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Lake Victoria... Arizona...
Spring Break.
Piranhas escape from their underwater chasm due to an Earthquake... and unleash hell on the Spring-Breakers.
Standing, or swimming in their way, are Sheriff Forester, her Son Jake, a geologist called Novak, and a lot of p*rnographic actors.
Oh, and Ving Rhames too.
That's all there is really.
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Review:
Pure gross-out comedy... that borders simply gross-out.
Not a movie for a weaker stomach...
We're treated to blood, gore, swearing and boobies from beginning to end.
A very simple plot, on par with the recent Statham "Meg" movies, in that something happens, releases pre-history killing machines, and everyone is ripped to pieces.
Piranha 3D, or 2D depending on the format you're watching, has all the action of a Lake Placid and Deep Blue Sea style movie, crossed with the blood, gore, sheer nudity and gratuitous violence that has been missing since the B-Movies of the 1980s.
But then again, even the 80s weren't this gratuitous with the nudity without being slapped with a "video nasty" label.
The acting is decent with the subject matter.
We have Elisabeth Shue as our Sheriff, Steven R McQueen as her son (who plays the main role)... Jessica Szohr as McQueen's teeny-bopper love interest...
Adam Scott as the geologist who's a bit of a love interest for Shue...
Our main guy with McQueen is a solid lead in what is essentially a splatter movie.
He plays the disinterested teen, to becoming a concerned and arc-driven main-man... and inside what is a movie filled with boobs,*ss, loud music, and gore, he plays it very, very well.
And... Jerry O'Connell as a p*rnogprapher who's intent on shooting videos of boobies, regardless of what's going on around him.
O'Connell is absolutely standout as well... as he seems to switch between loveable boob-lover, to absolute *sshole, to total predator in the blink of an eye.
The CGI is ok... the CGI fish/piranhas look good... and there's a TON of practical blood and gore throughout...
Some of which might churn the stomach of someone who's not up on the gore and blood of 70s and 80s movies.
And, though a couple of the practical effects are a little dodgy, the makeup effects are top notch, including using actors and actresses who are genuine paraplegics.
Yeah, I did say the gore was realistic.
The music is also tops... but some of it reminded me of Deep Blue Sea... that 90s shark movie... it works though, but the movie is more about the Spring-Break source music than the soundtrack.
PIRANHA 3D

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Year Of Release:
2010
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Director/s:
Alexandre Aja
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Producer/s:
Alexandre Aja
Mark Canton
Marc Toberoff
Grégory Levasseur
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Writer/s:
Pete Goldfinger
Josh Stolberg
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Cinematography:
John R. Leonetti
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Editor/s:
James Baxter
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Music:
Michael Wandmacher
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Cast:
Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Jerry O'Connell, Ving Rhames, Jessica Szohr, Steven R. McQueen
With Christopher Lloyd
And Richard Dreyfuss
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Plot:
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Year Of Release:
2010
---
Director/s:
Alexandre Aja
---
Producer/s:
Alexandre Aja
Mark Canton
Marc Toberoff
Grégory Levasseur
---
Writer/s:
Pete Goldfinger
Josh Stolberg
---
Cinematography:
John R. Leonetti
---
Editor/s:
James Baxter
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Music:
Michael Wandmacher
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Cast:
Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Jerry O'Connell, Ving Rhames, Jessica Szohr, Steven R. McQueen
With Christopher Lloyd
And Richard Dreyfuss
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Lake Victoria... Arizona...
Spring Break.
Piranhas escape from their underwater chasm due to an Earthquake... and unleash hell on the Spring-Breakers.
Standing, or swimming in their way, are Sheriff Forester, her Son Jake, a geologist called Novak, and a lot of p*rnographic actors.
Oh, and Ving Rhames too.
That's all there is really.
---
Review:
Pure gross-out comedy... that borders simply gross-out.
Not a movie for a weaker stomach...
We're treated to blood, gore, swearing and boobies from beginning to end.
A very simple plot, on par with the recent Statham "Meg" movies, in that something happens, releases pre-history killing machines, and everyone is ripped to pieces.
Piranha 3D, or 2D depending on the format you're watching, has all the action of a Lake Placid and Deep Blue Sea style movie, crossed with the blood, gore, sheer nudity and gratuitous violence that has been missing since the B-Movies of the 1980s.
But then again, even the 80s weren't this gratuitous with the nudity without being slapped with a "video nasty" label.
The acting is decent with the subject matter.
We have Elisabeth Shue as our Sheriff, Steven R McQueen as her son (who plays the main role)... Jessica Szohr as McQueen's teeny-bopper love interest...
Adam Scott as the geologist who's a bit of a love interest for Shue...
Our main guy with McQueen is a solid lead in what is essentially a splatter movie.
He plays the disinterested teen, to becoming a concerned and arc-driven main-man... and inside what is a movie filled with boobs,*ss, loud music, and gore, he plays it very, very well.
And... Jerry O'Connell as a p*rnogprapher who's intent on shooting videos of boobies, regardless of what's going on around him.
O'Connell is absolutely standout as well... as he seems to switch between loveable boob-lover, to absolute *sshole, to total predator in the blink of an eye.
The CGI is ok... the CGI fish/piranhas look good... and there's a TON of practical blood and gore throughout...
Some of which might churn the stomach of someone who's not up on the gore and blood of 70s and 80s movies.
And, though a couple of the practical effects are a little dodgy, the makeup effects are top notch, including using actors and actresses who are genuine paraplegics.
Yeah, I did say the gore was realistic.
The music is also tops... but some of it reminded me of Deep Blue Sea... that 90s shark movie... it works though, but the movie is more about the Spring-Break source music than the soundtrack.
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All in All...
Not for everyone.
Lots of gore, nudity, and gratuitous in every sense.
If you like 80s style squibs, with RoboCop style body-horror and gorefests... combined with blood, screaming and, gratuitous nudity and boobies... I'll recommend it...
If not, it's not for you...
Basically, think a more naked, gory and sweary version of Tremors
I gotta 50/50 this one... even though I think I actually love it myself...
Not for everyone... but for a gory Spring-Break horror, and lots of boobies, give it a pop...

My Rating: 68%
All in All...
Not for everyone.
Lots of gore, nudity, and gratuitous in every sense.
If you like 80s style squibs, with RoboCop style body-horror and gorefests... combined with blood, screaming and, gratuitous nudity and boobies... I'll recommend it...
If not, it's not for you...
Basically, think a more naked, gory and sweary version of Tremors

I gotta 50/50 this one... even though I think I actually love it myself...
Not for everyone... but for a gory Spring-Break horror, and lots of boobies, give it a pop...

My Rating: 68%