Piranha 3D embraces its exploitation roots with buckets of gore, plenty of nudity, and the gimmick of 3-D. Seriously, of the recent spat of 3-D films, this is the one smart enough to know that it is best used as cinematic exclamation points. The strong cast is in on the joke and plays it straight. Not only do we have Elizabeth Shue playing one heck of a foxy MILF sheriff, but we’ve got Ving Rhames as her deputy, Jerry O’Connell as the Girls Gone Wild wannabe scumbag, Richard Dreyfuss reprising his role from Jaws (seriously, if you don’t smile the instant you see him on screen, you’re not a true movie geek), and Christopher Lloyd as the exposition-spouting pet store owner who just happens to have a handy piranha fossil in his office. Nobody does a data dump like Christopher Lloyd. He chews up the scenery the way the piranha chew up flesh. Highly recommended so long as you have the stomach for it.
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