Titanic II (2010)

• Year: 2010
• Released: 24 Aug 2010
• Country: USA
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640571/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/titanic_ii
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Runtime: 90 min
• Writer: Shane Van Dyke
• Director: Shane Van Dyke
• Cast: Shane Van Dyke, Marie Westbrook, Bruce Davison, Brooke Burns

1.6/10

Titanic II Storyline

On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened “Titanic 2,” follows the path of its namesake. But when a tsunami hurls an iceberg into the new ship’s path, the passengers and crew must fight to avoid a similar fate.

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Titanic II Movie Reviews

Another awful film from The Asylum that should be sunk without trace.

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.

Lots of CGI stuff

I somehow caught this trash on cable over the weekend. I have no idea why it aired on TV in Australia before it even got a US release, but at least I didn’t have to go out and rent it.

The movie opens with some guy surfing off what appears to be a Canadian ice shelf; when a large chunk of ice falls he rides the wave. Unfortunately for him, a piece of ice the size of Manhattan breaks off and that’s the end of his story.

An old coast guard captain gets a call from NOAA and he flies out to the ice shelf. Lot’s of mumbling about the evils of global warming and how they need to warn the planet that an epic tsunami is going to destroy the world… but most importantly it will destroy the Titanic II. It turns out the captain’s daughter works as a nurse on the ship which has just set off on it’s maiden voyage. The captain gets in his super-chopper and decides to fly all the way to the titanic to save his daughter.

His daughter used to date the guy that owns the shipping line and the Titanic II, he of course is on the ship. He has three girlfriends now but begins to regain his old affections for the nurse for some reason. The tsunami hits the ship conveniently wiping out half of the life rafts. I don’t think the director was trying to be funny here, but all of the people bouncing back and forth pretending that the ship was falling over made me smile.

The boat continues to sink and the guy and girl run around trying to get out but don’t. Fortunately they come across some scuba gear, unfortunately there’s only one mouth piece. Rather than try sharing it, the guy just dies and that’s pretty much the story.

Terrible acting, crappy CGI, hilarious dialogue The interiors of the Titanic II look like they were filmed in a rundown motel 6. They have a shot of the engine room and it looks like a dump truck backed into a loading bay.

How did this happen??

This movie gave me the shivers…

And not in a good way. This is quite frankly a terrible movie, and an insult to the Titanic. Granted it is not the worst of the syfy/asylum movies, and it is not quite as abysmal as that 2001 animated movie, which was an assault on the intelligence not just in the countless rip offs but also the fact that it has a rapping dog in it.

That is not saying much though. Even thinking about Titanic II makes me shiver and makes me mad. Now James Cameron’s 1997 film is not quite masterpiece status and my favourite account of the disaster is actually in 1958’s A Night to Remember, but it does have a number of truly fantastic things especially the wonderful production values and the riveting final act.

Don’t expect any of these things in Titanic II. The movie looks as though it has been made on the cheap, with cinematography which is rushed and editing that looks as if it was done on a bacon slicer. Even worse are the CGI effects. I have seen some good ones, and I have seen some bad ones. The CGI here is not just bad, it is abysmal and makes the slapdash effects in other cheap movies such as for example Addams Family Reunion look like Citizen Kane.

The film is neither riveting or thrilling. The uneven pace and dreadful storytelling stop the film from being suspenseful or exciting in any way, and to add further insult to injury the acting is terrible excepting Bruce Davison who is the only cast member who tries, some of the score is little more than a rehash and I found myself indifferent to every single one of the characters.

Much of the blame lies with Shane Van Dyke. Judging by this film, the man cannot direct, write or act. The direction here is sloppy at best, wretched at worst. The dialogue is both cheesy and dull and there are also some factual errors that have been covered by previous commentators that are enough to make a historian watching scream. And his acting is pretty much appalling.

I was not expecting an accurate film by all means, but I was expecting something decent and entertaining. Titanic II did not deliver on any level and just an insult on the senses. 1/10 Bethany Cox