Fishy business

Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Elizabeth Shue, Ving Rhames, Jessica Szohr

Piranha 3D takes us to a small American town whose population multiplies tenfold every year during the 4th of July weekend – thanks to rambunctious college kids. This year something big is going down and it has nothing to do with Spring Break. The town is sitting on a crater that suddenly erupts, unleashing thousands of prehistoric flesh-eating piranhas whose sole purpose is to feed on every man, woman and child treading the water.

Quite possibly the bloodiest mainstream movie to appear this summer, Piranha’s fountains of gore and prosthetic limbs would be of more consequence if the film were even the slightest bit scary.

For connoisseurs of gore, Piranha 3D’s trashy combination of thrills, spills and comic evisceration will make for an entertaining night out at the movies – if the idea of CGI fish spitting out half-chewed body parts tickles your fancy, this is probably the film you’ve been waiting all summer to see.

For everyone else, this aquatic horror is probably best avoided.

Genre: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Age Restriction: Rated R for sequences of strong bloody horror violence and gore, graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use.
Runtime: 88 min