JamesG
08-20-2010, 07:24 PM
Movie Reviews :Piranha 3D
As if there weren’t enough blood pouring through Piranha 3D, some critics are out for more.
“The carnage is relentless, even if it isn’t frightening,” Roger Moore scoffs in the Orlando Sentinel.
Moore is one of a handful of critics for whom the movie was screened.
(Lou Lumenick in the New York Post commented that all of the releases this week are “so bad that Piranha 3D looks good” to some of those critics.)
With Richard Dreyfuss parodying his own performance in Jaws and Christopher Lloyd parodying his in Back to the Future, there are a few good laughs, the critics say...
but, in the words of Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times, “Hey, is it too much to ask for a few scares? … The top priority for any horror moviemaker, even when tongue is planted firmly in cheek, should be building a better scare factor rather than figuring out how many 3-D boobs can be captured in a single frame.”
But Christy Lemire of the Associated Press treats the film as if it were a horror classic, writing: “Mere words cannot describe how awesomely gnarly this is, how hugely entertaining, and how urgently you must get yourself to the theatre to see it.
This is not a joke, by the way. This movie is a complete blast. To borrow a phrase from the kind of B-horror flicks to which Piranha 3D is such an effective homage: Run, don’t walk.”
-IMDB News
As if there weren’t enough blood pouring through Piranha 3D, some critics are out for more.
“The carnage is relentless, even if it isn’t frightening,” Roger Moore scoffs in the Orlando Sentinel.
Moore is one of a handful of critics for whom the movie was screened.
(Lou Lumenick in the New York Post commented that all of the releases this week are “so bad that Piranha 3D looks good” to some of those critics.)
With Richard Dreyfuss parodying his own performance in Jaws and Christopher Lloyd parodying his in Back to the Future, there are a few good laughs, the critics say...
but, in the words of Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times, “Hey, is it too much to ask for a few scares? … The top priority for any horror moviemaker, even when tongue is planted firmly in cheek, should be building a better scare factor rather than figuring out how many 3-D boobs can be captured in a single frame.”
But Christy Lemire of the Associated Press treats the film as if it were a horror classic, writing: “Mere words cannot describe how awesomely gnarly this is, how hugely entertaining, and how urgently you must get yourself to the theatre to see it.
This is not a joke, by the way. This movie is a complete blast. To borrow a phrase from the kind of B-horror flicks to which Piranha 3D is such an effective homage: Run, don’t walk.”
-IMDB News