Titanic II

Titanic II

Before anything else, it is appropriate to make one thing clear: Titanic II is in no way meant to be a follow up to James Cameron’s epic retelling of the Titanic tragedy. However, it’s possibly fair to expect that a film called Titanic II would not sound like the greatest punchline after one has watched the official teaser or happens upon a DVD of it at a video rental shop.

Thus it is not surprising to hear that the film was produced by The Asylum; a production house infamous for such creations like Snakes on a Train, The Day The Earth Stopped and Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus. Admittedly, the people at Asylum have come a long way since their earlier features which seemed to be shot with ten dollars in the pocket and Titanic II is an obvious advancement it has a couple of funny moments, a fair amount of suspense, a few reasonably effective special effects, and a few actors who are nearly decent. By Asylum standards, it’s not too bad; by ordinary film standards, however, it’s quite poor.

In this film, which takes place in the present day, it is 2012 and the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic is being celebrated and a gigantic ship called the USS Titanic II is shown to be making its maiden voyage to New York. This ship looks just like the original Titanic but has modern technology and an ultra-modern interior that has a mall looking area.

As the ship is on its journey, a Coast Guard captain (who is a veteran) and an incredibly attractive iceberg scientist (burns) who is a world authority on icebergs from the Bahamas discover that the Greenland glaciers are rapidly falling off because of global warming and create massive waves across the Atlantic ocean. The only problem is that the waves carry icebergs with them. It won’t be long till the USS Titanic II is struck by an iceberg resulting in history repeating itself, web based or in some other form of media.

All kinds of disaster movie clichés seem to end up in Titanic II the love that has been lost only to be found, the business arrogant boasting that the ship is indestructible, one person who always seems to have a problem about the construction being rushed, a detestable minor character that is hate able, a warning against global warming. The movie is often devoid of surprises, too, and the words used are simple. Having said that, however, the Techni likers all the dialogs are at least ghastly inexcusably bad but at least not cancerous.

The Asylum’s filmmakers the main provider of movies for the Sci-Fi Channel eliminates all the costly luxuries that add too much expenditure in the productions ex, setting and uses plenty of cheap looking computer graphics. Titanic II is yet no exception. While the film is nowhere near the worst of Asylum’s offerings, it is still far from industry standards. As a result of its low-budget roots, the film has limited horizons and thus fails to replicate the enormity of the catastrophe. This is demonstrated in the career-defining moments that have all been made without extras.

Moreover, the few extras pretending to be first class passengers feature what appears to be ill-groomed people that were picked up from some queues at Universal Studios or Sea World. The CGI, predictably, is at best average (though there are a few exceptions) some of the CGI scenes are poorly composed (such as the iceberg crash), and none of the passengers are in proper perspective on even the wide angle shots of the ship. Equally preposterous is the idea that the USS Titanic II in CGI looks exactly like its predecessor built in 1912 at the same time as the film’s establishing shots, the Queen Mary the ship used in several of these scenes, looks very different from the CG ship.

Since writer-director Shane Van Dyke (son of Dick Van Dyke) concentrated more on the disaster aspect of the film than the actual characters which in turn gives an interesting twist to the story, characters are dull, leaving us with no one to care about. Thus, Titanic II is devoid of any emotional impact. Similarly, scope of the film fails on this account too as mentioned above. We hardly see any character in real danger or being killed. Since no sets of the deck were built, there are just some brief moments where people are being rocked on the decks of Queen Mary when the cameraman is having a f***ing seizure.

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In light of all the criticisms leveled against Titanic II, it should be emphasized that the film is not that bad. The greatest asset is the cast, some of whom are not bad in fact. While not Oscar-winning, Shan Van Dyke who is the writer and director has nice poise as Hayden Walsh, the ingenious designer who put up the ship. Equally commendable is Bruce Davison who plays a worried father and a seasoned Coast Guard captain with great ease.

Davison is naturally charming and he does particularly well in delivering the lines. Forget about the cast. The music is also quite decent, and the picture can sometimes be quite interesting. Still there were also dull moments. All things considered, Titanic II is a film of contradictions – it is far better than we would have imagined but it fails to meet our expectations.

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