Piranha 3D (2010)

Just perfect...

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Absolutely amazing

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

NOTHING like the original Piranha from 1978 where at least the soundtrack and suspense were tolerable. An updated version for the NEW AGE crowd. New Age music crowds the soundtrack and this film is NOT FOR KIDS. The plot was dumb as could be. A underwater tremor causes a shift in a lake and breaks apart the rock base unleashing thought to be extinct pre historic Piranha. This happens of course during Spring Break where Booze, Boobs and Dumb young adults frolic. There really was absolute NO horror in this film, more comedy I would gather. A lot of blood and half ripped open men and women splash in the water while the fish attack. My highlight and part of the only reason I tolerated this mess was Elisabeth Shue and Ving Rhames, both of which I like.If and a strong IF your bored on a sunday afternoon this will help you fall asleep. 4 out of 10

I get it. This film might not be for everybody, but that's the point! This film pokes fun at the horror classics such as the JAWS series. The whole point of this movie is that it tries to be weird and cheesy on purpose and that if you go into it with that mindset you will have a great time. The story starts off when a teenage boy wants to work with this weird film producer who wants to produce some suggestive material. Anyways this boy's stupidity gets to him and he basically ends up leaving his annoying little brother and sister on their own. Little does he know that the waters they are filming on are infested with killer Piranha's and an extinct species of Piranha at that! Christopher Lloyd who played Doc.Brown in the Back to the Future series stars in this film as a scientist which was an amazing touch. Just seeing him in this film brought a smile to my face. Getting back to the point the Piranhas keep breeding and end up smelling the scent of swimmers and they end up eating them in gruesome ways. Some of these scenes while being cheesy really did freak me out which is what a horror movie is made to do. At the end the boy and (most of his friends) are saved, but they end up finding out that there is a massive Mother Piranha which is breeding the smaller Piranhas. The story while being quirky and strongly reminding me of an 80's horror film was interesting and there was not a single dull moment. The visuals for the most part were decent. The one pet peeve I have is that the movie tries to be way too edgy by showing lots of suggestive imagery and featuring loud hip-hop music. I personally thought that was jammed into the movie and that the film could live without it. There were some bad CGI effects in the beginning, but for the most part I thought the Piranhas looked extremely cool and gave the film much needed charm. Those bulging red eyes, scaly skin, and sharp fangs made these creatures goofy yet spooky at the same time. The music was not that great for a film of this type to be honest. 80's pop music or 70's disco would have done this retro style story justice! The acting was okay. It was no Blade Runner,Jaws or Empire Strikes Back in terms of acting, but most people would not notice the cheesy sequences. Overall I really enjoyed this movie and would recommend it to any horror or comedy fan. It is a movie that one might hate and one might love! You will have to watch it and decide for yourself. I have a feeling this will go down as a cult classic (:

This film is a rather cheesy film, but sometimes a bit of cheese is a good thing. In fact, I enjoy cheese so to a point I enjoyed this film. It had some great gore in it and it was just a mindless movie where you shut off your brain and enjoy an hour and a half distraction. The film was a modest hit, making its budget back in the states and making an additional 55 million with its worldwide gross, but not a super hit by any stretch of the imagination. The story has a earthquake that unleashes an underwater cavern where there are apparently thousands upon thousands of flesh eating piranha residing. One would think that if these fish were living in an isolated cavern where food was not plentiful they would evolve needing less food, but like I said it is mindless fun as they come out hungry and their victims? A bunch of annoying teen spring breakers, so you are going to enjoy watching them get killed. A teen whose mom is a sheriff goes with this guy shooting a girls gone wild type video (why the heck were those things popular?) and we meet a few people before the fish go on their super kill spree!The film features quite a number of actors such as Richard Dreyfuss who gets credited and I never really noticed him, then figured out he was the fisherman at the beginning of the film. Then there is Christopher Lloyd who was not listed in the credits, but who is in the film a lot more than Dreyfuss. Ving Rhames also plays a role in this one and there are a couple of others of note. They seem to be just having fun with this one and as I said, just don't take it too seriously and it is enjoyable enough. Nothing great, but I could think of worse movies to waste and hour and a half with. The gore effects in places are great and the film leaves off clearly with a sequel in mind. Just one question, how did those two chicks stay underwater for so long without drowning?

Had potential, but ends up as another common-or-garden creature-horror movie. Plot is predictable and formulaic - pretty much Jaws In A Lake, and a b-grade attempt at that. Direction is paint-by-numbers. Most amazingly for a 3-D movie, the CGI isn't that great.Acting is so-so. Elizabeth Shue does her best with a dud script. Steven McQueen is one-dimensional. Jerry O'Connell only ever had one dimension to his acting. Ving Rhames has never had any pretense to be anything more than an action actor, and does that role well here.Jessica Szohr is good in her role, and Kelly Brook (and dozens of other girls) provide the eye candy.Brief cameo from Richard Dreyfuss, in a clear link and homage to Jaws. Christopher Lloyd does one of his usual over-the-top insane performances.Could have been a new and innovative take on a genre, but wasn't.