Sand Sharks (2012)

Shark movies. Just these words creates reactions like few other words. Forget about famine, war, poverty. Shark movies makes even the most hardened fan boy upset, because shark movies is the lowest of the lowest, stuff for those who has given up. Those who's seen everything and needs that extra kick of generic movie making. Well, I happens to one of those (but not an extreme fan like Joachim!) and I can't stop myself when I find a movie titled Sand Sharks. I mean, come on! It's sharks! In sand! And this one is starring Corin Nemec - who also produced it! And as you all know, he can't loose!

Corin plays Jimmy Green, a wannabe-businessman who has big plans to give his old home-island a big push into success with making it the new, cool spring break-place for all the drunk, horny teenagers to go to! His father, the mayor, reluctantly agrees on this - but soon there's trouble in paradise: sand sharks - prehistoric sharks that evolved enough to be able to swim IN the sand! Jimmy have no plans to stop his big beach party and soon everyone there becomes the perfect snacks for the... SAND SHARKS!

Sand Sharks is actually quite close to a subtle parody. It's not a full-out comedy, but it has a certain amount of humour and never takes itself that seriously. There's references to "lame shark movies" and Roger Corman and they're using a real dead prop shark from something called "Shark Attack 3D", to fool the town they've caught the real shark. It's a lot of jokes sprinkled all over place and most of the time it actually works. The story is so damn absurd that everyone kinda goes with it and that's good. The humour is the best when it hints as Jaws. My favorite is a spoof on the scene where Brody think he sees a shark in the water and it's of course just someone joking, here the sheriff think he sees a shark in the sand... but it's just some wacky teens who built a shark... with sand! That's comedy!

I've always enjoyed Corin Nemec and I think he's a fun, laid-back actor who found a perfect career in these creature features (the best one is Sea Beast by the way, see it!) and seem to enjoy himself tremendously here, playing a real sleazebag! The rest of the cast does okay, but Corin is the best and have most fun.

The effects? Pretty basic, nothing amazing - but the concept of shark fins swimming around ON the beach looks hysterical and gives another dimension to the comedy. The shark(s) itself looks cool, very "dinosauric" and the animations ranges from bad to pretty good. There's some gore and blood, but I wished there was more. Maybe in Land Sharks? Plz?!

Sand Sharks is a lot of fun and if you understand it's a comedy you will find it a lot more entertaining. It's not a bad movie, it's very aware of the clichés it's playing with, and this genre could need that every tenth more or so! 

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