{"id":43,"date":"2010-08-25T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T18:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotnerdgirl.wordpress.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2024-02-27T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T07:50:10","slug":"fish-like-boobies-too-piranha-3d-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/25\/fish-like-boobies-too-piranha-3d-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish like boobies too – Piranha 3D Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"
Oh crap! Fish!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spoiler Alert!<\/p>\n

You have been warned so don’t get all pissy and blame me if you haven’t seen it yet.<\/p>\n

Part of my nerdiness is a love for all things graphically violent.\u00a0 I\u2019m also a smart chick who can cuss like a sailor.\u00a0 Deal with it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a while (saaaay 30 some odd years) since animal attack movies had their heyday.\u00a0 But really, who doesn\u2019t love giant mutant bunny rabbits attacking Janet Leigh?<\/p>\n

So I was both worried and excited when I saw the trailer for Piranha 3D a while back.\u00a0 It looked like Chris Parker and Marsellus Wallace in cop outfits with hordes of horny teenagers gyrating to generic techno music in the background while they talk about a fish.<\/p>\n

All of this is true.\u00a0 But it\u2019s also super awesome.<\/p>\n

A quick note about the 3D.\u00a0 It\u2019s obviously post-production 3D which is kind of a bummer.\u00a0 But compared to other attempts at post-production 3D, it\u2019s pretty darn good.\u00a0 But your eye knows when it\u2019s being tricked and some of the underwater scenes are a bit hard to focus on.\u00a0 The above ground, daylight scenes don\u2019t even seem like 3D, which is good because then you\u2019re not thinking about it.<\/p>\n

I will admit I jumped a few times and was clutching my Star Trek sweatshirt to my chest.\u00a0 My male companion, however, did not.\u00a0 Being a chick is lame sometimes.<\/p>\n

Anyhooters.<\/p>\n

The plot may not be complicated (teens raid lake for spring break, earthquake releases prehistoric piranhas, piranha\u2019s eat teens) but the movie strikes the perfect balance between making fun of itself and taking itself seriously.<\/p>\n

Save your self Jerry! Stop screaming in my face!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The blood is gratuitous.\u00a0 Jerry O\u2019Connell announced on KROQ that they broke the record for the amount of fake blood used in a movie.\u00a0 The lake (Lake Havasu renamed Lake Victoria) is literally filled with the stuff during the climax of the movie.\u00a0 The director, Frenchman Alexandre Aja, comes up with some brilliant ways of showcasing the gore.\u00a0 Eli Roth (of bad ass Jew Inglourious Basterds<\/em> fame) gets decapitated by a speedboat.\u00a0 A topless blonde extra gets sliced in half by a snapped cable.\u00a0 Porn star Riley Steele gets eaten from the inside out while a horrified Jerry O\u2019Connell (in an inspired turn as a Joe Francis-type) looks on only to have his penis chewed off and then ultimately spit up by a piranha.<\/p>\n

The boobies are plentiful.\u00a0 From both the stars and the extras alike.\u00a0 Brit Kelly Brook and Steele are \u201cWild, Wild Girls,\u201d a not so subtle parody of \u201cGirls Gone Wild.\u201d\u00a0 Kelly is likable and Steele has some surprisingly well acted moments.\u00a0 Of course, they share an extended naked underwater make out scene set to a brilliantly chosen piece of classical music.\u00a0 I\u2019m told that Steele showed up on set not knowing how to swim and had to be taught.\u00a0 How does a porn star not know how to swim?\u00a0 Whatever, it was pretty freakin\u2019 hot.<\/p>\n

The cameos are perfect.\u00a0 Richard Dreyfuss sends Matt Hooper into movie history with a hilarious last hurrah to open the flick and Christopher Lloyd is present in all his Doc Brown glory as a local fish expert.\u00a0 In our theatre, both characters received thunderous applause.\u00a0 Even minor characters are played by well established actors giving you the sense that people read the script and just had to be a part of it.\u00a0 Cause it\u2019s just that awesome.<\/p>\n

Swimming with the fishes...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elisabeth Shue is a bad ass Sheriff with no fear.\u00a0 At one point she gives a delightful shout out to her Adventures in Babysitting days (a big plus for this Thor obsessed Norwegian).\u00a0 Ving Rhames is going through the motions a bit until the scene where he sacrifices himself for the very teenagers who ignored him when he fired off his gun and told them to get the hell out of the water.\u00a0 A boat motor makes for an excellent weapon against fish by the way.\u00a0 At least for a while.\u00a0 The mopey kid from Vampire Diaries (lucky bastard is the grandson of Steve McQueen) does a pretty good turn as an irresponsible older brother sucked into the world of Wild, Wild Girls.\u00a0 But even better is Brooklynn Proulx as his witty and adorable younger sister Laura.\u00a0 Jessica Szohr is cute but forgettable as lucky bastards love interest.<\/p>\n

The piranha\u2019s themselves are pretty gnarly looking.\u00a0 They have red eyes the color of dried blood and almost look armor-plated and slightly skeletal.\u00a0 Whoever designed them did a good job of making them look prehistoric.\u00a0 Even their egg clusters are creepy.<\/p>\n

And, of course, they\u2019re just the babies.\u00a0 Mommy makes her entrance at the very end in a move that would put Shamu to shame.<\/p>\n

A rollicking good time filled with plenty of laughs and a scary moment or two.<\/p>\n

3.5 out of 5 SCI-FIVES!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spoiler Alert! You have been warned so don’t get all pissy and blame me if you haven’t seen it yet. Part of my nerdiness is a love for all things graphically violent.\u00a0 I\u2019m also a smart chick who can cuss like a sailor.\u00a0 Deal with it. It\u2019s been a while (saaaay 30 some odd years) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[114,442,499,537,748,793],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-reviews","tag-bikini","tag-hot-nerd-girl","tag-jerry-oconnell","tag-kelly-brook","tag-piranha-3d","tag-riley-steele"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}