Piranha 3DD

"Twice the Teeth. Twice the Terror."

2012 1h 23m EN

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After the events at Lake Victoria, the prehistoric school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into swimming pools, plumbing, and a newly opened water park.

“Twice the Teeth. Twice the Terror.”

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Cast

Danielle Panabaker
Maddy
Matt Bush
Barry
Katrina Bowden
Shelby
Jean-Luc Bilodeau
Josh
David Koechner
Chet
Chris Zylka
Kyle
Adrian Martinez
Big Dave
Paul James Jordan
Travis

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: John Gulager
Writers: Joel Soisson, Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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83 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 14 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Piranha 3D Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by John Gulager, shot by Alexandre Lehmann. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Elia Cmiral. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Devin C. Lussier shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Danielle Panabaker and Matt Bush and Katrina Bowden carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Twice the Teeth. Twice the Terror.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

John Gulager directs. Alexandre Lehmann behind the camera. Elia Cmiral scores. Devin C. Lussier cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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183 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 14 years ago.
3Part of the "Piranha 3D Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by John Gulager, shot by Alexandre Lehmann. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Elia Cmiral. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Devin C. Lussier shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Danielle Panabaker and Matt Bush and Katrina Bowden carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Twice the Teeth. Twice the Terror.".
9IMDB entry: tt1714203 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 10 themes, including "animal attack", "sequel", "breast", "creature".
11Released under 11 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Alexandre Lehmann
Original score: Elia Cmiral
Editing: Devin C. Lussier
Production design: Ermanno Di Febo-Orsini
Costume design: Carol Cutshall
Makeup / hair: Cecilia Veradi
VFX supervisor: Jeff Lietz
Stunt coordinator: John Copeman
Runtime: 83 min · 1h 23m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $5,000,000
Box office: $8,493,728
Return: 170% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Piranha 3DD (2012)

Part of

Piranha 3D Collection

A comedy horror film series inspired by and a remake of the 1978 film Piranha.

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John Chard2014-05-20
★ 1/10
The joke is firmly on us. I myself like a lot of cinematic offerings that require the brain to be left at the door. There's something very calming about being able to sit back and drive oneself into a movie with absolutely no worries about themes, agendas, politico posturing and etc. What shouldn't be tolerated is when film makers ask you to not only leave your brain at the door, but to also dribble with it and slam dunk it into the nearest garbage can. Alexandre Aja's 2010 redux of Piranha was a whole bunch of fun, even away from the 3D, in 2D form it had a devilish glint in its eye, but this on the other hand is an embarrassment to all involved. Who doesn't love the female form? Whatever your sexual proclivities et al, you would have to be dead to not appreciate the splendour of Eve's offspring. But when it's your main selling point, when you are only trying to please a very small movie watching demographic, then you got problems. John Gulager (director in the broadest context of the word) wants to craft a Porky's for this latest hairy palmed generation, whilst he even thinks a touch of Grindhouse might curry favour with the mall rats and skaters. Everything about this picture stinks, the acting, the hopeless attempts at suspense, badly timed jokes, poor stereotyping, laughable effects work, and on it goes. Standing up and saying it's meant to be tacky, corny and tongue in cheek just doesn't cut the mustard here, bad film making is just that, especially when it's done purely to make money. Right, I'm off to dive into a tank full of piranha fish, because that will surely be better than having to ever sit through this movie again. 1/10
Kenneth Axel Carlsson2014-12-28
★ 0.5/10
The piranhas are back. Why? Not really sure, don't really care. But they are, and its a sad sight. This time they manage to lure their way into a water park, and you surely imagine what will happen. An endless amount of pointless killings, blood... everywhere. There are people too, mind you, a virgin, a greedy dude, a celebrity lifeguard, a couple of innocent youths and a corrupt cop, and more... but it matters not, they can't save eachother, and they certainly can't save this movie. I have to admit, I knew what I was going into, but I still sad down and watched it. It was painful to say the least, and the few laughs that were provided, were... horrible forced laughs. I would really like to know which people love these type of movies and why they watch them. Why I watched it, you ask? I wish I had a good answer. Anyways, my days watching anything remotely like this, are... over. Last words...
Gimly2017-07-10
★ 4/10
Inventive title, 'Hoff cameo, Josh cut off his penis. Piranha 3DD leans in hard on the stupid factor of the franchise, had this been coupled with a little more humour, that'd totally work, unfortunately, it's more dumb than fun. Still a pretty good time if this is your sort of thing, but less so than even its predecessor. Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.