2025 Armageddon - Asylum's DAM! The Return of Mega Shark, Sharknado, Mega Piranha, etc!

[Mac Daddy MM]

I gots a big ass grin on my face. Been wanting this forever!

[Gigantis]

Holy crap! Even Mega Python vs. Gatoroid is getting repped! (Wait, is that Gatoroid or Crocosaurus?)

So I guess they all take place in the same universe now. The AMBU. Asylum Mockbuster Cinematic Universe.

[Mac Daddy MM]

Holy crap! Even Mega Python vs. Gatoroid is getting repped! (Wait, is that Gatoroid or Crocosaurus?)

So I guess they all take place in the same universe now. The AMBU. Asylum Mockbuster Cinematic Universe.

According to the trailer, the movie is "meta", taking place in the "real world", but apparently one where Asylum is known as a big studio and their films are beloved the world over. And some alien force is making them come to life to destroy it. Might be a Pixels type of situation, but with Asylum monsters instead of retro video games.

[Gojira 41mk11]

No way, a movie with all of the Asylum monsters in one place? I've watched over 20 SyFy originals in the last two months. This is what I've been training for.

It's just too bad that this movie is going to be no different than any of the others. I'm betting that this one will end up being painfully stale and disappointing.

[MoarCrossovers]

So far we got:
- Mega Shark
- Sharknado
- 5-Headed Shark(s)
- Transmorphers
- Atlantic Rim
- Mega Piranha
- Giant Octopus
- Mecha Sharks from Sharknado 6
- Zoombies
- Mega Python
- Gatoroid

[Mac Daddy MM]

So far we got:
- Mega Shark
- Sharknado
- 5-Headed Shark(s)
- Transmorphers
- Atlantic Rim
- Mega Piranha
- Giant Octopus
- Mecha Sharks from Sharknado 6
- Zoombies
- Mega Python
- Gatoroid

Where'd you see Transmorphers, or did I just see them and think it was an Antaltic Rim Not Jaeger?

I really hope their 100 foot Big Foot from... Big Foot, the Not Jigers from Jack the Giant Killer, 2010's Moby Dick and the Kollosus from MSvK pop up.

[Cryptid_Liker]

I really hope their 100 foot Big Foot from... Big Foot (...) pop up.

Seconded here. In addition, give me Dinosauria (have no source on this name but I've heard a lot of people call it this) from Atlantic Rim and the invisible dragon things from Alien Convergence.

[edgaguirus]

Looks like it could be fun.

[Al Diplodocus]

From premise alone I remember someoe on Deviantart doing an idea for a similar thing, but with a Final Wars-style bend (Mega Shark vs everymonster else)

Doesn't seem fun. The premise of "Asylum monsters in real world" needs a lot of self awareness to work, snd it doesn't seem like it has any.

[Tyrant_Lizard_King]

Knowing Asylum each monster will get a minute of screen time and barely do anything. Missed opportunity to bring back a bunch of the actors from the included films and have them band together to save the day.

[Mac Daddy MM]

Knowing Asylum each monster will get a minute of screen time and barely do anything. Missed opportunity to bring back a bunch of the actors from the included films and have them band together to save the day.

I don't know. At least from the trailers, it looks as if Mega Shark and the Not Jaeger are going to have sizeable roles, just basing on what we see. I expect they'll get as much screen time as their own films. Really curious to see how Sharknado does, and if we see Mega Shark get sucked up into it. It'd be something if MS goes rogue and attacks the others, which we do see something of the sorts when it launches a 5-Headed Shark.

Eitherway, I REALLY hope this breathes life into the Mega Shark series. They're bad movies no doubt, but man do I just love them and wish we saw more like vs. Zombie Lobster, vs. Moby Dick, and vs. Big Foot. If I had any idea WTF I was doing, I'd be submitting Mega Shark drafts to Asylum every other day.

[Vakanai]

If I had any idea WTF I was doing, I'd be submitting Mega Shark drafts to Asylum every other day.

Why let that stop you? It clearly hasn't stopped the Asylum!

[Gojira 41mk11]

2025 Armageddon is finally on Tubi, so I got a chance to watch it. This movie completely squandered its premise, so I guess it’s on brand for The Asylum, but still. The problem is that the monsters advertised are barely in the movie. Hell, there’s a sizable number of monster who are on the poster who don’t show up here. I’ll put the ranty details under a spoiler in case anyone cares about the purity of their 2025 Armageddon viewing.

Spoiler:

It starts off promising with a scene of Mega Piranha attacking a battleship and Crocosaurus walking around a city, but ultimately they both only get those single scenes before disappearing forever. They’re both killed off-screen in battles we never get a look at. The Mega Boa gets a total of two seconds on screen and then it also vanishes into the void. The majority of its presence is being talked about by the main characters in their bunker, a very common trend with this film.

The main characters talk about the monsters as a substitute for showing them. In the Crocosaurus attack, the characters say “There’s a giant crocodile and shark!”, but Mega Shark is only shown for three seconds brushing against a boat. They don’t even hold the shot long enough to let her go back underwater. The Atlantic Rim robot doesn’t fare much better. It appears off-screen, has a fight with the Colombian military and Mega Piranha off-screen, gets taken down and controlled by one of the main characters off-screen, and then finally appears to knock out a Transmorphers robot and then fall apart. After its initial 10 second fight, it spends an hour of runtime as an unusable pile of scrap. When they finally fix it, it fights a monster chimera (who just kinda came out of nowhere?) only to get its arm torn off and then never be seen again.

Mecha Shark is the most egregious example of this. The characters read off a list of The Asylum’s movies in a bunker, see Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark on the list, and decide that’s what they need to fight back against the invasion. Throughout the rest of the movie, the president will just occasionally say the status of Mecha Shark in throwaway lines. He says that there’s an entire fleet of Mecha Shark under construction, and he’ll say they’re fighting monsters, but that’s it. The Mecha Shark fleet is not shown until the very end, where they’re swimming for a single shot, then get sucked up by the Sharknado and blown up. How climactic, a total of three or four shots for something teased throughout the entire thing. The Giant Octopus also suffers from the same problem as Mecha Shark, but he isn’t lucky enough to even make a single appearance save for a incredibly brief cameo in the climax. Six-Headed Shark gets hyped up when the characters figure out he’s next with their movie list, only to get torn apart by Mega Shark in a 30 second “fight” which accounts for basically all of the latter’s screen time. Six-Headed Shark is effectively gone for the rest of the film, and I hope you weren’t too keen on seeing Mega Shark, because that’s all she does. She eats a creature which is far smaller than herself and that’s it.

Sharknado just forms at the very end because they needed a cool effect, sucks everything up, and then disappears as the commandeered alien mothership send all of the creatures into a big glowing space orb. Despite the copious amounts of exposition found in this movie, nothing that happens in the finale has any explanation. The resolution to this movie is one of the main characters hitting a red button to make all the monsters disappear (hardly something they needed an alien ship for), and then, finally, a bunch of shafted monsters make their grand return. Crocosaurus, Six-Headed Shark, Mega Piranha, and the Giant Octopus all appear (with their old models) for about 5 seconds to fill up the screen, and that’s that.

Basically, 2025 Armageddon is a movie that advertises itself as a big crossover event of all The Asylm’s monsters akin to DAM, but in practice it’s a bunch of repetitive exposition, increasingly unfunny meta jokes, and a stock estranged siblings plot to a background of a bland bunker. They say that naval bases are getting wiped out by Mega Shark, they say they’re launching desperate all-out assaults on monsters across the globe, they say humanity is being forced underground, but the monsters themselves are seldom shown. I think it’s safe to say Final Wars Hedorah has more of a presence than most of these creatures. The only time I bothered to count, Mega Shark, is roughly 48 seconds, and that’s better than most.

Tl;dr: This movie is lame the monsters have barely any presence.

[Dyrakro]

Such a bummer to read that summary. That movie sounded like quite the premise on here but they still fucked up big time.

[edgaguirus]

I doubt I'll be seeing this one.

[Tyrant_Lizard_King]

Sounds about on brand for Asylum.

[NSZ]

Sounds about on brand for Asylum.

The fact that people were actually expecting anything different... Really goes to show that it wasn't just easily confused grandmas keeping this company in business. :P

[Spuro]

Such a bummer to read that summary. That movie sounded like quite the premise on here but they still fucked up big time.

I mean, it’s Asylum, what did you expect?

[Gojira1604]

They should've called it Armageddon Endgame.

Do you guys think that Mega Shark and Crocosaurus could've survived being submerged in lava much like how Heisei Godzilla has?

[edgaguirus]

Of course, they could, providing Asylum uses them for future projects.