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The Sharknado movies are salvage artefacts, composed of the flotsam and jetsam of American TV. News footage of floods, disasters and accidents – sometimes dressed with shoddy CGI storms, airborne sharks and other meteorological phenomena – collides with hastily shot, green-screen-heavy location and studio scenes, similarly subjected to deliberately unconvincing digital enhancement.
Through this visual patchwork flows a torrent of allusions to TV series – Baywatch, Taxi, The Twilight Zone – and movies – Airplane!, Back to the Future, Evil Dead 2, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jaws, The Lady and the Tramp, Mission: Impossible, Network, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Roman Holiday, Scarface, The Sound of Music, Space Cowboys, Star Wars, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Toy Story, The Wizard of Oz and that bit from Independence Day pastiching Laurence Olivier’s Henry V. Some of these riffs, nods, plagiarisms and petty larcenies become recurring in-jokes. Others – April’s reworking of the Action Comics #1 cover, the reference to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension – are unexpected, possibly even obscure. But none of them are subtle.
Through this visual patchwork flows a torrent of allusions to TV series – Baywatch, Taxi, The Twilight Zone – and movies – Airplane!, Back to the Future, Evil Dead 2, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jaws, The Lady and the Tramp, Mission: Impossible, Network, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Roman Holiday, Scarface, The Sound of Music, Space Cowboys, Star Wars, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Toy Story, The Wizard of Oz and that bit from Independence Day pastiching Laurence Olivier’s Henry V. Some of these riffs, nods, plagiarisms and petty larcenies become recurring in-jokes. Others – April’s reworking of the Action Comics #1 cover, the reference to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension – are unexpected, possibly even obscure. But none of them are subtle.