CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

anterinho82 Worst movie i've ever seen. The only good part is Danielle Panabaker

Michael Ledo Piranha 3DD is the sequel to Piranha 3D and other than the prehistoric origin of the title critters, it is connected through its use of gratuitous nudity, Ving Rhames and Christopher Lloyd. The original story has Richard Dreyfus getting killed in the first scene. In this production we are happy to see it is Gary Busey. In the original feature, porn stars provided most of the topless scenes. In this one they opt to use main stream women. Perhaps the first feature should be called 3DD and this one 3D.This story takes place in Arizona where Maddy (Danielle Panabaker) is dismayed that her stepfather (David Koechner) has changed the water park into an adult water park with topless "certified" strippers acting as lifeguards. Meanwhile the late Gary Busey has released the hideous piranha into the town's lake. So how do we get piranha from the lake into the swimming pools? Christopher Lloyd gives us clues.The movie is a teen sex romp. It has lines which are an adolescent's dream, such as "Let's take off all our clothes and go swimming" and a few I can't repeat. The van scene was interesting if not sacrilegious. There is an intense lake scene with our heroine and one of the weirdest sex scenes since "Teeth." Up to this point I was thinking how much I liked what they did, with some new bits. Then at the climax scene, they made it ridiculous, especially the part with David Koechner.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, full frontal nudity, nudity (Irina Voronina, Cody Kennedy, plus many others)

pcgneurotic In comparison to the 2010 remake starring Elizabeth Shue, this is a very different beast. That film was an earnest effort. For better or for worse, the 2010 Piranha, for all its flaws and moments of greatness, was a reasonably taut, thrilling story. You could play it with Lake Placid and Anaconda, and have a trio of aquatic monster flicks that took themselves reasonably seriously, and were all the better for it.But Piranha 3DD makes a seriously jarring tonal change into frat-boy, gross-out farce. I won't spoil any of the gags here for the sake of making my point, but man, are they ever base. No class at all. This is a YouTube 'funny' pranks video-with-horror that veers from moment to moment between trying to carry on the story of the 2010 remake, and being a 'Haw-haw! Ya spilled yer popcorn ya big dummy!' face-palmer. The surprise-star cameo opener that apes the clever Richard Dreyfus turn in the previous film here becomes a fart joke (literally), and what would have also been a cool David Hasselhoff cameo in the 2010 film is here a long, drawn-out squeezing of many old, old jokes. (The Hoff is still brilliant though). Happily, Christopher Lloyd returns to push the plot forwards a wee bit, and is just as brilliant as he is in everything he does.But perhaps nowhere is the confusing clash of directions in Piranha 3DD more evident than in the casting of Danielle Panabaker -- she's so good in all of her scenes that her very presence gives the lie to the film's real intentions. It's like watching an actor's performance in one film being CGI'd into something else entirely, and one can easily imagine that she was pitched this role as being something totally different to what was actually made around her. Ving Rhames, reprising his part from the previous film, also heavily gives the lie to the whole film, with his character being firmly shoved into the realm of comedy nonsense. And again, for those of you who enjoyed the 2010 Piranha, his characterisation here makes no sense.In short, although Piranha 3DD is billed as a "horror comedy", and although one really shouldn't be surprised by a film that uses a comedy bra size joke in its title, I personally found it to be a huge disappointment as a follow-up to the previous entry in the series, and a film that even in its own right is a confused, rambling mess.

Mileskolehmainen First off, I didn't think the first one was great either (but 3 1/2 stars, sure.) but this one's got nothing on #1's plot. The tension, and I guess a scare or two, but there is no ending set piece complete the film. The first one had the kids stranded and whats-her-name trapped in the boat. This film has none of that. The filmmakers understand the b-style, but when your monsters stay under the water for the most part, your people should be stuck in the water! The climax should have had someone trapped- like maybe on one of those water park lifeguard islands, like the ones in the middle of the pool, when you see the film you'll understand how that would work well! But for some reason: No. Other than that there are some great celeb cameos, humor and action to pass the time, but I guess that's not what people were expecting from this film. It's not bad though. I laughed, and had some fun- so I'm thinking the crazy low rating (3.8?? That's lower than those Syfy channel movies!) is because Piranha 3DD is goofy, not scary, and such a change in mood, story, and humor. People where expecting Piranha 2, they got scary movie 6. And apparently nobody wanted them to go comedy. And in some ways comedy doesn't work for this film, e.i. the first film wanted you to be impressed/entertained by the effects and the scares, and these type of comedy are basically making fun of them selves, so the film doesn't let you admire it's talent. Piranha 3DD is fun, and deserves much better than what it's gotten, but goes to show that spoofs and horror flicks don't mix well.P.S. This film actually did okay over seas, and some of the behind-the-camera crew are interested, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Piranha: Part 3D (The third Piranha movie- hoping it might happen!)