Mega Piranha

2010 "They were created to save mankind. Something went wrong."
2.4| 1h32m| R| en
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When a science experiment goes horribly wrong, gigantic fish gain appetites for human flesh.

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Pluskylang Great Film overall
Konterr Brilliant and touching
Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
dannydc-07666 Mega Piranha is about a bunch of mutant piranha fish involving and growing stronger as they feed off humans, becoming twice the size after every victim. As they feast on humans, they work their way up river towards Florida, where everyone is at danger.The first impressions of this film weren't very good. As the CGI was terrible; but better than a lot of movies like this with poor CGI. After a while it gets better when the story gets going. Its mainly about different governments believing a theory on how a member of parliament was "assassinated". One country believe it was terrorism and another believe is was a violent animal attack. When we get introduced to Agent Finch (played brilliantly by Paul Logan) it takes us from his home to the Amazon River.When i brought this movie, i thought it was going to be a story of teenagers going on holiday, getting eaten 1 by 1 etc. But the story here made me feel relieved that it wasn't going to be anything like that.The piranha fish themselves were bad. They looked as unrealistic as ever and when they kept getting bigger, they looked even more ridiculous. Towards the end of the movie, they started jumping out of water and getting stuck in buildings. Extremely fake.Overall this film wasn't actually that bad, and i did get a lot more enjoyment out of it then i ever thought of. Whilst there are many piranha fish movies that are better than this one. I can see myself recommending this movie.
Wuchak 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)
SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain Scientists genetically modify piranhas. They start killing. People doubt it's the piranhas. They find out it is, the hard way. The is SciFi (or SyFy now) killer animal stuff. The growing piranhas and bad CGI gave me a few smiles, and the awful dialogue was memorable. But since The Asylum have already done Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, you kind of wish this Mega Piranha had a sea-folk to battle. Maybe, Mental Mermaid? Tiffany isn't much of an actress, in fact I don't think she was much of a singer. Paul Logan offers the muscles, and when he goes man-on-fish with a piranha in a knife fight, you believe he could win. In the expanding world of killer animal movies, this is one you can easily skip. I'm gonna wait for Piranha 3D.
Knighthawk701 The 4 stars I give to this movie are only for the fun factor as we had a great time watching it and making fun of it. The mistakes are too much to mention, the plot, dialog and characters are laughable and some scenes are just to bad to be funny, rather annoying. Some scenes are really over the top.I would like to mention the scene were the giant piranha's attack the US. The grow and grow and are as big as a submarine. They survive a nuclear explosion yet the hero and his SEAL buddies want to take them on using underwater guns that are build to shoot submarines??? Somehow this rocket-science idea fails and the hero (who only speaks monotone) goes to Miami to battle them at the beach. There they see the giant fish jumping out of the water wanting to eat a whole building and suiciding themselves. Sure...But at the beach he is attacked by some piranha's as big as small sharks. As the Van Damme clone he is he kicks them while sitting on the ground. Not one, but a dozen. After he kicks off the piranhasoccerteam, he keeps sitting on the beach talking with his back turned to the water as if there was not a chance he will be attacked.I also would like to mention the many movie mistakes, like the Venzuelan army flying US choppers, the US sub that in the next shot turns into a Russian sub, the US destroyer that is first showed as stock footage of the landing ship and then turns into an Iowa battleship. The car chase that features 2 groups of people that seem to be changing cars during the middle of the chase. The hero drives 3 different cars and the bad guys first drive a brand new SUV then the next shot it turns 10 years old.In short order, a real Syfy-channel classic!