Piranha 3D

Joe Dante's PIRANHA was launched by uber B-movie producer Roger Corman off the back of the success of JAWS. John Sayles blackly humourous script and Dante's gleeful malignant film have long been a cult classic. Followed up by a sequel helmed by non-other than king of the world James Cameron and remade again, for Television, in 1995 it seemed only right that in this age of remakes, and with the relative success of Corman's remade DEATH RACE, that the time was right to dip once more into the blood infested water with the killer fish.

Spring Break at Lake Victoria, Arizona brings twenty thousand hot young things down on mummy and daddy's boats to party the summer away. A freak earth tremor has cracked open a subterranean lake which has unleashed a pack of prehistoric piranha. When the two meet it's a hell of a mess. Plot, characters? Who needs them. If you go into PIRANHA 3-D looking for a cultural character study you're in the wrong theatre. This is for the fun crowd and we like our laughs bloody and tasteless served with a side of hotties.

Writer / Director Alexandre Aja pumps his film full of beauty, blood, boobs, blood, action and blood. It's a ramped up hyper-feast of fun, fun, fun in the sun as the rampant killer fish tear the revelers into little pieces and the excess of enjoyment is not hampered by the poor and mostly ineffective 3D post-process.

PIRANHA is a horror party movie, see it with a crowd who will cheer and laugh, jeer and giggle. It's a sleek, sharp-toothed thrill ride that offers good unsavoury summer fun that you'll return to again and again. Let's hope there's another shoal of deadly fish ready to come our way in the form of a sequel and this time it is filmed using 3D.

Full on erection and ejaculation.