{"id":4727,"date":"2012-09-03T09:01:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2021-05-31T15:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T22:00:45","slug":"review-piranha3dd-bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2012\/09\/review-piranha3dd-bd\/","title":{"rendered":"Piranha 3DD Blu-ray Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Piranha DD<\/em><\/strong> is more or less a SyFy Original Movie with nudity. The story, such as there is, is pretty thin (not surprising, though) but the dagger in this movie is unlike its predecessor, it\u2019s not much fun to watch. I\u2019ll give credit to Danielle Panabaker for trying her best and even the director for attempting to bring back the 1970s monster slasher genre, but for me, I just didn\u2019t find this to have any redeeming value, even in the genre.<\/p>\n

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\nPiranha 3DD (2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nREVIEW NAVIGATION<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe Movie<\/a> | Special Features<\/a> | Video Quality<\/a> | Audio Quality<\/a> | Overall<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Genre(s): <\/strong>Horror
\nAnchor Bay | R \u2013 83 min. \u2013 $34.98 | September 4, 2012<\/p>\n

MOVIE INFO:<\/span>
\nDirected by: <\/strong>John Gulager
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan and Joel Soisson (written by)
\nCast: <\/strong>Danielle Panabaker, Matt Rush, David Koechner, Chris Zylka, Katrina Bowden, Gary Busey, Christopher Lloyd, David Hasselhoff<\/p>\n

Theatrical Release Date: <\/strong>June 1, 2012 (limited)<\/p>\n

DISC INFO:<\/span>
\nFeatures: <\/strong>Commentary, Featurettes, Deleted Scenes, Short Film, DVD Copy, Digital Copy
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>3<\/p>\n

Audio: <\/strong>English (DTS-HD MA 5.1)
\nVideo: <\/strong>1080p\/Widescreen 1.78
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH, Spanish
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>20.6 GB (2D Blu-ray)
\nCodec: <\/strong>MPEG-4 AVC
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>A<\/p>\n

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THE MOVIE<\/strong> \u2013 2.0\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Plot Outline: <\/strong>The prehistoric school of bloodthirsty piranhas is back and this time, no one is safe from the flesh-eating fish as they sink their razor sharp teeth into the visitors of summer\u2019s best attraction, The Big Wet Water Park.<\/p>\n

Quick Hit Review: Piranha 3DD<\/em><\/strong> isn\u2019t a mystery. We all know why this movie was made and that was to show some nudity, bikini-clad chicks, thinly written characters and terrible CGI that only SyFy could be proud of. On the bright side, the young Danielle Panabaker (Friday the 13th<\/sup><\/em>, The Crazies<\/em>, The Ward<\/em>) isn\u2019t too bad in this and gives it her best despite a poor script by Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, the pair responsible for Saw 4-6<\/em>, and Joel Soisson, the man behind numerous direct-to-video horror sequels including Mimic 2<\/em>, The Prophecy 3-5<\/em> and the awful Pulse 2<\/em> and 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Directed by John Gulager, Piranha 3DD<\/em><\/strong> is the type of film you would see on SyFy complete with poor CGI but with some nudity as a way to placate the adolescent male audience. I\u2019m all for these types of movies but at least put some effort into it. In any case, I can\u2019t think even those who liked Piranha<\/em> won\u2019t find this to be a worthy entry into the potential (though likely) franchise. On the plus side, it is an incredibly short movie clocking in at around 70-minutes sans end credits.<\/p>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 2.0\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Audio Commentary<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 This track features Director John Gulager, Co-Writer Producer Joel Siosson and Co-Writer Marcus Dunstan. As you can imagine, it\u2019s a fairly light-hearted commentary but the trio to tend to provide some behind-the-scene info about how the movie was made, locations shot at and some anecdotal stories from the set.<\/p>\n

Deleted Scenes (2:34; HD)<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 There are three scenes included that failed to make the cut.<\/p>\n

The Story Behind the DD (7:49; HD)<\/span><\/strong> is a short promotional featurette that doesn\u2019t really offer much information.<\/p>\n

The Hofftastic World of David Hasselhoff (2:09; HD)<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 This featurette is dedicated to The Hoff who makes fun of himself.<\/p>\n

Busey\u2019s Bloopers (2:04; HD)<\/span><\/strong> are some outtakes featuring Mr. Crazy, Gary Busey.<\/p>\n

Wet and Wild with David Koechner (1:37; HD)<\/span><\/strong> is just another short featurette with Koechner offering insights into… something or other.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Lessong with John McEnroe\u201d (3:53)<\/span><\/strong> is a short film featuring the former tennis pro. I haven\u2019t a clue what this is doing here…<\/p>\n

This release also includes the 3D Blu-ray<\/strong>, 2D Blu-ray<\/strong> and DVD Discs<\/strong> along with a Digital Copy<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Previews<\/strong> \u2013 Scream 4<\/em>, The Zombie Diaries 2<\/em><\/p>\n

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VIDEO \u2013 3.75\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Piranha DD<\/em><\/strong> is presented in 1080p high-definition and its original 1.78 widescreen aspect ratio. I assume this was filmed on a digital camera (esp. considering it\u2019s was made for 3D) so it is a very clean looking transfer, free of any flaws but this also means it doesn\u2019t give it that theatrical quality including film grain or noise. The detail level isn\u2019t bad, albeit it can be a bit on the glossy side at times while the colors seem to be well balanced especially during the daytime scenes and those bright bikinis…
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AUDIO \u2013 4.0\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The movie comes with a good 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track which comes to life during the numerous piranha attack scenes while even the quieter, \u201cdialogue\u201d (and I use that loosely) scenes sound pretty good as well.<\/p>\n

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OVERALL \u2013 2.25\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Overall, Piranha DD<\/em><\/strong> is more or less a SyFy Original Movie with nudity. The story, such as there is, is pretty thin (not surprising, though) but the dagger in this movie is unlike its predecessor, it\u2019s not much fun to watch. I\u2019ll give credit to Danielle Panabaker for trying her best and even the director for attempting to bring back the 1970s monster slasher genre, but for me, I just didn\u2019t find this to have any redeeming value, even in the genre.<\/p>\n

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The Movieman<\/em>
\nPublished: <\/strong>09\/03\/2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Piranha DD is more or less a SyFy Original Movie with nudity. The story, such as there is, is pretty thin (not surprising, though) but the dagger in this movie is unlike its predecessor, it\u2019s not much fun to watch. I\u2019ll give credit to Danielle Panabaker for trying her best and even the director for … Continue reading “Piranha 3DD Blu-ray Review”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,970],"tags":[1611,1694,1304,183,1693,616],"class_list":["post-4727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurayreviews","category-quick-hit-reviews","tag-christopher-lloyd","tag-daniella-panabaker","tag-david-koechner","tag-gary-busey","tag-piranha-dd","tag-ving-rhames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26234,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions\/26234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}