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Piranha

Play trailer Poster for Piranha R Released Aug 20, 2010 1h 28m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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Spring break turns gory when an underground tremor releases hundreds of prehistoric, carnivorous fish into Lake Victoria, a popular waterside resort. Local cop Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) must join forces with a band of unlikely strangers -- though they are badly outnumbered -- to destroy the ravenous creatures before everyone becomes fish food.
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Playing exactly to expectations for a movie about killer fish run amok, Piranha 3-D dishes out gore, guffaws and gratuitous nudity with equal glee.

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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! Rated: 2/4 Mar 29, 2011 Full Review Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com Seen with a group of friends and in a packed theatre it is doubtful that if this is your cup of tea you're not going to walk away ecstatic afterwards. Rated: 2.5/4 Aug 27, 2010 Full 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? Rated: 2/5 Aug 26, 2010 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review The only shocking thing about the new movie from horror director Alexandre Aja is that it was released in theaters. Rated: 1/4 Aug 9, 2023 Full Review Joe Lipsett Horror Queers Podcast It's a shame about the less than stellar CGI because aside from bad FX Aja's take on American Spring Break is amusing, utterly ridiculous and hilarious. Kudos to casting names like Rhames and Shue, but O'Connell steals this show. Rated: 3.5/5 Apr 25, 2022 Full Review Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast Delightfully absurd and over-the-top in all the right ways, Piranha 3D makes for a fantastically self-aware horror comedy. Rated: 4/5 Apr 7, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Marshall idc what anyone says this is such a fun movie. I loved it even more second time watching Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/30/23 Full Review thiago s Filme bacana, o roteiro é mais ou menos, o filme não tem uma história boa, e também tem nudez, tem muito sangue e tem cenas meios mais ou menos, cono a cena tem um festa no meio do mar com barcos e boias e as piranhas começaram a atacar cada pessoa tirando ossos, partes dos corpos e outras coisas, as cenas de cgi das piranhas quando atacavam ficaram ruins, mas mesmo assim, eu meio que recomendo esse filme só por ser sanguinolento. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/25 Full Review Tommy D This movie is so funny i watched 3-4 consecutive Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/25 Full Review Jim P "Wa-ter laff(!)" Jaws meets Alien! Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/25 Full Review Yash B "Piranha 3D" or the "Piranha" movie from 2010 if you watched it in 2D like myself, is trying to be an over-the-top and fun movie. I could see what it is trying to go for here and at times some of it almost worked. That being said there is a lot of filler in this movie that makes it kind of a boring watch and I found myself just waiting to end at one point. I could see how that if back in the day I saw it in 3D, that could have been a fun gimmick, but it is still a bad movie with really unbelievably bad special effects. Again, maybe looking bad is part of what the movie is going for, but I never could take it seriously. Overall, it is a bonkers horror movie with comedic elements that have some silliness that is enjoyable, but is mostly a chore to watch and kind of just gross and boring rather than scary or thrilling. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/13/25 Full Review Luis Otavio F I think the main purpose of this film is not to be taken seriously, because if it is taken literally, it is disgusting. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/04/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Spring break turns gory when an underground tremor releases hundreds of prehistoric, carnivorous fish into Lake Victoria, a popular waterside resort. Local cop Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) must join forces with a band of unlikely strangers -- though they are badly outnumbered -- to destroy the ravenous creatures before everyone becomes fish food.
Director
Alexandre Aja
Producer
Alexandre Aja, Mark Canton, Marc Toberoff, Grégory Levasseur
Screenwriter
Pete Goldfinger, Josh Stolberg
Distributor
Weinstein Co.
Production Co
Atmosphere Entertainment MM LLC, Weinstein Company, Chako Film Company , Dimension Films, Intellectual Properties Worldwide (I)
Rating
R (Some Drug Use|Sexual Content|Language|Gore|Graphic Nudity|Strong Bloody Horror Violence)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 20, 2010, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$25.0M
Runtime
1h 28m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital, DTS