Just in time for spring break, an under water earthquake connects a popular lake to an underground body of water filled with prehistoric flesh eating piranhas, releasing them to gnaw a bloody swathe through the hordes of reveling college kids.
A loose remake of 1978's Piranha, this 3D update has its tongue firmly in its cheek, delivering gore and boobs in roughly equal measures.
In many ways, it's desperation to get boobs in the mix is a shame; while the gore is entertaining, and the OTT everything else is fun, the movie grinds to a halt when the filmmakers have to wedge in an underwater naked lesbian make-out session.
That said, for the most part the nudity is handled with the same sense of irony as near everything else in the movie, and as such manages not to be too annoying.
(Side note; I don't object to boobs per se, in fact I'm rather fond of them... I just don't appreciate titillation in my general entertainment - it just makes a movie awkward to watch with company).
The version I got was on 2 DVDs - one 2D and one in anaglyph (Red / Blue) 3D (with, bizarrely, 2 pairs of The Final Destination 3D glasses) while this method doesn't need a special TV, it freaky isn't suited to colour (particularly in a blood soaked horror movie) as it works by blocking each eye from receiving certain colours; the effect can never be great when only one eye can see the blood!
Truth be told by the time the movies while reason to exist (an hilarious massacre at about the one hour mark) rolled around I ended up swapping discs and watching in 2D.
If you do have a 3D TV though, and want to splash out for the movie on blue ray, bear in mind that it's a conversion, rather than being actually filmed in 3D; as such only the digital effects (which appear to have been rendered for both eyes) really work.
Awkward soft porn and crappy 3D aside though, I really enjoyed the movie. It's a good solid, silly, creature feature, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, and Christopher Lloyd (albeit in a small roll). What's not to enjoy‽
Disclaimer:
If you look through the archives, you'll see that I've been using "Bought from Poundland" as a tag since at least 2011.
At the end of October 2013 I decided that all of my 2014 movies would be purchased from Poundland, and began buying up horror movies, to ensure I would have enough come October 2014.
In March 2014 I took a part time job at Poundland.
In accordance with the companies social media policy, in September 2014 I contacted Poundland's social media team to check that I would be okay to carry on with my plan to use the "bought from Poundland" tag.
I have been given the go-ahead on condition that I make the following clear:
All the reviews on this blog are entirely the opinion of Will Tingle, the reviews are not endorsed by Poundland in any way and (as should be obvious from some of the more scathing ones) are certainly not reviews I have been paid to write.
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