Tacky and intermittently entertaining is all"Piranha 3DD"sets out to be, and that is all this playfully graphic horror-comedy sequel accomplishes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2012

The first half of the film merely treads water in anticipation for the eventual bloodbath, and once the teeth start gnawing, it's just one laborious machination after another to get to the end of the movie, which stops without much of a resolution.

| Original Score: D+ | Jun 2, 2012

With most of the running time devoted to setting up and over-explaining the premise, mayhem gets short shrift.

| Jun 2, 2012

Though its title suggests new heights of outlandish comic gore (and bust sizes), Piranha 3DD feels awfully small in comparison with its predecessors.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 1, 2012

Gulager ... mostly seems to be trying to see how much he can degrade the old Jaws formula and still have it interpreted as parody rather than apathy.

| Original Score: D- | Jun 1, 2012

Piranha 3D was ridiculous, gory and fun, everything Piranha 3DD is not.

| Original Score: 2.5/10 | Jun 1, 2012

The director, John Gulager, has no idea how to mix his ingredients to create a savvy self-parody.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 1, 2012

It's not outrageous enough to warrant a you-gotta-see-this-to-believe-it screening, and the gore is nothing that gore fans haven't seen a hundred times before.

| Original Score: C | Jun 1, 2012

The outrageousness feels calculated and even desperate, with a final ten minutes packed with beheadings in the hopes that audiences will forget how lackluster the previous 73 minutes were.

| Jun 1, 2012

The labored spirit of dirty-old-man humor ... prevails.

| Jun 1, 2012

Not scary, not funny, not clever, "Piranha 3DD" is just a waste of time.

| Original Score: 0.5/5.0 | Jun 1, 2012

Disappointingly, Piranha 3DD, the inevitable sequel to the remake, has none of Dante's wit, Aja's directorial skills, or Greg Nicotero's grotesqueries.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jun 1, 2012

Like so much adolescent, made-for-guys comedy-horror, Piranha 3DD is so weirdly uptight about women you figure exhibitors should hand out teen health guides as well as 3-D glasses.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 1, 2012

As one character notes, "there's something in the water" all right, and apparently it's making movies (and audiences) progressively more stupid.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 31, 2012

John Gulager is neither artist nor genius, bringing only straight-to-video conviction to Piranha 3DD.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 27, 2012

Even the gore is sporadic, poorly staged and unimaginative: as a result, this is neither fish nor foul.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 15, 2012

Ups the self-parody so much that it's practically a Wayans Brothers spoof, albeit with fewer jokes.

| May 14, 2012

Not even the Hoff can save this one.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 11, 2012