YMMV / Avalanche Sharks

• Base-Breaking Character: Dale is either a Love to Hate charmingly sleazy character, or an infuriatingly useless authority figure who completely deserves his fate at the end.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: Jenna and her friends (and their bikinis) are among the more well-known parts of the movie.
• Cliché Storm: Clueless authority figures, attacks by a bizarre kind of monster, almost anyone who says or does anything provocative getting killed, an old Doomsayer who everyone ignores. The list goes on.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Some of the best-liked characters in the movie only have about ten minutes of screentime.
  • Carol, for how her nuanced and believable in her concern for her cousin and fear of the sharks manages to stay out of both Dull Surprise and Ham and Cheese, unlike many of the other cast members, and how she breifly shows some Scarily Competent Tracker skills while trying to find Ross.
  • Jenna, for being the hottest of the funny, fanservice-y hot tub girls, as well as the only one to take the warnings that there is a monster on the slopes intelligently and try to get out of there, while showing some concern for the safety of everyone around her.
  • Duffy, for being a tough old guy who tries to warb people about the sharks and doesn't get the respect he deserves even after being proven right.
• He's Just Hiding: The Unreliable Narrator and Ambiguous Situation nature of the movie make it possible to feel that various characters who die in the final act of the movie don’t die in the true version of what happened.
• Les Yay: Lacy, Jenna, and Karla spend a lot of time hanging out in a hot tub together, and the other girls seem pretty disappointed when Jenna leaves. They also drink a toast to Girls Gone Wild at one point, although they could just like the idea of appearing on it.
• The Scrappy:
  • The Framing Device guy in the hospital bed and his nurse weren't terribly popular, which might be why they were cut from the Amazon Prime version of the film.
  • Becca is disliked by many due to her unpunished Alpha Bitch attitude.
  • Mike is somewhat unpopular for his corny last words, and how (even in comparison to other Red Shirts) he doesn't really exist in the movie to do anything besides die.
  • Non-Protagonist Resolver Hiro isn't that well-liked by most fans (something lampshaded by the Audience Surrogate in the Framing Device) for being just a person who randomly (not to mention slowly) resolves the plot by deciding to readjust the totems on a whim, as main characters are dying and unable to do anything against the sharks. The fact that some viewers see her as an Asian stereotype doesn't help.
• So Bad, It's Good: The film was trying for this, but not all of the target audience feel it got there.
• Special Effect Failure: The sharks themselves are pretty obviously CGI and on top of that, even look noticeably weirder and less accurate than average CGI sharks, although to be fair, they aren't meant to be ordinary sharks.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Many accused the movie of being made to capitalize on the success of Sharknado, and indeed it was announced shortly after that movie's successful debut.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Carol is the cousin of a boy the sharks killed, has a playful rapport with him before his death, and shows a caring side and some brief Scarily Competent Tracker skills while looking for him, only to spend the second half of the movie doing little besides standing around and making everyone else look more competent. Her Give Geeks a Chance interactions with Randy also don't end up going anywhere.
  • Duffy is a Mountain Man Doomsayer who shows some good fighting skills and has a touching history with main cast member Diana, but he has fairly few scenes, and most of them are used for so-so comic relief.
  • Jenna spends most of the film just hanging around the hot tub to provide Fanservice, then narrowly escapes being eaten by taking the protagonists seriously and getting out of the tub just before the sharks attack it. The final act could have expanded on her sense of grief at the loss of her friends, trust in Wade, and vulnerability in surviving in the cold weather with just a bikini and a Modesty Towel while also trying to avoid the sharks, but she only has about a minute more of screen time in the film.
• Vanilla Protagonist: Wade and Madison aren't terribly developed or unique characters (especially compared to characters like Reasonable Authority Figure sheriff Adam, his wife Diana with her Dark and Troubled Past, and Ensemble Darkhorses Carol, Duffy and Jenna).