Well, I found this over the weekend, the trailer for The Asylum's latest giant monster movie, Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwQ6HIQV0YQ
Sorry, I can't embed the video, so you'll have to click on the link above. But oh, it's so worth it!
Yep, just like Godzilla, the oversized shark is about to be challenged by his robot version. But will Mega Shark try to destroy it, or make love to it? Oh yea, that's Debbie Gibson in the trailer, telling the military that a horny Mega Shark is an angry one.
So, if you're like me, you want to know how you can see this spectacular piece of cheesy goodness. But after searching the Syfy webpage, I can't find the movie on the schedule for December or January. The Asylum website has a DVD street date of January 28, 2014, but the DVD can not be pre-ordered from Amazon at this time.
As the trailer just dropped this week, I doubt the film has hit the airwaves yet. So I wonder if this film has fallen victim to the recent shakeup at Syfy, with Mark Stern being booted out and replaced by Bill McGoldrick (as reported by Variety). I know the movie isn't playing for the next two months on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, as I did a day by day search (why no, I had nothing better to do with my time, as The Walking Dead is on a mid season hiatus). But I will say the programming looks pretty tepid. Lots of old Syfy Originals, a few marathons (some seasonal, others not) and the continued WWE event on Fridays, as well as lots of older "blockbusters." I mean really, Syfy, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Have you not read the backlash from the nerd audience on this one?
Maybe McGoldrick is reconsidering The Asylum's contributions to Syfy programming. After all, the schedule feels like a bit of a stall, giving Mc Goldrick a chance to come up with a formula to rejuvenate the channel And, should that be the case, I can only suggest that McGoldrick include The Asylum as part of his programming strategy. After all, The Asylum has given Syfy some of its most popular Original Movies ever and such a track record isn't easy to replace.
I could be wrong about this feature. McGoldrick could have seen the finished product and thought it was so bad that he wouldn't let it on the air. And to that, I remind him of Sharktopus, Sharknado and Mega Shark vs. Gatoroid. Oh, and let's not forget Mega Piranha. Nothing can be worse than Mega Piranha, yet that movie is such damn fun I watch my DVD version at least as often as I watch Maximum Overdrive (which is quite often).
I'm sure many Syfy viewers can mention other bad Original Movies, but most were terrific fun on a Saturday night with a bunch of friends and lots of beer. And seriously, if we're at home on a Saturday night, we're looking for some dumb, drunken fun from a movie. So, for starts, move the Original Movie Premiere back to Saturday night and keep The Asylum pictures coming. It's the right night for a drunken bad movie viewing and, at this point, no one does it better on such short notice as The Asylum.
That said, I hope the street date for Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark holds, because this movie looks too amazingly bad to miss. And, Mr. McGoldrick, if you let this one get away from Syfy, your tenure is off to a rocky start.
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