The Last Sharknado: It's About Time

*The Last Sharknado: It's About Time*
The Last Sharknado: It's About Time
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Written by	Scotty Mullen
Directed by	Anthony C. Ferrante
Starring	Ian Ziering; Tara Reid; Cassie Scerbo; Judah Friedlander; Vivica A. Fox;
Music by	Christopher Cano; Chris Ridenhour;
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producer	David Michael Latt
Cinematography	Pătru Păunescu
Editor	Ryan Mitchelle
Running time	90 minutes
Production companies	The Asylum; Syfy Films;
Budget	US$3 million
Original release
Network	Syfy
Release	August 19, 2018
Related
	Sharknado 5: Global Swarming

The Last Sharknado: It's About Time is a 2018 American made-for-television science fiction comedy disaster film and the sixth and final installment in the Sharknado film series. The film was directed by Anthony C. Ferrante with Ian Ziering, Tara Reid and Cassie Scerbo reprising their roles from the previous installments. In the film, Fin and his gang use time travel in order to prevent sharknadoes from ever happening.

Plot

With the Earth completely devastated from the global sharknado swarm,^[a] Fin Shepard and his adult son Gil time travel to the Cretaceous period in a bid to change the future and undo the destruction. Gil vanishes upon arrival, and a hologram he recorded earlier reveals that due to the instability of the energy needed to time travel, any individual person can only travel back in time once, with any subsequent trips back erasing their existence. Fin joins forces with his friends Nova and Bryan, as well as the still-human version of his wife April, all of whom were saved from their original deaths^[b] by Gil and sent back to await Fin's arrival. The group destroy the sharknado that appears with the help of a pterodactylus tamed by April, and use a time capacitor built into Gil's flight badge to return home, believing they have erased the sharknadoes from history.

However, the time vortex instead leads to medieval Camelot, with Bryan turning into a woman due to a temporal alteration. They meet Merlin, who reveals he has been helping the past version of Gil research a way to use sharknadoes for time travel; as a consequence of Gil searching for his parents throughout time, the sharknadoes have been unleashed across history. A sharknado forms and heads to the castle, but Fin destroys it with Excalibur after the past Gil uses it to time jump. The group's next jump leads to the American Revolutionary War, where they destroy a sharknado with aid from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Bryan, who returned to his original form after leaving Camelot, chooses to stay behind as Fin, Nova and April continue their quest.

The trio use a stagecoach to make the next leap, which brings them to the Old West town of Santa Mira. Their arrival allows Billy the Kid to escape arrest by the local sheriff, who detains Fin as an accomplice to Billy's crimes. This threatens to cause a catastrophic shift in the timeline, as Billy was meant to break Gil out of prison so he could reach the next sharknado. Nova and April meet up with Fin's ex-girlfriend Skye, who was also saved from her original death^[c] by Gil and sent back to await the others in Santa Mira. Together, they rescue Fin and Gil and allow the latter to make his time jump in the sharknado before destroying it with the eye lasers of April's robot counterpart's head from the previous timeline.

The group next travel to a 1950s beach party beset by a sharknado, which they destroy with aid from younger versions of Fin's parents Gilbert and Raye. They acquire a prototype time capacitor from the pair and attempt to go to July 11, 2013, to stop the Los Angeles sharknado,^[d] but Nova sabotages the capacitor to lead them to 1997 instead. She hopes to save her grandfather from dying in the shark attack that traumatized her as a child and successfully does so despite Fin's warnings, but ends up getting herself and April killed instead, while Robot April's head is lost in the ocean. Fin and Skye attempt another jump to 2013, but end up in 20013 instead, where Robot April has conquered the ruined world with flying sharks and an army of clones. Robot April explains that after her head was found by a fishing boat, she felt abandoned and spent the next 20,000 years creating a stable time machine she could use to force Fin into her future so they could be together forever. She freezes Skye and tempts Fin with clones of their children and Nova, but Fin refuses. The human April, who Robot April preserved as a genetic base for the clones, wakes up and fights with her, buying time for Fin to use the time machine himself.

Fin arrives in 2013 and lands on Captain Santiago's shark poaching boat right as the first sharknado forms. He discovers that Santiago found Robot April's head and intervenes to prevent her from turning evil, then helps the captain battle the sharknado. Robot April's future self arrives and tries to steal the capacitor from Fin, and their struggle damages the device, releasing a pulse that tears the fabric of reality. Time begins collapsing, creating a "timenado" that begins destroying the universe as it strikes throughout history. Robot April's head helps Fin destroy her future self, and he triggers her nuclear failsafe, sacrificing their lives to destroy the sharknado and repair time, thus creating a new universe.

In the new, sharknado-free timeline, all of the Shepard family and friends are alive. Fin and April run the bar with Nova, who now likes sharks, while April is pregnant with Gil. A television commercial reveals that Skye has become a politician and is a leading presidential candidate. Fin's daughter Claudia delivers Fin a letter from his father, who is in space and has sent his flight insignia as a gift for Gil's birth. Fin, who plans to retire to Kansas with April and Gil, delivers an emotional farewell speech to his friends and family. April goes into labor, and everyone rushes out of the bar to head to the hospital. As they leave, the television plays a broadcast of The Today Show with Al Roker reporting that there are no clouds in the sky at all, an occurrence that will likely never happen again.

Cast

Principal cast

Ian Ziering as Fin Shepard
Tara Reid as April Wexler
Cassie Scerbo as Nova Clarke
- Catarina Scerbo as young Nova
Judah Friedlander as Bryan
- Debra Wilson as new Bryan
Vivica A. Fox as Skye

Supporting cast

Prehistoric

Brendan Petrizzo as Hologram Gil
M. Steven Felty as Voice of Hologram Gil
Matie Moncea as Gil on Dinosaur
T-Rex (Todd Rex) as T-Rex Operator

Camelot

Neil deGrasse Tyson as Merlin
Alaska as Morgana
Marina Sirtis as Winter
Audrey Latt and Ana Maria Varty Mihail as Maidens
Tiberiu Hansan as Medieval Gil
Andrew Olteanu as Frodo

Revolutionary War

Leslie Jordan as Benjamin Franklin
Darrell Hammond as George Washington
Ben Stein as Alexander Hamilton
Roy Taylor as Jebediah Clarke
Constantin Viscreanu as Paul Revere
Dexter Holland as British Captain
Ian Ridenhour, Kathrine Ridenhour and Chris Ridenhour as Townspeople

Old West

Jonathan Bennett as Billy the Kid
Dee Snider as Sheriff
Chris Owen as 30-Year-Old Gil
James Murray as Eastwood
Kim Little as Cowgirl
Brady Latt, Moise Latt, Aiden Cano and Zachary Cano as Cowboys

1950s

Gilbert Gottfried as Rand McDonald, Ron McDonald's father
Tori Spelling as Raye Martin
Dean McDermott as Gilly Shepard
Benjy Bronk as Connor Beale
Robbie Rist as Quint Guitarist
Anthony C. Ferrante as Quint Singer
Joel Valder as Quint Drummer
Thom Bowyer as Quint Bassist
Raine Michaels as Yellow Polka Dot Bikini Girl
Bob Ellis as Surfer Gil
Erin Ziering as Beach Mom
Mia Ziering and Penna Ziering as Beach Kids
Ronanna Bina, Kacie Flower, Courtney Quod, Brandon Quod, Nick Grothe, Tammy Klein, Anna Rasmussen and Ana Florit as 1950s Dancers

1997

Christopher Knight as Grandpa Clarke
Bernie Kopell as Charter Boat Captain
Juliana Ferrante as Juliana
Emma Neal as Emma

2013

Israel Sáez de Miguel as Captain Carlos Santiago
Marcus Choi as Palmer
Alexandre Ottoni de Menezes (aka Jovem Nerd) as Azzinaro

Timenado

La Toya Jackson as Cleopatra
James Hong as Confucius
Eileen Davidson as Marie Antoinette
Shad Gaspard as Muhammad Ali
Jayson Paul as Joe Louis
Kato Kaelin as Viking King
Patrick Labyorteaux as Julius Caesar
Julia LaJuett as Amelia Earhart
Paul Logan as Egyptian Guard
Sharon Desiree as Joan of Arc
M. Steven Felty as D. Brown

Bar

Al Roker as himself
Petunia as herself
Thunder Levin as Bar Patron

Guest stars

Chuck Hittinger as Matt Shepard
Ryan Newman as Claudia Shepard
Gary Busey as Wilford Wexler
Bo Derek as May Wexler
Mark McGrath as Martin Brody
Masiela Lusha as Gemini
John Heard as George (archive footage)

Production

In February 2018, the film was confirmed to be released that summer to follow upon Sharknado 5's premiere, Tara Reid, Ian Ziering and Cassie Scerbo were set to return.^[1] On March 28, 2018, Syfy confirmed the film will be the final installment of the series.^[2]

On May 25, the film's title, The Last Sharknado: It's About Time was revealed by a teaser trailer.^[3] A 30-second trailer was released on August 2. Vivica A. Fox, who had starred in Sharknado 2, also returned for the final installment.^[4]

Several other actors reprised their roles in cameos for the final scene of the movie, including Chuck Hittinger reappearing as Matt Shepard, replacing Cody Linley who had portrayed Matt in the fourth and fifth movies. Archival footage of John Heard, who portrayed George in the original film, was also used in tribute to the actor, who had passed away in July 2017.

Reception

On Metacritic, the film has a score of 22 out of 100 based on reviews from 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".^[5] On Rotten Tomatoes it has a score of 27% based on reviews from 11 critics.^[6]