Strong and Moving!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

NOTHING like the original Piranha from 1978 where at least the soundtrack and suspense were tolerable. An updated version for the NEW AGE crowd. New Age music crowds the soundtrack and this film is NOT FOR KIDS. The plot was dumb as could be. A underwater tremor causes a shift in a lake and breaks apart the rock base unleashing thought to be extinct pre historic Piranha. This happens of course during Spring Break where Booze, Boobs and Dumb young adults frolic. There really was absolute NO horror in this film, more comedy I would gather. A lot of blood and half ripped open men and women splash in the water while the fish attack. My highlight and part of the only reason I tolerated this mess was Elisabeth Shue and Ving Rhames, both of which I like.If and a strong IF your bored on a sunday afternoon this will help you fall asleep. 4 out of 10

Had potential, but ends up as another common-or-garden creature-horror movie. Plot is predictable and formulaic - pretty much Jaws In A Lake, and a b-grade attempt at that. Direction is paint-by-numbers. Most amazingly for a 3-D movie, the CGI isn't that great.Acting is so-so. Elizabeth Shue does her best with a dud script. Steven McQueen is one-dimensional. Jerry O'Connell only ever had one dimension to his acting. Ving Rhames has never had any pretense to be anything more than an action actor, and does that role well here.Jessica Szohr is good in her role, and Kelly Brook (and dozens of other girls) provide the eye candy.Brief cameo from Richard Dreyfuss, in a clear link and homage to Jaws. Christopher Lloyd does one of his usual over-the-top insane performances.Could have been a new and innovative take on a genre, but wasn't.

"Matt Boyd" (Richard Dreyfuss) is out fishing on Lake Victoria when an earthquake hits and opens up an underground lake directly under his boat. Not only does he become trapped by a sudden whirlpool but the fissure also allows thousands of prehistoric piranha to escape from their subterranean prison into Lake Victoria. And they are very hungry. To make matters even worse there is an annual holiday taking place at the lake during this same time and this special event typically hosts over 50,000 college students from all over. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie I will just say that it featured two good actors in Elisabeth Shue (as "Sheriff Julie Forester") and Ving Rhames ("Deputy Fallon") along with several attractive young actresses in Jessica Szohr ("Kelly"), Kelly Brook ("Danni") and Riley Steele ("Crystal"). Unfortunately, rather than concentrating solely on these fine people--and possibly giving both Elisabeth Shue and Ving Rhames roles befitting their abilities--the director (Alexandre Aja) chose to spend an inordinate amount of time focusing on some of the dorkiest men ever caught on camera. Likewise, the music chosen for the multitude of party scenes was equally bad as well. Additionally, one particular scene, which was supposed to be humorous, ended up being just plain silly and vulgar. As a result, although the director had the necessary ingredients for a pretty good movie, he obviously wasn't up to the task and this movie simply proves that point. Slightly below average.

Well this was exactly what it was meant to be; buckets of blood, hilarious deaths and naked boobies abound in a great B horror flick. The calibre of the actors in this did surprise me though, Elisabeth Shue, Jerry O'Connell, Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd and Richard Dreyfuss who reprises his awesome 'Jaws' (Quincy) scene.This was just a ton of fun, one of those "so bad its good" movies. In this case though the movie knows its bad and plays it up, mocking itself and B monster movies in general. Which helps in making it kind of a good movie.Spring Break hits sleepy Lake Victoria, along with 50,000 young revellers and a new type of terror; schools of prehistoric man-eating fish. Super fun 03.13