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.
