It happened and I wanted to write about it right away, but it did take a couple days to gather my thoughts.
First of all, here's what happened: Finn was sent to the past, way back, to the Mesozoic era alongside dinosaurs where it was revealed that Nova, April, and Brian(a minor character from the second one) were also sent back by Gil just before they died in the regular timeline and they have to ride the flow of time through sharknados back to the present and correct the damage that the sharknados are doing. The next stop is Arthurian England where we find out Gil has been tutored by Merlin as played by Neil De Grasse Tyson and Finn draws the chainsaw sword from the stone. From there, it's off to the Revolutionary War where they lose Brian, then the Wild West, where they are reunited with Skye from the second movie. Then they go to the fifties where Finn meets his parents when they were young and played by Tori Spelling and her real life husband, a mini 90210 reunion where Tori says the funniest line in the movie "Did we go to high school together?" Next stop is the day Nova's grandfather was killed by a shark where she tries to save him and succeeds, but she and April are sacrificed in the process. The next stop is two thousand years in the future where Aprils cyborg head that Finn had been carrying along until it fell under water at the last stop has become a mad queen in a post-apocalyptic world. Finally, Finn makes one last time jump back to when it all began, the first scen of the first movie, when the sharknado first formed at sea and this time, April's cyborg head is there and one well timed nuclear xplosion inside the sharknado stops it all before it ever started. This brings us to a better altered timeline in which Nova's grandfather never died and she doesn't hate sharks and sharknados never happened so April never became a cyborg and nobody got killed by sharknados so they are all still alive and well.
My opinion on all of this was that it did bring about a happy ending, but I've seen this before and I hate it, it is my least favorite deus ex machina, because while the time loop fixes everything, it also means none of it ever happened so none of it mattered and it was all irrelevant. The first half of this movie is pure garbage(hilarious, but garbage) and aside from Tori Spelling, Nova saving her grandfather, and the tribute to the original movie, most of this movie was utterly pointless. However I think I understand why this happened, in retrospect, the last worthwhile moment in the series was the Russian nesting doll sequence at the end of the fourth movie, and it immediately crossed the line from funny running gag to overdone when April used electrified sharks as defibrillators to save Finn, and I now see that was the moment even the cast, crew, writers and film makers realized they had nothing left but it had snowballed out of control, the fans demanded more and now there was only one way out: burn the mother to the ground. The only way to stop this madness was to make the fifth movie so bad we would welcome the end, and then deliver the promise of ending it all in such a way that it was definitely done. In retrospect, I'd like to say that they should have stopped at four, but the ending was just good enough that if they could recut the happy ending to tack straight on to that fourth movie, we could call that the true canon of this franchise. In any case, they said this was the last sharknado, and as a fan who enjoyed the ride, I think they should stick to their word this time and let this be the end.
Or, if someone demands another Sharknado, it should be a full reboot with a new cast. my pitch, bullsharks, a real species that can survive in freshwater, get dumped in Lake Ontario and a sharknado rips through Upstate New York. However, this should be a one-shot, let us learn from the mistakes of the past and not milk the cash-cow dry.
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