Rotten
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!
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Piranha 3D
There's something in the water.
2010 · 1h 28m · R
Comedy, Horror
Directed by
Alexandre Aja
Overview
Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.
Director and cast
- Alexandre Aja Director
- Elisabeth Shue as Julie Forester
- Adam Scott as Novak Radzinsky
- Jerry O'Connell as Derrick Jones
- Steven R. McQueen as Jake Forester
- Jessica Szohr as Kelly Driscoll
- Ving Rhames as Deputy Fallon
- Dina Meyer as Paula Montellano
- Kelly Brook as Danni
- Richard Dreyfuss as Matthew Boyd
- Christopher Lloyd as Henry Goodman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
For most of Piranha 3D, Aja skates along the line separating satire/camp from horror without straying into the realm of outright parody.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
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?
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Fresh
This moderately entertaining popcorn thriller recaptures the B-movie spirit of such vintage schlockmeisters as Samuel Z. Arkoff and Roger Corman.
Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Piranha 3D ends the summer on a note of shamelessly entertaining B movie bottomfeeding.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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