If you prefer your bodies sliced, diced and pureed then this is the film for you.
Alexandre Aja (the director) should be congratulated for coming up with so many different ways for his unfortunate stuntmen (and women), and bloodied extras, to either die or be extensively injured.
And it is quite hard (if you'll forgive the pun) for me to decide whether it was the dismembered-penis eating piranha, or the vacuous- blond's-brain gorging piranha, that stole the show.
To think there was a time when we were shocked by that single scene in the "Omen" showing a sheet of glass slicing off a chap's head in slow-mo.
Not a lot can be said about the plot, the acting or the dialogue – a lake, lots of speedboats and teenagers, a wet-teeshirt competition (and an even wetter soft-porn director), and an errant baby sitter's charges trapped on a sinking boat - standard B-movie fare. However I thought the ending was a classic – and for a couple of different reasons.
Firstly it really was very funny, and perfectly delivered by that most manic of comic straight men – Christopher Lloyd. Secondly it intimated that the wonderfully dentured prehistoric piranhas had survived the incursion of the dopey humans - and after millions of years of existence, had not been driven to extinction in a single day of mayhem.
So I say forget the whales and the dolphins - Save the Razor-Toothed Piranhas!
Alexandre Aja (the director) should be congratulated for coming up with so many different ways for his unfortunate stuntmen (and women), and bloodied extras, to either die or be extensively injured.
And it is quite hard (if you'll forgive the pun) for me to decide whether it was the dismembered-penis eating piranha, or the vacuous- blond's-brain gorging piranha, that stole the show.
To think there was a time when we were shocked by that single scene in the "Omen" showing a sheet of glass slicing off a chap's head in slow-mo.
Not a lot can be said about the plot, the acting or the dialogue – a lake, lots of speedboats and teenagers, a wet-teeshirt competition (and an even wetter soft-porn director), and an errant baby sitter's charges trapped on a sinking boat - standard B-movie fare. However I thought the ending was a classic – and for a couple of different reasons.
Firstly it really was very funny, and perfectly delivered by that most manic of comic straight men – Christopher Lloyd. Secondly it intimated that the wonderfully dentured prehistoric piranhas had survived the incursion of the dopey humans - and after millions of years of existence, had not been driven to extinction in a single day of mayhem.
So I say forget the whales and the dolphins - Save the Razor-Toothed Piranhas!