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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!
For 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.
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.
a wickedly effective cinematic union of suspense and irony, topped with an invigorating dash of dry wit
Even if the rest is immediately forgettable, the massacre scene isn't.
Its only saving grace, if the film can really be said to have one, is that the filmmakers were fully aware that they weren't making anything that could be taken seriously.
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