ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre
Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Wuchak Released in 2010, "Mega Piranha" chronicles events when a mutant strain of increasingly-growing piranha escape from the Amazon Basis to threaten Florida. Tiffany stars as a researcher in the jungle while Paul Logan plays a kick-axx government agent and Barry Williams his superior back in the US. David Labiosa is on hand as a Hispanic militant in the jungle.While a little overweight, Tiffany makes for a likable protagonist and Logan is spot-on as a Rambo-ish action figure. The jungle and beach locations are good and there's quite a bit of action. Unfortunately, the story isn't very compelling, although it develops some drive by the last act. But it's all for naught as the cartoony CGI of the huge piranha and what they're able to do makes you bust out laughing rather than scare you (or impress you or whatever). As the story moves along, the colossal fish are shown jumping into water that's obviously too shallow for them to occupy. It just boggles my mind that The Asylum would blow all this money on cast and locations and then plague the flick with such lousy F/X. One worthy brief scene occurs during the beginning, however, when Tiffany's character amusingly pays tribute to the great "Apocalypse Now," which will be missed by most viewers because it's not one of the more popular lines from that movie. Speaking of Tiffany, she sings the end-credits' song "Frozen Skies" and it's pretty good.Bottom Line: Even viewed as a parody, "Mega Piranha" is bad, Mega Bad.The film runs 92 minutes and was shot in Belize, Los Angeles and Long Beach.GRADE: D (2.5/10 Stars)
Skoppum Bad acting, bad dialog, bad story, bad CGI. This movie has the worst of the worst. "So bad it is funny" doesn't even cover it all. It seems like the actors are lip syncing, which just makes the movie even more hilarious.An American ambassador is killed, presumably by terrorists, and Jason Fitch is sent to investigate. It turns out there are no terrorists, only rogue mutant piranhas, but the Venezuelan army disagrees and are just a pain in the ass. However, this is an Asylum film and should not be taken serious at all. Just watch it for the laugh of how bad it is.And drink or smoke something!
ebiros2 Another Piranha movie and another movie from Asylum sums up this movie.There's not much story to this movie. The usual cast of government agent, scientist, the military, and innocent by standers that gets eaten by the monsters.Genetically altered piranha that was engineered to grow large to be the food supply for humans goes out of control, and makes humans into their food supply.I like asylum's movies in that there're no hide and seek that goes on with so many of the B sci-fi movies. Like everything happening in the dark, and people acting afraid, but the actual monster is no where to be seen except at the last 1 or 2 minutes. With Asylum's movie, the monsters are there in its full glory, and even with marginal CG, I'd much prefer this over garbage like the Dog Soldiers, or Carnosaur.So the movie didn't disappoint. It wasn't one of the best, but it wasn't the worst of the B movies by any means.
gregking4 From film company The Asylum comes another spectacularly crappy low budget C-grade exploitation shocker. This is the same studio that specialises in releasing a number of cheap, low budget knock offs of well-known movies straight to DVD. They gave us the recent Megashark Vs Giant Octopus, which found unexpected success as a cult favourite. A cheap rip off of Alexandre Aja's recent Piranha 3D, Mega Piranha was originally made for television, but has gained a season of special late night screenings at the Nova cinema as part of its Cult Cravings program. As the title suggests, this one features some genetically modified and unusually aggressive piranha that pose a threat to the population of Venezuela. They are moving rapidly through the South American waterways headed towards the ocean and ultimately the United States. The fish are also growing exponentially bigger, and it seems as though nothing can stop them. After they kill the US ambassador, the country's foreign minister and a couple of topless party girls, the US government sends in a special agent and troubleshooter Jason Fitch (played by Paul Logan, from The Terminators, another Asylum production) to try and avert disaster. With the help of a couple of flaky scientists who were responsible for creating the genetic mutants in the first place, Fitch tries to find a way to destroy them. There's also a power hungry South American colonel (David Labiosa) who has his own agenda. And the US government itself is represented by none other than the original Greg Brady himself - Barry Williams, playing a powerful envoy named Bob Grady. This is deliberately bad film making, but it is more fun than Megashark. The limitations of the budget are particularly obvious, especially during some shoddy CGI special effects sequences. There are some unintentional laughs here, especially as the obviously fake giant piranha leap out of the water to swallow people whole or impale themselves on buildings. Director Eric Forsberg (who has written a number of films for The Asylum, including Snakes On A Train, War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, etc) also uses lots of stock footage throughout. If you look closely, you can also see that some of the establishing shots have been lifted straight from Megashark Vs Giant Octopus. The dialogue is clunky and laughable. The largely unknown cast also features faded 80's pop star Tiffany, and Logan. But the performances are uniformly one dimensional and wooden. I wanted to see a giant piranha eat Greg Brady – now that would have made the film truly unforgettable!
