Piranha
After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.
13 July 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 November 1979, Rochester, Kent, England, UK
8 December 1973, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
6 October 1963, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
August 26, 2015
Unapologetically gleeful about doling out the cinematic junk food that you're looking for when you sit down to devour something called, well, Piranha.
September 15, 2013
Filled with recognisable faces, packed with excessive blood and gore and jokes as corny as they are hilarious, Piranha 3D is, if nothing else, the most honest and unpretentious piece of filmmaking of 2010.
August 26, 2010
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?
September 23, 2012
I understand what the filmmakers were trying to do and they almost pulled it off, but there's no sense in making the audience slog through a dreary 40+ minutes before the fun actually begins.
August 26, 2010
Piranha 3D ends the summer on a note of shamelessly entertaining B movie bottomfeeding.
August 31, 2010
For most of Piranha 3D, Aja skates along the line separating satire/camp from horror without straying into the realm of outright parody.
August 26, 2010
Horny horror-movie revelers tend to deserve what's coming to them, a sentiment French-born director Alexandre Aja embraces with maniacal glee in a third-act massacre that's downright ruthless.
August 26, 2010
This moderately entertaining popcorn thriller recaptures the B-movie spirit of such vintage schlockmeisters as Samuel Z. Arkoff and Roger Corman.
December 09, 2013
The joy of Alexandre Aja's Piranha is that he is accomplishing nothing but a bloody entertaining good time.
March 29, 2011
The best example of the level of art that Piranha 3D aspires to comes when a guy gets his dick chomped off and it gracefully floats down towards you in 3D.
March 29, 2011
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!
January 05, 2013
"Piranha 3D," although cliched, embraces its genre and is a highly-enjoyable fun B-movie.
