"If you hope to see lots of nubile young girls flashing their boobs and even more of them gruesomely eaten alive while the local authorities try to think of a way to save them, then Piranha 3D is bang on the money and unashamedly so. Take a look at the Piranha 3D poster or watch the trailer online. You’ll know by the end if you want to see it and if you do, then you’ll have a blast." Mike Barnard FUTURE MOVIES UK "So good-natured in its approach to trashy entertainment that it's hard to resist the ride. Provided you're not too busy vomiting in the aisles." Geoff Berkshire METROMIX "The new Piranha 3D lived down to my absolute lowest expectations and I say that with nothing but gleeful affection." Beth Accomando KPBS "Delivers exactly what you'd expect: gushers of blood, ripped flesh by the kilo, and acres of bare booty and boobs (some of them real)." Kurt Loder MTV "Piranha 3D goes for the jugular. And generally misses, but generally in an amusing way." Roger Moore ORLANDO SENTINEL "It's hard to imagine how scenes of mass dismemberment set during a wet T-shirt contest could be staged any better." Owen Gleiberman ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "Do you want to see often-naked spring breakers being eaten alive by flesh-eating fish, with body parts floating directly toward your face in 3D? If you answered "yes," then you are my kind of person. A gory, self-aware joyride that is insane in all the right ways." Mike McGranaghan AISLE SEAT

"This campy B-flick is the best offering from the tongue-in-cheek genre since Snakes on a Plane, another gratuitous gore fest with a good sense of humor. First of all, understand that this film’s rating is well-earned, being laced with lots of sex, vivisection and eroticized violence. Beware, Hell hath no fury like a school of hungry, teen-eating piranhas!" Kam Williams THE LOOP 21 "80,000 gallons of fake blood, extreme violence, gore, terribly cheesy dialogue, legit scares, high tension, porn stars and a wet T-shirt contest all in 3D. Are you sold yet?" Kevin McCarthy BDK REVIEWS "Aja rejects the victim mentality of horror for the past ten years and crafts a legit throwback to the classic slasher doubling as Morality Play. Well done." Jimmy O FILM SNOBS "Not for the squeamish or faint-hearted, it's sicko scary, spewing gallons-upon-gallons of R-rated graphic bloody gore. Not surprisingly, a succulent sequel is in the works. Christopher Lloyd does a cleverly crazed cameo as a marine-life expert assessing piranha risk and Ving Rhames scores as a tough deputy." Susan Granger SGS "Somehow, Aja manages to turn this ugly beast into a beautifully choreographed 3D tone poem about lust, sex, death, and mayhem. An awe-inspiring, stomach-churning journey into blood, gore, and boobs directed by one of France's most talented horror auteurs, Alexandre Aja. 'Piranha 3D,' a suspenseful, successful chomp romp." Tirdad Derakhshani PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER "Piranha was a cheeky, well-written rip-off of Jaws but Alexandre Aja’s remake piles on blood letting and gratuitous nudity in the belief nothing succeeds like excess. The film delivers exactly what horror fans like and what the rest of us loftily dismiss as low-rent rubbish." DAILY EXPRESS ENTERTAINMENT

The Inside Story In the wake of the success of triple Oscar® winner "Jaws" in 1975, another underwater predator was quickly presented on the screen that countered the size of Steven Spielberg’s merciless eating machine with quantity. Instead of one large menace, "Piranha" (starring Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Keenan Wynn and Barbara Steele as Dr. Mengers) introduced hundreds of lethal, voracious nibblers on the big screen in 1978. With the assistance of director Joe Dante, executive producer Roger Corman and acclaimed screenwriter John Sayles, the film knowingly put a spin on the Jaws formula with a tongue in cheek twist. In 1981, "Piranha" would birth a sequel, "Piranha II: Flying Killers", directed by James Cameron, and in 1995 a made for TV redo, "Roger Corman Presents Piranha" . However, none of these films would come close to pushing the levels of fear Dimension Films and director Alexandre Aja would explore over three decades later in "Piranha 3D". Aja, the director of extreme horror offerings such as "High Tension" (2003) and "The Hills Have Eyes" (2006), says Piranha is "a desire for me to get back to the feeling of the '80s. That kind of guilty pleasure movie that was so instantly cool when I was growing up. A movie where it could be as scary as it is fun: where there was a lot of nudity and gore; just an amazing, entertaining ride." When Aja was first introduced to the script written by Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg, the director had other film commitments. He was re-introduced to the property years later. "I said this is exactly the base of what I would love to do," Aja recalls. "I want to go back to that Spring Break under attack concept and I want to increase the fear, I want to increase the gore, I want to increase the action pieces, I want to develop the characters. I really want to make it feel really big. And Dimension and Executive Producer Bob Weinstein ("Inglourious Basterds") let me do that." And what can audiences expect? "I think the audience is going to be in for the ultimate ride. It’s Spring Break craziness that turns into a huge disaster movie when the piranha show up and attack everyone. You know you’re going to have fun, you know you’re going to be scared." If Aja manages to make audiences second guess going into the water, then he has done his job. "You always think about the kind of fear you’re exploring when you’re making a horror movie. When I was doing "Mirrors", I was really hoping, and I think I did manage, to create some kind of trauma with the mirrors you have in your home. And, after "Jaws" can you really create another movie that’s going to traumatize another generation?" Executive producer Alix Taylor ("P2") believes so. "I think it’s a completely visceral ride. It’s got naked girls, crazy fish, great actors, a fun story line, and 3-D. Producer Mark Canton is saying it’s the "Jaws" of our time, but I think it’s even more than that. It’s just even more fun." "Can you imagine watching a real horror movie in 3-D?" That was the question Aja posed to his writing and producing partner Greg Lavasseur ("Break of Dawn") while in script development on "Piranha 3D". At the time, James Cameron's "Avatar" was still a highly secretive project, but the looming spectacle played on the two mens curiosity. "When you making a movie," Aja says, "what you’re working on is to create the best emotion possible for the audience. You try to make a film that’s not only something that you want to watch on the screen, but something that becomes an experience, because fear and suspense is only about forgetting that you’re watching a movie." Aja believed 3D would heighten both the story and the FX and it didn’t take long for him to convince Dimension. The 3D technology widened the tapestry of horror for Aja, not only allowing him to amplify the carnage he wanted to bring to the screen, but to place his audience face-to-face with the film’s eponymous threat. "I grew up going to see Captain EO in Disneyland and Piranha is like that very extreme 3D theme park attraction. Making Piranha was exactly like drawing the blueprint of a theme park attraction or drawing the blueprint of a roller coaster<" Aja explained. "It was made to be the opposite of Avatar in terms of 3-D: everything is coming out of the screen; everything is flying at you. Because the story was made for that. It’s Spring Break under attack by prehistoric piranha! It’s a justified feeling; we don’t have to hide and say, 'Oh, we are too gimmicky, or we are too over-the-top.' No, we are making this over the top experience, and the 3-D is there to make it unforgettable." Strength was the primary attribute Aja as looking for in the films leading protagonist: Lake Victoria’s Sheriff Julie Forester, a mother who must contend with her rebellious older son (Jake), her two other younger children (Laura & Zane), a horde of Spring Break revelers partaking in all manner of debauchery and the unexpected arrival of the piranha. The director scoured Hollywood for someone not only capable of facing "twenty thousand kids every year and be tough, but someone who could show weakness when the disaster hits her own people, be human enough to bring the audience to that nightmare genre where after saving or trying to save a town she has to save her family and her kids." Aja found his required qualities in 1985 Young Artist Award actress Elisabeth Shue (Ali Mills in 1994's "The Karate Kid"). The physicality of the role really attracted me and Alex," Shue says. "I think if it was any other director I might not have been as interested, but knowing what a talented director he is, and his work in the past, and knowing that he would take this fun popcorn movie premise and deepen it, create more tension and drama, make it as artistic as it could possibly be, excited me." The actress admits to doing very little training in preparation for the role aside from her daily tennis routine. The rigors of the production was training in and of itself, from the heat felt on location in Arizona, to shooting on the water, to the stunts. "My favorite moment was probably when I got to do my first stunt," she recalls, "but it seemed too dangerous for me to do, and I wanted to do it so badly. Alex was so sweet in letting me do it. I was so scared, my heart was pounding through my chest. It’s just after the massacre has happened where hundreds of Spring Break kids have just been eaten by these killer fish, and I get a call from my son saying that he is out on a boat with my kids." For Jake (Forester’s oldest son), Aja turned to Steven R McQueen, grandson of the legendary Steve McQueen, 1967 & '70 Golden Globe Henrietta Award. "He had that potential; a young Matt Dillon feel to him that was very interesting material for me to work as a filmmaker," Aja notes, " because he had that kind of naïve way of saying things, and being that teenager that wants to experiment at Spring Break. But when danger shows up he has the skill and strength inside him to make a difference." In addition to Shue and McQueen, Aja called in Adam Scott, Jessica Szohr, Ving Rhames, Brooklynn Proulx, Sage Ryan and Jerry O'Connell for the mayhem along with a few casting surprises like Christopher Lloyd as Mr Goodman and Richard Dreyfuss as Matt Boyd. Of course, there's only one 'Doc': three time EMMY award winner, Christopher Lloyd, whose screen career started in 1975 with the role of Taber in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", winner of five Oscars®. "Growing up with the "Back to the Future" movies, I didn’t think it was possible to get him," Aja revealed."I have to thank Bob Weinstein for that. So I got Christopher Lloyd and he came for a very, very, very long day that I will describe as a week of shooting in one day, and he did an amazing performance that is going to please so many people." But the best cameo of the movie is something that came as a crazy idea while they were writing the script. "We were always opening the movie with a fisherman in the middle of an earthquake, and getting killed by whatever is under the water. I was thinking about who can play that," Aya recalls. A familiar pang of cynicism arose in Aja and the director never believed he could get 1978 Oscar winner Dreyfuss ("The Goodbye Girl"). Ultimately, the stars aligned "and Richard Dreyfuss showed up on set for that scene. He’s completely aware of what he’s doing. The wardrobe he has is the Matt Hopper wardrobe. The glasses are exactly designed for him as the Matt Hooper glasses in "Jaws". Everything is the same. He is singing the same song, "Show Me The Way To Go Home" in the opening of the movie. And Richard was so playful with it. I just it’s best cameo. It’s not even a cameo, it’s better than that because it’s like another character is stepping from one movie to another movie and coming back." Aja faced a tricky balance when it came to designing the film’s prehistoric piranha FX. Delving into research material concerning deep sea fish, the director juggled between depicting the piranha realistically or going completely radical in their features. If he chose the latter route, "we’d lose that feeling of piranha that everyone has because everyone knows piranha. They are a universal animal. When you think piranha, you think about a thousand fish coming: eating you and being very, very aggressive. If you change them and you turn them into monsters, they’re not piranha anymore; they are just some type of monster." While Aja reunited with Greg Nicotero ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" & "Predators"), Howard Berger ("Transformers" & "Inglourious Basterds") and their team from KNB EFX on practical effects, the director called upon 2007 Satellite Award winning visual effects artist Derek Wentworth ("300") to bring the digital piranha to life. Over two hundred and fifty effects shots were required for "Piranha 3D" which Wentworth ("Pitch Black") describes as, "a huge undertaking." On the grocery list of the film’s larger scenes: A sequence near the opening of the film when two divers are first introduced to "thousands of computer simulated fish killing them." And then there is the Spring Break massacre. "We’ve got literally about a hundred people in the water splashing around, freaking out," Wentworth says. "There’s a lot going on in the water, there’s people jumping off of boats, and so we have to isolate every single one of those people and put in the piranha around them. And the way to do that is you basically put one digital stunt person per person in the water doing roughly their action and set the piranha loose in amongst that, and they will try and go for those people and avoid them if they need to. It’s a huge sequence and very complicated." Aja explained: "When you do CG piranha, it’s very easy to create them in 3-D and that increases the effect. It was my first CG creature movie, and I wanted it to be as perfect as possible." Perfection for some (especially the male component of the audience) will be the appearance of model, actress, presenter, business woman and pin-up, Kelly Brook. Shock, horror! 5' 8" brunette Brook, teams up with 5' 7" blonde Riley Steele for a titillatting, nude swim scene. Oh well, it is spring break! What It's All About

Sleepy Lake Victoria is usually a pretty quiet place, but every year the population of the town explodes from five thousand to fifty thousand for Spring Break; a riot of sun, sex, wet t-shirt comps and drunken fun. But this year, there's something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers; because a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on the waters of Lake Victoria. Unbeknowns to everyone, a sudden underwater tremor has set free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish. The first clue that something is wrong comes when local resident and keen fisherman, Matt Hooper, is reported missing. When his mangled body is found by local sherrif Julie Forester, the alarm bells start ringing. Now an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves and those celebrating Spring Break from becoming fish food for the deadly razor-toothed residents.

The Verdict "How do you get rid of fifty thousand college kids who have invaded your usually quiet, lakeside town for Spring Break? Unleath thousands of ferocious, razor-toothed Piranhas upon them. But not just any old Piranhas. Make sure they are (1) of the prehistoric variety, (2) thay have huge, make that very huge, razor-sharp teeth and finally, make sure they are hungry: really hungry. All that's left now, is to sit back and watch the deadly creatures rip, shred and devour, their hapless victims. Mind you, it won't be a pretty sight. Especially if its all played out in glorious, gorey 3-D. Whoa! Hold back for a moment. Spring Break does offer some guilty pleasures. You know what I mean. Wet T-shirt comps; babes baring breasts in a wonderful variety of shapes and sizes; skimpy swimwear; erotic dancing and, if that isn't enough, how about gorgeous supermodel Kelly Brook and Riley Steele getting their gear off for a titillatting, underwater, nude swim scene. Priceless! Sounds good eh? Yep, right up until those rotten Piranhas start feasting on their unsuspecting victims. It's a merciless assault on the fragile bodies of those who don't heed the warning and won't get out of the water. Now it's too late to escape. It's not a pretty sight. But it is after all, only a film. And it is in 3-D. 3 STARS." Who's Playing Who?

Elisabeth Shue Ving Rhames Jerry O'Connell Steven R McQueen Brooklynn Proulx Sage Ryan Christopher Lloyd Eli Roth Jessica Szohr Kelly Brook Riley Steele Adam Scott Ricardo Chavira Dina Meyer Paul Scheer Cody Longo Brian Kubach Ashlynn Brooke Richard Dreyfuss

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Julie Forester Deputy Fallon Derrick Jones Jake Forester Laura Forester Zane Forester Mr Goodman Wet T-Shirt Host Kelly Danni Crystal Novak Sam Paula Andrew Todd Dupree Brett Cheerleader Matt Hooper

The Production Team Directed by Alexandre Aja Written by Pete Goldfinger & Josh Stolberg Produced by Alexandre Aja/Mark Canton/Grégory Levasseur/Marc Toberoff Original Music by Michael Wandmacher Cinematography by John R. Leonetti Film Editing by Baxter Casting by Alyssa Weisberg Production Design by Clark Hunter Art Direction by Marisa Frantz Set Decoration by Marcia Calosio Costume Design by Sanja Milkovic Hays Run Time 89 minutes Rated MA15+ [AUST] Copyright ©2010 - The Weinstein Company - All Rights Reserved ©1999-2010 The Movie Pages & impact Internet Services. All Rights Reserved. Protected by Australian and International Copyright. Trademark Laws and Intellectual Property Rights apply.