YMMV / Sharknado 2: The Second One

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• Awesome Music: Admit it: The Ramones-inspired theme song "(The Ballad Of) Sharknado" is stupidly catchy.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "Mega Poo Water Gator", a literal alligator who attacks two linemen and is immediately killed by the sharks with absolutely no impact on the plot whatsoever.
• Crazy Is Cool: Besides the Sharknado itself, of course, there's one guy with a huge beard who starts up 3 chainsaws, one at a time, and throws them into the Sharknado in an attempt to kill some sharks.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Skye was quite well liked due to being a strong woman with an actual personality, and many felt she should have been the actual main character of the film. This makes everybody who thought of this quite mad that she ends up getting killed in the end.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The Jared Fogle cameo is a lot more uncomfortable now considering his pedophilia conviction.
  • Add Matt Lauer to the list.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: There was an endless running app game based on this film. It received terrible reviews and was eventually removed from the app store.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: April was a Damsel Scrappy in the first Sharknado. Her reputation improved considerably this time around largely thanks to her attaching a buzzsaw where her hand used to be in order to slice sharks up.
• So Bad, It's Good: Just like the original, this was part of the intention.
• Special Effects Failure: The special effects are pretty bad, but it's all part of the charm. Still, most of the digital effects work is actually better in this film than in the previous film. Probably because this one actually had, y'know, a budget.
  • Special notice goes to the plane scene, where the cockpit windshield is broken by a shark and it half-eats the copilot, and then the shark, the copilot, and the pilot are pulled out into the air. When Fin goes into the cockpit, the windshield is perfectly fine, complete with the remains of the first shark that bounced off it.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Ironically, some viewers seemed to think that, possibly due to the hype, the movie would not be a campy So Bad, It's Good flick that throws away any plausibility for Rule of Cool.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Given his skills in wrestling (both Olympic and professional), some viewers were disappointed that Kurt Angle, as the head of the NYFD, didn't perform a wrestling move when the entire city is attacking all the sharks that are falling from the air after the sharknadoes are destroyed.

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