Movie review of Mega Piranha
DAMIEN’S RATING of Mega Piranha: 0 – Warning: do not watch this movie! Seeing this movie is like watching puppies being tortured while listening to the sound of fingernails scraping on a chalkboard in a room filled with smoke from burning hair.
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Mega Piranha reviewed in 25 words or less: An astonishingly bad movie.
FULL REVIEW of Mega Piranha
Mega Piranha is a made-for-TV movie. It is billed in the horror and science fiction genres. Mega Piranha stars Paul Logan, Tiffany, Barry Williams and David Labiosa. Mega Piranha was directed by Eric Forsberg.
Mega Piranha is truly a horrific movie. I can find nothing even remotely nice to say about it. The script, the effects, the continuity, the acting, the worn out storyline, the camera work and the editing were all atrocious.
In Mega Piranha, some scientists in the Amazon are working on making genetic modifications to fish. The goal of the scientists is to make fish grow bigger, faster. The point of their goal is to feed more people with fish. Naturally, they use genetic manipulation in their attempts to achieve their goal. Well, the local piranha somehow become effected by what the scientists are doing, thus causing them not only to grow at an exponential rate, but also to become inordinately aggressive – and also able to leap great distances out of the water: both vertically and horizontally. In Mega Piranha, you’re not safe in a helicopter or an inland motel room. Or a nuclear submarine or Navy cruiser, either.
Mega Piranha starts with a scene on a small boat on the Amazon. On the boat are some topless girls and an American diplomat, as well as an Argentine diplomat. Their boat is attacked and sunk by the altered piranha, and all the boat’s occupants are eaten – save for an arm and a leg or two, which for some reason the monster fish don’t consume. Since an American diplomat is involved, a high ranking American official sends in the go-to-guy to find out what happened. For the next few minutes of the movie I was in sort of a blue funk, and missed some details. I couldn’t get one thought out of my head: what were these high ranking government officials from two countries doing on a small tributary of the Amazon River in such a small boat with no security? I finally concluded that they had gone there so that nobody would see them with the overweight, topless women.
As per usual, I perused the internet for reviews of Mega Piranha before writing my own. And as expected, I found some (very few) reviews that were extremely favorable. These reviews must surely be written by ‘friends’ of this terrible movie.
Mega Piranha, unlike some really bad movies, isn’t even worth watching to laugh at the acting and effects. In Mega Piranha, these things go beyond funny – all the way to sad and appalling.
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