Boy that’s a lot of D’s.

Behave!

The first movie was enjoyable for what it was meant to be – a ridiculous and totally over the top B movie.  It shocked everyone by making money and earning a fairly good box office, plus cult success on DVD.  Of course a sequel was going to happen.  But, like most sequels, everything memorable from the previous movie must be taken up a notch, whether it looks good and makes sense or not.

There are boobs, and lots of them.  Some nasty deaths which we all love.  Requisite teens having sex.  Genre actors that you love.  There is a certain sense of fun here, but it doesn’t hold up to the first movie.

Lets give you the plot points.  I would put up a spoiler warning here, but its not the kind of movie that really needs one.  The piranhas lay eggs in a cow.  Gary Busey and friend investigate the dead cow.  The cows death farts catch on fire, the bovine explodes, and the eggs are released.  Now both men get eaten, but not before Gary gets a fun moment in 3D.  Then we go to the water park, in which Champ Kind from Anchorman owns 51%.  The other nearly half of the park is owned by his late wife’s daughter and future convention circuit celebrity Danielle Panabaker (this movie, Friday the 13th, The Crazies, Sky High).  Danielle plays Maddy and Maddy is desired by two of the young bucks in town.

The piranhas have evolved to survive in chlorinated water.  The more chlorine content, the better and the water park has a double dose to kill off all the germs from people having sex.  We get the usual set up and back story.  The piranhas are on their way, Maddy finds out more information from Christopher Lloyd, we get some early deaths, Maddy and Sheriff Brody cant convince the mayor to close the beach.  Oh, I mean water park.  The piranhas come and attack all in site.  One of the guys does enough to get Maddy.  Lots of people that get speaking lines and character names in the movie end up dying.  Ving Rhames and David Hasselhoff get some fun moments.  All ends as well as it can, until we get the set up for a possible third film.

While there’s a great deal of boobs and gore, its not as good as in the first movie.  The predecessor had the propeller blades, the body falling apart while carried, the now iconic severed penis and more bloody effects.  This one has its own severed penis scene, but that is the only great gory scene.

On a recent episode of Aint It Cool the story was told that Piranha 3DD had to up the comedy so the gore could sneak under with an R rating.  That news, plus sequels almost always being crazier than the originals, had me excited.  Instead I got a made for Syfy movie with boobs.  I love Syfy movies too, but I was expecting more from this.

Its still fun, but I would highly recommend watching this with a group of friends.  Have some drinks, smoke up, and make your own Mystery Science Theater 3000.