I have watched all of the Sharknado movies (while I was frantically preparing to teach classes over Zoom for the first time in the summer of 2020). They’re terrible movies, but I have to hand it to Ian Ziering. Most of the actors were phoning it in (and who could blame them, really), but Ian played it straight all the way through the whole series and whatever pathos is there is really because of him, I think.
I liked the riffing of Sharknado, but I didn’t care for the riff of Sharknado 2. That riff felt like they didn’t want to be doing it. They didn’t seem like they were having fun with it. It felt forced.