This is a very loose remake of the 1978 tongue in cheek horror spoof by Joe Dante . On the surface it's a film that's probably not all that different than all those B movies that the SyFy channel churn out featuring an underwater fish flavoured menace . Add to this PIRANHA is a film marketed as being in 3D . you think this might be a selling point ? Try and remember JAWS 3D a film so bad it spent many years in this site's 100 worst films list . In other words this film should be a disaster in the making , a film floating through choppy waters destined to hit the rocks and sink without trace and yet against all expectation it doesn't
What makes the film if not a memorable classic then at least disposable entertainment is its unrepentant , knowing sense of mean spirited and cruel sense of humour . The big setpiece is a literally dozens of people getting eaten alive by the eponymous piranha school . Normally when dozens of nameless extras are massacred in a film are cruelly killed it's no laughing matter but PIRANHA isn't that type of film . It's a film that celebrates its own meaness and if you're not laughing out loud at bikini clad bimbos and beach hunks getting eaten alive then you've misunderstood the whole point of the movie. I literally laughed liked a blocked drain
Somewhat surprisingly being made in 3D has done the film no harm . Before the 3D gimmick made an unneeded come back in the last couple of years a film using this technique continually had unnatural distracting camera angles but here watching it on a 2D television I didn't feel irritated by the difference in medium . PIRANHA is also a film that contain crystal clear clarity in its underwater sequences . Okay it's probably computer generated but at least you're able to see what's happening as the on screen carnage takes place . And remember don't be ashamed to laugh when these scenes take place
What makes the film if not a memorable classic then at least disposable entertainment is its unrepentant , knowing sense of mean spirited and cruel sense of humour . The big setpiece is a literally dozens of people getting eaten alive by the eponymous piranha school . Normally when dozens of nameless extras are massacred in a film are cruelly killed it's no laughing matter but PIRANHA isn't that type of film . It's a film that celebrates its own meaness and if you're not laughing out loud at bikini clad bimbos and beach hunks getting eaten alive then you've misunderstood the whole point of the movie. I literally laughed liked a blocked drain
Somewhat surprisingly being made in 3D has done the film no harm . Before the 3D gimmick made an unneeded come back in the last couple of years a film using this technique continually had unnatural distracting camera angles but here watching it on a 2D television I didn't feel irritated by the difference in medium . PIRANHA is also a film that contain crystal clear clarity in its underwater sequences . Okay it's probably computer generated but at least you're able to see what's happening as the on screen carnage takes place . And remember don't be ashamed to laugh when these scenes take place