Released in 2010, "Mega Piranha" chronicles events when a mutant strain of increasingly-growing piranha escape from the Amazon Basis to threaten Florida. Tiffany stars as a researcher in the jungle while Paul Logan plays a kick-axx government agent and Barry Williams his superior back in the US. David Labiosa is on hand as a Hispanic militant in the jungle.While a little overweight, Tiffany makes for a likable protagonist and Logan is spot-on as a Rambo-ish action figure. The jungle and beach locations are good and there's quite a bit of action. Unfortunately, the story isn't very compelling, although it develops some drive by the last act. But it's all for naught as the cartoony CGI of the huge piranha and what they're able to do makes you bust out laughing rather than scare you (or impress you or whatever). As the story moves along, the colossal fish are shown jumping into water that's obviously too shallow for them to occupy. It just boggles my mind that The Asylum would blow all this money on cast and locations and then plague the flick with such lousy F/X. One worthy brief scene occurs during the beginning, however, when Tiffany's character amusingly pays tribute to the great "Apocalypse Now," which will be missed by most viewers because it's not one of the more popular lines from that movie. Speaking of Tiffany, she sings the end-credits' song "Frozen Skies" and it's pretty good.Bottom Line: Even viewed as a parody, "Mega Piranha" is bad, Mega Bad.The film runs 92 minutes and was shot in Belize, Los Angeles and Long Beach.GRADE: D (2.5/10 Stars)
... View MoreAfter a science experiment creates a series of rapidly-evolving piranhas is loosened upon Venezuela, a Special Forces team must stop them before they get to American soil eating their way through everything they can in the process.This one was a pretty typical Sci-Fi Channel creature feature, so this one has a ton of stuff to like about it. Among the best parts of this one is the film's rather big action scenes here, filled with plenty of high-energy scenes featuring the usual assortment of scenes here. There's the rather fun quicker encounters of the creatures launching attacks on the local's boat, a great battle with the Venezuelan soldiers against the creatures which quickly turns into a massive slaughter of the soldiers, a further salvage operation that gets wiped out by the creatures and a rather frantic chase scene in the jungle where the creatures take out the scientific expedition sent to study them which gets only more fun once it gets out of the jungle terrain as the scenes of them on the beach is quite fun. What makes all of these early scenes so enjoyable is that he fact that they're discovered and featured here quite early on, not only helping to deliver positives with the frantic pacing and full-on action but also brings about the rather impressive feat of making the authorities seem more logical and rational rather than the typical clueless authorities. As well, this furthers the main action along the later half here with some outstanding confrontations of the creatures attacking and chomping everything they can while the military tries to contain and destroy them resulting in the numerous creature attacks on submarines, boats, helicopters add then chewing through the city in a frantic city-wide destruction scenes that is highly enjoyable for its wide-spread sense of chaos and cheesy action. Added by the strong, fierce image of the creatures and frantic gore and bloodshed here, those are enough to hold off the few flaws. The biggest issue here is the rather lame storyline involving the general's attempts to track them down for his perception of their involvement in the situation. The rationale he uses to justify this makes no sense here as this simply screams like an excuse to turn him into a villain unnecessarily just to provide another obstacle to overcome. Not only that, but the fact that he continues going out of his way to get them results in some extreme measures that aren't questioned enough for what they've done. As well, there's also the usually-typical CGI for the creatures here which comes off rather lame trying to integrate the creatures into the scene or the action provided look goofy and unrealistic. These here are what hold this one down.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Language and Brief Nudity.
... View MoreAfter watching this big pile of s***, I was wondering how come the distributors allowed this movie to come out. This movie was made in 2010 with the special effects of the 60s. The end doesn't make any sense. Pretty much everything doesn't make any common sense.This movie is the worst movie I have ever seen by all aspects of it. I'm trying to find something positive about this movie but it's impossible. I saw pretty much every movie that came out for the last 20 years and this is the worse. I give it -10.This movie is a true mystery. How is it possible to distribute something like that? I make better movies with my phone watching nothing.
... View MoreOh,why did I record this? Maybe I thought it would be good but it was not.Boy what came upon me of WATCHING this?I mean they have this guy, right, who can kill the piranha by kicking them! Whats up with that?And the helicopter shoots 20 foot bullets at the river that kill 50 foot piranha, but I still see ducks.How do they survive?And it is not even titled right it should be Mega Horrible . And big,big piranha jumping OUT of water, in the city, and EXPLODING? Exploding? Really, wow.but they do tell how the fish' size comes about, the science experiment. This movie makes a new genre, Horr-able. But, there are 50 foot and up piranha killing people, right? That is very entertaining!And, besides, who cares if they're animated, can you do better?
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