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About this movie

Genres:
Horror, Romance
Language:
English
Running time:
1:28:23
Partner rating:
R
Released:

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Elisabeth Shue Julie Forester
  2. Adam Scott Novak
  3. Steven R. Mcqueen Jake Forester
  4. Ving Rhames Deputy Fallon
  5. Jerry O'Connell Derrick
  6. Richard Dreyfuss Matt
  7. Jessica Zsohr
  8. Christopher Lloyd Mr. Goodman
  9. Jessica Szohr Kelly
  10. Cody Longo Todd Dupree
  11. Riley Steele Crystal

Directors

  1. Alexandre Aja

Producers

  1. Marc Toberoff
  2. Grégory Levasseur
  3. Mark Canton
  4. Alexandre Aja
  5. Chako VanLeeuwen

Writers

  1. Peter Goldfinger
  2. Josh Stolberg

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Piranha


Haute Tension and Hills Have Eyes director Alexandre Aja pays homage to the films that made him fall in love with the horror genre by helming this comedic remake of director Joe Dante's 1978 Jaws parody. Lake Victoria may look peaceful, but beneath the placid waters of this painterly lake lurks a deadly menace. A powerful underwater tremor has released scores of man-eating prehistoric fish into the waters, and now it's up to a group of unlikely heroes to band together and defeat the razor-toothed predators. With time running out and the aquatic carnivores taking over, one brave heroine (Elisabeth Shue) will risk everything to save the lake and prevent her family from becoming fish food. Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Jerry O'Connell, and Adam Scott star in the Dimension Films production.


Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'fresh' by Rotten Tomatoes

73%Tomatometer score: 73% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Negative review
    Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail 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! Full review External link
  2. Positive review
    Marc Fennell, Triple j A movie fueled by the wet dreams and rage fantasies of a thousand pubescent boys. Perfectly attuned to its audience -- 3D boobs, gore and dodgy science abound. Full review External link
  3. Positive review
    James Berardinelli, ReelViews For most of Piranha 3D, Aja skates along the line separating satire/camp from horror without straying into the realm of outright parody. Full review External link
  4. Positive review
    Julie Rigg, MovieTime, ABC Radio National Many new 3D films aren't designed for the medium, but Piranha 3D is ideal: an exploitation movie with lashings of blood, bouncing bare breasts, and masticated body parts being thrown around, all... Full review External link
  5. Negative review
    Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News 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? Full review External link

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