Piranha 3DD

R

Released Jun 1, 2012

1 hr. 23 min.

Horror

List

11%

53 Reviews

Tomatometer

22%

10,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

Though it was once a wholesome, family-oriented attraction, a water park owned by Chet (David Koechner) now features a nudist pool and aquatic strippers. Chet's daughter, a marine biologist named Maddy (Danielle Panabaker), is unhappy about the changes but is powerless to stop the grand reopening. However, when a school of ravenous, prehistoric piranha migrate over from nearby Lake Victoria, Maddy must somehow prevent the park's patrons from becoming fish food.

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Critics Consensus

It strains to up the gore and self-awareness of it predecessor, and -- despite some game celebrity cameos -- the result is a dispiriting echo of 2010's horror-comedy.

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Steve D

The original wasn't good, this is worse.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/18/23

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Jes B

This was just too funny. I laughed a ton. This is definitely not meant to be taken too seriously.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/05/23

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Courtney K

much worse than the first; but still a few fun scenes.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/23/23

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lindsay s

Give me more Piranha movies please.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Christopher P

Don't get me wrong… I figured this would be dumb, but this is F***ING STUPID! Seriously! This was written for 1985 when teen audiences would have just been happy they saw some boobs.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/28/22

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Audience Member

Still a good mindless change of pace with no thinking required but with less gratuitousness, gruesomeness and gore as it's predecessor and central characters that are not as impactful and compelling as the first despite some returning faces and a couple new ones, this explains why they did not make a third.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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John Gulager

Director

Danielle Panabaker

Maddy

Matt Bush

Barry

David Koechner

Chet

Chris Zylka

Kyle

Katrina Bowden

Shelby

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Mark Olsen

Los Angeles Times

Tacky and intermittently entertaining is all"Piranha 3DD"sets out to be, and that is all this playfully graphic horror-comedy sequel accomplishes.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 4, 2012

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Kyle Anderson

Entertainment Weekly

The first half of the film merely treads water in anticipation for the eventual bloodbath, and once the teeth start gnawing, it's just one laborious machination after another to get to the end of the movie, which stops without much of a resolution.

Rated: D+

Jun 2, 2012

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Justin Lowe

Hollywood Reporter

With most of the running time devoted to setting up and over-explaining the premise, mayhem gets short shrift.

Jun 2, 2012

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Patrick Cavanaugh

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The previous film was surprisingly delightful, with those successes being totally absent from this follow-up.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 24, 2023

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

The gore is a bit limited at first, while the computer-animated chompers still look terribly fake, but the over-the-top violence soon supplements the routine nakedness.

Rated: 4/10

Dec 2, 2020

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

The film also features gratuitous cameos from the likes of Gary Busey being Gary Busey and, in a more extended cameo, David Hasselhoff being David Hasselhoff.

Rated: 1.0/4.0

Sep 20, 2020

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Synopsis

Though it was once a wholesome, family-oriented attraction, a water park owned by Chet (David Koechner) now features a nudist pool and aquatic strippers. Chet's daughter, a marine biologist named Maddy (Danielle Panabaker), is unhappy about the changes but is powerless to stop the grand reopening. However, when a school of ravenous, prehistoric piranha migrate over from nearby Lake Victoria, Maddy must somehow prevent the park's patrons from becoming fish food.

Director: John Gulager
Executive Producer: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Ben Ormand, Matthew Stein, Chako van Leeuwen
Screenwriter: Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan, Joel Soisson
Distributor: Weinstein Co.
Production Co: Mark Canton, IPW
Rating: R (Graphic Nudity|Gore|Strong Bloody Horror Violence|Language|Sexual Content|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 1, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 7, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $370.9K

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