August 19 marked the end to the Syfy monster movie franchise that nobody asked for, but fans couldn’t stop watching—Sharknado. The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time reintroduced us to all our favorite characters from the series in the sixth installment, as our hero, Fin, arrives in prehistoric times after hopping in a time machine with his suddenly adult son, Gil. Nova, Bryan, and April (pulled from outer space before she dies in the third movie) are all met as an allosaurus is eaten by a giant shark. “Before April died?” you may be asking, “Hasn’t Tara Reid been in all the movies?” Why of course, only she was a robot. Don’t worry, I forgot too. That’s why we are also constantly reminded of this same time as Fin keeps chasing after a bag containing her robot head. 

But I may have jumped in too far too fast. If you have never seen a Sharknado movie, the franchise is about a tornado made out of sharks. Sure, not a difficult concept to fathom. But six of them? Well not all of them are different. Sharknado 2: the Second One reintroduced two sharknados originating with one shark—the one Fin defeated in the previous movie. Sharknado 3 introduces a many sharknados across the country and into outer space. The 4th Awakens takes us to a world that has been five years without a sharknado, until suddenly they start again. Thankfully a robotic April is back after having died since her last shark accident. In Sharknado 5, the sharknados transport the crew all around the world, completely destroying the Earth.

Which brings us to The Last Sharknado. After discovering how to harness the power of sharknados for time travel in the future, Fin and April’s son travels back to get Fin after the world is destroyed, taking him back to the prehistoric era where he’s also left the rest of the crew. The goal is to destroy the first sharknado. One would think this means the first one ever at this time in history, but they discover that the further they keep going ahead in history, meeting famous figures and changing history, they don’t stop. Turns out, Gil meant the first sharknado Fin encountered. By doing this, Fin dies, but has changed history so he, April, and Gil live a happy sharknado-free life.

As always, this movie is filled with multiple celebrity cameos, including Neil Degrasse Tyson as Merlin, Dee Snider as a western sheriff, Ben Stein as Alexander Hamilton, and Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling as Fin’s parents in the ‘60s. For once, however, these did not enhance the fun of the movie, but rather took away from the story. At one point in the old west, Dee Snider’s character states “I’m not going to take this anymore” about the storms, which felt as if the joke were the only reason for placing him in the movie.

While all the ridiculous cameos took away from the campy storyline, The Last Sharknado is a perfect conclusion to an otherwise bizarre franchise based on one social-media-crazed prime-time monster movie. If you have never seen a Sharknado movie before, I recommend watching the first one, keeping in mind that it was meant to be a cheesy Saturday night B-movie and not a worldwide craze. From there, the remaining movies can be enjoyed and laughed at as each one becomes campier than the last.