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Title:		Piranha 3DD
Director:		John Gulager
Year:		2012
Genre:		Nature Strikes Back
Times Seen:		1
Last Seen:		06.02.12

Other Movies Seen By This Director (2)
- Feast
- Feast II: Sloppy Seconds

Notes History

Date Viewed	Venue	Note
06.02.12	AMC 30 - Garland	I really enjoyed the first PIRANHA 3D and was looking forward to catching a midnight of the sequel on Thursday night (hopefully without the post-film Catch A Dude Masturbating Into A Urinal moment that followed my viewing of the original). But we found out late last week that only one theater within a reasonable driving distance was getting the film, and it wasn’t midnighting the movie. I’ve also heard this week that it’s only getting a very limited one-week run, which is really confusing to me. Although the general consensus of the film I’ve seen online is that it isn’t very good, I enjoyed large portions of it, and even with minimal marketing, it seems like they would have attracted a reasonable-sized crowd (as opposed to the six other people in the theater on opening weekend afternoon that I saw it with). The main problem with the film is that the lead actress is blandly uninteresting in the way that so many made-for-TV genre lead actor/actresses are (think SyFy your typical lead). That’s unfortunate (I wish they had used TUCKER & DALE’s Katrina Bowden as the lead rather than as one of the lead’s friends), but the film is saved by the solid supporting cast and cameo appearances. There’s a moment midway through the film where it looks like they were going to shift to a bizarro-hyper-reality tone ala CRANK, but unfortunately it never really goes over that edge. Instead, it plays things more or less pretty much how you’d expect for a movie where ancient piranhas take over a waterpark. It’s nothing overly special, but Bowden’s ridiculous sex scene, Koechner’s gleeful bad-guy mugging, and the ridiculous CGI-blood-filled ending were enough to make me feel like I didn’t waste my time and money checking the film out.

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