The only shocking thing about the new movie from horror director Alexandre Aja is that it was released in theaters.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 9, 2023

It's a shame about the less than stellar CGI because aside from bad FX Aja's take on American Spring Break is amusing, utterly ridiculous and hilarious. Kudos to casting names like Rhames and Shue, but O'Connell steals this show.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 25, 2022

Delightfully absurd and over-the-top in all the right ways, Piranha 3D makes for a fantastically self-aware horror comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2022

You should go see Piranha 3D. Maybe on Friday night with a friend and your bodyweight in popcorn.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 19, 2021

Since many of the violent sequences depend on CG, they aren't always convincing; the moments that utilize prosthetics and makeup are briefer but far superior.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 30, 2020

It should be fairly obvious by a glimpse of the film's movie poster or trailer whether or not it's a film that will float your capsized boat.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

"Piranha" makes the best use of 3D technology in movie history.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 14, 2020

This isn't a film to ponder or meditate on. This is a visceral film filled with viscera. It succeeds entirely at being what it is intended to be.

| Apr 6, 2020

A welcome antidote to this season's often painfully self-serious blockbuster offerings.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 7, 2019

A bloody throwback that takes pride in its grindhouse roots. For fans of horror films -- and people looking for a good laugh -- you can do a lot worse.

| Original Score: B- | May 9, 2019

A deliberately trashy, but undeniably fun guilty-pleasure horror outing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2018

If the team behind Piranha is planning a sequel they will need to recast as many of the key players were eaten during the craziest 88 minutes I've ever spent in the cinema.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2017

Unapologetically gleeful about doling out the cinematic junk food that you're looking for when you sit down to devour something called, well, Piranha.

| Aug 26, 2015

The joy of Alexandre Aja's Piranha is that he is accomplishing nothing but a bloody entertaining good time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2013

Filled with recognisable faces, packed with excessive blood and gore and jokes as corny as they are hilarious, Piranha 3D is, if nothing else, the most honest and unpretentious piece of filmmaking of 2010.

| Sep 15, 2013

"Piranha 3D," although cliched, embraces its genre and is a highly-enjoyable fun B-movie.

| Original Score: 3.0/5 | Jan 5, 2013

I understand what the filmmakers were trying to do and they almost pulled it off, but there's no sense in making the audience slog through a dreary 40+ minutes before the fun actually begins.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2012

The best example of the level of art that Piranha 3D aspires to comes when a guy gets his dick chomped off and it gracefully floats down towards you in 3D.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2011

Piranha 3D is more funny than disgusting, even when screen fills with half-nude swimmers, bobbing like human dumplings in a roiling vat of borscht. This isn't just sick, it's clas-sick!

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2011

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 29, 2011