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PIRANHA 3D

2010 US HMDB
agosto 20, 2010

Nella cittadina vacanziera sulle rive del lago si sta preparando una grande festa e tutti hanno in animo di divertirsi, soprattutto i ragazzi. Il regista Derek Jones è lì per girare delle riprese erotiche e assolda Jake, un giovane del luogo dall'aria un po' sfigata, perché gli faccia da guida durante le riprese. Per lui è una specie di paradiso in terra, vista la quantità di bellone a bordo dello yacht del regista, anche se la cosa lo mette un po' in difficoltà con Kelly, l'amica per cui ha segretamente una cotta. La mamma di Jake, Julie Forester, è una tipa tosta: è la sceriffa della cittadina. Assieme al suo assistente Fallon (Ving Rhames), si occupa delle ricerche del pescatore misteriosamente scomparso: i due trovano il suo cadavere scarnificato e si chiedono cosa possa averlo ridotto così. Lo scopriranno presto, ma ciò non diminuirà i loro i guai.

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Produzione: Alexandre Aja (Producer)Mark Canton (Producer)Grégory Levasseur (Producer)Marc Toberoff (Producer)Harvey Weinstein (Executive Producer)Bob Weinstein (Executive Producer)筑波久子 (Executive Producer)
Sceneggiatura: Josh Stolberg (Writer)
Musica: Michael Wandmacher (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia: John R. Leonetti (Director of Photography)

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Roberto Giacomelli
Lake Victoria, Arizona. Una scossa tellurica libera dei voracissimi piranha preistorici dalle viscere della terra. Nel frattempo fervono i preparativi per lo Spring Break, l’annuale festa di metà primavera che riunisce sul lago migliaia giovani da tutta l’America per festeggiare tra fiumi di alcool e concorsi di miss maglietta bagnata. Mentre lo sceriffo Julie Forester indaga sulla scomparsa del pescatore Matt Boyd e sulle conseguenze del sisma, suo figlio Jake, che dovrebbe fare da babysitter ai due fratellini, si unisce al team di Derrick Jones, regista di video soft-core. I giovani sguazzano in riva al lago e i piranha sono pronti a fare una strage! Ma ve la ricordate la vecchia cara exploitation anni ’80? Quella nutrita cerchia di film di genere che, esaurita la carica eversiva e innovativa dei cuginetti del decennio precedente, si tuffa a bomba nei territori dell’enterteinment più gretto e viscerale. Gli ingredienti principali erano sangue – tanto sangue – effetti speciali caserecci, nudi gratuiti – tanti nudi – e una verve trash ben calibrata. Quei film, con cui molti di noi sono cresciuti, erano considerati mera immondizia eppure oggi la rivalutazione a posteriori ha (giustamente, a parere di chi scrive) idolatrato a cult. Quel cinema da grindhouse risdoganato da Tarantino e Rodriguez, nonché in alcuni casi da Rob Zombie e Neil Marshall, oggi si compone di un ulteriore tassello, forse il più genuinamente vicino al modello, “Piranha 3D”, e l’artefice è quell’Alexandre Aja che si conferma guru del post new horror. Sulla carta “Piranha 3D” dovrebbe essere il remake del bel “Piranha” di Joe Dante, anno 1978, a sua volta già remakizzato nel 1995 dal film tv “Piranha – La morte viene dall’acqua”, ma come spesso accade possiamo considerato quello di Aja una variazione sul tema piuttosto che un vero rifacimento. Un “Piranha 3…D”, giocando sul titolo, più vicino a un terzo capitolo (dopo il secondo firmato da James Cameron nel 1981) che a un remake. Aja fa sua la lezione imparata da anni e anni di visioni “disimpegnate” da fan dell’orrido su pellicola e ce la mette tutta nel confezionare un prodotto d’intrattenimento spensierato che sia il più vicino possibile alle atmosfere di certo cinema amabilmente cialtrone che spopolava un trentennio fa. Il risultato è convincente, “Piranha 3D” centra l’obiettivo e riesce nel suo unico intento: divertire. Davvero poco importa nella sceneggiatura di Pete Goldfinger e Josh Stolberg (“Sorority Row – Patto di sangue”) se i personaggi sono mere macchiette, carne da macello alla mercé dei piranha, perché quello che importa è l’accoppiata fondamentale “sex and gore”. Portando all’estremo questo fondamentale assioma exploitativo, ci ritroviamo sommersi da sangue, frattaglie, culi e tette. I corpi vengono aggrediti, lacerati, fatti a pezzi nei modi più fantasiosi ed esagerati possibile. Le amputazioni e le scarnificazioni si sprecano, ad una ragazza viene prima portato via lo scalpo e poi scarnificato il volto perché i capelli rimangono incastrati nell’elica del motore di un motoscafo, ad un tizio viene strappato il pene che poi farà da banchetto per un simpatico piranha…insomma il livello è genuinamente sopra le righe. Poi c’è l’elemento sex a fare altrettanto da padrone, dozzine e dozzine di bellezze in bikini o senza veli che si esibiscono in concorsi di magliette bagnate e scene di amore saffico in apnea (rigorosamente in 3D!). A rimarcare questo aspetto, che pone “Piranha 3D” come film fieramente per “maschi”, c’è la partecipazione in ruoli di rilievo di pin up come Kelly Brook, nonché di note pornostar come Riley Steele e, in ruoli minori, Gianna Michaels e Ashlynn Brooke. Però “Piranha 3D” non è un’operazione nostalgia, malgrado la partecipazione straordinaria di Richard Dreyfuss, che nel prologo rifà chiaramente il suo personaggio in “Lo squalo”, e di Christopher Lloyd, che somiglia volutamente a Doc Brown di “Ritorno al futuro”. “Piranha 3D” fa propria la lezione del cinema passato per reinventare il filone e portarlo all’estremo…e diciamo che di un film del genere c’era bisogno, dal momento che da troppo tempo il beast movie acquatico è peculiarità di orride produzioni direct to video che fanno del ridicolo e del bruttissimo effetto speciale il proprio stendardo. Oltre ai cammei di Dreyfuss e Lloyd (e di Eli Roth), il film di Aja vanta una protagonista come Elisabeth Shue (“L’uomo senza ombra”), brava e bella attrice troppo poco utilizzata, e il nipotino di Steve McQueen, Steven R. McQueen (“The Vampire Diares”), accompagnati da Ving Rhames (“Pulp Fiction”), Jerry O’Connell (“Scream 2”) e Adam Scott (“Fratellastri a 40 anni”). Il 3D di “Piranha”, malgrado sia frutto di una conversione in post produzione, funziona egregiamente, unendo l’effetto profondità caratteristico dell’era post “Avatar” al vecchio effetto da luna park con gli oggetti che schizzano verso la platea, rimarcando anche in questo il legame al cinema anni ’80. “Piranha 3D” è una sciocchezza, bisogna partire con questo presupposto, un film di totale disimpegno che serve solo ad ammazzare la noia per 90 minuti. Se state al gioco e vi piacciono violenza cartoonesca e pupe siliconate, fatevi avanti, non rimarrete delusi.
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Gimly

Gimly

5 /10

When evil, inbred, cannibal, devilish, prehistoric, underground piranha are unleashed on the tiny town of Lake Victoria during "Spring Break", the outcome is all rather predictable. Babes, bikinis, boobs, bums, blood, bazulco and bad acting.

Run from a budget of $24M the film has almost no actors of note in lead roles. Although there is a cameo from Eli Roth (Inglourious Basterds), which is always cool.

What we have here, is a virtually flawless example of stupid fun. There's no point in trying to evaluate a film like Piranha 3D on factors like good taste, because it goes out of its way to smash these conventions apart. The film has this crazy energy about it from beginning to end.

It also however, is the perfect example of why 3D is so fucking unnecessary. And though I appreciate how forward the film is, that doesn't make it strictly speaking good. It's part creature-feature, part horror-comedy, but it doesn't stand up in a thrill sense to actual monster movies like Anaconda or King Kong, and it doesn't stand up in a humour sense to actual horror comedy like Shaun of the Dead or Dead Snow, but it sort of takes off on its own in a passable manner. Though it's kiiinda humorous, the film is mostly just "fun", as opposed to "funny".

The script seems cobbled together with a couple of different half assed plot points, but several half ass plots taped together is better than just one half assed plot trying to hold its own and ending up looking like no plot at all. Exploitation has never really been A-grade material, and even though the "suspension of disbelief" thing that films are supposed to have as a general rule, is sort of... not here, Piranha 3D still manages to somehow get this piece of crap off the ground.

I watched it at about 2am with a male friend of mine who has very similar taste and sense of humour to me, and that's pretty much got to be the best possible setting to watch it in. The CG gore is ridiculous, the 3D focus is ridiculous, the film itself is just fucking ridiculous. But brainless is great sometimes, just don't make a habit of thinking that you can get away with bad exploitation, and calling it Black Comedy, once or twice is fine, but soon it just looks like you're aiming for cult, and getting lazy.

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Per Gunnar Jonsson

4 /10

This is the 2010 remake of the old classic. The original is pretty much crap so I bought this one solely based on the fact that it has been getting unusually good reviews from both critics as well as viewers.

I have to say that I am at loss as to why. There are loads of much better films in the action/horror/fantasy genre’s that, at least the so called “critics” totally hammer. Why the hell this trash got so good scores is beyond me.

The female acting consists of showing off your boobs then get eaten. The male acting consists of being an asshole, get your dick eaten, then get the rest eaten. The main “event” is a contrived scene when the main asshole get his dick bitten off and the piranhas eat it and spit it out again under water. I’m sure the 3D effects made it even more ridiculous than in 2d. I usually have rather high tolerance for poor acting and bad scripts when it comes to otherwise effects and gore loaded films but most of this film I was just thinking, “what the f... is this shit!”.

Most of the film was just scenes stashed on top of each other designed to show of 3D effects with boobs and various ways a human could get eaten. This is a typical example of why 3D is bad for the movie industry.

John Chard

John Chard

7 /10

Piranha hunt in packs - not for protection, but for overwhelming force.

Actually many of today's younger multiplex goers hunt in packs, they know what they like and they know how to have a good time with even the most crude or banal movie. I don't mean that as an insult, it's just indicative of the film market available to them, it's the reason why films like this here Piranha remake/re-imaging/re-jig exists and makes money. Even "spawning" a franchise on occasions.

Alexandre Aja's Piranha 3D is a complete machine gun of a movie, it knew exactly how to sell tickets at the box office. Even before the 3D was used as a selling point, the word down the grapevine was the promise of lithe bodies in beach wear and loads of CGI killer fish shredding the hell out of a whole community. And that's exactly what is delivered, only with extras that see considerable nudity in the mammary areas and Elisabeth Shue and Ving Rhames kicking buttocks.

It's all very bloody, even lurid and exploitive, while it's difficult to know if you are meant to laugh, scream or do something that Russ Meyer would endorse? But, and I say this as a middle aged old fart, there is so much fun to be had here if you are prepared to unscrew your head and take out your brain. Strap yourselves in Piranha 3D haters, your grandchildren might just be enjoying in the future: Piranha 27: Sexy Mechanoid Bimbos Fight Back. But will they hate themselves in the morning? 7/10

tmdb28039023

1 /10

In 1975, Richard Dreyfuss starred in Jaws; 35 years later he had a cameo in Piranha. His connection to the first film is obviously the only reason he’s in the second, wherein he’s killed off before his name even appears in the opening credits.

Dreyfuss is not alone, though; Elisabeth Shue and Ving Rhames also get to whore themselves out. In the latter's case, there was never any danger that Piranha would result in another hand-me-down acting award for Jack Lemmon; on the other hand, Rhames has easily the best scene in the entire movie — using an outboard motor in a way that would make Ash Williams proud.

But I'm getting ahead of myself; Shue and Rhames first have to find the remains of Dreyfuss, then capture a piranha which they take to Christopher Lloyd (in full Doc Brown mode), who identifies it as a species that has been extinct for two million years (according to the subtitles, Lloyd calls it the "regional piranha," but he may actually be saying "original"; either way it doesn’t matter because neither term makes sense).

An earthquake released the piranhas from an underground lake, or some such bullshit. Q: "How could they survive for so long cut off from the surface?" A: "Cannibalism. They must have fought each other to survive.” Until, presumably, there could be only one. Piranha MacLeod? Well, that would actually explain their apparent immortality.

Piranha is supposed to be a comedy — or, specifically, it's a remake of a parody of Jaws released three years after Jaws and 32 before this one. In other words, this material was so diluted it was almost homeopathic.

Shue and Rhames are big fish in a small pond here — kinda like those poor Sea World orcas (I know they’re mammals; you get the idea, though); as such, the only emotion they inspire in the audience is pity over their career choices.

Only Jerry O'Connell, in a role no doubt based on Joe Francis (of Girls Gone Wild infamy), moves as if he's in his own element — ​​because he is; he knows exactly, having been in several others of the same ilk, what kind of movie this is, and navigates it accordingly.

r96sk

r96sk

6 /10

<em>'Piranha 3D'</em> does attempt something a bit different to the film it remakes (unlike the 1995 redo) and parts are decent (e.g. the gore), though all things considered it's not a movie I'd wanna revisit. It isn't as concise or as fun as Joe Dante's flick, the effects aren't the most convincing either.

The 3D portions are funny to see all these years later (in 2D, obvs). I was never a fan of that format, so I'm glad it never stuck around - pure gimmick. Going back to the effects, the piranha's usage and design underwhelm. I also said this in my review of the 1978 flick's sequel, but: less is more.

The cast are alright. Elisabeth Shue is the clear standout, her character is actually quite cool in terms of what she does and how she handles herself; not a female character that is only there for their looks, like most are here to be frank. Elsewhere, Steven R. McQueen is solid too.

Interesting to see the involvement of Kelly Brook, someone I know from her work away from film; smart casting, to be fair. Away from those, Jessica Szohr is decent, though Jerry O'Connell is rubbish. Adam Scott, Ving Rhames and Christopher Lloyd also appear, Richard Dreyfuss too.

It is better than the other 'follow-ups' to the original and I didn't find it to be absolutely bad, so I guess it merits small praise for that. Still, not one I'd recommend.

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