Saturday I went to see Piranha 3D on an unexpected date night. What a great film. When we came out the whole audience was grinning, which would have been rubbish if we’d seen The Passion of the Christ, but for such a blatantly fun film it was perfect.
Just to summarise the plot, ‘prehistoric piranha attack spring break’. Now there’s a great example of a five word film pitch.
You do have to accept a couple of dubious assumptions though.
1. A colony of piranha could survive for two million years in an underground lake through cannibalism alone.
2. Ugly girls don’t go to spring break.
Some of the effects were excellent. CGI was used to support prosthetic and make up effects rather than being the main attraction, the exception being the piranha themselves. The after effects of the piranha attack were especially impressive, with one screaming half-eaten victim falling into two as rescuers carry her up the shore.
My favourite magazine SFX makes the very good point that horror is the true home of 3D and it works very well in this film, gratuitous and effective.
There was an excess of gratuitous female nudity too, which works for me. Actually there is male genital nudity but I will not elaborate, as it is far from erotic and much funnier on screen. Kelly Brook may have found the film here to break her in Hollywood. She’d make an excellent scream queen for quite a few years yet.
In fact there’s a six word pitch that may convince you to see this film if I haven’t sold you on it yet.
‘Kelly Brook, nude, underwater, in 3D’.
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