Rating: 4/10 -- Simply put, this series has run its course and is currently beating a dead shark. Full Review

Rating: 1.5/4 -- The basic premise has remained resolutely the same: scenes of C-grade actors getting chomped to bits by D-grade CGI sharks mixed together with enough jokey references to other, generally better movies to allow film buffs to distract themselves. Full Review

Even a satire needs some sort of connective tissue, but there's no real narrative spine here, just soft cartilage. Full Review

I'll say this much about sometimes-monotonous Sharknado 5: Global Swarming: it was a slight improvement on last year's completely monotonous The 4th Awakens. Full Review

Franchise Fred approves Sharknado 5: Global Swarming. Theatrical movies should have this much fun, and take the absurd this seriously. Full Review

Sharknado is all about tweets and, as far as social media attention goes, fear of missing out. That turns the TV movie into a rare social media supernova that burns brightly for brief moment before the inevitable darkness of viewing regret sets in. Full Review

Rating: 1/5 -- Yet another horrible sequel in tired, violent sci-fi series. Full Review