Review of Piranha 3D (2010) by Dustin D — 30 Dec 2018
Piranha is basically a campy Jaws remake with piranhas. As a fan of the defunct exploitation movie genre, I appreciate the gratuitous violence and nudity in this. (The exploitation/grindhouse genre died off once mainstream movies began showing the same amounts of violence and nudity with better production value.
) Piranha shouts out to Jaws several times--Richard Dreyfus makes a cameo, the police close down the beach on the most popular tourist day of the year, there's a similar dolly zoom, and the fish get blown up with a gas tank.
I'm sure there are other references that got past me. Beautiful party people get devoured alive in punishment for leading unexamined lives. It is over-the-top and funny, with corny 3-D reminiscent of the early days of the technology, but is ultimately "dumb fun.
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This review of Piranha 3D (2010) was written by Dustin D on 30 December 2018.
Piranha 3D has generally received mixed reviews.
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