TheRetroCritic

The great Roger Corman returns with yet another B movie creature feature. Forget Piranhacondas, for now is the time of Sharktopi. Yes, apparently the US Navy, under Eric Roberts' supervision, one day decided to merge a shark with an octopus to create the ultimate killing machine. All was well while the beast was under control but our luck has finally run out and the Sharktopus is loose and out for blood. Why a shark and an octopus, you ask? Because Eric Roberts was drunk, that's why. Sharktopus is every bit as trashy as the title suggests and it couldn't be any prouder of that. You've got a cheap-looking CGI monster, a poorly shot, shockingly acted, mostly overcast Summer horror flick which takes Jaws and Piranhas the hell out of it once more. We've had mega sharks, giant octopi, sharks with two heads, it was only a matter of time before the B movie world would give Sharktopus a shot, really. The film is completely self-aware and doesn't waste any t

Terry Gilliam rarely gets to go all-out creatively anymore and that's a real shame because, for a while there, it seemed as if no project was too nutty for him to handle. Oh who am I kidding? Every single one of his projects is nutty. Hence why financing them must be so daunting! The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen was a huge flop but so many masterpieces were, from  Night Of The Hunter to Blade Runner . You can't judge a film's quality based on how much money it made, you just can't. Gilliam's film is one I've always considered to be a masterpiece of the fantasy genre. Its epic scale, its surreal visuals, its playful anarchism, I just loved every minute of it as a kid, even if by the end I had no idea what the hell I had just watched. It was an adventure like no other and I was completely taken with all these larger-than-life characters and their crazy odyssey. One second you were inside a volcano speaking to Roman gods, the next you were playing card

What can I say about a movie that opens with a Johnny Depp lookalike wearing a suit made of real diamonds, sees Tim & Eric work for a company called "Schlaaang" and has a scene where Eric Wareheim is in a bathtub getting shit on by a bunch of kids as Ray Wise cheers them on? Except... Great job! Yeah, basically your enjoyment of this one will depend completely upon whether you enjoy Tim & Eric's Awesome Show or hate it, this is basically the equivalent of merging one of the comedy duo's twisted shorts and piling on the Awesome Show lolgasms one after the other. If, in the trailer, you felt a brain-boner perk up when the "Shrim" bit popped up, then you're in safe hands. I know I was! Ok, to be fair, it takes a bit of time to really get going. Awesome Show regulars Jeff 'Chef' Goldblum and Zach Galifiniakis get their cameos done early and we're led into this absurd plot where Tim & Eric make a shitty billion dollar mov