Titanic II starts exactly one hundred years after the launch & sinking of the original Titanic in 1912, in 2012 a new luxury cruise liner christened the Titanic II is about to set sail on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. Meanwhile in Greenland a huge ice glazier has fallen apart & a huge tsunami caused by the huge iceberg crashing into the Ocean smashes straight into the Titanic II after it's engines blow. Rapidly sinking, badly damaged & with an even bigger tsunami on it's way the Titanic II & those aboard look doomed to suffer the same fate as the previous Titanic one hundred years before...
Written & directed by Shane Van Dyke who also stars in the thing this is yet another shameless rip-off from The Asylum who specialise in conning people into renting or buying their crappy films with copycat artwork, titles & plots. Here with Titanic II The Asylum are obviously leeching off the success of James Cameron's epic Titanic (1997) although this 'Mockbuster' & 'Disasterpiece' is more similar to something like Poseidon (2006) with the majority of the running time devoted to the sinking of the Titantic II, attempts to escape alive & various problems that go against the main character's. As one would expect from anything made by The Asylum Titanic II is total crap, an awful script that doesn't even get going until the fortieth minute (that's when the first tsunami hits) & a second half that has two people run through a few slightly wet corridors trying to look panicked. All the old disaster film clichés come out, at one point people even get stuck in an elevator & a door won't open because something is blocking it from the other side. Also, stop me if this sounds familiar, it seems big business has put profits first rather than human safety by cutting corners on the construction of the Titanic II. That's the best the script can do, that's as original as it gets & while the script obviously tries to mirror the events surrounding the sinking of the original Titanic it's slow going & it's impossible to care about anything. I suppose the script could have tried to say something about the dangers of global warning & the polar ice caps melting but it merely uses the iceberg thing to parallel the original sinking & the tsunami or it's after effects are never mentioned or seen again once it's hit the Titanic II.
As one would expect the CGI computer effects are awful, the CGI Titanic II looks terrible as does the iceberg & glazier breaking up. No-one really dies on screen, with a main cast of about three the expected fatalities don't really happen. I suspect the makers never left dry land, obviously shot on sets that just look like normal building they don't even shake or tilt as the Titanic II is supposedly sinking. The whole film looks as cheap & nasty as most productions from The Asylum, the second half of the film is also really dark & it's sometimes hard to make out what is going on.
Released straight to DVD in the states (although it had premiered on TV in at least Australia & Britain before that) on August 24th in an interview the producer said Titanic II only finished filming on May 7th which gives you some indication just how quickly The Asylum get these things out & that rushed post production surely contributes to the awful CGI, bad pacing & general lousiness. The acting sucks, plain & simple & the so called emotional bit at the end is embarrassingly bad.
Titanic II is awful, then again coming from The Asylum did you expect anything else? Bad CGI, bad sets, bad acting, bad script & a lot of unhappy Titanic fans who may be suckered into giving this crap a go means The Asylum's output just isn't getting any better.
Written & directed by Shane Van Dyke who also stars in the thing this is yet another shameless rip-off from The Asylum who specialise in conning people into renting or buying their crappy films with copycat artwork, titles & plots. Here with Titanic II The Asylum are obviously leeching off the success of James Cameron's epic Titanic (1997) although this 'Mockbuster' & 'Disasterpiece' is more similar to something like Poseidon (2006) with the majority of the running time devoted to the sinking of the Titantic II, attempts to escape alive & various problems that go against the main character's. As one would expect from anything made by The Asylum Titanic II is total crap, an awful script that doesn't even get going until the fortieth minute (that's when the first tsunami hits) & a second half that has two people run through a few slightly wet corridors trying to look panicked. All the old disaster film clichés come out, at one point people even get stuck in an elevator & a door won't open because something is blocking it from the other side. Also, stop me if this sounds familiar, it seems big business has put profits first rather than human safety by cutting corners on the construction of the Titanic II. That's the best the script can do, that's as original as it gets & while the script obviously tries to mirror the events surrounding the sinking of the original Titanic it's slow going & it's impossible to care about anything. I suppose the script could have tried to say something about the dangers of global warning & the polar ice caps melting but it merely uses the iceberg thing to parallel the original sinking & the tsunami or it's after effects are never mentioned or seen again once it's hit the Titanic II.
As one would expect the CGI computer effects are awful, the CGI Titanic II looks terrible as does the iceberg & glazier breaking up. No-one really dies on screen, with a main cast of about three the expected fatalities don't really happen. I suspect the makers never left dry land, obviously shot on sets that just look like normal building they don't even shake or tilt as the Titanic II is supposedly sinking. The whole film looks as cheap & nasty as most productions from The Asylum, the second half of the film is also really dark & it's sometimes hard to make out what is going on.
Released straight to DVD in the states (although it had premiered on TV in at least Australia & Britain before that) on August 24th in an interview the producer said Titanic II only finished filming on May 7th which gives you some indication just how quickly The Asylum get these things out & that rushed post production surely contributes to the awful CGI, bad pacing & general lousiness. The acting sucks, plain & simple & the so called emotional bit at the end is embarrassingly bad.
Titanic II is awful, then again coming from The Asylum did you expect anything else? Bad CGI, bad sets, bad acting, bad script & a lot of unhappy Titanic fans who may be suckered into giving this crap a go means The Asylum's output just isn't getting any better.