{"id":7354,"date":"2010-05-08T18:48:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T07:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2010-05-09T17:13:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T06:13:46","slug":"piranha-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/08\/piranha-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Piranha 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"

The piranha in The Asylum’s “shadow” blockbuster Mega Piranha<\/em><\/a> are, as the name suggests, really big. But I always assumed that the titular aquatic beasties in the upcoming official remake of Joe Dante’s 1978 original (Piranha 3D<\/em>, directed by The Hills Have Eyes<\/em> remake alumni Alexandre Aja) would be just an ordinary, if peculiarly vicious, mutant species. But no! Seems they’re prehistoric and hence reasonably over-sized (for piranha), no longer created by pollution or science-gone-wrong, but released through a fracture in the seabed from the basement-level ocean depths where they’ve been confined.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, though the plot looks like the typical post-Jaws<\/em> rip, combined with the gormless and hormone-fried youth on holidays trope, the presence of those neat CGI fish and Back to the Future<\/em>‘s Christopher Lloyd make this a more attractive 90 minutes or so than I’d thought.<\/p>\n

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And I’ll happily skip the 3D…<\/p>\n

Addendum<\/strong>: A couple more images courtesy of Kaiju Search-Robot Avery.<\/p>\n

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