Film is Pwn

For those waiting with baited breath for November’s big budget, guaranteed disaster of a disaster movie 2012 from the vindictive, mad director hoping to inflict Independence Day 2 on the world (Roland Emmerich), may I offer a substitute?  Tuesday (October 27th 2009) marks the release of the Asylum’s low-budget knock-off of 2012: 2012: Supernova.

Film is Pwn got our pre-release DVD in the mail Saturday (thank you, Asylum!) and this is a return to fun/bad greatness after the most recent releases, Sex-Pot and Megafault, which fell in the unwatchable and uninteresting categories, respectively.

What’s 2012: Supernova got?  It’s got the Earth about to be incinerated by a supernova, in the year 2012.  Brian Krause (don’t worry if you don’t know who he is, apparently his career high was being the dude on Charmed)  is the hard-nosed, American scientist working with the quirky Russian scientist and the attractive Chinese scientist to stop the impending doomsday by exploding some nuclear devices in the atmosphere, or something like that.  There’s also a saboteur and assassins and whatnot, along with a protracted subplot with Brian Krause’s wife and daughter fleeing toward (or was it from?) something (or is it something?) in the desert.

But no one comes to Asylum movies for the plots, this has got everything you’d want and more: Cheap special effects, cheesy performances, recycled special effects (including re-using shots from various Asylum films as in the space station from the Terminators), and laughs aplenty.  There’s digital lightning under clear skies, assassins firing an Uzi from one car to the next while directly beside each other and not a single bullet striking the car, and about three separate times cars are forced off-road in the desert for various reasons.

If you liked Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, 2012: Supernova is one for you.  The Asylum is back, baby!

–Daniel J. Roos