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Corona Column 3 Use these free activities to help kids explore our planet, learn about global challenges, think of solutions, and take action. Piranha 3D. Movie review by Jeffrey M. Anderson , Common Sense Media. Extreme gore, sex, teen drinking in fishy remake.
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Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. Double the D's. Comedy Horror Sci-Fi Thriller. Rated R for sequences of strong bloody horror violence and gore, graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use. Did you know Edit. Trivia The film grossed ninety-five percent of its box-office take overseas. It was particularly popular in Malaysia. Goofs Big Dave is shown pouring what is supposed to be liquid chlorine into the water circulation system, and then igniting it with his marijuana cigarette.
First, the chlorine used in pools and water parks comes in solid form pellets or discs. And second, chlorine gas is not flammable. Quotes Shelby : Josh cut off his penis because something came out of my vagina. Crazy credits The end credits are first interrupted by a "clip" from Hasselhoff "music video" Fish Hunter, then by some bloopers, then by a "clip" from "Making of" the Hasselhoff "music video", then by outtakes, and finally, the proper Stinger.
Connections Featured in Chelsea Lately: Episode 6. User reviews Review. Top review. A required film was missing. That was shocking, all those that couldn't get out the pool well There was no logic to this film. Don't put yourself through the pain of watching this film. FAQ 4. A sequel to this film, Piranha 3DD , came out on June 1, Fisherman Matthew Boyd Richard Dreyfuss is fishing in Lake Victoria, Arizona when a small earthquake hits, splitting the lake floor and causing a whirlpool.
Boyd falls in and is ripped apart by a school of Prehistoric Piranhas that emerge from the chasm and ascend the vortex. Jake Steven R. McQueen is admiring attractive tourists as spring break begins. Derrick convinces Jake to show him good spots on the beach for filming a pornographic movie. They find his mutilated body and contemplate closing the beach down, made difficult by 20, partying college students. The next morning, a lone cliff diver is attacked and consumed by the marauding fish.
Jake bribes his two siblings, Laura Brooklynn Proulx and Zane Sage Ryan , to stay home alone so that he can show Derrick around the beach. After Jake leaves, Zane drafts Laura to go fishing on a small sandbar island. They forget to tie the boat down and are stranded in the middle of the lake. Novak speculates that the rift leads to a buried prehistoric lake. Paula and Sam scuba dive to the bottom and discover a large cavern filled with large piranha egg stocks.
Both are killed by the piranhas before they can alert the others to the discovery. Novak and Julie find Paula's corpse and pull it onto the boat, capturing a lone piranha.
They take the fish to Carl Goodman Christopher Lloyd , a marine biologist who works as a pet store owner. He explains that the piranha that they caught is a prehistoric species, long believed to be extinct, which must have been trapped underground for over two million years where they have grown super-aggressive.
Julie, Novak, Fallon, and Deputy Taylor Roberts Jason Spisak try to evacuate the beach, but their warnings are ignored until the piranhas attack a Sorority Girl Bonnie Morgan and then begin to attack the other spring breakers. Novak boards a jet-ski with a shotgun to help while Fallon drags people to shore and Julie and Taylor try to get swimmers into the police boat.
The floating stage capsizes from the weight of all the panicking guests and one of its cables slices the Cheerleader Ashley Rogers and her friend in half like a cakes, while the wet T-shirt contest host Eli Roth is hit by a boat.
Honk honk honk. Christy Lemire, film critic for the Associated Press, said "Run, don't walk: Piranha 3D is hilariously, cleverly gory. Mere words cannot describe how awesomely gnarly Piranha 3D is, how hugely entertaining, and how urgently you must get yourself to the theatre to see it. Like, now. Peter Hall of Cinematical. Just when you think things could not possibly get more ridiculous, that the film has peaked, Aja and screenwriters Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg manage to ram another syringe of adrenaline into its heart.
The Hollywood Reporter referred to the film as "a pitch-perfect, guilty-pleasure serving of late-summer schlock that handily nails the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the Roger Corman original" while stating " Jaws it ain't — Aja exhibits little patience for such stuff as dramatic tension and tautly coiled suspense, and there are some undeniable choppy bits And generally misses, but generally in an amusing way.
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