Sharknado: A good TV movie which has become a Twitter sensation with the hashtag #sharknado

I'm a hard-core fan of movies. Movie critics often say that TV movies tend to be too bad or mediocre (bad or mediocre cast, special effects, plots, etc.).

But even the most critical reviewer of movies concede that some TV movies (i.e. movies made for TV, not for theaters) are good and even excellent.

Without a doubt, this is the case of SHARKNADO, a recent TV movie (aired on Syfy channel) which has became a sensation in twitter.

The movie is about what, at first glance, is very implausible disaster scenario (a hurricane hits Los Angeles, California, causing a bunch of sharks to be scooped up in water spouts and flooding the city, both on land and air, with shark-infested seawater), you would think (at least it was what I thought) that the movie would be, at best, ridiculous (and at worst, just boring, repetitive and a waste of time).

I was wrong. 

Being a fan of shark movies (and movies about other predators),  I've always assumed that the obvious defense from ANY kind of attacks by sharks was essentially to stay away from the water. (My thesis was "Well, if it is about defending against shark attacks, just keep yourself far away from the shark's territory". Obviously, such simplistic and apparently common-sense "solution", which would work fine in most cases, wouldn't apply at all in the context of the movie...).

I have to confess that, among the recent movies that I've watched, this is problably the best (in terms of entertaiment, at least). It has some good acting performances, reasonably good special effects, a good dosage of clever sense of humor in dangerous scenes, and tends to keep you interested and entertained from the beginning to the end.

So, I was not surprised to discover that this movie has been a kind of sensation in twitter. The movie's apparently absurd scenario actually impressed a lot of viewers in the United States and other countries, getting mostly positive comments and reviews.

In this article in the Rolling Stones website entitled "'Sharknado' Washes Over Twitter: Bloody SyFy movie makes waves over Hollywood", the author comments:

Viewers took to Twitter in droves with a combination of excitement, sarcasm and confusion, but a general sense of being entertained. If nothing else, the movie sparked discussion. According to CNN, "It's perfect fodder for the Twitterverse, where hashtag #Sharknado was a top trending topic early Friday."

It was reported some weeks after the movie were aired on Syfy that a sequel will be made...

If you have not watching it yet, I suggest you to do it. 

I don't think children should watch it, but I'm sure most adults will enjoy it.