi film a third star simply because it gave me plenty of laughs. Outside of that, this film is about as far from making sense as the earth is from the moon. But oh well, I guess they decided they had to pick somewhere new to give us a shark themed movie. Giggle, giggle!
39 Reviews
Extra star for just being there
SuperCatMonkey19 August 2022
This was bad. When the synopsis popped up on my guide, I was excited by the prospect of seeing the best bad movie ever. It started out with a lot of promise - this one was going to give Sharknado a run for its money. By about halfway it had degenerated into Yongary bad. It's not Ulli Lommel-level atrocious, but it did leave a pretty fantastic concept circling the drain. It's a solid 2/10. I added a star because the idea was so awesome and it did start out with promise. I could have subtracted that star for being a disappointment, but it is better than that...
Shark Side of the Moon
BandSAboutMovies14 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
During the Cold War, Russians were experimenting with shark/human hybrids -- go with the movie on that -- but they become too powerful and a scientist named Sergey (played by Roman Chsherbakov in flashback and Ego Mikitas in the rest of the film) locks them up and flies them to the moon.
Forty years later, Commander Nicole Tress (Maxi Witrak) and her team of astronauts return the United States to the moon in time to crash land and find the human sharks have become an advanced society training to destroy the Earth. The American astronauts just want to get home and Sergey and his daughter Akula (Tania Fox) -- a shark/human who looks human and a finny undersea monster -- want to come with them. The sharks, led by Tzarina (Natasha Goubskaya) want to come to Earth and rule it.
Look, this is an Asylum movie -- directed by Glen Campbell and Tammy Klein (Planet Dune) and written by Ryan Ebert and Anna Rasmussen (Tales of a Fifth Grade Robin Hood) -- and has people with nose breathers -- and no spacesuits -- on the surface of the moon, shark-part weapons, ridiculous animation of the shark/humans and an ending that sets up a sequel while also probably making you upset there is one. It's got an amazingly creative title and a decent idea, but doesn't push itself to be any stranger or better after that, which is a shame.
Forty years later, Commander Nicole Tress (Maxi Witrak) and her team of astronauts return the United States to the moon in time to crash land and find the human sharks have become an advanced society training to destroy the Earth. The American astronauts just want to get home and Sergey and his daughter Akula (Tania Fox) -- a shark/human who looks human and a finny undersea monster -- want to come with them. The sharks, led by Tzarina (Natasha Goubskaya) want to come to Earth and rule it.
Look, this is an Asylum movie -- directed by Glen Campbell and Tammy Klein (Planet Dune) and written by Ryan Ebert and Anna Rasmussen (Tales of a Fifth Grade Robin Hood) -- and has people with nose breathers -- and no spacesuits -- on the surface of the moon, shark-part weapons, ridiculous animation of the shark/humans and an ending that sets up a sequel while also probably making you upset there is one. It's got an amazingly creative title and a decent idea, but doesn't push itself to be any stranger or better after that, which is a shame.
The new song by Stink Floyd: Shark Side of the Moon
Top_Dawg_Critic24 August 2022
I've seen better filmmaking from a fifth-grade drama class - in the 1980's. This nonsense had two writers and two directors - of which has to be the worst directed film I've ever seen. Even worse, both directors have a combined -get this- 302 Visual Effects credits on their resume! The green screen and CGI effects seemed like they were just invented and experimented in this film. The bonus (and my recommendation for viewing this film) is that we all watched this under the influence of alcoholic beverages and recreational pharmaceuticals - strictly for medicinal purposes of course, and we couldn't stop laughing at how bad this was. This may have been less painful if the 88 min runtime was cut down to around 20 mins. There really was nothing redeeming about this poor excuse of an action sci-fi horror film. Even on a $75 dollar budget, I could make a better film. I mean Sharknado was better, so what does that tell you. But because of the many laugh out loud moments we had, especially during the slow-mo fake gravity moon walks, I'm still giving this nonsense a very generous 3/10.
Really bad
okpilak16 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
In the past, Asylum produced really bad films, but then improved to make more enjoyable ones. This one takes it back to the past. At the start, Russian Scientists are in lab coats, all wearing the Red Star. There is a breakout, and there are shark men in rubber suits in pursuit of their space shuttle, which takes off with sharks on board. 40 years later, Americans head to the moon. Computers have made it possible for even school film classes to have respectable special effects. This movie doesn't have that. There are scenes of running on the moon which defies any sense. And the stranded Russian scientist and now his daughter do not need suits to protect themselves from the atmosphere on the moon. They have survived for 40 years, and the sharks have built up quite a civilization. This is just all around bad. It is not comic enough to be a good "B" movie.
Could have been a fun one.
kotoridickinson25 August 2022
I know going into a B list film, some logic won't always apply to it and I don't mind that. But when a 0 logic or sense, especially to the world it has created it's just stupid. An excuse for a bad film.
For example for some reason in this film, people can breath with just tubes in their noses and talk in space (note: Out of the ship in open space). Also for some reason they are constantly moving in slow motion out side of the ship. Which doesn't make for very interesting fight or chase scenes.
The characters also constantly contradict themselves and there is no feeling of urgency in the story. Which is odd since the story is about killer humanoid sharks. They are surprisingly easy to kill.
On top of that the camera placements and cuts feel very off and disorienting.
Other than that, the only good things I can say is it did make me laugh a couple times. I also thought the idea of the story was a fun Idea.
For example for some reason in this film, people can breath with just tubes in their noses and talk in space (note: Out of the ship in open space). Also for some reason they are constantly moving in slow motion out side of the ship. Which doesn't make for very interesting fight or chase scenes.
The characters also constantly contradict themselves and there is no feeling of urgency in the story. Which is odd since the story is about killer humanoid sharks. They are surprisingly easy to kill.
On top of that the camera placements and cuts feel very off and disorienting.
Other than that, the only good things I can say is it did make me laugh a couple times. I also thought the idea of the story was a fun Idea.
Life is too Short
stewartlehr24 August 2022
I caught this on TUBI last night and frankly this is one of the worst movies that I have ever viewed. Frankly life is too short to waste your time on this disaster.
1. Acting ranges from barely adequate to poor 2. CGI looks like it was designed on a Pentium 3 or Apple Power PC (almost twenty years old).
3. The storyline is so ridiculous and takes place on the far side of the moon which is perpetually dark...except in this movie.
4. The science behind this "money laundering" exercise was obviously based on pre-Gallileo science.
The only redeeming feature of this trainwreck was the ending which points to no sequels. Thank the gods and pass the bottle!
Believe me, life is too short to waste your time on this insult to your intelligence. Alternatively, if you just want a good laugh then this movie maybe for you.
1. Acting ranges from barely adequate to poor 2. CGI looks like it was designed on a Pentium 3 or Apple Power PC (almost twenty years old).
3. The storyline is so ridiculous and takes place on the far side of the moon which is perpetually dark...except in this movie.
4. The science behind this "money laundering" exercise was obviously based on pre-Gallileo science.
The only redeeming feature of this trainwreck was the ending which points to no sequels. Thank the gods and pass the bottle!
Believe me, life is too short to waste your time on this insult to your intelligence. Alternatively, if you just want a good laugh then this movie maybe for you.
oh boy
mrduck-3719423 August 2022
This movie was hilarious but not in the good ways. Only good thing it had goin was it made sharknado look like a goddamn masterpiece...............................................................................................................................................................................
Phenomenally bad movie from The Asylum...
paul_haakonsen23 August 2022
Needless to say that I wasn't harboring any expectations at all of a movie with the name of "Shark Side of the Moon" as possibly being a good movie. Sure, it might be one of those cheesy bad movies that are so bad that they become fun to watch. I was sort of hoping for that.
And of course with "Shark Side of the Moon" being a movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to watch what writers Ryan Ebert and Anna Rasmussen had mustered with the script.
Seeing those two dreaded words on the screen at the start of the movie immediately made me twitch. What words you might ask? Well, you know, "The Asylum". Yup, this was another impressive movie from The Asylum. And let me just say that this movie was a sinker and a stinker. It was pretty terrible even for the standards of The Asylum.
The storyline in "Shark Side of the Moon" was pretty corny, sure. Talk about tacky sci-fi.
The acting performances in the movie were questionable at best, and it often felt like the actors and actresses themselves were struggling with taking things seriously.
"Shark Side of the Moon" is just full of so many errors, such as absolutely no concept of how gravity works on the moon, how having skin exposed to the vacuum of space works, and the list goes on and on. It was so bad that I ended up laughing a lot throughout the course of the movie, given all the mistakes and flaws that permeated the movie.
The special effects in "Shark Side of the Moon" were 'special' alright. Even for a movie from The Asylum, then the CGI effects in this movie were atrocious. The animation was wooden, rigid, stilted and just generally looked like something from an early 1990s PC game. Sure, I will say that the scenes with the spaceship flying through space looked good, and the textures of the sharks looked good. But everything else was just rubbish.
Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time, money or effort on "Shark Side of the Moon" from directors Glenn Campbell and Tammy Klein. The movie simply is not worth the effort.
My rating of "Shark Side of the Moon" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.
And of course with "Shark Side of the Moon" being a movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to watch what writers Ryan Ebert and Anna Rasmussen had mustered with the script.
Seeing those two dreaded words on the screen at the start of the movie immediately made me twitch. What words you might ask? Well, you know, "The Asylum". Yup, this was another impressive movie from The Asylum. And let me just say that this movie was a sinker and a stinker. It was pretty terrible even for the standards of The Asylum.
The storyline in "Shark Side of the Moon" was pretty corny, sure. Talk about tacky sci-fi.
The acting performances in the movie were questionable at best, and it often felt like the actors and actresses themselves were struggling with taking things seriously.
"Shark Side of the Moon" is just full of so many errors, such as absolutely no concept of how gravity works on the moon, how having skin exposed to the vacuum of space works, and the list goes on and on. It was so bad that I ended up laughing a lot throughout the course of the movie, given all the mistakes and flaws that permeated the movie.
The special effects in "Shark Side of the Moon" were 'special' alright. Even for a movie from The Asylum, then the CGI effects in this movie were atrocious. The animation was wooden, rigid, stilted and just generally looked like something from an early 1990s PC game. Sure, I will say that the scenes with the spaceship flying through space looked good, and the textures of the sharks looked good. But everything else was just rubbish.
Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time, money or effort on "Shark Side of the Moon" from directors Glenn Campbell and Tammy Klein. The movie simply is not worth the effort.
My rating of "Shark Side of the Moon" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.
A bucket list cinematic masterpiece
aidrob-1372524 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Shark side of the moon speaks for itself with its impeccable story line, breathtaking animations, and flawless acting. If you want a rollercoaster of emotions, this is that film, with humour, loss, and hope it will have anyone immersed in its entirety. I wish I could rewatch it again for the first time to relive and capture the emotions it elicited. Some people have been too critical of this film and overlooked its socio-economic political message of global compassion that it's perfectly casted actors delivered emphatically. If I had any critics of this film it would be that it should have lasted longer and there had been more sharks and I cannot wait for the sequel, the entire crew should be proud of this project and be assured that directors out there will recognise the pure talent of the cinematography that they produced.
9/10 because there were one or two factual discrepancies with the people who could breathe on the moon because of tinfoil helmets and tubes.
9/10 because there were one or two factual discrepancies with the people who could breathe on the moon because of tinfoil helmets and tubes.
One of the best.....
dieharddave4418 August 2022
Someone must have been an SNL fan.
dsranger-6356716 August 2022
The opening of the movie, though with very good special effects, took me back to the classic Chevy Chase "Landshark" sketches from 70s SNL. Other inspiration seems to be drawn from productions as diverse as Armageddon, Baywatch, Planet of the Apes, Space 1999, and, of course, every cheesy shark movie ever made. Totally worth taking the time for a good laugh.
its the cheesy shark movie you are looking for.
JCinHB16 August 2022
Why the Oscar snub?
danieltalbert14 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Finally a shark movie that makes sense. Actors where so happy to have gotten a role, they forgot to stop smiling. Special effects were so good I dawned safety goggles to protect my eyes much like the crew did. The movie staff member that had a relative working at the hospital that donated the nasal cannulas... kudos! Lego space shuttle, nice touch as well. The negative side of the film was the gratuitous shark butts and shark boobs, sad they felt this enhanced an already complex and complicated film plot! Also, (spoiler alert) the whale shark that blasted off and reentered earth had teeth. Everyone knows whale sharks don't have teeth.
Crazy SoSo
Tweetienator25 August 2022
I got "gems" like Nazis at the Center of the Earth in my not too small collection - and enjoyed the ride a lot (my rating a 5). I'm pretty sure Shark Side of the Moon will find some lost souls too, that will enjoy this cheesy trip to the Moon. For sure, it's not one of the worst movies I laid my eyes on, and it is for sure not the worst movie in the archives of The Asylum. The story is, of course, just a crazy one, but well, not much more unreasonable as most of the stuff Marvel and DC sell now for decades. What prevents me to give this flick a recommendation to the lover of the absurd and grotesque is my impression that neither the level on the horror-o-meter nor on the cheese-o-meter are strong enough - the execution of the premise (shark-mutants on the moon) is rather too tame and lame, and simply does not take full advantage of that crazy tale.
An insult to humanity
andrewbakkers3 September 2022
I love B grade cheesy movies, but this 'movie' doesn't even try. Humans walking on the moon with no spacesuits, just a hospital airline in their noses. People speaking to each other without radio communication in an oxygen free environment. Hmm even in the 50's they had glass bowls on their heads and radios. They are pretending there is an atmosphere on the moon and I was waiting for an explanation, but it never came. I have seen better acting, writing, sets and effects from a third grade Christmas play. Tubi should stay away from releasing original content and just stick to streaming Asylum films.
Every Once In Awhile...
jumperjames-5196028 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
You hear the title of a movie and you just say to yourself: I bet the restless spirit of Ed Wood is out there somewhere. Possessing a filmmaker, and making him churn out a movie that has absolutely no scientific basis matching reality.
One might think it was an homage to Sharknado movies, but it appears to be played straight up without the campy, self-aware charm of those movies. It's hard to take seriously when everybody including hybrid sharks are traipsing about the moon without helmets. The moon is apparently a five minute flight away from the Earth. And sharks speak Russian, because of course they do.
None of this is meant to indicate that it's not entertaining. It's just that it's only entertaining for the so bad that it's good crowd. And the ending is open enough that a sequel isn't out of the question!!
One might think it was an homage to Sharknado movies, but it appears to be played straight up without the campy, self-aware charm of those movies. It's hard to take seriously when everybody including hybrid sharks are traipsing about the moon without helmets. The moon is apparently a five minute flight away from the Earth. And sharks speak Russian, because of course they do.
None of this is meant to indicate that it's not entertaining. It's just that it's only entertaining for the so bad that it's good crowd. And the ending is open enough that a sequel isn't out of the question!!
I'm not even joking
michael_7527 April 2023
Everyone involved in this should never be allowed near so much as a camera phone, let alone actual film equipment. They should consider themselves lucky that they aren't being prosecuted for crimes against film. That's as much effort for a review that this rubbish deserves. To put in anymore effort into a review of this film, would mean I'd of put more effort and professionalism in than what those who made the film did into this piece of garbage. I'm not even joking. In all honesty, I think a bunch of thawed out Neanderthals could of made a better film. In fact, watch this and prepare to have your brain de-evolve.
Ridiculous movie.
boomchek7713 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
One of the most ridiculous movies I've ever seen. It was so bad, even as a sci-fi movie, that I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be a comedy or a serious effort from whoever made it. Horrible acting, horrible story line, horrible CGI and horrible special effects.
Basically, Russian scientists created human/shark hybrids during the cold war. When these hybrids escaped the lab and went berserk, one of the scientists lured them onto a space shuttle that just happened to be stationed by the lab, that he fired up in a short 5 minutes, and knew how to fly, and flew to the moon with the shark creatures.
Fast forward to modern times and US astronauts who all wear and communicate through airpods, fly to the moon and crash land. They walk outside wearing motorcycle like helmets, and stumble upon the surviving Russian astronaut and a shark girl (human looking girl with a shark fin) who walk without oxygen masks or spacesuit, and tell the US astronauts about a colony of these shark hybrids.
Then one of the astronauts gets kidnapped by these shark hybrids and is tortured by female shark hybrids, who speak English with a Russian accent, and wear bras, to reveal the spaceship location so that the hybrid sharks can fly to Earth and colonize it.
The US astronauts team up with the surviving Russian scientists and his shark daughter to rescue the kidnapped astronaut. They get equipped with hospital type air tubes to breathe through, and mail coif (medieval chain type head caps), so that they can walk around the moon without space suits or oxygen tanks. They clash with the murderous shark hybrids, discover a lair of shark hybrid babies, and then flee back to their space ship while battling the shark hybrids with spears, which sometimes appear human size, and other times like giants, due to inconsistent CGI scaling.
They kill off a bunch of these hybrids and make it back to their ship. The Russian scientist meanwhile fires up his 40 year old crashed space shuttle, and kamikazes it into the shark city causing lava to erupt and kill the shark colony. The lava exposion propels the surviving US astronauts and shark girl in their spaceship back to earth in about 5 seconds, causing them to crash land in the sea.
When their raft inflates (about 2 seconds after crash landing) and they get on it, shark girl says that Earth is beautiful beyond her imagination, gives birth to baby sharks on the raft, out of her vagina, and then jumps into the sea to be with her babies. The end.
Basically, Russian scientists created human/shark hybrids during the cold war. When these hybrids escaped the lab and went berserk, one of the scientists lured them onto a space shuttle that just happened to be stationed by the lab, that he fired up in a short 5 minutes, and knew how to fly, and flew to the moon with the shark creatures.
Fast forward to modern times and US astronauts who all wear and communicate through airpods, fly to the moon and crash land. They walk outside wearing motorcycle like helmets, and stumble upon the surviving Russian astronaut and a shark girl (human looking girl with a shark fin) who walk without oxygen masks or spacesuit, and tell the US astronauts about a colony of these shark hybrids.
Then one of the astronauts gets kidnapped by these shark hybrids and is tortured by female shark hybrids, who speak English with a Russian accent, and wear bras, to reveal the spaceship location so that the hybrid sharks can fly to Earth and colonize it.
The US astronauts team up with the surviving Russian scientists and his shark daughter to rescue the kidnapped astronaut. They get equipped with hospital type air tubes to breathe through, and mail coif (medieval chain type head caps), so that they can walk around the moon without space suits or oxygen tanks. They clash with the murderous shark hybrids, discover a lair of shark hybrid babies, and then flee back to their space ship while battling the shark hybrids with spears, which sometimes appear human size, and other times like giants, due to inconsistent CGI scaling.
They kill off a bunch of these hybrids and make it back to their ship. The Russian scientist meanwhile fires up his 40 year old crashed space shuttle, and kamikazes it into the shark city causing lava to erupt and kill the shark colony. The lava exposion propels the surviving US astronauts and shark girl in their spaceship back to earth in about 5 seconds, causing them to crash land in the sea.
When their raft inflates (about 2 seconds after crash landing) and they get on it, shark girl says that Earth is beautiful beyond her imagination, gives birth to baby sharks on the raft, out of her vagina, and then jumps into the sea to be with her babies. The end.
a cinematic masterpiece
karalynnava2 October 2022
I cant put into words how amazing this movie was. It was full of twists and turns that i never could have expected. The character development and plot points were beautifully done and better than anything i have seen in my life. The cgi was top notch too. It was clear how much time they put into it. The actors also managed to capture their characters in the perfect way, and you could tell how much they cared about their jobs. Selah is also mighty fine. Her curves are unmatched. Her shark slay self kept me watching the whole time. I also loved her saunter. She was amazing. Overall, i give this movie a ten out of ten. Everybody should watch it.
NOT A HORROR MOVIE. very watchable over the top shark movie
fouedjustice24 August 2022
It's not meant to be scary, nor funny.
The acting isn't bad good CGI for an almost medium budget movie and there's a story.
The good thing is, unlike ost shark movies, this isn't about lots of people freaking out.
The science doesn't exactly make scence, but who cares? Right? :)
The acting isn't bad good CGI for an almost medium budget movie and there's a story.
The good thing is, unlike ost shark movies, this isn't about lots of people freaking out.
The science doesn't exactly make scence, but who cares? Right? :)
Unfortunately, horrible.
MarioTee9 October 2022
There is so much to say, and there is also so little to say. This movie is bad, if not terrible, in every single aspect. The story is ludicrous, the acting is mostly very bad (I kinda did like Maxi Witrak), and the FX is beyond bad. The two good things are the title and the cover.
Pitty, I really feel like some of these Asylum movies could be almost fun and have some cult following. But they are simply too dull and there is no talent or passion involved in creating it. They are only made to trick viewers into buying or watching them.
Ignore the poster, ignore the title, ignore the "fun" idea, this is a waste of time and electricity.
Pitty, I really feel like some of these Asylum movies could be almost fun and have some cult following. But they are simply too dull and there is no talent or passion involved in creating it. They are only made to trick viewers into buying or watching them.
Ignore the poster, ignore the title, ignore the "fun" idea, this is a waste of time and electricity.
A joke of a movie
OzMovieWatcher29 August 2022
Honestly, this is perhaps the only C class movie I watched to the end. Did not even grade as B Grade
What a joke of a movie... the CGI could only possibly be compared to the animations within Mary Poppins and the likes... appeared so fake with poor animations that some might call CGi... but really was no more sophisticated than painted over animations from the early 1960's. A very poor movie indeed.
The movie is pathetic and ranks as an equal or lesser to that flop, "skarknado"
Movie has no real story line... is tgekindof movie hyou mught watch while dropping acid, otherwise, a complete insult to.
The movie is pathetic and ranks as an equal or lesser to that flop, "skarknado"
Movie has no real story line... is tgekindof movie hyou mught watch while dropping acid, otherwise, a complete insult to.
Hysterical comedy, thick with satirical acting and more production values than expected
leesimon-2635725 August 2022
If you embark on watching this film for the action, thriller, or sci-fi potential, this movie ranks around a minus 7 out of 10 stars.
However, if this is your "Best of the Worst" pick for a fun night of drinking with friends and laughing at loudly preposterous premises, costumes, characters and sets, then this is the movie for you.
The first 20 minutes of the movie is probably the funniest, for so many reasons. The best part being the stolen "Hunt for Red October" trope of quickly changing subtitled dialogue to English with phony Russian accents.
I won't spoil any of the ridiculous jokes in the movie, but I will say that there is a minuscule chance that everyone involved didn't knowingly play this like they all knew every part of this movie was a joke. If that is the case, then this is pure trash. If, like I think, they all knew what a gigantic joke every part of this movie is, then this is a phenomenal comedy.
Having said all of that, the production values are way better than one would expect given the very low CGI quality. The human-shark-now-moon-dwelling-bad-guys are very poorly done. I gave it three stars because I laughed at so many things throughout. I'll admit that I'm not sure if they intended for me to laugh at so many aspects of the movie.
However, if this is your "Best of the Worst" pick for a fun night of drinking with friends and laughing at loudly preposterous premises, costumes, characters and sets, then this is the movie for you.
The first 20 minutes of the movie is probably the funniest, for so many reasons. The best part being the stolen "Hunt for Red October" trope of quickly changing subtitled dialogue to English with phony Russian accents.
I won't spoil any of the ridiculous jokes in the movie, but I will say that there is a minuscule chance that everyone involved didn't knowingly play this like they all knew every part of this movie was a joke. If that is the case, then this is pure trash. If, like I think, they all knew what a gigantic joke every part of this movie is, then this is a phenomenal comedy.
Having said all of that, the production values are way better than one would expect given the very low CGI quality. The human-shark-now-moon-dwelling-bad-guys are very poorly done. I gave it three stars because I laughed at so many things throughout. I'll admit that I'm not sure if they intended for me to laugh at so many aspects of the movie.
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