The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time

The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time

Year: 2018

Runtime: 86 mins

Language: English

Echo Score: 47
TV MovieComedyActionScience FictionHorror

The epic saga concludes as Fin Shepard faces his most challenging battle yet. Having fought sharks across the globe, he now confronts a terrifying new threat: time travel. This final installment pits him against sharks from different eras, promising a chaotic and explosive end to the sharknado phenomenon.

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1

Time-travel to the Cretaceous; Gil vanishes

Fin and his adult son Gil travel back to the Cretaceous period in a desperate bid to undo the Sharknado apocalypse. Gil vanishes on arrival, leaving Fin stranded in time. A holographic recording from Gil explains that time-travel energy is unstable and that each person can travel only once; any further trips erase the traveler's existence.

Cretaceous period
2

Reunion with Nova, Bryan and April; plan to chase time

The team, saved from their original deaths by Gil, reunites with Fin and the still-human version of April. They learn that the sharknadoes must be chased across eras to restore history. They begin organizing their multi-era mission.

Present-day Earth
3

First sharknado defense in the past

With the help of a pterodactyl tamed by April and a time capacitor built into Gil's flight badge, they fight and destroy a sharknado. They attempt a return to their own time, hoping the act will erase the history of the sharknadoes. The future remains uncertain as time travel's instability lingers.

Cretaceous period
4

Arrival in Camelot; Merlin explains the timeline

Arriving in Camelot, the team discovers Bryan has become a woman due to temporal shifts. They meet Merlin, who reveals he has been guiding Gil's past research into using sharknadoes for time travel and explains that Gil's searches through time have unleashed storms across history.

Medieval era Camelot
5

Camelot sharknado; Excalibur destroys it

A sharknado forms and heads toward the castle. Fin wields Excalibur, supplied by the past Gil, to blast the storm and trigger another jump. The group continues their quest across time to fix history.

Medieval period Camelot
6

Revolutionary War alliance; destroy sharknado

The next jump lands them in the American Revolution, where they partner with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin to fight another sharknado. Their alliance helps them defeat the creature and avert a history-altering catastrophe. After the mission, Bryan reverts to his male form and chooses to stay behind in Camelot.

1775-1783 American Revolutionary War era
7

Old West jump to Santa Mira

The trio boards a stagecoach for a leap to the Old West town of Santa Mira. Fin is detained as an accomplice to Billy the Kid's crimes, threatening a major timeline shift. Nova and April meet Fin's ex-girlfriend Skye, and the group works to rescue Fin and Gil and set up the next jump.

Late 19th century Santa Mira, Old West
8

Rescue at Santa Mira; Skye joins; Gil's jump

Nova, April, and Skye locate Fin and Gil and help complete their escape. They allow Gil to make his own time jump in the sharknado, and destroy it with the eye lasers from April's robot head from a previous timeline.

Late 19th century Santa Mira
9

1950s beach party; Gilbert and Raye provide capacitor

The next stop is a 1950s beach party beset by a sharknado. They fight it off with help from younger versions of Fin's parents, Gilbert and Raye, who supply a prototype time capacitor. The team plans to jump toward 2013 to stop the Los Angeles sharknado.

1950s 1950s beach
10

1997 detour; Nova saves grandfather but dies

Nova sabotages the capacitor's target, sending them to 1997 so she can save her grandfather from a fatal shark attack. She succeeds but at the cost of her own life and April's, while Robot April's head is lost at sea.

1997 1997
11

Confronting 20013; Robot April rules the world

A mis-specified jump lands them in 20013, where Robot April has conquered a ruined world with flying sharks and clones. Robot April tempts Fin with visions of their future family, while human April fights to stop her.

20013
12

Final push: 2013 mission and time machine

Human April awakens and helps Fin confront Robot April; she buys time for Fin to reach the time machine. Fin engages the future threat and prepares to reset history.

2013 Earth
13

Timenado: time breaks and sacrifices

Robot April's future-self arrives to steal the capacitor, tearing at the fabric of reality with a pulse that creates a timenado. Robot April's head ultimately helps Fin destroy her future self and triggers a nuclear failsafe to destroy the sharknado and repair time, collapsing the broken timeline.

Earth across history
14

New universe: family and future

In the new timeline, the Shepard family and friends are alive again. Fin and April run a bar with Nova, and April is pregnant with Gil. Skye has become a politician, and Fin receives a message from his father in space, signaling a quiet promise of the future as he contemplates retirement.

Present-day Earth

Last Updated: October 01, 2025 at 13:03

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