Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! is a 2015 American television film and the third installment in the Sharknado series, following Sharknado and Sharknado 2: The Second One. The film was directed by Anthony C. Ferrante with Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, and Mark McGrath reprising their roles from the previous installments. Also joining the cast are David Hasselhoff, Bo Derek, Ryan Newman (replacing Aubrey Peeples in the role of Claudia Shepard, from the first film), and Jack Griffo.
The film premiered on Syfy in the United States on July 22, 2015.
Plot[]
While sharknado fighter Fin Shepard is in Washington, D.C. to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom from the president, another sharknado strikes, devastating the nation's capital. Fin and the president work together to defeat the sharks, and the storm unexpectedly subsides. Fearing that April, who is at Universal Orlando with their daughter Claudia and her mother May, is in danger, Fin heads for Florida. On his way there, he encounters a "fognado", which is stopped by Nova Clarke, his former employee (from the first film) who has become a hardened sharknado storm tracker, and her partner Lucas Stevens.
They stop at a military airport where they get clearance to use a fighter jet to bomb other forming sharknados. Lucas sacrifices himself to blow up a sharknado so that Nova and Fin can escape. They detonate a bomb in a sharknado over the Daytona 500 race. After crash landing in Orlando at the Universal Orlando Resort (and somehow losing their outfits in the crash; they find new ones soon after), they begin to search for the rest of the family, which is somewhat tricky due to Claudia having left her phone behind earlier (one of the ride managers held onto her phone and April locates him to retrieve it). Eventually, Fin and Nova reunite with April, Claudia, her boyfriend Billy, and May who have survived the sharknado that has hit the theme park. They then rush to, and take cover inside, the Universal Orlando globe, which is tossed onto the top of a tall monument.
Realizing that the numerous storms will soon combine into a massive sharknado wall that will destroy the entire East Coast (now dubbed the "Feast Coast"), Fin calls in a favor from his estranged father, former NASA colonel Gil Shepard, for a risky plan to destroy the storm from space. Gil, Fin, April, and Nova reach Cape Canaveral where they plan to use a top-secret Space Shuttle to blow up tanks of rocket fuel in the storm. They head inside to prepare, while Claudia and Billy fend off incoming sharks by using guns. They share a kiss and begin to head back inside, but Billy is killed when a shark lands on him. While Nova clears a path, Gil, Fin, and April (who was there only to plead with Fin to not go, but then sharks began destroying the walkway, forcing her to board the shuttle as well) launch into space where they detonate the external tank, but it fails to stop the wall of sharknados. Gil deploys "Plan B", activating a Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative satellite laser weapon, leaving himself in space as there is not enough fuel to propel both of them back to Earth. This time, the sharknados are destroyed, but the beam causes the sharks to propel into space, attacking the shuttle. Fin fights them off using an energy-beam chainsaw; he and April are eaten by two separate sharks which fall back down to Earth. Though the sharks are charred from atmospheric entry, Fin emerges from his shark unharmed and discovers that April has done so too, and that she has given birth during the descent. As the family and Nova reunite, Fin names his newborn son after his father, who has landed on the moon. April is about to recover Fin's father's badge when a Shuttle fragment is about to hit her.