What makes it different from others?
Lack of good storyline.
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
View MoreGreat example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
View MoreThis movie was in my local Walmart $5.00 bin. I focused on the words, "Tiffany, nudity and adult situations." Fortunately the three did not meet. By the time Tiffany gets on the screen, the nudity is over and nothing to write home about. Like the Mega piranha, Tiffany has mutated and gotten huge, move over Sally Struthers. How big was she? She couldn't get raped in a Venezuelan prison. Likewise Paul Logan gives us his most unmemorable performance.The special effects were so bad, I was crying out for "Mega Shark". They had women on nuclear submarines with a control room that looked more like my living room, than an actual submarine control room. The Secretary of State describes the fish as traveling in "groups" (not schools). The fish absorb nutrients through the skin, yet jump on to land to eat people. In addition to battling various sizes of poorly generated computer fish, Tiffany and Logan must also battle rogue elements of the Venezuelan army.Unless you are into camp and have plenty of glaucoma medication, you might want to take a pass on this one.
View MoreReleased 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 MoreWe need them big, we need them strong, we need them more meaner... and so Asylum come up with giant piranha movie that is certainly bad directed, ugly edited, badly filmed with the camera... the camera man was obviously drunk nearly in every scene. Acting is amazingly disgusting... especially from our leading man Paul Logan. The story is about... well, you know, just like the movie title says... a giant piranhas. These piranhas mutated and grow bigger and bigger just to give us a terrible ending. A merciless scenes of large stupidity that insults intelligence. I don't know... was director Eric Frosberg drunk? High? Or maybe he's an idiot? I don't understand what makes Asylum going on and on to waste people's money and time with their Z movie crap. I mean there are such scenes in which people deliberately jumps off the boat into the water... so anxious to get eaten, huh? Paul Logan who defends himself from piranhas while on land by kicking them as they come on to him one after another... and the scene where all piranhas are jumping out of water on the land in some kamikaze style... don't think I made some spoiler here, I don't care, this movie already spoils your brain.Now, the actors... Our incredible leading man Paul Logan... damn... this guy... I have never seen a face like this for a long time. I thought that Steven Seagal is a master for having a same face for every emotional situation, well... Logan guy can inherit that style of acting from Seagal easily. Logan plays Finch a marine who is sent to investigate what happened in Amazon after a piranha attack. Logan, besides he can't change his face, he talks quietly in some scenes, he sounds like a retard... it's really amazing. And Tiffany... oh dear me... Just like Debbie Gibson, she has a washed up career in music, just like in the films. And just like Debbie Gibson... we can easily say for Tiffany that her life career is sealed with crap and no smart work at all. Tiffany... does she have a last name? That pretentious co*ksucking bi*ch... Her character is silly, does she look like a scientist to you? She doesn't even look like a heroine in the usual action film, she is fat and ugly... far from some sexy, "smart" scientist. Ugh. She and Logan made some kind of romantic connection in the film and that resulted with the kiss on the end, but... there was nothing emotional between them... nothing at all.Don't waste your time here... you have something better to do... kill yourself.
View MoreAnother Piranha movie and another movie from Asylum sums up this movie.There's not much story to this movie. The usual cast of government agent, scientist, the military, and innocent by standers that gets eaten by the monsters.Genetically altered piranha that was engineered to grow large to be the food supply for humans goes out of control, and makes humans into their food supply.I like asylum's movies in that there're no hide and seek that goes on with so many of the B sci-fi movies. Like everything happening in the dark, and people acting afraid, but the actual monster is no where to be seen except at the last 1 or 2 minutes. With Asylum's movie, the monsters are there in its full glory, and even with marginal CG, I'd much prefer this over garbage like the Dog Soldiers, or Carnosaur.So the movie didn't disappoint. It wasn't one of the best, but it wasn't the worst of the B movies by any means.
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