Most of Asylum’s natural disaster flicks just have random disaster scene after random disaster scene with no real sense of growing danger from one to the next and no escalation between them.
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Ignoring the painful CGI, I did admittedly really enjoy the growing escalation in disaster scenes as the movie went on. Clearly a last-minute CG model change for some reason, and they forgot the characters mention it later or something). There’s even one scene that includes such a terrible laugh-out-loud CG hippopotamus that escaped from a zoo and is attacking a car that, while I applaud them for thinking outside the box for that scene, really probably should have been scrapped when they realized the hippo would look so terrible (and even later in the movie when the characters reference that scene they mention that their car was trampled by an escaped giraffe, so I have no idea what the hell happened behind the scenes with that.
There’s a few individual random shots that seem pretty inspired and better than the rest, especially toward the very end of the movie as a helicopter is flying around crashing down and crumbling buildings, but on a whole there’s nothing there that stands out or sets itself up higher than the low expectations that come with being an Asylum-made movie. Essentially, for those not quite as familiar with those, that’s to say that they’re really not that good. Unfortunately, while some of the movies made by this company showcase CG special effects that are surprisingly well-done for their products (Age of Dinosaurs really shines brightly there), the effects in San Andreas Quake is about on-par with all of Asylum’s other natural disaster ‘epics’. The human element in this movie is easily where it really shines best as, even putting the above-average acting aside, these are characters that actually get good characterization and you can get behind them and care about them pretty easily. Actually, San Andreas Quake’s strongest aspect, I feel, is that the entire cast is surprisingly pretty good, certainly better than is expected from this type of movie and better than I’m used to coming from Asylum’s filmography, even if some of the dialogue they have to work with is pretty bland and awkward at times. While Asylum’s low budget rip off doesn’t have the kind of star power that one does, it does include Casper Van Dien’s easy-on-the-eyes daughter Grace Van Dien and fellow Asylum-regular Jhey Castles, both of which turn in pretty good performances for this kind of fare. The Asylum’s latest mockbuster, San Andreas Quake, was released to perfected timing to coincide with the much larger spectacle that is San Andreas starring Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson, a habit that Asylum does well with most of their mockbusters. Now she races desperately to get her family to safety before the earthquake breaks Los Angeles apart from the mainland.”
Seismologist warns of an impending 12.7 earthquake, no one takes her seriously. BUT, bottom line is they are fun to me, and really, that’s the main thing I look for in my B-Movies. Sure, acting is atrocious, CGI effects groan-worthy, painful dialogue, and errors within the script that could fill a barge. I have to admit, as far as guilty pleasures go, Asylum-made movies is at the top of my personal list, as I just have a ton of fun with them. However, they also put out just as many original titles as well, ones like Age of Dinosaurs, 2012: Ice Age, Battledogs, the Mega Shark movies, 2-Headed Shark Attack, Blood Lake, and of course the pop culture phenomenon that is the Sharknado series.
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The Asylum is a low budget production company that’s infamous in the B-Movie world, mainly for their mockbusters – low budget rip-offs of big budget theatrical movies – such as Snakes on a Train, Transmorphers, Android Cop, Road Wars, Avengers Grimm, and Atlantic Rim (aka, Attack From Beneath) just to name but a few.
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