Piranha 3DD (2012)
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 47
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 41
It strains to up the gore and self-awareness of it predecessor, and -- despite some game celebrity cameos -- the result is a dispiriting echo of 2010's horror-comedy.
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 10
It strains to up the gore and self-awareness of it predecessor, and -- despite some game celebrity cameos -- the result is a dispiriting echo of 2010's horror-comedy.
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Movie Info
After the terror unleashed on Lake Victoria in Piranha 3D, the pre-historic school of blood thirsty piranhas are back. This time, no one is safe from the flesh eating fish as they sink their razor sharp teeth into the visitors of summer's best attraction, The Big Wet Water Park. Christopher Lloyd reprises his role as the eccentric piranha expert with survivor Paul Scheer and a partially devoured Ving Rhames back for more fish frenzy. David Hasselhoff trades in the sandy beaches of "Baywatch" to
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Cast
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Danielle Panabaker
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Matt Bush
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Katrina Bowden
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Jean-Luc Bilodeau
Josh -
David Koechner
Chet -
Chris Zylka
Kyle -
Adrian Martinez
Big Dave -
Paul James Jordan
Travis -
Meagan Tandy
Ashley, Ashley Fallon -
Christopher Lloyd
Mr. Goodman -
Paul Scheer
Andrew -
Gary Busey
Clayton -
Clu Gulager
Mo -
Sierra Fisk
Bethany -
Matthew Lintz
Freckled Boy -
Sylvia Jefferies
Young Mother -
Jenna Hurt
Rochelle -
Rozlyn Papa
Dawn -
Alisa Harris
Hysteric/Stocky Woman -
Stacy Rabon
Fearful Woman -
Nate Panning
Waterpark Patron -
Kathy Sue Holtorf
Bimbo Lifeguard -
Irina Voronina
Kiki -
Mike Regan
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Gary J. Tunnicliffe
Puppeteer -
Ving Rhames
Deputy Fallon -
David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff -
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All Critics (47) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (41) | DVD (2)
Tacky and intermittently entertaining is all"Piranha 3DD"sets out to be, and that is all this playfully graphic horror-comedy sequel accomplishes.
Top CriticThe first half of the film merely treads water in anticipation for the eventual bloodbath, and once the teeth start gnawing, it's just one laborious machination after another to get to the end of the movie, which stops without much of a resolution.
With most of the running time devoted to setting up and over-explaining the premise, mayhem gets short shrift.
The director, John Gulager, has no idea how to mix his ingredients to create a savvy self-parody.
It's not outrageous enough to warrant a you-gotta-see-this-to-believe-it screening, and the gore is nothing that gore fans haven't seen a hundred times before.
The outrageousness feels calculated and even desperate, with a final ten minutes packed with beheadings in the hopes that audiences will forget how lackluster the previous 73 minutes were.
This brainless and soulless throwback to exploitation cinema occasionally entertains but mostly just makes you root for carnivorous fish to do away with everyone involved.
An absolutely awful sequel that flushes any potential this franchise might have otherwise had.
'Piranha 3DD' will have you wanting to throw in "Jaws" just to wash off its stench and get the last remaining bloodthirsty and carnivorous fish out of your brain.
More fun than Piranha 3D, the original remake (if that's a thing), because it is more ridiculous.
This sequel puts such little effort into the same basic setup that it's barely even a movie.
A carnival hustle that even The Hoff should be ashamed of.
While the previous Piranha movie had just the right blend of silliness, exploitation, and fun, Piranha 3DD seems totally lost. It comes across as forced, ugly, offensive, and lazy.
Blood and guts are splashed around the frame, yet what's missing here is directorial authority, with Gulager a lousy gore zone conductor incapable of building momentum with easy lay-up horror elements.
Witless, technically slipshod, and neither remotely scary nor titillating, it pretty much fails on all levels.
...boasts a roster of hopelessly forgettable central characters and, for the most part, lurches from one poorly-conceived set-piece to the next.
Low-budget, softcore - destined to make a quick detour to DVD so sneaky, testosterone-propelled teens can easily subvert the R-rating.
Piranha 3DD is a shining example of a movie so bad that it's awful.
Takes the fun out of ravenous piranhas chomping down on naked women...
With its too-short runtime, sloppy sense of plotting, and poor CGI, Piranha 3DD feels like a cheap-o, direct-to-DVD sequel that somehow got a more prominent summer release.
Though its title suggests new heights of outlandish comic gore (and bust sizes), Piranha 3DD feels awfully small in comparison with its predecessors.
Gulager ... mostly seems to be trying to see how much he can degrade the old Jaws formula and still have it interpreted as parody rather than apathy.
Piranha 3D was ridiculous, gory and fun, everything Piranha 3DD is not.
Audience Reviews for Piranha 3DD
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- Mr. Goodman: These piranhas spent eons in underground lakes and rivers.
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- Maddy: We need your expertise Mr. Goodman.
- Mr. Goodman: Why?
- Maddy: We think they're back...
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- Shelby: Josh cut off his penis because something came out of my vagina!
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- Mr. Goodman: The piranhas could become confused. Then try to enter man made draining systems.
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- Deputy Fallon: Bring me my legs.
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