‘Sharknado 3’ not must-sea TV
THIS IS fintastically bad.
If it’s high summer, that means a “Sharknado” is poised to wash over the NBCUniversal-owned Syfy channel for the third year in a row, but the B-movie franchise’s third installment leaves a fishy taste behind. Even more than the first two.
After taking a bite of Los Angeles in 2013 and swamping New York City last summer, the makers of “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” have aimed their gravity-defying sharks at the entire East Coast.
While it’s still silly fun, you have to wonder if the whole concept — goofy, amusing and new two years ago — is getting, er, long in the tooth.
Our hero, Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering), is once again thrust into the gaping maw of physicsand biological science-defying sharks as they first rain destruction on Washington, D.C., and later along the rest of the Eastern Seaboard.
Along the way, he saves the President (a surprisingly entertaining Mark Cuban, who should consider acting should the billionaire thing not work out), the vice president and a woodenfaced Ann Coulter after a shark-infested tornado somehow drops the Washington Monument on the White House.
Fin then road-trips to Orlando (although I-95 has never before looked so much like the winding roads outside L.A. ... hmmmm), where pregnant wife April (Tara Reid), their daughter, Claudia, and April’s mother, May (Bo Derek), are enjoying the rides at NBCUniversal-owned Universal Studios.
A good drinking game for this movie might involve taking a swig every time you spot a surgically enhanced body part belonging to Reid, Derek or David Hasselhoff (whose character captains a space shuttle) beginning to droop. dkaplan@nydailynews.com