Another 3D disappointment, but a solid horror movie nonetheless. Note that this movie should actually be listed as Whorror, as titties get as much screen time as the killer fish.

Rant time.


More big piranhas and more 3D could have made this a classic. As it stands, I'd recommend waiting for blu-ray.

If you could try spoilers next time, It hasn't been out a full day yet

Read the description for this section, especially the word in all caps.

I agree. I like to read users thoughts on movies without having things spoiled. It's nice when people are courteous enough to post spoiler warnings, even if in the description of this section it says spoilers are allowed.

yeah, only hours when the fool saw it.

Nevermind, do what you want. I guess I just need to accept how much the forum has changed from its prime.

I don't have a problem with people posting spoilers. But its courteous and a simple click of the mouse and different talking about a film thats been out for 10 years than 10 minutes. And I've been here since the beginning as well. People hate spoilers on here back in 04 as well.

I thought it was very entertaining. I really cared about the characters (well, the family and the boy's love interest) and thought it was really intense. From the big piranha attack in the middle of the movie, it just never stops. Awesome flick.

8/10 (B+)

3D wasn't utilized very well (I thought MBV3D did it justice), but it's VERY entertaining and pretty much delivers as a corny, ridiculous, naked-lady filled horror flick.

My bad. I guess it's kinda hypocritical to spoil a movie while complaining about the very same movie being spoiled to you.

Eh, as far as I am concerned, the policy for this forum is still SPOILERS ARE ALLOWED.

Now if someone decides to hide spoilers that's fine of course. But if someone doesn't, they are not doing anything wrong.

Great fun! The 3D was practically useless, but the film itself was brill. Loved the pacing and the build, the cast were uniformly exellent, the jaws references were spot on... I was especially surprised that Kelly Brook survived as long as she did (and that she had such a huge role to begin with).

Either way, B+

Absolutely ridiculous, over the top and poorly acted.


And epic. Sorta like Final Destination on a lake with fishies instead of a malevolent evil. And tbh, I actually liked Kelly Brook's slut bitch porn star character Danni. I hated the main chick. What an annoying skank. Kelly Brook was sorta fun, nice and I wanted her to survive over the Gawsip Gurl bitch. Oh well.

out of

Piranha 3D is gory as all hell, but sadly lacking in any tension. Seeing a crowd of people getting slaughtered is not very compelling when you don't know or care about any of them. The climactic rescue was equally dramatic inert - it takes the sheriff about ten seconds to get to the sinking boat. From there, the rules the movie was operating on go out the window. How are these insatiable eating machines distracted for ten minutes by a half-eaten carcass? And as Korrgan pointed out, that trapped girl was way too unlikable for me to care about whether her dumb ass gets rescued or not.

If all you're looking for is gore and T&A, this movie delivers. But if you don't feel like watching a soft-core porno, it takes an awful long time for the mayhem. And once it comes, it was a lot ickier and less fun than I was expecting.

Wasnt that the whole point like the Friday the 13th movies? Kill off the annoying characters in order for the audience to fill their bloodlust. I mean Ving Rhames character never got a gory death scene because he was one of the heroes of the movie. Compare that to Jerry O'Connell's smut director character where he gets one of the most hilarious death scene. He seems to play the most annoying characters in almost every single one of his movies

Every now and then I discover things about my own limits.

For instance, I always thought I was a pretty tolerant guy, but when I went to an 18-30 campsite I found the point where I become a social snob.

I can't stand wannabe coinosseurs who turns their noses up at good, tasty junk food, but when I discovered Baconnaise ("Because everything should taste of bacon!"), I found the point where I become a food critic.

I think Piranha 3D is the point where I become a feminist.

I'm perfectly capable of enjoying a bit of flesh in a movie, but I think there's a point where the portrayal becomes so gratuitous and puerile that it almost becomes spiteful. I kind of feel that the movie is disrespectful to boobies. It holds them up as objects of derision rather than attraction. On other occasions, I've laughed at and enjoyed puerile stuff that other people would find offensive so I suppose we all have different limits.

The one thing I found worse than the objectification of woman was the brief ridiculous moment where the main character is looking at a website on his PC and the stuff on the monitor is also 3D. That's one awesome monitor. He wasn't even wearing glasses.

I found the Spring Break attendees so repulsive that when they were refusing to get out of the water, I started rooting for the piranhas to turn up and just eat the crap out of all of them. And the one positive thing I'll say about the film is that some of the gore was so imaginative and well done that I actually felt a bit bad about having willed it to happen. Like, "Oh my god... what have I become?!" But equally, some of the gore was godawful.

From the massacre onwards it was exciting and fun, but I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it wasn't for the crude streak that dominated the opening act.

Also, the main female character spent too much time gurning unattractively and being annoying.

C+.

Now this is old school!

This is a b-movie done right - - good clean exploitation through and through - - it's especially nice to see the return of our old friends, the B Bies!!!

The gore was also done just right, with a gradual build punctuated by gleefully over the top sequences that would then go on to top themselves!

The 3D, as usual, was superfluous. Though the producers were kind enough to throw in a couple of wild tech demo grade sequences, such as that delightful pair of naked women swimming underwater reverie... But I would have much preferred 2D for the overall quality boost. I would have paid more for Piranha in IMAX 3D and if that were not available, I would have also paid more for 2D too.

Not quite up to Slither, the recent high water mark for this type of creature feature, Piranha is in the upper pantheon...


42 out of 5

QFT Yow!

You know, sometimes a lot of nudity annoys me and comes off as ugly and misogynistic, like with Hostel and Zombie's Halloween, but for me it all depends on the tone. Sometimes it just feels disgusting and dirty. In Piranha, which probably has more boobs than either of those (maybe, possibly not), it didn't bother me one iota. Here, it was all in good, over-the-top fun, so I really had no problem with it. Plus, it's Spring Break, people get naked for this occasion . And this is coming from a gay guy . So if I say it's ok it must be. LOL

If all Goktor posts are similar to this I really must take it upon myself to start reading them, despite their considerable length.

It didn't help that the vast majority of deaths the film focused on were women. When Jerry O'Connell and that blond girl are in the water, they leave him untouched while she gets eviscerated (he gets chewed on off-screen). Maybe I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't been with mixed company, but this felt much more misogynistic than Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World.

I agree. The nudity in this wasn't half as bad as I have heard. I was actually surprised, I've heard it was close to porno territory... It was nowhere near it. On the other hand, this had way more nudity than HALLOWEEN. I only remember two scenes of nudity in that.

LOL! That's exactly what I was expecting! I was so disappointed when it didn't happen. That's what she'd get for going topless like a cheap ho . I hear 10-15 minutes had to be cut from the movie though. I wonder if something like that did happen but had to be cut.