I know summer 2025 is well in the rear-view mirror but today let’s go back to the lake for some fun time in the water. 3DD is a sequel to Piranha 3D and as of today the last film in the series. Starring in this comedy horror is Danielle Panabaker (Sky High and TVs The Flash) as Maddy, a marine biologist who has come home for the summer. She along with her stepfather Chet, played by David Koechner (The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Anchorman), own a water park. Also starring is Matt Bush (Adventureland and TVs The Goldbergs), and Katrina Bowden (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and Nurse 3-D). There are also some small cameo appearances, including David Hasselhoff who plays a supersized version of himself and just about steals the entire film. There’s also Ving Rhames, Paul Scheer, Clu Gulager, Christopher Lloyd, and Gary Busey as well. Performing the director duties is John Gulager, who is the son of Clu. He is also responsible for the Feast series of horror films as well as Zombie Night.
A school of prehistoric man-eaters have managed to find their way to another lake in Arizona. This is also the same lake where the water park Maddy and her stepfather own is. Now, on paper, this looks like it should be a fun ride and other than a few funny scenes with all the familiar names I already mentioned it falls short of entertaining. Now, I’m not saying it’s terrible, because it’s not THAT bad. I’ve seen worse for sure, and you may or may not read about some of them right here during this Halloween season. Just to set the record straight this is the movie that killed the Piranha film franchise. This was the fifth and final installment in the series. A sixth was planned but since this did so horribly both at the box office (yeah, they released this in theaters) and with critics, the producers decided to cut their losses.
It's hard to grade this, I mean I want to say it wasn’t as bad as some say, because it’s really not. There are some good moments but they are dragged through the mud of some really bad scenes filled with people who can’t act their way out of a paper bag. Most of the blame lies with Harvey and Bob Weinstein as they wanted to make a sequel as cheaply as possible which we know is a bad idea 99% of the time. I mean they even took at least one scene cut from an earlier Piranha film and put it in this one. I don’t hate it as much as most people do so I will give it two D’s out of five. Not recommended unless you really want to see some serious cheese but there are some good kills that might entertain you for a few minutes at a time.
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