In general, I agree that “bad on purpose” movies rarely work the way truly failed passion projects do. Stuff like The Room or Samurai Cop are endlessly fascinating because you’re watching someone’s ambition crash and burn under the weight of their own limitation. It’s failure as unintentional art.

Sharknado and the rest of The Asylum’s output, by contrast, are manufactured junk food. They’re winking at you the whole time, saying “look how silly we are,” which makes the joke wear thin almost instantly.

But Velocipastor doesn't fit into the "Sharknado" camp. The difference is intent. Sharknado had a $2 million budget, a cynical production pipeline, and the backing of a company that churns out disposable content purely because they know it’ll turn a profit on streaming or TV. It’s commerce first, creativity second. Velocipastor, on the other hand, had a shoestring budget of $36k scraped together from personal connections. It’s essentially a backyard passion project made by people who wanted to have fun, and that spirit comes through on screen.

Yeah, it’s deliberately goofy, but it also embraces its limitations in a clever way. Things like the “VFX car explosion” gag or the deliberately clunky dinosaur costume work precisely because the film knows how far it can stretch itself. It’s not pretending to be Hollywood, and it’s not trying to be “so bad it’s good” in a cynical way. It’s more like watching a group of friends get wildly creative with no resources, and instead of feeling hollow like Sharknado, it ends up being genuinely entertaining.