Piranha 3DD (R)
Matt Bush and Danielle Panabaker in Piranha 3DD
Time Out rating:
Not yet rated
Time Out says
Tue May 29 2012
Though not exactly high art, the 2010 remake of Piranha took the outrageous underwater carnage so far over the top that it achieved a kind of bad-taste bliss. There are no such sinful pleasures here; Feast director John Gulager’s follow-up is so ineptly staged it makes its predecessor look like Jaws. Having turned the sunbathing population of Lake Victoria into an all-you-can-eat buffet, the franchise’s carnivorous, prehistoric school swims upstream to another beach community, where the new menu includes nubile teens, a drunken local (Busey), a sleazy water-park proprietor (Koechner) and—in the film’s dopiest casting stunt—David Hasselhoff as himself. Hecklers can take the night off; ripping on a movie this bad is as rewarding as shooting fish in a barrel.
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Release details
Rated:
R
US release:
Fri Jun 1 2012
Duration:
83 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
John Gulagar
Cast:
Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd
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