Piranha 3D

It is the year of 3D. So why not a monster movie in 3D ? Lots of people dying – lots of blood and gore. And lets make it Spring Break (an opportunity for US college students to go crazy in bikinis – think the MTV Grind) – so there is lot of boobs to see too. Awesome combo right ?

Piranha 3D is a proper b-movie, filled with clichéd sequences and lots of dumb college kids – but is a very entertaining 2 hours. If you have seen one monster movie, you know how all the scripts go. A monster is unleashed, who kills couple of people on the outlying areas before unleashing an attack on the bigger population. And there will always be a hero & his family who would get trapped – but they always get saved in the end.

So the story is inconsequential. What is new is the monster. In this case, a group of prehistoric piranhas who had been trapped in a subterranean cave for a couple of million years before an earthquake sets them free in an inland lake. Too bad college kids are holidaying on the lake at that very time.

There is copious amounts of blood and gore – as the ugly-teethed piranhas strip all flesh from the body within seconds. There is a particular “wow” moment, when the screaming movie producer is pulled out of the water, with his upper body completely intact but only bones left from his hip down. The producer in question is a porn movie producer who recruits our leading man for scouting locations on the lake. The bad part is that all the full nude scenes have been cut out by the censors – and going by the internet, there were a lot of them

So it might not be a bad idea to get the international version from the internet to enjoy the full cocktail of gore and nudity. But the large screen fun of vicious piranhas attacking make up for the few snipped scenes, so if you enjoy the monster movie genre or want some mindless fun in 3D, Piranha is a good bet.