Review: Piranha 3D (2010)

Piranha 3D, directed by Alexandre Aja, stars Elizebeth Shue, Jerry O'Connell, (Stand by Me), and Ving Rhames. The film follows a high-schooler named Jake Forester (Steven R. McQueen), who has finally spent enough summers baby-sitting that he can't endure it any longer. As his mother (Shue) is patrolling the lake, he decides not to baby-sit and to partake in the summer festivities, only to find that he chose the worst day to do so. A sudden underwater tremor has set a large group of prehistoric piranhas loose into the college student populated city lake. Much like Snakes on a Plane, Piranha promises four things: laughs, gore, summer fun, and nudity. Not only does this flick meet these standards, but it exceeds them with its use of 3D technology. Sure, this 3D phase seems to be growing old all over again, until Piranha delivered 3D boobies (yeah, I said it). This film won't win any oscars, and the plot is considerably laughable, but it never promised to be anything more than just that. A film including Ving Rhames using a propeller to kill evil fish, 3D nudity, Christopher Lloyd, excessive gore and language, and lines like: "I think they took my penis!" should not be judged on a dramatic scale- and I won't. Despite the comical plot, sub-par acting, and overall absurdity of the film, Piranha distributed a fun way to spend 90 minutes- earning it 3 stars.