SummaryEvery year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for Spring Break, a riot of sun and drunken fun. But this year, there's something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers; a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria. After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores... Read More
Directed By:Alexandre Aja
Written By:Pete Goldfinger, Josh Stolberg
Piranha 3-D
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Hands down and body parts floating, the most irresistibly sick movie in years is Piranha 3D, which should be retitled Piranha 3D, Double-D and C for all the topless cuties director Alexandre Aja feeds the fish and audience.
75
There's a degree of gruff integrity at work for at least two-thirds of Alexandre Aja's grindhouse piranhapalooza Piranha 3D, in which a megaschool of man-eating fish thought to be extinct burst through an underwater fissure to terrorize a normally placid lake in Arizona.
User score
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60 Ratings
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May 21, 2023
10
here I watched this movie a lot but I don't understand how it has so many average grades and the movie is perfect! Lots of humor, graphic violence and "prehistoric" piranhas which made the movie scarier
Sep 18, 2011
10
Killer fish, **** ass, and gore. "Piranha 3D" is the collective of everything great about a sexploitated B-movie. It's an over-the-top creature feature that never feels too self-aware or arrogant, but instead embraces all of its silly chaos organically. Never have I witnessed something that can be so clearly described as pure entertainment from start to finish.
67
I call Piranha 3D ''exploitation,'' rather than a quality scare movie, because it serves up well-timed gross-outs instead of genuine suspense and because the movie has no pretense of providing character, plot, acting, or dialogue that's anything more than boilerplate.
60
The script is ridiculous, the bodies are great and the film skates so long on the line between knowingly bad and bad that by the time the body count hits 100 and the booby count hits 1000, we've lost track of the difference.
50
The 32-year-old carnivorous fish franchise has lost none of its bite, serving up a fresh batch of spring-break revelers for the fearsome creatures to attack.
40
The entertainment formula behind this short and nasty movie - devised according to someone's idea of what teenage boys with the guile, the facial hair or the "guardian" to gain admission to an R-rated movie are likely to enjoy - is sloppy and simple.
25
The film's centerpiece is a massacre at a wet T-shirt contest, which the horror director Alexandre Aja has a good time staging (yes, Eli Roth, we see you with the water gun). But it feels like an imitation of B-movie beach schlock and John Waters. The visual humor lacks wit or nerve.
Mar 29, 2023
6
I don't know.. I'm a bit disappointed. Although this had a lot of boobs and two set pieces with good gore, I just can't call "Piranha 3D" a "gore fest". "Braindead" was a gore fest. This one just had bad cg fish.
Feb 14, 2022
6
It's a shame they didn't shoot in native 3D. The conversion introduces annoying artefacts but it's still worth watching in 3D to add to the insanity. Definitely the best piranha movie. Nude 3D swimming. It's an assault on the senses in a good way.
Feb 1, 2015
3
The CGI on this film is fricking cringeworthy. Holy crap it's bad, the piranhas look like blocks of wood squirming around with ketchup dropping out! WTF!!!???? And the film is unrealistic as **** All the people that died brought it on themselves and they should've fricken listened to the police instead of prancing around in a lake infested with piranhas. Stupid film.
May 9, 2013
3
This movie was trash! I know sex sells but try to earn your money when making a movie. If this was trying to be the next Jaws it failed hardcore. I didn`t find it scare or funny. Watch this movie only if you have no other options. (You have been warned)
Production Company:
- Dimension Films
- Intellectual Properties Worldwide (I)
- Aja / Levasseur Productions
- Aja / Levasseur Productions
- Atmosphere Entertainment MM
- Chako Film Company
- Chako Film Company
- The Weinstein Company
Release Date:Aug 20, 2010
Duration:1 h 28 m
Rating:R
Tagline:This Summer 3D Shows Its Teeth
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Awards
Scream Awards
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Golden Schmoes Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
IGN Summer Movie Awards
• 2 Nominations




























