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Piranha 3D (2010). The problem for exceptional directors is that when they just want to have some fun in making a movie, there will be scores of people that just don't get it. Still, people that expected a movie with the feel of High Tension from the remake of Piranha must be suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome. This movie was obviously meant to be a horror comedy and from that it point it delivers swimmingly.

Men that complained of the gratuitous nudity should either divorce their oppressive wives or have their man cards revoked. Yep, there are a lot of boobs floating around. I particularly like the choreography of the mermaid ballet scene.

What might not seem apparent is that this movie delights in making fun of itself. Those gruesome over the top waves of carnage were not meant to scare, but to draw delicious laughter from that naughty place in our skulls where such frivolity should not seem funny but still is.

Though not great, the acting was surprisingly good for such a trashy delight. In fact, superior acting would have been a wasted effort.

My only criticism, and this is a minor slight, would have been to shorten the contest scene as it quickly became boring. That said, the navigation through the sea of humanity scene was hilariously stupid. Loved it!

The effects were perfect here. The gore was unwholesome fun. When the effects were made to be unbelievable it was more to tickle the funny bone and was in no way an inept endeavor. To have made many of the scenes more believable would have detracted from the fun, and fun was the whole point.

Great moments abound. The opener with a certain hero of an ocean movie classic should have alerted viewers just what they were in for. For sheer movie magnificence, Ving's moment of glory creating a bay full of fish puree was one of many outrageous highlights, which seemed the whole point, to be a mere monument of outrage.

I almost feel sorry for those that could not see the entertainment value of this movie, insisting that the director should have remained true to form instead of reveling in the audacious smarm that this flick's genre demanded.
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