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{{quote|''[[Oh Crap|"Holy shit!"]]''|'''Airline passenger''', about to be eaten by a 50-ton [[Flying Seafood Special]] [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|With Teeth]].}}
An [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] movie, clearly aiming for [[Cool Versus Awesome]]. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] as to whether or not it succeeds.
A [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|prehistoric]] [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|giant]] [[Giant Squid|octopus]] and a [[Megalodon]] shark have been [[Human Popsicle|frozen in an Alaskan glacier]] for millions of years when they're suddenly freed by illegal sonar experiments / a panicked pod of whales / a crashing helicopter / global warming / ice melting due to the proximity of a [[Hot Scientist]] in a minisub -- it's not clear which. They immediately take up where they left off -- eating everything in, on, and even above the ocean in order to fuel their vast bulk. Two [[Hot Scientist|Hot Scientists]], a [[The Professor|Professor]] and a [[Jerkass]] [[The Men in Black]] -- aided by the US and [[Kaiju Defense Force|Japanese]] navies -- team up to combat this [[Sea Monster|undersea menace]].
As with most [[The Asylum|Asylum]] films, the action sequences are few, and rely on terrible CGI, but the writing and acting are dramatic enough to endear it to some fans, particularly those of the [[Kaiju]] genre.
Followed by ''Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus'' and ''Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark''.
It seems to have spawned a subgenre of its own, as there are now several other films of the "Mega [Insert Animal Name]" variety, including ''Mega Python vs. Gatoroid''. Of course, YMMV as to whether this is a good, bad, or hilarious thing.
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=== The movie contains examples of: ===
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* [[Genre Blind]]: Never EVER tell someone you're getting married in two days when you're in a plane above the ocean. This is made even worse by the fact that he had no reason or lead-in to say it AT ALL.
* [[Helicopter Flyswatter]]: Uses the standard version when the octopus swats a fighter plane, and takes it far beyond credibility when the shark ''leaps 30,000 feet up to nom an airliner''.
* [[Hollywood Tactics]]: The navy fires deck guns at their undersea opponents, instead of using depth charges.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Clearly what they were going for, but both our protagonists are sort of plain-looking at best.
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* [[Screen Shake]]: Seen during the [[Hot Sub-On-Sub Action|Hot Sub On Squid/Shark Action]]. Not everyone shakes in unison.
* [[Sea Monster]] / [[Giant Squid|Giant Octopus]] / [[Megalodon]]. And a giant croc in the sequel.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: On being shown infra-red photographs of an unseen ''something'' in the North Sea, the protagonists rush off to their next adventure.
* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: Insert the requisite [[Green Aesop]] where it's suggested that TV dinner monsters are Nature's way of getting back at us for global warming. Fortunately it's only a single line so we can get on with the movie.
* [[Stock Footage]]: Of naval warships, aircraft, and a dockyard which we're supposed to believe is a Japanese maximum security prison. A shot of two guards passing each other gets reused as well.
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* [[Versus Title]]
* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: Let's [[Rule of Cool|leave aside]] how a [[Flying Brick|50-ton]] shark could leap high enough to catch an airliner flying at who knows how many miles-an-hour (or how the shark would even know it was there in the first place). The scientist main characters play up the standard idea in films that only [[Armies Are Evil|insensitive ecological morons]] would kill such wonderous creatures, and insist that they will only help if the military promises only to capture the monsters. They ignore the fact that feeding these things would require the [[Broken Aesop|destruction of most of the ecological systems of Earth]].
** Giant sharks and Megladons apparently produce [[
* [[You Fail Physics Forever]]: Aside from the above-mentioned megashark sea-to-air missile, there's the minisub that somehow races ahead of a predator traveling at "jet speed". Research subs are about as agile as tortoises, and move at speeds that couldn't outrun a kayak, let alone a jet. Or a perfectly ordinary shark, for that matter.
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