The Sharpedo (The Meg)

A Furry, Anime & Cartoon Spoof to Jason Statham's "The Meg"

From Littlechild Studios

Cast[]

Gru (Despicable Me) as Jonas Taylor
Mulan as Suyin Zhang
Al Mcwhiggin/The Chicken Man (Toy Story) as Jack Morris
Cassandra (Tangled) as Jaxx
Fa Zhou (Mulan) as Minway Zhang
Maui (Moana) as James "Mac" Mackreides
Chuck (Angry Birds) as DJ
Vanessa Bloome (Bee Movie) as Lori Taylor
Bomb (Angry Birds) as "The Wall"
Dr. Elefun (Astro Boy) as Dr. Heller
June (Little Einsteins) as Meiying Zhang
Kirito (Sword Art Online) as Toshi
Sharpedo (Pokémon) as Megalodon

Plot[]

Felonious Gru is a rescue diver who attempts to save the crew of a damaged nuclear submarine when he sees the hull being rammed by an unidentified creature. Two of his crew are trapped in the damaged sub, but Gru is forced to flee, realizing that attempting rescue would result in the deaths of everyone he has already saved. Gru's account of the story is dismissed by fellow survivor Dr. Elefun, who denounces his actions as the result of pressure-induced psychosis.

Five years later, billionaire Al McWhiggin meets Dr. Fa Zhou at the underwater research facility Mana One. Zhou and his oceanographer daughter Mulan supervise a mission to explore what turns out to be a deeper section of the Mariana Trench, previously concealed by a thermocline of hydrogen sulfide. The mission submersible is piloted by Japanese scientist Kirito, an American scientist referred to as "The Bomb," and Gru's ex-wife Vanessa. They discover an abundance of never-before-seen flora and fauna below the thermocline, but an attack by a large, unidentified creature causes the submersible to lose contact with Mana One. Gru's old friend and Mana One operations manager, Maui, suggests sending Gru down to attempt a rescue.

Despite the objections of Elefun (now a member of the Mana One crew), Zhou and Maui venture to Thailand to recruit Gru, who is now a drunken loner. Gru is initially skeptical, but relents after listening to a taped recording containing the dialogue between Vanessa, her crew and Mana One. Mulan attempts the rescue in their absence, but is attacked by a giant squid. Before the squid can crush her submersible, it is killed by an enormous shark. Having agreed to help, Gru breaches the thermocline and reaches the sunken submersible. When the shark returns and attacks the submersible before the evacuation has been completed, Kirito sacrifices himself to help the others escape.

Returning to Mana One, the crew discovers the giant shark is a Sharpedo or "Peedo", a Pokémon species of shark previously believed to be extinct. While discussing how to address it, Mulan's daughter June encounters and narrowly avoids an attack from the shark outside Mana One’s underwater tunnels. The crew realizes that the Peedo pursued them through a temporary break they caused in the thermocline and resolves to go out and track the Peedo before killing it with poison. After the Peedo destroys three nearby shark fin-fishing ships, Gru enters the water to shoot the Peedo with a tracker, and then the team puts Mulan in a shark-proof tank so she can shoot the Peedo with poison. However, the mission goes awry when the shark attacks the cage and cracks Mulan's mask, causing her to lose oxygen. She manages to poison the shark just as Gru manages to get her out of the cage. The Peedo returns and attacks Gru and Mulan, but it gets snagged on the cage's line and dies from the poison.

But in their moment of triumph, a second larger Peedo (revealed to be the individual that attacked the group earlier back at the trench) emerges, devouring The Bomb and the dead Peedo, critically wounding Zhou and destroying the crew's ship. Elefun sacrifices himself by distracting the Peedo to save fellow crew member Cassandra. Maui swims out to a floating lifeboat so that he and the crew can regroup at Mana One, though Zhou dies on the way. The shark gives chase, but it is deterred by a helicopter McWhiggin called in. Back at the station, McWhiggin claims that he has informed all the Chinese governments about the Peedo and that they have sent two destroyers to torpedo the shark while secretly enlisting a mercenary team to kill the shark with depth charges, but they accidentally kill a whale. Realizing the Peedo is near, the team speeds away but McWhiggin falls overboard and is eaten. The team soon learns of McWhiggin's deceit and resolve to kill the Peedo themselves.

The Peedo attacks a crowded beach in Sanya Bay in China and devours several beach-goers before the Mana One crew uses a whale call to divert its attention toward them. Gru and Mulan board submersibles and work together to kill the Peedo, but Mulan is forced to break off to save the others when a helicopter crashing into their ship forces them into the water. Gru takes on the Peedo alone and despite his submarine taking damage, he wounds the beast with his damaged submersible and stabs it in the eye, spilling its blood and attracting a swarm of modern sharks that devour the dying Peedo.

Gru reunites with the rest of the Mana One crew on a passing wedding boat and considers taking a vacation with Mulan and June. Meanwhile in the water, a passing Peedo is heard, suggesting that more than two escaped the trench.