Not to get off on too much of a tangent, but we've been watching a bit of QI lately on BritBox. QI is a British "panel show", which is like a game show, except all the contestants are comedians or celebs, and the quiz part is just an excuse for them to make jokes. So, John Barrowman, Capt. Jack Harkness, is on and was telling a story about his first movie. He didn't want to say what the movie was, but finally revealed it to be: Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2002). Which can be seen on Amazon Prime. So we did.
Barrowman is a happy-go-lucky guy who runs water security for a Mexican resort - he drives a motor boat around, I guess looking for stranded paddleboarders. Anyway, he goes out of bounds one day, where they are laying the new fiber optic cable, to dive for lobsters. On the bottom, he finds a break in the cable with a shark's tooth embedded in the shielding. Not a huge tooth, about an inch long.
But he can't find a match for it in the shark tooth database, so he posts it online, possibly at r/sharks. In San Diego, paleontologist Jenny McShane reads the posts and heads down Mexico way.
Soon, McShane and Barrowman are hunting sharks and getting horny. There's the usual escalation: Sharks attack skinny dippers - just a sand shark. Real threat is an ancient megalodon! But it's only a baby. Momma shows up, swallows boat whole (spoiler!). The real villain, of course, is the mega corp behind the cable!
This is all very silly - similar to Piranha II. Same T&A, same Jaws-inspired "close the beaches" scene, same extremely lame SFX, same general horniness, but a little less intentionally funny. But it is pretty unintentionally funny.
So much so that things started to feel familiar. So I looked it up, and yes, this was the topic of a How Did This Get Made podcast, a particularly hilarious one. I recommend watching this just so you can enjoy the podcast better. And for Mr. Barrowman.
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