Solid creature feature

m-hamm-tx

People love to hate on SyFy stuff, yet Sharknado was a HUGE phenomenon. I caught Sea Beast on Showtime Next, so it was at least not edited for television & commercial breaks. The story is simple enough: amphibious sea monsters find their way to a human smörgåsbord, and it is up to a fisherman and his science-y sidekick to prove the creatures are there and then to find a way to stop them. Solid creature feature with decent "budget" CGI & practical effects. A bit of silly gore helps move it along, and I will admit I fast forwarded through the slower bits. Sea Beast is at least better than 99% of The Asylum fare that passes for a movie. (Don't get me wrong - I dig The Asylum's hokum, and, from a business standpoint, you cannot beat their ROI.) Script, characters, acting, all shallow and one-dimensional, but inoffensively so if you know what you're getting into, and moreover, you like this kind of modern B-movie effort. I enjoyed it, and I give Sea Beast a grade of Deep C. Hardeeharhar.

score 6/10

m-hamm-tx 2 December 2013

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2915000/