vendredi 20 août 2010

Movie Review: Piranha 3D

Synopsis: 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.

Well, this is pretty much exactly as I expected. There are no secrets... it's just a whole lot of nudity and gore. There are buckets of both. Full-frontal nude ladies swimming underwater, wet t-shirt contests, topless para sailing and mutilation by fish all in glorious 3D. And boy do they use the 3D. It's not just an afterthought here it's pretty in-your-face all the time. Pissed-off fish, vomit, blood, propellers and even a severed penis land in your lap. This is how to to a 3D film my friends.

Jerry O'Connell is excellent as an annoying horndog, Elisabeth Shue is very acceptable in her roll as Sheriff trying to clean up this mess, Ving Rhames is his usual awesome self and Kelly Brook is... well, OH MY. She's perfect. She's not all the eye candy you get though, there are a lot of lovely ladies in this. And it opens with a classic homage to Jaws as Richard Dryfuss is fishing in a little boat singing the same song from the classic film about a man-eating shark. Eli Roth has a nice cameo as an annoying wet t-shirt contest host as well. And boy does he get his death scene.

Oh, most people are going to HATE this film I predict. It has no redeeming social value at all. Here's the entire movie: drunken teens go to lake to party, T & A abounds, man-eating fish show up and start munching. The end. Awesome. And exactly what I expected: a very fun film that doesn't take itself too seriously, so neither should you.

7/10