Piranha 3D (2010) – Movie Review

<p>Since we&&num;8217&semi;ve all been there before&comma; you know exactly what happens when you find yourself up really late at night and have nothing better to do&period; Yep&comma; you end up watching some of the oddest movies&period; Well&comma; my latest late night cinema venture was <em>Piranha 3D<&sol;em> &lpar;2010&rpar;&period; I remember when this movie came out&comma; but for some reason never got around to catching it&period; After watching it&comma; I think I may know why I kept putting it off&period; Not that it was bad or anything&comma; it was just more of a comedy that I was in the mood for at the time&period; Come to find out&comma; <em>Piranha 3D<&sol;em> is a loose remake of the film <em>Piranha<&sol;em> &lpar;1978&rpar;&period; Now&comma; if you&&num;8217&semi;ve already seen <em>Piranha 3D<&sol;em> and you&&num;8217&semi;re looking for some more fishy horror&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s a sequel called <em>Piranha 3DD<&sol;em> &lpar;2012&rpar; and it has something to do with a waterpark&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;132211" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-132211" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-132211 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;11&sol;Piranha-3d-still-1-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-132211" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Piranha 3D&comma; The Weinstein Company<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>Piranha<&sol;em> is a comedy&sol;horror&sol;thriller that was directed by Alexandre Aja&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s rated R for violence&comma; language&comma; and nudity&period; For eighty-eight minutes&comma; writers Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg take you on a fish-filled horror that takes place during spring break&period; The story goes a little something like this&period; Lake Victoria&&num;8217&semi;s annual Spring Break is about to kick off&comma; but this year something happens that will make this bash the one to be remembered&period; An underwater tremor lets loose a bunch of prehistoric man-eating fish&period; One by one&comma; the bodies start piling up so it&&num;8217&semi;s up to Sheriff Forester and her deputies to save the Spring Breakers from being eaten alive&period; Aside from the piranha terrorizing the spring breakers&comma; the story also follows the sheriff&&num;8217&semi;s son who took a job showing a film crew around so they can film at some of the local hot spots&period; Of course&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;ll find themselves in some trouble when the piranha come across them&period; A good horror movie wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t have it any other way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The storyline is pretty simple&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ve got your monster &lpar;or piranha&rpar; looking to do a lot of killing and a bunch of people having fun&comma; waiting to be killed&period; Yeah&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a comedy&sol;horror&comma; but most of the humor is pretty low brow and a few times even scraps the bottom of the barrel for the jokes&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re in the right mindset&comma; most of the jokes are pretty funny&period; The dialogue is as simple as the story&period; You get enough to keep the movie moving along and to fill in the spaces between the killings&period; Nothing deep or thought-provoking to worry about with this one&comma; just turn your mind off and enjoy the show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;132208" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-132208" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-132208 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;11&sol;30181909&sol;Piranha-3d-still-3-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-132208" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Piranha 3D&comma; The Weinstein Company<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I thought the playthrough was good and even though I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t really in the mood for a comedy&sol;horror at the time&comma; after a few scenes I was getting into the movie&period; I liked that the movie had a bit of an old-school horror feel to it and I really dug some of the creative Piranha kills&period; Because this one revolves around Spring Breakers and killer fish&comma; there are two things this movie has a bunch of&comma; nudity and gory violence&period; One of my favorite parts&comma; which was a bonus for me because I didn&&num;8217&semi;t know he was in the movie&comma; was watching Eli Roth get taken out&period; Not being a big fan of his&comma; watching him get taken out added a bit of fun to this comedy&sol;horror&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some of the cast is Elisabeth Shue &lpar;<em>Hollow Man<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Steven R&period; McQueen &lpar;<em>The Vampire Diaries<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Jessica Szohr &lpar;<em>Gossip Girl<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Adam Scott &lpar;<em>The Secret Life of Walter Mitty<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Jerry O&&num;8217&semi;Connell &lpar;<em>Stand By Me<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Ving Rhames &lpar;<em>Dawn of the Dead&rpar;<&sol;em>&comma; Kelly Brook &lpar;<em>House of 9<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Riley Steele &lpar;<em>Piranha 3D<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Brooklynn Proulx as Laura Forester &lpar;<em>Brokeback Mountain<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Sage Ryan &lpar;<em>The Protector<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Christopher Lloyd &lpar;<em>Back to the Future<&sol;em>&rpar; and Richard Dreyfuss &lpar;<em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind<&sol;em>&rpar;&period; Sadly&comma; Lloyd and Dreyfuss were quick cameo roles&comma; but it was still awesome seeing them&period; I can&&num;8217&semi;t say the acting was bad really&comma; I think it was more the fault of the script and the cast did the best they could with what they had&period; Even though O&&num;8217&semi;Connell&&num;8217&semi;s character got on my nerves&comma; he plays a great sleazy coked up producer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;132209" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-132209" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"wp-image-132209 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;11&sol;30181858&sol;Piranha-3d-still-2-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-132209" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Piranha 3D&comma; The Weinstein Company<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The special effects turned out better than I was expecting&period; There are some really good scenes where things looked great&comma; but a few that stand out really bad and don&&num;8217&semi;t blend well&period; Just a heads up&comma; this one has a ton of gore from start to finish and there&&num;8217&semi;s a lot of graphic scenes floating around in it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Side note&colon; The budget for the movie was &dollar;24 million and&comma; surprisingly&comma; it brought in &dollar;83&period;1 million&period; So&comma; I can see why they decided to jump on the sequel train and make <em>Piranha 3DD<&sol;em> &lpar;2012&rpar;&period; Unfortunately&comma; the sequel didn&&num;8217&semi;t have the same bite to it as the first movie and only brought in &dollar;8&period;5 million on a &dollar;5 million dollar budget&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Overall&comma; it turned out better than I was expecting and I might even throw it on again when I find myself sleepless and bored&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;