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Line 1: {{work}} '''''Piranha 3D''''' is a remake [[Piranha ~~(Film)~~\|of the original]] [[~~Joe Dante (Creator)\|~~Joe Dante]] B-movie, directed by [[Alexandre Aja]]. Set at Lake Victoria, a minor earthquake opens up a chasm that connects the lake to a larger subterranean one. The local sheriff (Elizabeth Shue) escorts a trio of scientists to explore the underwater cave, while her chief deputy (Ving Rhames) is left to oversee the chaos of Spring Break. However, thousands of prehistoric piranha that have outlived their species' extinction by millions of years are now able to escape to the surface, eating two of the scientists, and then making their way towards the town's very active beach. Also filling out the adult cast are Jerry O'Connell (a Girls Gone Wild-esque producer/director), [[Christopher Lloyd]] (a marine biologist), and [[The Cameo\|Richard Dreyfus]] ( {{spoiler\|[[Death Byby Cameo\|a local fisherman who is the first to get eaten]] }}). As increulous as it may seem, the film actually got mostly ''positive'' reviews, for being realistically scary, but also knowing when to indulge in it's [[B-Movie]] roots. One year later, a sequel was announced. At the 2011 Spike TV Scream Awards, the trailer for '''''Piranha 3DD''''' premiered. Lloyd, Rhames, and Paul Scheer (O'Connell's cameraman) will reprise their roles. [[The Vampire Diaries\|Danielle Panabaker]] will play the lead. ~~=== The 2010 3D film provides examples of: ===~~ {{tropelist}} * [[Action Mom]]: The sheriff. [[Mama Bear\|She shows no hesitation to go help her kids when they're in danger.]] * [[Actor Allusion]]: Richard Dreyfus appears in a film about an aquatic threat, plays a character called Matt and sings along to "Show Me The Way To Go Home". The credits make it clear that he is playing a different character though, with the surname Boyd rather than [[Jaws (~~Film~~film)\|Hooper]]. * [[Asshole Victim]]: The spring-break jerks. Every. One. Of. Them. Jerry O'Connell's character deserves special mention, though. Line 25 ⟶ 24: The piranhas didn't like it. * [[Dead Star Walking]]: {{spoiler\|[[The Cameo\|Richard Dreyfuss]]}}. * [[Death Byby Sex]]: promiscuous spring-breakers, a pornographer, and wet t-shirt contest host ([[Death Byby Cameo\|played by]] [[Eli Roth]]) are on the receiving end of the piranhas' teeth. * [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: Although the ending wasn't really candy and rainbows, it was revealed that {{spoiler\|the piranhas throughout the movie were actually babies, and an adult piranha eats one of the protagonists.}} * [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]] * [[~~Distressed~~ Damsel in Distress]]: Kelly. * [[Fan Disservice]]: Many very beautiful people are killed in ways that combine sex and gory violence. For example, the girl who gets sliced in half by a high-tension wire as mentioned earlier: first the bikini top falls off, exposing her breasts... then the rest of her upper torso follows suit. ** Jerry O'Connell's severed penis. That is all. Line 36 ⟶ 35: * [[Gorn]] * [[Hazardous Water]] * [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: See [[Piranha ~~(Film)~~/YMMV\|Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. * [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]: Spring Break. * [[Hooker ~~With~~with a Heart of Gold]]: A porn actress rather than a hooker, but Kelly Brook's character is otherwise this to a tee. She quickly becomes a sort of surrogate [[Cool Big Sis]] to the teenage hero, [[Shipper Onon Deck\|tries to get him to kiss the girl he has a crush on]] and is the only character to show grief when {{spoiler\|the [[Jerkass]] porn producer dies. Not that any of this stops her becoming fish food of course.}} * [[Hotter and Sexier]]: Lots of nudity, including the aforementioned nude ballet. * [[Improvised Weapon]]: Ving Rhames' character runs out of ammo, so he takes the motor off of a boat and uses it to chop piranhas up like a blender. Line 59 ⟶ 58: * [[What Could Have Been]]: The Bluray reveals two abandoned sequences storyboarded that are even more over the top than some of the Piranha attack sequences in the movie. ** One of the sequences was filmed for the sequel. * [[What Happened to ~~The~~the Mouse?]]: Cameraman Andrew vanishes without trace three quarters of the way through the movie. It can be safely assumed he was eaten by piranha but it's weird we never see his fate considering all the other victims on the same boat get very graphic and obvious deaths. ** [[Word of God]] says he was to fall off the boat and swim towards shore only to have his nose bitten off by a piranha. The scene apparently ended up being cut due to being a special effects headache and all that remains in the finished film is a very brief shot of Andrew falling overboard when the boat hits the rocks. Seemingly the above was retconned as Andrew subsequently turns up alive and well (complete with intact nose) in ''Piranha 3DD''. His disappearance (and survival) in the first film remain unexplained. Line 70 ⟶ 69: * An underwater aquifer could supply an ongoing source of fresh oxygenated water. {{tropelist\|page=~~== The sequel~~ ''Piranha 3DD'' ~~contains examples of: ===~~}} * [[Adam Westing]]: [[David Hasselhoff]] as a jaded, womanizing [[Jerkass]] version of himself. * [[As Himself]]: Guess who. Line 76 ⟶ 75: * [[Cassandra Truth]]: Chet refuses to believe his step-daughter Maddy about the piranha, at least as far as them getting into the park. He does at least know they're real. * [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Chet. * [[Death Byby Sex]]: Ashley and Travis. * [[Denser and Wackier]]: The sequel is much more comical compared to the first. * [[Dirty Cop]]: Kyle, who receives bribes from Chet to look the other way regarding the illegal activities and safety code violations at his park. He later shows himself to be a [[Dirty Coward]] as well. Line 84 ⟶ 83: * [[Foreshadowing]]: "It's not like the fish are going to {{spoiler\|follow them home}}." * [[Hotter and Sexier]]: The T&A is greatly ramped up compared to the original. In-universe, this also applies to the water park after Chet's renovations, with reduced admission costs for hot women, pole-dancing female lifeguards, and an "adult pool" which has an underwater video camera hooked up to a giant screen (for better viewing of the bottom-less ladies) and guests permitted to skinny-dip and even have sex in the water. Maddy is not amused by any of this. {{quote\| '''Maddy:''' Please tell me you didn't just fire our old lifeguards and replace them with strippers!~~<br />~~ '''Chet:''' ''Water-certified'' strippers. }} * [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted...quite brutally. * [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: {{spoiler\|Deputy Fallon is still alive, and still as [[Badass]] as ever.}} Not only is this a spoiler for the first film {{spoiler\|(where he supposedly died)}}, it's one of the main money shots in the trailer. * [[Made of Plasticine]]: Like in the first film. Particularly notable is {{spoiler\|Chet's}} death. He gets his head cut clean off by a flag string while driving a golf cart. It'd have be [[Sharpened to Aa Single Atom\|monomolecular wire]] to have that kind of cutting power at such speeds. {{spoiler\|A land-walking piranha also bites a boy's head clean off, despite the size difference between it and the head in question.}} * [[The Reveal]]: The piranha {{spoiler\|can now walk on land.}} * [[The Social Darwinist]]: David Hasselhoff displays these tendencies in his refusal to help those in the water. Line 95 ⟶ 94: * [[Unexplained Recovery]]: {{spoiler\|Deputy Fallon, who presumably died making a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], is at the grand opening of the water park in a wheelchair.}} However, once the piranha show up... ** [[Disability Superpower]], [[Handicapped Badass]]: {{spoiler\|His titanium prosthetic legs are immune to piranha bites, allowing him to wade into the water and rescue people. He also attaches sawed-off shotguns to said legs.}} {{quote\| ''[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner\|Bring me my legs...]]''}} * [[Vagina Dentata]]: A baby piranha swims into Shelby's vagina while she and Josh are skinny-dipping. The next day, when the two go to have sex... * [[You Don't Want to Die Aa Virgin, Do You?]]: Inverted; it's Shelby who doesn't want to die a virgin. If only she had better timing. {{reflist}} Line 104 ⟶ 103: [[Category:Piranha 3D]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Film Remakes]] [[Category:3D Movie]]