Sharknado 5: Global Swarming

Sharknado 5: Global Swarming continues the story of Fin Shepard and his wife April, whose son is swept up in a sharknado and carried across the world. Much of North America lies in ruins, and the storms, now bearing sharks, spread to other continents. Fin and April set out on a journey to rescue their son and to help people survive the widening disaster.

The film is directed by Anthony C. Ferrante, working from a screenplay by Scotty Mullen and produced by David Michael Latt. It is the sixth of the fourteen films Ferrante has directed in chronological order, following Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens from 2016, and the next in that sequence was The Last Sharknado: It's About Time in 2018. Ian Ziering and Tara Reid return as Fin and April, joined by Cassandra Scerbo, Masiela Lusha, Olivia Newton-John and Chloe Lattanzi. It was made for television by The Asylum, Syfy and BUFO on a budget of about 3 million dollars, and runs 89 minutes.

Audience responses are modest: on IMDb it holds 3.9 out of 10 from roughly 7,600 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 4.7 out of 10 from about 360 votes. A small set of critics' reviews gives it 4.4 out of 10, slightly above the larger IMDb audience sample.