Sharknado 2: The Second One

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Sharknado 2: The Second One
Written by	Thunder Levin
Directed by	Anthony C. Ferrante
Starring	Ian Ziering Vivica A. Fox Mark McGrath Kari Wuhrer Tara Reid
Theme music composer	Christopher Cano Chris Ridenhour
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	David Michael Latt
Cinematography	Ben Demaree
Editor(s)	Ana Florit Vashi Nedomansky
Running time	95 minutes
Production company(s)	Syfy Films The Asylum
Budget	$1.5-2.0 million
Release
Original channel	Syfy
Original release	July 30, 2014
Chronology
Preceded by	Sharknado
Followed by	Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!

Sharknado 2: The Second One is a 2014 American horror sci-fi Disaster Film and a sequel to the 2013 television film Sharknado and the second installment in the Sharknado series. It was directed by Anthony C. Ferrante, with Tara Reid and Ian Ziering reprising their roles from the first film. The film premiered on July 30, 2014, and was the highest-premiering film on the SyFy Channel.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 2.1 Principal cast 2.2 Supporting cast 3 Reception 4 Broadcast 5 Tie-in merchandise 6 Sequel 7 Notes 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Plot

Fin Shepard and his ex-wife April Wexler are flying to New York City to promote How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters, a book April has written about the Los Angeles sharknado. As the plane comes in for a landing through a storm, it is battered by airborne sharks, losing an engine. Sharks enter the plane, killing passengers and crew, including both pilots. While Fin successfully lands the plane, April's hand is bitten off by a shark while she attempts to shoot it with an air marshal's handgun.

Fin's sister, Ellen Brody, is sightseeing in New York with her family. Her husband, Martin, a childhood friend of Fin's, takes their son, Vaughn, to a Mets game at Citi Field along with Martin's and Fin's friends Skye (who is also Fin's ex-girlfriend) and Brian. Ellen takes their daughter, Mora, to the Statue of Liberty where she meets with her friends, Polly and Chrissie, who tell her about Fin's flight.

At the airport, Fin warns the crowd of the impending storm, but no one takes it seriously. After accompanying April to the hospital where she undergoes surgery, Fin receives a call from Ellen and tells her to get back from Liberty Island as soon as possible. He agrees to retrieve Martin and Vaughn from the ball game, hiring a cabbie, Ben, to take him there. At Citi Field, Fin first encounters Skye. She kisses him, but he explains that he and April are back together. Fin gets them all to leave with him just as the storm arrives at the park. The sharks kill people as Fin and his group use various improvised weapons and make their way to the subway.

Ellen's group takes the ferry to Manhattan, but a shark jumps onto the deck and kills Chrissie en route. The three remaining women escape into the city but must flee from the Statue of Liberty's severed, rolling head, which crushes a businessman and two garbage men.

The subway floods, imperiling Fin's group as their train is chased by sharks. Brian is killed, but the others manage to escape onto a platform. Fin calls Ben to pick them up, and they go in search of weapons and explosives. They arm themselves, but the taxi is then caught in a flood. Fin rigs a rope swing that takes Skye, Vaughn, and Martin to safety, but Ben is killed in his attempt. Fin then jumps across the sharks, using them as stepping stones to reach the others.

Two sharknadoes are converging into a more powerful storm directly above the hotel where Fin and April were planning to stay. Arriving at the hotel, Fin and Skye go to the roof to destroy the sharknadoes with their makeshift bombs. Polly is killed when a whale shark lands on her, but Ellen and Mora successfully reach the hotel, reuniting with Martin and Vaughn. Fin and Skye launch their bombs into the tornadoes, but the storm system is too cold for this to be effective; the bombs only force them to flee downstairs, away from the flaming sharks that are now falling on them. They meet the Brodys, who are fleeing upstairs due to a rising flood of sharks. They break down a door to escape the stairwell and are able to get out of the building.

Meanwhile, April rescues a young girl at the hospital and sets out to find Fin. She arrives at the hotel in a fire truck and takes the group to the Empire State Building where a third tornado is merging with the other two. The mayor is there with a task force, and they welcome Fin's help. He plans to detonate a tank of Freon at the top of the building by connecting it to the structure's lightning rod, freezing the storm. Fin tells a crowd of New Yorkers to prepare to fight the sharks that will fall from the sky after he destroys the tornadoes. He and Skye implement the plan, while April, who has affixed a circular saw to her stump, saves Fin from a falling shark. They successfully destroy the storm system, which sends both Fin and Skye in the air, where Skye is ripped in half by 2 sharks while still alive. Fin grabs his chainsaw and uses it to kill any sharks coming to him. He grabs on to a great white shark using chains and gets the shark impaled on the antenna of the Empire State Building. Fin retrieves April's hand from a shark's mouth and uses the gun to defend them against the falling sharks. The New Yorkers in the streets below arm themselves and charge into battle against the sharks, killing them all. Fin takes the ring from April's severed hand and uses it to propose remarriage, and she accepts.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Principal cast

• Ian Ziering as Fin Shepard
• Vivica A. Fox as Skye, Fin's former high school classmate.
• Mark McGrath as Martin Brody, Fin's brother-in-law
• Kari Wuhrer as Ellen, Fin's sister and Martin's wife
• Tara Reid as April Wexler, Fin's ex-wife

[edit] Supporting cast

Many of the cameo appearances made nods to previous roles the guests had played. Robert Hays was previously a pilot in Airplane!; Judd Hirsch was a cab driver in Taxi, Daymond John is a panelist on Shark Tank, Jared Fogle was a longtime spokesman for Subway restaurants, and Billy Ray Cyrus was a doctor in Doc.

Lauer and Roker appeared as themselves, hosting The Today Show; Abrams appeared as an anchor for The Weather Channel. Both of those properties, like Syfy, are owned by Comcast. In contrast, Gelman, Strahan and Ripa all reprised their roles from Live with Kelly and Michael in the film; that show is not a Comcast property, instead directly competing with The Today Show.

There are multiple in-jokes about Jaws (1975). Polly (Peggy Scott) was Mr. Brody's secretary, Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) was the chief, Ellen (Lorraine Gary) was his wife, Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) was the mayor's last name, Quint (Robert Shaw) was the shark hunter, and Chrissy (Susan Backlinie) was the name of the first victim.

[edit] Reception

[edit] Broadcast

[edit] Tie-in merchandise

[edit] Sequel

July 2014 SyFy announced that there would be a Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! premiering 22 July 2015 taking place in Washington, D.C. & Orlando, FL.

Archie Comics also released a story about Archie Andrews encountering a Sharknado leading up to the third film.

It aired on the promised date, followed by Lavalantula, which debuted July 25, 2015, the Saturday after Sharknado 3's Wednesday premiere. Lavalantula featured Sharknado's protagonist in a cameo wearing a white T-shirt with crossed chainsaws. This indicates that it takes place in a shared universe. As he says he has "shark problems right now", this may indicate that the events of Lavalantula take place just before or concurrently with Sharknado 3.

Sharknado 4 was confirmed to follow upon Sharknado 3's premiere.

[edit] Notes

a ^ Thomas Vitale is the Executive Vice President of Programming & Original Movies for Syfy. He and his family cameo at the Mets game

b ^ Petunia is a stuffed animal possum who has regular cameo appearances in the Sharknado series.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Sharknado
Core films	Main series	Sharknado (2013) • Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014) • Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015) • Sharknado: The 4th Awakens (2016) • Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017)
	Spin-off films	Lavalantula (2015) • 2 Lava 2 Lantula (2016)
Other media	Sharknado: The Video Game (2014) • Archie vs. Sharknado (2015) • Z Nation (2014-2016)

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