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The three-dimensional effect embellishes the action in 87 minutes of concerted horror in Alexandre Aja’s Piranha 3D
But the horror, sustained like the original The Exorcist, is very much predictable. The setting very much like in Jaws where this beachside town lives on tourists. Young guys and girls, having a whale of a time, gyrating to loud music in briefs and bikinis. Maybe the boobs in their infinite variety are there for dramatic relief and one geeky party guy (Bo Jacober) gets his just desserts after making himself quite repulsive.
But it is also a family drama with Sheriff Forester (Elizabeth Shue) having her teenage son Jake (Stephen McQueen) and his siblings at the mercy of the killer fish. The screenplay by Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg is at best fair but director Alexandre Aja of The Hills Have Eyes fame has a nose for horror and once he gets going he has his foot jammed to the floor. Soft horror, it may be, but the 3D effect embellishes the action. Close-ups of blood-splashing attacks, bodies dismembered and underwater sequences follow in quick succession to heighten the horror. It is 87 minutes of concerted horror but the hero is the killer fish with the players not having to stretch themselves unduly. Elizabeth Shue, who first came on the scene in some Baby-sitting movie is two decades older but has not shown much of her earlier promise and cameos by Christopher Lloyd and Kelly Brook scarcely help. Jessica Szohr is a fresh new face but it will be hard to recognise Jaws star Richard Dreyfuss in his hairy disguise. Despite its misgivings, Piranha 3D should keep horror fans happy.
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The
man-eating killer fish, remember? After Jaws came this new
predator in Joe Duane’s Piranha. That was way back in 1978
and then the sequel four years later. But they seemed to have lost
their box-office draw after that. Now almost three decades later,
Hollywood is trying to regurgitate the same old formula with the help
of new technology in Piranha 3D and this could well pass off
for the new Jaws.
