After the events at Lake Victoria, the prehistoric school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into swimming pools, plumbing, and a newly opened water park.
The director, John Gulager, has no idea how to mix his ingredients to create a savvy self-parody.
– Neil Genzlinger,
New York Times,
1 Jun 2012
rotten:
Gulager ... mostly seems to be trying to see how much he can degrade the old Jaws formula and still have it interpreted as parody rather than apathy.
– Tasha Robinson,
AV Club,
1 Jun 2012
rotten:
With most of the running time devoted to setting up and over-explaining the premise, mayhem gets short shrift.
– Justin Lowe,
Hollywood Reporter,
2 Jun 2012
rotten:
The first half of the film merely treads water in anticipation for the eventual bloodbath, and once the teeth start gnawing, it's just one laborious machination after another to get to the end of the movie, which stops without much of a resolution.
– Kyle Anderson,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Jun 2012
fresh:
Tacky and intermittently entertaining is all"Piranha 3DD"sets out to be, and that is all this playfully graphic horror-comedy sequel accomplishes.