Piranha 3-D (2010)

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• John M

  
  So much fun and gore I couldnt stop waiting for more!! Oh thats a rhyme lol. A great cast having a lot of fun with a movie so over the top campy yet horrific. What an ending too lol

• Everett J

  
  Growing up in my household you gotta love good ole fashion campy horror movies. My parents are constantly renting movies like "Frankenfish" or "Eyes in the Woods". I always make fun of them, but I secretly love those type of movies too. Especially ones that go… More
  Growing up in my household you gotta love good ole fashion campy horror movies. My parents are constantly renting movies like "Frankenfish" or "Eyes in the Woods". I always make fun of them, but I secretly love those type of movies too. Especially ones that go so over the top it's insane like "Piranha 3-D"(I didn't watch this in 3d, but hopefully will get the 3d blu ray sometime). Long story short, this is about some prehistoric man eating piranhas that have come up from a lake, under the lake, to terrorize a city that is celebrating spring break. Lots and lots of blood, gore, nudity, and male anatomy parts being eating. This is not for the weak of heart or a person with high standing morals. Campy to the max, with good over the top performances to boot. Elizabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Ving Rhames, and Richard Dreyfuss are all here and help make this movie that much more fun. Great movie for lots of laughs and moments of "holy crap!"

• E.J. B

  
  Piranha 3D is all kinds of stupid. Right from the opening sequence, the audience watches Richard Dreyfuss - yes, Richard Dreyfuss is in Piranha - reprise his roll from Jaws thirty years older. He may have been able to fight off a great white shark, but he's no match for a pack of… More
  Piranha 3D is all kinds of stupid. Right from the opening sequence, the audience watches Richard Dreyfuss - yes, Richard Dreyfuss is in Piranha - reprise his roll from Jaws thirty years older. He may have been able to fight off a great white shark, but he's no match for a pack of blood crazy piranhas as poor Hooper gets eaten alive. Then the film turns into a gleefully bright Playboy video as all kinds of young teens bare all at a spring break beach party right before the piranhas decide to attack them. Literally, this movie is all sex and gore. But as the opening sequence shows, Piranha 3D is meant to be taken as big, dumb, stupid fun. It's completely tongue-in-cheek, and the more it revels in its sheer silliness, the more fun the audience has. They even got Christopher Lloyd to reprise his role as Doc from Back to the Future, playing a crazed marine biologist who tells the characters all they need to know about these types of piranhas. As with all teen horror movies, sex and death go hand in hand. The hornier the teens, the greater their punishment and likely graphic death. And since everyone in this movie is pretty damn horny, guess how many people are going to get eaten. Of course, our main teenager leads are still relatively pure, so they will just be placed in life-threatening situations, but they won't fall victim. Alexandre Aja directs, and Piranha 3D just may be the first movie of his that I actually enjoyed. He understands the film he wants to make and he really wants to pay homage to the exploitation horror films of the 1980s. He knows what works in those movies and he doesn't try to make a serious minded film here. This is Jaws gone wild and silly. However, just because this movie isn't to be taken seriously does not mean that it isn't well made. The photography is absolutely gorgeous. The scenery is given that "beach shine" where there isn't a cloud in the sky, the sun gleans off the actors' golden bodies, and the colours are lush and vibrant. The underwater footage is also absolutely incredible. Even the actors recite the B-movie dialogue in an A-list way. Piranha 3D is definitely not for everyone. It has it's core audience and it's catering to the demands of only that core audience. But Aja and company know what they're doing and they do it with pride.

• Directors C

  
  Firstly, I will gladly admit that I enjoy creature features. And a lot of people disliked a similar film called Snakes on a Plane which I thought was thrilling and claustrophobic. Piranha 3D is slightly better than it. Believe it or not, it's more sophisticated (even though its a… More
  Firstly, I will gladly admit that I enjoy creature features. And a lot of people disliked a similar film called Snakes on a Plane which I thought was thrilling and claustrophobic. Piranha 3D is slightly better than it. Believe it or not, it's more sophisticated (even though its a sexploitation film with deadly fish bent on tearing people to shreds). Overall it can be easily enjoyed by anyone who is a fan of gory horror, black comedy or total thrills. The comedy side to Piranha I think was inserted deliberately, as Snakes on a Plane was laughable rather than scary like it was intended. It also has an absolutely bitchin soundtrack and the stylish effects are amazing. Whether you see it in 3D or not, I am almost certain you will finish it feeling guilty pleasure happy.

• Dead A

  
  When they say blood and boobs - they mean it! This movie is uberly boobieful -_-

• Frank P

  
  Alright, let me be perfectly blunt and clear with this one. If you compare it to other films today, with story, character development,and sh*t that actually makes sense..it sucks, but it's not meant to be that. It's basically meant to be made in a cheesy 50's or… More
  Alright, let me be perfectly blunt and clear with this one. If you compare it to other films today, with story, character development,and sh*t that actually makes sense..it sucks, but it's not meant to be that. It's basically meant to be made in a cheesy 50's or 60's B-movie, and it does a really good job of doing that. It pretty much has no story what-so-ever, (like any 50's or early 60's movie along the lines of campy action)but what it does have is gore, and campy humor(oh yeah, and lots of tit-shots) The basic premise is that Piranhas are attacking....that's about it. It makes no sense, and you can expect that from the entire movie. The other thing you can expect is the gore, in one particular scene a woman gets her face ripped off by a motorboat blade, the gore is awesome. The other thing this movie has going for it is the 3D effects, the movie is actually made FOR 3D, so it incorporates camera angles that actually COMPLIMENT the 3D, so you don't feel like you just paid ten dollars extra just to watch a bunch of blurry crap like those other awful, unnecessary 3D movies(by which I mean every freaking movie made today).Sure, many people may call this film "vulgar" and "immature", you know what I have to say to those people? Did you just forget how to have fun or something? Seriously, every single negative review about this movie can just be replaced with "nanannanananaaaaan", just bitching and moaning about the excessive gore and cheesy dialog without any story or substance to back it up. Oh really, because from a film called Piranha 3D, where the trailer shows Doc Brown ranting about a prehistoric species of Piranha, and a cliche, bad-ass black sheriff using a fucking auto-axe to cut hundreds of Piranhas in half would've had a beautifully crafted story and a very sentimental and emotionally satisfying ending. Get over yourselves guys. You're obviously not a very good movie critic if you can't figure out that the dialog is SUPPOSED to be cheesy, and it's SUPPOSED to be nothing but gore, and it's not SUPPOSED to make any sense at all, it's meant to be that way, it makes fun of itself. If you like story structure, interesting characters, and a well written script, go watch Forest Gump, because this movie has none of that; but if you want gore, crazy action, and campy humor, then look no further my friends!

• Spencer S

  
  Exploitation, pure and simple. This film was only made by the esteemed Dimension, to cultivate the already questionable art of spoof without the usual parameters of either being funny or scary. Yes, there is a lot of stock in producing films that make fun of, or in the case of this… More
  Exploitation, pure and simple. This film was only made by the esteemed Dimension, to cultivate the already questionable art of spoof without the usual parameters of either being funny or scary. Yes, there is a lot of stock in producing films that make fun of, or in the case of this film, mimic, bad horror movies. Still, this doesn't even begin to do that justice. Piranha is one long trek through the land of boobs, blood, and a really bad screenplay. Listening to the insanely grotesque dialogue and watching the utter monotony of Spring Break antics only irks me. I can't see any merit or hilarity, or just good old fashioned sexual advantage in any of this. There is an entire scene consisting of two naked women swimming around each other, and it's not explained. Oh sure, these kind of scenes would look pretty good in 3D (if you get a chance to watch in that format) but for all of us who aren't at an advantage to see this in the way it's intended, it comes off cheesy. Worse, it makes no sense, which can drive anyone crazy. I do give credit where it's due to the makeup on this movie. The victims of the attacks are all shown in very detailed, very gruesome ways, and though not entertaining per se, it is interesting and engrossing to say the least. Of course, the actual attacks are generated in really awfully amateur fashion. Plus, we're only given a snippet of this movie to deal with the buildup to something big. It holds a lot of detailed scenes, but at an hour and a half, it cuts off any climax it could have had and ends with a cliffhanger, only alienating the audience. Always good to see Elisabeth Shue and Adam Scott in films though, even when their roles are supportive like this venture.

• Cynthia S

  
  74% of the critics liked this movie?? Really?? Unbelievable...

• Brad W

  
  I enjoyes Piranha 3D very much. It truly brings back the great tense cheesy monster movies that we know and love. It has naked chicks, and pathetic plot, and was cheesy, and thats all I wanted. I will admit the acting sucked too much, and it was maybe too cheesy. But Piranha 3D… More
  I enjoyes Piranha 3D very much. It truly brings back the great tense cheesy monster movies that we know and love. It has naked chicks, and pathetic plot, and was cheesy, and thats all I wanted. I will admit the acting sucked too much, and it was maybe too cheesy. But Piranha 3D brings us back tothe days of cheesy monster movies we love, even if it wasn't amazing.

• Mike S

  
  Blood, gore and hot girls in bikinis! Indeed this has all the ingredients one would expect out of a B-movie. What I didn't anticipate though, was that it's actually pretty good. The special effects are first-rate and they sure didn't go cheap on the gore. In fact,… More
  Blood, gore and hot girls in bikinis! Indeed this has all the ingredients one would expect out of a B-movie. What I didn't anticipate though, was that it's actually pretty good. The special effects are first-rate and they sure didn't go cheap on the gore. In fact, it's got some of the most realistic-looking effects I've ever seen in a horror movie. Why I still don't give it higher than 3-star rating is due to the following issues: 1. Jerry O'Connell's overacting, 2. Christopher Lloyd and Richard Dreyfuss only getting a few minutes each of screen time. And 3. the bad dialogue. But then again, who watches these type of movies for the conversations between the characters? It's like saying you saw Baywatch for its rich and complex storylines.

• Dean !

  
  Only watched the 3D version on DVD so far. Not sure how many people have seen the 3D DVD version, some scenes look good and you can tell it was made and shot to be a 3D film. Some scenes looked more like a hologram though. I have to add the colours seemed a bit out at times… More
  Only watched the 3D version on DVD so far. Not sure how many people have seen the 3D DVD version, some scenes look good and you can tell it was made and shot to be a 3D film. Some scenes looked more like a hologram though. I have to add the colours seemed a bit out at times to.....barely noticed the blood which there is tons of!? Will watch again in 2D soon. Otherwise it's a fun, very bloody, gory creature feature with some good SFX, plenty of hot girls including Kelly Brook, good soundtrack, some tongue in cheek humour and a decent cast! It's a little short at 78mins and the climax of the film wasn't exactly epic....however there should be a sequel out later this year!! If you like cool films that know their target audience, you'll enjoy this!

• Coxxie M

  
  Jerry O'Connell is very convincing as a chauvinist prick. Riley Steele takes some time off from doing porn to pursue more serious work. in this film, she plays a scuba-diving porn actress. Eli Roth gets what he deserves. Steven R. McQueen looks strikingly unlike Steve McQueen.… More
  Jerry O'Connell is very convincing as a chauvinist prick. Riley Steele takes some time off from doing porn to pursue more serious work. in this film, she plays a scuba-diving porn actress. Eli Roth gets what he deserves. Steven R. McQueen looks strikingly unlike Steve McQueen. Adam Scott plays a tan stud with a mysterious past who likes to drive jet-skis real fast and shoot fish with his badass 'sawed-off'. Elisabeth Shue looks slightly more like a grocery bag each year. Christopher Lloyd never came back from the future. Ving Rhames gets medieval on some fish. nameless actors dance all hot and shit livin' it up for spring break and then get bitten.

• Curtis L

  
  The cast they got for this was incredible. The massacre scene was one of the coolest horror scenes ever. It must have taken a lot of work. A great blend of comedy and horror. Not perfect, especially because they try some lame stuff and never do what is smart, but a great film.

• Nate Z

  
  Truly missing out on seeing Piranha (as its home release now calls it) in 3-D will be one of my life's greatest disappointments. This boobs-and-blood-soaked ode to 80s exploitation horror has its tongue firmly clenched in cheek. This is a gleeful gorefest that plays many of its… More
  Truly missing out on seeing Piranha (as its home release now calls it) in 3-D will be one of my life's greatest disappointments. This boobs-and-blood-soaked ode to 80s exploitation horror has its tongue firmly clenched in cheek. This is a gleeful gorefest that plays many of its absurd elements for laughs while squeezing in gratuitous nudity at every turn. There's an underwater lesbian synchronized swimming sequence that I'm utterly certain would have been the greatest thing to witness in the third dimension. Regardless, this Jaws rip-off (Richard Dreyfuss even shows up in the opening dressed identically to his character and named "Matt"!) plays like an ironic parody of the genre while still satiating its red meat-hungry target audience of teenage boys. To this point, it succeeds admirably. It is crass beyond belief and delivers exactly what it promises. Watching actors like Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Christopher Lloyd, and Jerry O'Connell ham it up alongside some fairly cheesy special effects critters, you never feel the waft of desperation. The movie ends too abruptly for my tastes, leaving too much open and unresolved for presumable sequels. As my friend Eric said: "We watched a 3D movie in 2D that was really 1D." While the movie is entirely one-dimensional in scope, that lone dimension is a blast. I know where I'm going to be when the rumored Piranha sequel is released. And this time, I'm seeing the campy carnage in 3D. Nate's Grade: B

• Drew S

  
  Piranha 3D's moderate box office success signifies more than anything, to me, that exploitation films are once again making headway in the commercial movie industry. This isn't, by any stretch of the imagination, a good thing. Sure, the success of Saw and Hostel may have… More
  Piranha 3D's moderate box office success signifies more than anything, to me, that exploitation films are once again making headway in the commercial movie industry. This isn't, by any stretch of the imagination, a good thing. Sure, the success of Saw and Hostel may have presaged this by several years, but those films had pretense - they wanted to act as conventional horror movies, with PLOTS no less. Piranha 3D is so self-aware and unabashedly upfront about its intentions that its shamelessness is really not flattering in any way. Films that place absolute priority on violence and boobs have their place, but they're often best served by a slow, steady build of traction, not a multi-million dollar marketing push and wide release. Mainstream studio support for a film like this reads cynically; in both incorporating these elements of excess and evincing a tongue-in-cheek attitude about them, Dimension Films and the Weinsteins are trying to have their cake and eat it too. They essentially ask us if we're idiots, and if we're able to answer no, they try to appease us with boobs and violence...presented IRONICALLY. Basically, this is fake grindhouse, and as Grindhouse taught us a few years back, even the most fun film can only get so far on dishonest artistic principles. "Neo-grindhouse" is just too generous of a phrase when these films have budgets in the tens of millions. To its credit, Piranha 3D is plenty of fun. It's short and punchy and has moments of disarming cleverness. Very little of the character work is memorable, short of a so-bad-it's-awful supporting performance by Jerry O'Connell, but where Alexandre Aja really succeeds is his depiction of grand-scale violence. This ain't much pumpkin as a horror, but it's a hell of a disaster film, and the gore is definitely gnarly enough to hang with the exploitation crowd. There's a disappointing tendency of the film to play its cards close to the chest, sticking to cliche under the umbrella of homage with very little actual payoff. Sure, you can cast Christopher Lloyd as your crackpot fish scientist, but does that really make his exposition any more interesting? Maybe in another film, but not here. It's sort of a minor bump as you're actually watching Piranha 3D, like many of its other problems are, but even though it goes down smoothly it doesn't sit all that well. It's worth the time, but I think it's another unfortunate casualty for a mature understanding of what makes a "cult" film cult.

• Adam M

  
  Has the conflicted-party-boy sensibility of Cabin Fever, the same ratio of comedy to horror, and the same rush to mayhem that occurs when people don't stop and think together, to keep a bad situation from devolving into chaos. I get the idea that Aja has taken notes from Eli Roth… More
  Has the conflicted-party-boy sensibility of Cabin Fever, the same ratio of comedy to horror, and the same rush to mayhem that occurs when people don't stop and think together, to keep a bad situation from devolving into chaos. I get the idea that Aja has taken notes from Eli Roth (who cameos here) on how to speak naturally about a small slice of America, in this case the exotically superficial rites of Spring Break. But there's no subtext of solidarity, distrust and betrayal that has made for the underlying horror in conflicted-party-boy Eli Roth's three movies. The subtext here is all about party guilt. Piranha 3D is not afraid of alienating the audience by putting their surrogate drunken oglers through floods of unabated mayhem. Be prepared to see, in broad spanking daylight, nightmare images you've had about parts of your body getting torn like torn like tissue paper or split through like butter. Probably the bloodiest American movie yet. The movie punishes people for too much fixation on shallow beauties, with the prospect that physical beauty will become flecks of fish food and be as enduring as the recipient of a thousand unsuccessful skin grafts. (But P.S. Turning Jaws' Matt Hooper into an mumbling alcoholic wreck just to butcher him wasn't all that funny. Should have killed Harvey Weinstein on that boat.)

• Josh L

  
  Gloriously absurd and over the top. I had an absolute blast watching this movie. It's the worst kind of movie for an average audience because they don't get what it is trying to do or the fact that it isn't supposed to be taken seriously whatsoever. Most people I have… More
  Gloriously absurd and over the top. I had an absolute blast watching this movie. It's the worst kind of movie for an average audience because they don't get what it is trying to do or the fact that it isn't supposed to be taken seriously whatsoever. Most people I have talked to were apalled by this movie, which means it did its job in my book. As a horror aficionado this is the kind of movie I want to see more of... and I can't wait for the sequel!

• Douglas W C

  
  After watching this all I can say is I can't believe I watched this. Very Vulgar in every way possible.

• Jani H

  
  "I'm too old for this." I could start with so many awful things about this movie. So let's have it a go! Alexandre Aja directed a very good French horror thriller back in 2003, called 'Haute Tension'. Because the film received some good word, Aja was… More
  "I'm too old for this." I could start with so many awful things about this movie. So let's have it a go! Alexandre Aja directed a very good French horror thriller back in 2003, called 'Haute Tension'. Because the film received some good word, Aja was offered a chance to make it in Hollywood. Since then, he has directed 'The Hills Have Eyes', 'Mirrors' and now this. All of 'em are remakes! What does that tell of him? The good feelings that I had of him are now gone and the memories of 'Haute Tension' are bye bye... Peter Goldfinger. Yep, that's the name of one of the writers. Unlike King Midas (a king from way back in Greek mythology), his touch doesn't turn everything in to gold. It turns things in to shit. The script was plain awful. I love movies a lot, you should know that by now, and I'm sure that I could've made a better script when jerking off in a sandbox whilst listening to Mariah Carey. The actors. All I can say that I liked three actors in all. Riley Steele's boobies, Kelly Brook's boobies and Christopher Lloyd. Hence the bonus 1/2 a star. All the rest of the cast can take a good look in the mirror and ask themselves the question: "Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?". Wait, that sounds so very familiar..? How in hell did Aja get Richard Dreyfuss and Elisabeth Shue in this crap?! I guess people do stupid things when in need of some green. The effects are lame. I've seen so much better splatter in so many other movies. Little do we see the flesh eating. When shown, it doesn't even feel disgusting, yucky or whatever the hell you wanna call it. Sad. I thought that this would've been the highlight of this movie but forget it. It doesn't even feel as if I was watching a movie! I can't recall the name of the MTV series that had people dancing to awful techno and dance music (Long Live the Metal!!) but this movie felt like a movie remake of that shit. I got bored, I couldn't give a fuck about the stupid people, not even the children. Hell, it would've been something cool and new if we would've witnessed a kid getting eaten by some fishies. That's horror! But no. No. No. Skip it away now and eat a sandwich instead. With low fat mayo.

• Steve K

  
  Boobs and blood. That's it. Giddily over the top and without a shred of concern for story or characters. May have worked better in 3D. Someone get Dreyfuss some work.

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