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Summary: Flying killer fish? Hey, why not?
Review: "The greatest film about flying Piranha ever made". Well, Jim Cameron definetly called it right on this one. About as "guilty" as guilty pleasures get, this stubborn but very watchable "mother nature run amok" B-movie will probably best be known as the directorial debut of James Cameron who would later go on to make a couple of small unknown indie films called Terminator 2 and Titanic. This name-only sequel to the Roger Corman cult classic has a rather silly premise involving a strand of mutated killer piranha with the ability to fly who are terrorizing an island resort. Of course, the resort's driving instructor (Tricia O'Neil) wants to close down the water activities but her boss isn't having it. Her estranged husband, the island's law enforcement (a young Lance Henriksen) is skeptical at first but when dead bodies keep piling up, he starts thinking otherwise. "Piranha II" is no Jaws in any way but it gets the job done as far as "late night creature features" are concerned. The special effects leave a lot to be desired as we get to see actors battle with fish on a string but it's all in good fun. The DVD has no added special features and is only available in its full-frame format.
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Summary: Flying killer fish? Hey, why not?
Review: "The greatest film about flying Piranha ever made". Well, Jim Cameron definetly called it right on this one. About as "guilty" as guilty pleasures get, this stubborn but very watchable "mother nature run amok" B-movie will probably best be known as the directorial debut of James Cameron who would later go on to make a couple of small unknown indie films called Terminator 2 and Titanic. This name-only sequel to the Roger Corman cult classic has a rather silly premise involving a strand of mutated killer piranha with the ability to fly who are terrorizing an island resort. Of course, the resort's driving instructor (Tricia O'Neil) wants to close down the water activities but her boss isn't having it. Her estranged husband, the island's law enforcement (a young Lance Henriksen) is skeptical at first but when dead bodies keep piling up, he starts thinking otherwise. "Piranha II" is no Jaws in any way but it gets the job done as far as "late night creature features" are concerned. The special effects leave a lot to be desired as we get to see actors battle with fish on a string but it's all in good fun. The DVD has no added special features and is only available in its full-frame format.
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Summary: OK.We all know this kinda sucks.IT'S STILL WORTH WATCHING!!!
Review: ...this was not as good as it's 78 original movie. .... OK, you wanna know the plot? I'll tell ya. There's a mutated strin of piranha in the water AND in THE AIR! That's right. THEY CAN FLY! We're gonna need a bigger rod! I like when the nurse shoos the two main c's(characters) out of the morgue. Then the gory body corpse is shown. Then, a piranha pops out and heads for the nurse's throat. He brutally tore it up! ...
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Summary: They're Back...
Review: At the end of Roger Corman's film Piranha, there is the implication that some of the deadly fish could get to and survive in the ocean. Well, this is sort of the follow-up to that idea, but in this one the fish can fly! I kid you not. They are also much bigger than their predecessors (probably to make it easier for the cast to interact with the wind-up props). Lacking from this film is the original's complex plot. No secret military lab. No secret investments. No summer camp with the hero's daughter. None of it. It does have star power however. Lance Henricksen stars (and does a reasonable job) and James Cameron directs. I have to say that the original is better and has more tension. The addition of flying just went too far and pulled the plug on this one. People are scared of sharks. They are scared of piranha. They are real. Giant flying piranha are not and therefore can not build the same scare factor. Still, B-Film and creature film fans will want to watch this one.
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Summary: Everyone needs to start somewhere!
Review: Before Titanic, True Lies, T2, The Abyss, Aliens, AND The Terminator, came PRIANAH II: THE SPAWNING! How to start this review! Basically Piranah II is quite simply one cheap corny laughable horror movie that one cannot help but laugh while watching. But then, in the end titles what do you see but James Cameron as the director! Thats right! One of the greatest film makers of the past century started out by making a movie about flying fish! Honestly while watching this you wonder "well it could've worked...or not" Every directors starts out small and before you know it you have a movie that wins 11 oscars! This movie is actualy and inspiration for aspiring film makers such as myself to not get discouraged if a movie compleltly tanks in movie history. Everyone needs to start somewhere and for James Cameron that was Piranah II! Lets give it up for those flying fish people!
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Summary: Um, please! Duh!
Review: Ha ha. Very funny. Unless you like flying piranhas, this is one poor, stupid zero. Duh.
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Summary: James Cameron's Finest
Review: I believe "Piranha II" is easily James Cameron's finest film. I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Cameron when he describes it as "without a doubt, the finest flying piranha movie ever made."
I found it much richer and more entertainng although it never attained the popularity acheived by his later epic. "Piranha II" has the additional benefit of not having Leonardo DiCaprio in it, which alone makes this fine entry superior to "Titanic".
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Summary: PRETTY GOOD.......
Review: I like this movie despite its lousy storyline. The concept of flying piranha eating people was pretty good and the movie has its scary moments. The piranha effect was fake but acceptable considering the movie was made more than 10 years ago. The music score was not bad. A fun watch.
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Summary: What The F#$k!?
Review: I swear, not one day after ranting to a coworker about how Cameron would use his Hollywood clout and power to forever supress this utterly stupid film from release on DVD, there it is, on the freakin' shelf! Well, shut my mouth! I was stunned. I remember, as a kid, renting the original VHS back in 1985. Even then, and still today, I thought "Who paid for this and how drunk were they?!" It's an utter nonsense ride but it does have a certain perverse charm. I mean, who can't get a grin out of cross-bred piranha and flying fish. Even more, these mutants actually FLAP there wings like a bird, allowing flight over great distances! Everyone knows flying fish only jump out of the water and glide a very short distance before splashdown. I guess they figured they might as well run all the way with the idea! So whacky it must be seen to be believed! I guess we'll see Galaxy Of Terror out on DVD soon, since Cameron was the set director on that one (I think Bill Paxton was one of his carpenters, too!) At least he made it up to Lance Henrickson with the role of Bishop in ALIENS,
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Summary: good idea, bad everything else
Review: I was surprised to find out that it was james cameron who made the film, but I wasn't surprised to find out it was his debut. It started out really wierd with these 2 people making out in a sunken ship of all places then the piranha attack, obviously. Then the diving instructor(Tricia O' Neil) leads people into the wreck of the ship and guess what they find, you guessed it, a chewed up body, regular piranha eat all the way to the bone, these piranha only eat the skin. Then after perimedics take the body away Tricia O' Neil and some other guy go to the place where they put the body and then the nurse on duty shoes them out and then she looks at the body and a piranha flys out making a hissing noise, rips her throat out and flys out the window just like some sort of massive homicidal maniac leaving the whole body then at the spawning the piranha do the same thing there except this time theres a swarm. Its such a perdictable movie you don't have to watch the whole thing to know whats going to happen. But cameron made up for it with alien.
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