Review

Piranha 3DD

  • Review Date: June 1, 2012
  • R
  • Genre: Horror
  • 2012

Common Sense Media says

Bloody, sexed-up sequel lacks predecessor's camp appeal.
Age
17
Quality
 

  • Greed, corruption, and exploitation are punished in terrible ways, while good characters survive.
  • The female lead is an outspoken, fairly strong character, although in several scenes she requires rescuing by men.
  • Many scenes of bloody mayhem, with lots of scary piranha attacks and many gallons of blood, mostly shown swirling around in water. Viewers see severed limbs and heads, as well as bloody stumps and bloody skeletons, and even a bloody, severed penis. In a very disturbing scene, a piranha is shown sticking out of a fat man's naked bottom. One of the piranhas' victims is a young boy.
  • Many topless women are shown, mostly swimming or lounging around a pool. In one shot, a piranha attacks a topless woman's chest. There's a sex scene between a young man and a young woman, though very little is shown. The scene is fairly intense but is interrupted by a piranha attack. A man is shown pleasuring himself, involving a water jet, in a swimming pool (nothing explicit shown). Also heavy innuendo, flirting, foreplay, suggestive dancing, and gratuitous bikini shots.
  • Language is strong but not constant, and includes several uses of "f--k" and "s--t," plus "p---y," "damn," "oh my God," "d--k," "hell," "vagina," "penis," "ass," "idiot," and "moron."
  • Not applicable.
  • The young people in the movie -- who are presumably of legal drinking age -- are shown drinking beer and smoking pot in a few early scenes. A character takes a puff from a joint in a later scene as well (before using it to ignite an explosive).

What parents need to know

Parents need to know that Piranha 3DD is a sequel to 2010's surprisingly successful (and entertaining, in a very over-the-top way) Piranha 3D, which was itself a remake of a 1978 movie. While this one unfortunately lacks whatever made the previous movie work, it's just as packed with strong violence, including lots of blood, severed limbs, and even a severed penis. It also features heavy nudity, sexual innuendo, and some sex. Language is also very strong, with many uses of "f--k" and "s--t," as well as beer drinking and pot smoking. Older teens may be drawn to the movie for the promise of nudity implied in the title -- and it's available on demand. Parents, beware.


This review of Piranha 3DD was written by
Age
17
Based on 3 parent & educator reviews:
  • 100% say violence is an issue
  • 100% say sexual content is an issue
  • 67% say language is an issue
  • 33% say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking

Most useful reviews by all members

Parent
June 3, 2012
 
Wate of Time And Money Too Much Nudity !
Please Don't let Teens see this Movie First one was Horrible is full of Nuidty and sex ! 3D is waste of money ! it not appropriate movie !

Parent
June 16, 2012
 
Piranha 3DD (2012) – The DDs Stand For Dumb and Depressing - Shivom Oza
After unleashing terror at Lake Victoria in ‘Pirhana 3D’, the pre-historic shoal of blood-thirsty piranhas infest into a newly-built waterpark, suggestive titled ‘The Big Wet’. Brace yourself for lots of nudity, blood and gore! Young Maddy (Danielle Panabaker) returns home for the summer to find her sleazy stepfather Chet (David Koechner) give her mother’s water park a debauched make-over, replacing the lifeguards with strippers and building a separate adult pool where all the nude action is getting shot secretly. He’s even been illegally pumping water from an unused well that is also connected to the tragedy-struck and piranha-infested Lake Victoria. The piranhas obviously find their way into the vicinity and hence, begin the saga of relentless attacks resulting in blood and gore. The performances of the principal star-cast are poor. The dialogues are bland and unfunny, and are made to sound all the more abominable by the spiritless cast. There is a lot of sleaze in the film. Every ten minutes, you see close-ups of heaving breasts of scantily-clad women at the water park. Even after one of the characters gets beheaded owing to a sharp metal wire, the camera refuses to move away from the jumping assets and plunging cleavages. You have a scene in which one of the girls Ashley (Meagan Tandy) handcuffs her boyfriend to the seat of a van, which then plunges headlong into a nearby lake, and you see the wretched piranhas getting in the middle of their sexual act, with the boy unable to escape because he’s tied up. In multiple sequences, you have a piranha gnashing into the private parts of several female tourists, with one such incident even causing a boy to chop off his penis because he engaged in sexual activity with one such victimized girl. Such senseless stuff is on offer folks, relish it if you can! There’s even a cameo by David Hasselhoff spoofing his ‘Baywatch’ act, caricaturizing his character from the popular TV show. He looks out of sorts. Don’t blame him, coz the film itself is a bit out of sorts! Danielle Panabaker and Matt Bush (who plays Barry) are disappointing. Considering, there was not much for either of the youngsters to do in this film, they were miserable in whatever they did. David Koechner is an eye-sore. So, you get the gist, the only animated elements in this film are the piranhas and the assets! The 3D, backed up with dramatic background music (Elia Cmiral) did bring up a bit of hysteria in a handful number of scenes, involving the piranhas. The CGI is good, not great, and at no point does it look undercooked. The cinematography (Alexandre Lehmann) along with the editing (Martin Bernfeld and Devin C. Lussier) is a big let-down though. No qualms with nudity being shown on screen, but it should be tailored into the sequence and not thrown in for unanticipated titillation. And mind you, the scenes are not titillating, at all. The background music is good in parts, albeit for the violent sequences. The dialogues are senseless, some of the scenes defy logic and human sanity and the screenplay is bizarre! For a directionless film such as this one, hard to say anything about the man at the helm of it all, John Gulager. He has broken new ground in mediocrity with this film. The first film ‘Piranha’, directed by Alexandre Aja yet was funny in parts, and did manage to give the audiences decent fare. However, this one the 3D version, with the added D, manages to Dumbify the franchise altogether. The tagline of the film is ‘No BODY is Safe’. It’s short for ‘Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You’! Cashing in on two aspects – Sex and Violence, but manages to deliver in none! This one is not worth your time, money and energy. Even with the double Ds! Shivom Oza

Teen, 13 years old
June 26, 2012
 
Overwhelming Sex and Violence.
This movie is flat-out full of sex, and totally bloody in a way that doesn't make sense. I mean, like the Hunger Games, it says that teenagers are forced to fight to the death to remember the Dark Days, to remember that the Capitol is the strongest. Older teenagers might enjoy this movie, because of the sex. The sex and violence in this movie are overwhelming. There is a difference between too much sex and violence and overwhelming sex and violence. But in this movie, I mean, SERIOUSLY? I'm going for a pass on this one.

Teen, 13 years old
June 30, 2012
 
Not For Kids
lots of sex swearing

Teen, 14 years old
June 17, 2012
 
Awesome Movie
I thought it was really good, more fun, more blood, more comedy and more nude!!!!!!!! Piranha 3D fans will enjoy this.

Teen, 16 years old
June 10, 2012
 
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Teen, 13 years old
July 29, 2012
 
I had a dream about this movie
I didn't see it , but I had a dream about. my dream was very gory

Parent of 7 and 15 year old
July 15, 2012
 
Piranha 3DD is a DDisappointment.
I Loved the first Piranha 3D. Sure, it was stupid and over-the-top but that was the fun of it. With Piranha 3DD, it's over-the-top without the fun. Piranha 3DD or Piranha 2, is like a Sci-Fi channel direct-to-dvd sequel. The Sexual Content is even WORSE than in the original! This movie was disgusting! Piranhas goes into girls' V-----s, A piranha goes into a man's A--s, and a Piranha bites a man's P---s off. This movie was over-the-top in the bad way and is NOT meant for kids, even if they've seen the first.

Teen, 17 years old
August 15, 2012
 
Wad not a disappointment
A lot o pretty girls

Teen, 16 years old
August 8, 2012
 
Piranha 3DD (2012)
Very forgettable get's everything that made Piranha 3D fun and makes it suck. And has nothing going for it.

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