A crock.

Skipping through the channels last night, I couldn't resist watching a bit of Mega Shark versus Crocosaurus. This is the sequel, apparently, to Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus. Having seen off the octopus, a new threat rises to challenge Mega Shark.

Quoting from the plot outline: 'Deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an illegal diamond mining operation is interrupted by the presence of a giant 1,500-foot crocodile.' That certainly would cause a little interruption.

Crocosaurus gets a few tranquilizer darts in the mouth, and is loaded onto a cargo ship bound for Florida. En route the ship gets attacked by Mega Shark, which is unconvincingly about twice the size of the ship.

It's not that I was expecting much, but even so the special effects were quite astonishingly crap. Stop-animation plasticine models would have been more convincing. And how do you end up acting in a film like that? Your chances of career advancement must be slim with that on your resumé. I'm intrigued by the whole thing.

Although come to think of it... if my career in advertising were directly translated into the sphere of film-making, I would definitely be at the Crocosaurus end of the spectrum as opposed to, say, the King's Speech.