The piranha attack scenes are handled with minimal grace, giving us plenty of nice, long looks at just how fake the props are.
Piranha 2: The Spawning (1982)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:1
Rotten:12
Average Rating:3.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: In this sequel to Joe Dante's PIRANHA, unsuspecting vacationers at tropical Club Elysium find that they are the main course for a school of deadly piranha fish, genetically engineered as weapons by... In this sequel to Joe Dante's PIRANHA, unsuspecting vacationers at tropical Club Elysium find that they are the main course for a school of deadly piranha fish, genetically engineered as weapons by the government. One of the scientists responsible for the carnage teams up with a diving instructor to destroy the killer fish, which can launch themselves out of the water to attack, having been crossed with flying fish. PIRANHA 2 was James Cameron's directorial debut. He was discovered by a group of producers who witnessed his genius for "directing" maggots on a prosthetic dismembered arm using electrical shocks while he was working in special effects and art direction for low-budget science fiction films. The producers were sufficiently impressed to offer him a job as director on PIRANHA 2, which was filmed on location in Jamaica. [More]
Starring: Tricia O'Neil, Lance Henriksen, Steve Marachuk, Carole Davis
Starring: Tricia O'Neil, Lance Henriksen, Steve Marachuk, Carole Davis
Director: James Cameron
Director: James Cameron
Screenwriter: H.A. Milton
Producer: Chako Van Leuwen, Jeff Schectman
Composer: Steve Powder
Reviews for Piranha 2: The Spawning
As its director claims, this is the finest movie about flying piranha ever made, but otherwise only of interest to hardcore James Cameron completists.
Geralmente, grandes cineastas dão indícios de sua genialidade mesmo em seus filmes de estréia, por pior que estes sejam. Não é o caso de James Cameron, que aparentemente reservou seus talentos para o filme seguinte.
A copy rather than a sequel, this has none of the intelligence, wit or tempo that graced the first swarm of hungry fish.
The special effects are awful (the piranhas are obviously hand puppets) and the script worse.
Idiotic premise has US government genetic engineering experiments creating a deadly form of grunions (hinted at being used in the Vietnam war).
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