The Last Sharknado: It's About Time - History's Biggest Disaster Comes To An End

Note: This review contains spoilers for Sharknado 5: Global Swarming.

After six years and an equal number of installments, The Asylum’s Sharknado hexalogy has reached its conclusion with The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time. While the series was once able to attract an audience based on how over-the-top bad it was, successive installments would continue to lower the bar until it truly needed to be put out of its misery. Unfortunately, The Last Sharknado does nothing to fix the downward trend of the series, nor could it ever hope to recapture the glory of the first installment.

Following the ending of Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) is taken back in time to the period of the dinosaurs with the aid of his grown son, Gil (Dolph Lundgren), who is unable to join him because, as Gil (Brendan Petrizzo and M. Steven Felty) tells him, you can only travel back in time once. While there, Fin meets up with Nova Clarke (Cassandra Scerbo), Bryan (Judah Friedlander) and April Wexler (Tara Reid), all of whom were pulled backward in time by Gil before they could die in previous movies so that they could destroy the first Sharknado and return time back to normal. Killing the Sharknado in the past, however, creates a Timenado, a wormhole that Fin and crew must now continue to travel through in order to destroy various Sharknados throughout history before the sharks can cause irreparable damage to the timestream.

The story and plot are, naturally, almost hard to sit through. The various time periods usually contain some form of anachronism, most noticeably within the already non-existent Arthurian time period, in which Excalibur is a chainsaw and Morgana Le Fay (Alaska) speaks in a modern tongue. Additionally, the rules of time travel are rather inconsistent and difficult to figure out when placed within the context of the film. A few plot twists which pop up later in the movie are also so ridiculous that they feel out of left field and, as such, elicit more groans than they do laughs.

What doesn’t help the movie are the incredibly forced pop culture references, including, but not limited to, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Back to the Future (1985) and the works of Twisted Sister and The Offspring. Then there’s the traditionally terrible special effects, which have now gotten so bad that one sequence towards the end of the movie has incredibly obvious greenscreen due to bad chroma keying, something which even the worst Sharknado effects did a better job of covering up.

Lastly, we have the obligatory celebrity cameos, however it seems that they were truly scraping the bottom of the barrel this time, even picking up wood shavings. Here, we have appearances from such names as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Darrell Hammond, Dee Snider, Bo Derek, La Toya Jackson and RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Alaska, along with the return of Gary Busey, Gilbert Gottfried and Al Roker.

The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time is easily one of the worst Sharknado movies, if not the worst. A terrible story with an equally terrible plotline, more forced references, somehow even worse special effects than Sharknado 5: Global Swarming and a completely unsatisfying ending. Only those who have been keeping up with the series for this long should consider watching it, and even then, you may feel like you’ve wasted your time. In any case, I’m glad that we’re finally done with Sharknado movies, at least for now.