[3.50/10] Piranha 3DD (2012)

Piranha 3DD (2012)

Brief review: Two years ago, French director Alexandre Aja managed to deliver a campy, funny, enjoyable and over-the-top gory reboot of "Piranha", that hit all the right notes. Now in 2012, "Feast" director John Gulager attempts to take things one step further, but fails miserably on pretty much ever single level. His rather unnecessary sequel promises to double the amount of horror, action and blood, but it's essentially a (much) worse version of 2010's "Piranha 3D", that relies heavily on the success of its well-executed predecessor. From the laughable double D title, to the terribly-written script, total lack of imagination and amateurish acting, everything about "Piranha 3DD" is a disaster, and it should have sent the movie straight out onto the DVD shelves, where it belongs. There's one decent thing about "Piranha 3DD", and this is the end credits, which are funnier than the actual movie. Visually and technically, this sequel also fails to succeed. Gulager's direction is all over the place, the CGIs are cheesy at best, and the piranhas themselves look like badly-made rubber toys. At least gore fans will be pleased, even though the gore itself is unimpressive and unsatisfying compared to the first movie and lacks the 'cool' factor. All the characters are one-dimensional and quite dumb, and Danielle Panabaker aside, not a single person here can act, not to mention David Hasselhoff's laughably bad cameo.

Overall summary: Unfunny, poorly-crafted and ridiculously copycat-ish, John Gulager's "Piranha 3DD" dares to compare itself with Aja's version, claiming it doubles the action, the terror, the gore and the nudity, but the only thing it doubles, no triples, successfully is the stupidity.