Piranha (2010)

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.

Director:

Alexandre Aja

Writers:

Pete Goldfinger, Josh Stolberg

Stars:

Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Elisabeth Shue

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Richard Dreyfuss	...	Matt Boyd
Ving Rhames	...	Deputy Fallon
Elisabeth Shue	...	Julie Forester
Christopher Lloyd	...	Mr. Carl Goodman
Eli Roth	...	Wet T-Shirt Host
Jerry O'Connell	...	Derrick Jones
Steven R. McQueen	...	Jake Forester
Jessica Szohr	...	Kelly
Kelly Brook	...	Danni
Riley Steele	...	Crystal
Adam Scott	...	Novak
Ricardo Chavira	...	Sam
Dina Meyer	...	Paula
Paul Scheer	...	Andrew
Brooklynn Proulx	...	Laura Forester

Storyline

Lake Victoria's annual Spring party by 50,000 young revelers is about to turn into a feeding frenzy with prehistoric hunger-pains. With knee-trembler's above the waves and tremors below, released from their dormant sleep, thousands upon thousands of flesh-eating nippers are released into the lake with whetted appetites and razor-sharp teeth. With a motley crew of strangers thrown together to defend these shores, it is now up to them to prevent the largest eat-out in human, and piranha, history.

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Plot Keywords:

lake | fish | sheriff | piranha | teenager | 

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Taglines:

There's Something in the Water

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sequences of strong bloody horror violence and gore, graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [fr]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 August 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Piranha 3D

Filming Locations:

Lake Havasu, Arizona, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$24,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£1,487,119 (UK) (20 August 2010)

Gross:

$25,003,072 (USA) (12 November 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dimension Films, Intellectual Properties Worldwide (I), Aja / Levasseur Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Despite prominent billing, Christopher Lloyd and Richard Dreyfuss each get just a few minutes of screentime.

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Goofs

The ski rope attached to the 'sinking' boat was being held tight by the ski boat applying constant forward throttle. More than one person on the rope at a time would obviously make the rope sag, and it did, especially with 4 on it at once, enough that the first person was killed by the piranhas who could reach her.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Matt Boyd: Oh boy, that's a fast fish.

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Crazy Credits

After the credits a severed partially skeletal head is shown sinking to the lake floor.

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Connections

References The Hills (2006)

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Soundtracks

"She Moves"
Written by Jason O'Bryan, Barry Ashworth, Ter K. Lawrence
Performed by Dub Pistols
Courtesy of 2009 Sunday Best Recordings
By Arrangement with Fine Gold Music.

User Reviews

Boobs, Blood & Doc Brown.

An underwater tremor unleashes thousands of hungry Piranha that have thought to have been extinct for millions of years. Bad timing, because it's Spring Break.

Piranha was, what some people called, a rip off of Jaws. Another person wanting a piece of the pie. It went on to have a sequel, to be directed by the now famous James Cameron and it seems that it is time for a remake, in 3D no less. Do we need a remake? Probably not, but the film is fun and excessively violent, which makes for a good time for those looking for b- movie horror goodness. Piranha delivers on the levels it aims for, take that as you want to.

Alexandre Aja directs this film, let's just forget he did Mirrors okay? He gets the bloody mess off to an interesting start by having Richard Dreyfuss in the film. A nod to Jaws no doubt, but one can only assume that he had him in here to say that this film is either a: More scarier or B: More dangerous. I'd go with the latter because the film isn't scary. What's more dangerous though? One shark, or thousands of Piranhas? You pick.

So it's Spring Break, so the fish have hundreds of young drunk teenagers to eat, and boy do they eat. The film doesn't shy away from the bloody truth. Piranha's can strip a cow to it's bones in minutes, these guys are more aggressive. They've been feeding off each other for millions of years and now they have a variety of meat to pick from. Yummy. So people die in bloody, over the top, funny ways. The film is one for the people who cheer when someone has their legs torn off. If that's not you, you might want to stay away from this one.

Also, if you're not a fan of naked women, you might want to stay away from this one. This film is full of naked women, left right and centre. There is even an underwater naked swimming dance sequence set to opera music. It's weird and funny at the same time because it comes out of nowhere.

The film could have used more of it's cast. We have Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd and Eli Roth. All of them are underused. Rhames, I thought was going to have a more hero type role, he doesn't. Roth has a total of maybe two scenes as does Lloyd. Dreyfuss only shows up at the beginning of the film. Once again, an interesting cast that is not put to good use. The film decides to stick with the blood and boobs.

The film is in 3D. I expected to have more fun with it than I did. Although I did enjoy it more than other 3D films I've seen. It has a more gimmicky feel to it and it actually fits with the film. Seeing bits of Piranha fly up at you is fun. Boobs in 3D, fish in 3D but the things that were used the most were the underwater coral reefs.

The theatre lost power near the end, so the last 3 or so minutes of the film we saw with no sound, but I could tell what was going to happen, even with the lack of audio. I'm not letting that affect my review for the film, but I can sense that the film was going to go for one of those jump-scare-abrupt endings.

Piranha 3D is a hoot, for those who know what they are getting into. In my theatre there were children, this is NOT A KIDS MOVIE!!!! This is more bloody and violent than any SAW film. Piranha is full of cheesy moments, and it works.