Piranha 3-D (2010)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 118
Fresh: 86 | Rotten: 32
Playing exactly to expectations for a movie about killer fish run amok, Piranha 3-D dishes out gore, guffaws and gratuitous nudity with equal glee.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 6
Playing exactly to expectations for a movie about killer fish run amok, Piranha 3-D dishes out gore, guffaws and gratuitous nudity with equal glee.
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After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.
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All Critics (118) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (90) | Rotten (32) | DVD (11)
Piranha 3D is more funny than disgusting, even when screen fills with half-nude swimmers, bobbing like human dumplings in a roiling vat of borscht. This isn't just sick, it's clas-sick!
Top CriticFor most of Piranha 3D, Aja skates along the line separating satire/camp from horror without straying into the realm of outright parody.
If you're looking for signs of intelligent life -- well, did you really expect to find them in a remake of a Seventies B-movie anyway?
This moderately entertaining popcorn thriller recaptures the B-movie spirit of such vintage schlockmeisters as Samuel Z. Arkoff and Roger Corman.
Piranha 3D ends the summer on a note of shamelessly entertaining B movie bottomfeeding.
An awe-inspiring, stomach-churning journey into blood, gore, and boobs directed by one of France's most talented horror auteurs, Alexandre Aja.
"Piranha 3D," although cliched, embraces its genre and is a highly-enjoyable fun B-movie.
I understand what the filmmakers were trying to do and they almost pulled it off, but there's no sense in making the audience slog through a dreary 40+ minutes before the fun actually begins.
The best example of the level of art that Piranha 3D aspires to comes when a guy gets his dick chomped off and it gracefully floats down towards you in 3D.
Hell hath no fury like a school of hungry, teen-eating piranhas!
This action-thriller will eat you alive. Paul Chambers, CNN.
A spectacular checklist of over-the-top, 3D-enhanced death sequences tailor-made for those who always wanted to take an ax to the MTV Beach House.
Aja once again proves that no one understands the aesthetic of ample arterial spray better than the foreign horror geek.
...a mildly watchable B-movie effort that could have (and should have) been so much better.
full review at Movies for the Masses
Fails in being an entertaining satire and a competent horror film...
There?s a dull predictability to the set pieces; when you see a topless para-skier bob in-and-out of the water, it?s inevitable that she?ll rise into the air without any legs.
Piranha 3D gets honestly earned points for the creative energy it sustains in the arena of creatively gory dispatches, non-torture porn division.
Neither gore enthusiasts nor boobie fans will be disappointed. Piranha 3D knows what it is and embraces it, from stupid disobedience to kids in peril to sexy exploitative silliness, with a remarkable level of humor and competence.
Coarse, crass and mind-boggling shameless? Hell, yeah! Alexandre Aja's remake of the Joe Dante/John Sayles' killer-fish movie flies its trash flag high.
...this is one of the few flicks this summer that actually delivered what it promised.
A movie fueled by the wet dreams and rage fantasies of a thousand pubescent boys. Perfectly attuned to its audience -- 3D boobs, gore and dodgy science abound.
Audience Reviews for Piranha 3-D
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"There's Something In The Water"
After seeing Piranha twice now, I still believe to be a great addition to the creature feature genre. It works so well because it is played just right. It appeals to the fan base. It's blood, boobs, and humor. There's nothing scary about this movie, there's nothing great about this movie, and there's nothing overly special about it either. What it is though is a humorous, entertaining, and fun, brisk ride.
When an earthquake occurs under a small towns lake, it opens up a little pathway that allows a bunch of piranha's that were thought to have been extinct for millions of years to come up to the surface. It's perfect timing too because the small town is booming with thousands of college students in for spring break. The sheriff tries to get everyone out of the water, but the drunken college kids aren't going to listen to authority.
What I particularly liked about this movie was that it was presented in a quick way. It didn't overstay its welcome. Coming in at about an hour and twenty-five minutes, it's perfectly paced and perfectly timed. While, it's moving quickly, it pauses for many comedic sequences and for the most part they work. It's never hilarious, but it's often laugh out loud funny, like the last words from the porn director, "Wet t-shirt... wet t-shirt."
Piranha is a movie that has a select, target audience. It's stupid, it's bloody, and it's sexist. Breasts are running wild in this film. So I wouldn't argue with anyone who threw the movie aside as just another brainless, nudity filled creature feature, but you have to admit this is better than most. It's no Jaws or anything, but it's still an above average addition to a rather shitty sub-genre.
Super Reviewer
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- Deputy Fallon: Chew on this motherfuckers! (starts killing the piranha with a boat motor)
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- Mr. Goodman: This is no ordinary piranha! This species of piranha is two million years old!
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- Matt: They took my penis.
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- Novak: There are thousands of them, and they are pissed!
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- Mr. Goodman: The piranha hunt in packs. The first bite draws blood, blood draws the pack.
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