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Piranha 3D is a 3D horror film and the second remake of the 1978 film, directed by Alexandre Aja and featuring an ensemble cast including Steven R. McQueen, Jessica Szohr, Adam Scott, Elisabeth Shue, Kelly Brook, Riley Steele, Richard Dreyfuss, Jerry O'Connell, Christopher Lloyd, Ving Rhames, Dina Meyer, Cody Longo, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Paul Scheer, Ashlynn Brooke, Gianna Michaels and Eli Roth. The script was written by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger, the writers of Sorority Row.

Piranha 3D
File:Piranha 3d poster.jpg
Theatrical poster
Directed byAlexandre Aja
Written byPete Goldfinger
Josh Stolberg
Alexandre Aja
Grégory Levasseur
Produced byAlexandre Aja
Mark Canton
Marc Toberoff
Grégory Levasseur
StarringElisabeth Shue
Adam Scott
Jerry O'Connell
Ving Rhames
Jessica Szohr
Steven R. McQueen
Christopher Lloyd
Richard Dreyfuss
Edited byBaxter
Music byMichael Wandmacher
Production
companies
The Weinstein Company
Dimension Films
Atmosphere Entertainment
Chako Film Company
Intellectual Properties Worldwide
Distributed byDimension Films (United States)
Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom)[2]
Release date
  • August 20, 2010 (2010-08-20)
[1]
Running time
88 minutes
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish
Budget$24 million
Box office$63,466,876 [3]

Plot

Fisherman Matthew Boyd (Richard Dreyfuss) is fishing in Lake Victoria, AZ when a small earthquake hits, splitting the lake floor and causing a whirlpool. Boyd falls in and is ripped apart by a school of piranhas that emerge from the chasm and ascend the vortex.

Jake (Steven R. McQueen) is admiring attractive tourists as Spring Break begins. He reunites with his old crush, Kelly (Jessica Szohr) and meets Derrick Jones (Jerry O'Connell) an eccentric pornographer, as well as Danni (Kelly Brook), one of his actresses. Derrick convinces Jake to show him good spots on the beach for filming a pornographic movie. That night, Jake's mother, Sheriff Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue), searches for the missing Matthew Boyd with Deputy Fallon (Ving Rhames), who has found Boyd's boat. They find his mutilated body and contemplate closing the beach down. The next morning, a lone cliff diver is attacked and consumed by the marauding fish.

Jake bribes his sister and brother, Laura (Brooklynn Proulx) and Zane (Sage Ryan), to stay home alone so that he can show Derrick around the beach. After Jake leaves, Zane drafts Laura to go fishing on a small sandbar island. They forget to tie the boat down and are stranded in the middle of the lake. Meanwhile, Jake goes to meet with Derrick and runs into Kelly, who invites herself onto Derrick’s boat, The Barracuda. Jake meets Crystal (Riley Steele), another of Derrick’s actresses, and cameraman Drew (Paul Scheer).

Julie takes a team of seismologist divers — Novak (Adam Scott), Sam (Ricardo Chavira), and Paula (Dina Meyer) — to the fissure. Novak speculates that the rift leads to a buried prehistoric lake. Paula and Sam scuba dive to the bottom and discover a large cavern filled with large egg stalks. Both are killed before they can escape and alert the others to the discovery. Novak and Julie find Paula's corpse and pull it onto the boat, capturing a lone piranha. They take the fish to Henry Goodman (Christopher Lloyd), a marine biologist who works as a pet store owner. He explains that the piranhas are a prehistoric species, long believed to be extinct, which must have been trapped underground for over two million years.

Julie, Novak, and Fallon try to evacuate the beach, but their warnings are ignored until the piranhas attack the tourists. Novak boards a jet-ski with a shotgun to help while Fallon ushers people to shore and Julie tries to get swimmers into the police boat. A floating stage set up in the water collapses from the weight of all the panicking guests and the wet T-shirt contest host (Eli Roth) is killed.

Meanwhile, Jake spots Laura and Zane on the island, and forces Derrick to rescue them. Derrick crashes into some rocks, flooding the rooms below deck. Kelly is trapped in in the kitchen while Derrick, Crystal, and Drew are thrown from the boat. Crystal and Drew are devoured while Danni manages to get a partially eaten Derrick back on board. Jake calls Julie for help. Julie and Novak commandeer a boat and take it to the sinking Barracuda. Fallon stays behind to fight off the piranhas; seizing the motor off a speedboat, he turns it on and shreds much of the swarming school with it, sacrificing himself but giving more swimmers a chance to get out of the water.

Julie and Novak reach Jake and attach a rope to his boat. Julie, Danni, Laura, and Zane start crossing the rope but the piranhas latch onto Danni's hair and pull her into the water, devouring her. The others make it to safety but Jake breaks the rope. Using Derrick's corpse as both distraction and bait, Jake ties the line to himself and goes to save Kelly. He ties Kelly to him and lights a flare after releasing the gas in a pair of stored propane tanks. Novak starts the boat and speeds away just as the piranhas surround Kelly and Jake. They are dragged to safety and the propane tanks explode, destroying the boat and killing most of the piranhas.

Mr. Goodman calls Julie on the radio, Julie tells him that they killed most of the piranhas, but thinks there still more of them out there. Terrified, Goodman tells her that the glands on the piranha they obtained were not mature. As Novak wonders aloud where the parents are, a fully grown piranha leaps out of the water and attacks him.

Cast

Richard Dreyfuss said that he accepted the role only after Bob Weinstein persuaded him by offering the actor a larger salary which Dreyfuss later generously uses to donate it to charity. Dreyfuss also stated that the ill-fated character he plays is a parody and a near-reincarnation of Matt Hooper, the character he portrayed in the 1975 film Jaws.[4] Jaws later served as inspiration for the parody film entitled Piranha. The song the character in Piranha 3-D listens to on the radio on his boat is "Show Me the Way to Go Home", which Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw sing together in Jaws.

Pornographic actresses Ashlynn Brooke and Gianna Michaels make cameos in the movie as partygoers who meet extremely gruesome, piranha-related demises.[5]

Production

Chuck Russell was originally scheduled to direct the film, and made uncredited rewrites to the script by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger, as well as incorporating the original John Sayles script that Joe Dante directed the first time around.[6] Alexandre Aja was selected to direct the film instead.[7] Production on the film was scheduled to begin late 2008, but was delayed until March 2009.[8] In October 2008, Aja stated filming would begin in the spring. He further stated "it's such a difficult movie, not only because of the technicality of it and the CGI fish, but also because it all happens in a lake.[9] We were supposed to start shooting now, but the longer to leave it the colder the water gets.[10] The movie takes place during Spring Break and, of course, the studio wanted it ready for the summer, but if you've got 1,000 people who need to get murdered in the water, you have to wait for the right temperature for the water, for the weather, for everything."[11] Shooting took place in June 2009 at Bridgewater Channel in Lake Havasu, located in Template:City-state. Much of one end of the channel was blocked off for boats, some flipped over and some covered in blood.[12] The water was also dyed red for the shooting.[13] Aja cast for his film project Wild Wild Girls,[14] which played bikini starlets on Lake Victoria.[15] Because of constraints with 3D camera rigs, Aja shot Piranha in 2D and converted to 3D in post production using the reali-D conversion process developed by the company, Inner-D.[16] Unlike other 3D converted films released in 2010, Piranha's conversion was not done as an afterthought, and it represents the first post-conversion process to be well received by critics.[17][18][19]

Soundtrack

Lakeshore Records released the soundtrack album of Piranha 3-D which included mostly rap, dance, hip-hop and RnB music. Artists include Shwayze, Envy, Flatheads, Amanda Blank, Public Enemy, Dub Pistols and many more.

Track listing
  1. "Get U Home" by Shwayze
  2. "Shake Shake" by Envy feat. Leviticus
  3. "Here She Comes" by Flatheads
  4. "Make It Take It" by Amanda Blank
  5. "Bring the Noise (Remix Pump-kin Edit)" by Public Enemy vs. Benny Benassi
  6. "She Moves" by Dub Pistols
  7. "Flower Duet from Lakme" by Adriana Kohutova and Denisa Slepkovska
  8. "Nadas Por Free" by Ozomatli
  9. "Come and Get It" Eli Paperboy Reed
  10. "Now You See It (Benny Benassi & Dj Shimik Extendet Mix)" by Honorebel Feat. Pitbull & Jump Smokers
  11. "M.A.D." Hadouken!
  12. "I'm in the House" by Steve Aoki

Release

Piranha 3-D's theatrical release date had been set for April 16, 2010, but was delayed.[20] The film was planned to premiere on August 27, 2010,[21][22] but in June 2010 was moved to August 20, 2010.[23] The film's first trailer debuted with Avatar. A second trailer was shown in prints of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Inception. It was set to have a panel on 24 July 2010 as part of the San Diego Comic-Con International but was cancelled after convention organizers decided the footage that was planned to be shown was not appropriate.[24] Nine minutes of footage, with some unfinished effects, were leaked onto websites. The clip used in promotional TV ads and the trailer that shows Kelly Brook's character Danni face to face with a pack of piranhas was not used in the movie, and was used for promotion only. Quite a few TV spots contained some footage not in the final cut of the film, they were in the final cut of the film but removed in order to get an R rating, this footage can be found on video sharing sites such as youtube.

The official poster was released June 22, 2010.[25]

Box office

In its opening weekend, Piranha 3D grossed $10,106,872 in its first 3 days.[26] In the United Kingdom, Piranha 3D opened at #4 at the box office, earning £1,487,119.

Reception

Early reviews were positive, marking an 82% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film now reports a 76% approval rating based on 94 sample reviews, with a "fresh" score of 6.3 out of 10.[27] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received a mixed average score of 56%, based on 11 reviews.[28]

Empire gave the film three out of five stars, saying "Remember the film you hoped Snakes on a Plane would be – this is it! By any sane cinematic standards, meretricious trash ... but thrown at you with such good-humoured glee that it's hard to resist. It's a bumper-sticker of a movie: honk if you love tits and gore! Honk honk honk."[29] Christy Lemire, film critic for the Associated Press, said "Run, don't walk: 'Piranha 3D' is hilariously, cleverly gory. Mere words cannot describe how awesomely gnarly 'Piranha 3D' is, how hugely entertaining, and how urgently you must get yourself to the theatre to see it. Like, now."[30] HollywoodLife.com called the film "a campy masterpiece of a movie", adding "If you have an ounce of fun in your body, you will love this movie about killer piranhas that overtake a town of hotties — in 3D!"[31] Peter Hall of Cinematical.com said "The gore, the nudity, the language, the gags, the characters-- it's all always on the rise. Just when you think things could not possibly get more ridiculous, that the film has peaked, Aja and screenwriters Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg manage to ram another syringe of adrenaline into its heart."[32] The Hollywood Reporter referred to the film as "a pitch-perfect, guilty-pleasure serving of late-summer schlock that handily nails the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the Roger Corman original" while stating "Jaws it ain't -- Aja exhibits little patience for such stuff as dramatic tension and tautly coiled suspense, and there are some undeniable choppy bits...but he never loses sight of the potential fun factor laid out in Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg's script."[33] The Orlando Sentinel gave the film one and a half stars out of four, stating that "Piranha 3D goes for the jugular. And generally misses, but generally in an amusing way."[34]

Sequel

Due to the film's critical and commercial success within its first weekend, Dimension Films has announced a sequel to be in the works.[35] Dimension has also confirmed that they will hold a poll for fans to choose which celebrity they would like to see in the film.

References

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