| View Larger Image | Piranha II: The Spawning | DVDStarring: Tricia O'Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen, Ricky Paull Goldin, Ted Richert
Directed By: James Cameron
| List Price: | $19.94 | |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 94 minutes | | Format: | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled | | Studio: | Sony Pictures | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | January 28, 1981 | | Sales Rank: | 42,154nd |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 24 reviews)
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How could they screw up a movie about flying piranhas?! by Darsh  2 Stars
July 30, 2009
Ahhhh yeah!!!! All of your favorite piranhas are back in town! You got Bitey, Nibbler, Toecutter, Copernicus Jr., Scooty Puff, Beaker, Sparkle, Fifthwheel, Brown Cloud, The Larry, Citizen [...], Whisker Biscuit, Chompers, Slappy, Menlo Schwartzer, The [...], Inspector Underwear, Skidmark and introducing the new piranha: Sir-Flies-A-Little (With the Help of Wires)! Imagine how excited I was!!! So I crammed the DVD in the trusty ol' DVD player and the first thing I noticed was how [...] the picture looks...what the [...]?! The second thing I noticed was this movie [...] total [...] [...]!!!!!!!!!
The first movie might have just been OK, but it was still watchable in a cheesy kinda sort of way. Part 2 on the other hand is just plan boring. There is way less piranha action and the little action there is is [...] pathetic. It's all shot in the dark or with such quick shots you can barely even see what's happening. Very disappointing.
The only saving grace in this cluster[...] is it has an early performance by Lance Henriksen, who I think always turns in a good performance no matter how [...]the movie.
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quite possibly in the top two worst movies I've ever seen by Edmund Wells (Forest, VA, USA)  1 Stars
June 20, 2009
This movie has become an on-going joke among my friends. If there is a film or book or ANYTHING that is over-the-top LAME, we can rate it "Well, it was better than Pirahna Part II!" The ONLY redeeming point might be one that another reviewer has made, in that it is so awful, it is almost worth watching simply as a "funny horror flick." I have to say that I'm surprised that Mystery Science Theater 3000 hasn't picked this one up, It's a gem!
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Look! In the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a...Flying Piranha?! by ReviewMaster (ca) 1 Stars
April 11, 2009
Piranha Part 2 The Spawning: Movie Review
Grade: F
Seeing as this was director James Cameron's movie debut, I had high hopes for this film, along with its awesome-sounding plot. But, even from the director who would later go on to make other much better sequels like Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (Extreme DVD) and Aliens (Two-Disc Collector's Edition), and the mega-blockbuster Titanic (10th Anniversary Edition), this film apparently fell into the wrong hands. (You can tell the fish are on strings! Strings!!!)
Now that awesome-sounding plot I told you about? Piranhas are genetically bred with a species flying fish, making the ultimate flying/undersea killer. Now that killer, a huge swarm of them, is loose in the ocean waters near a popular resort, and they soon start picking off the local vacationers. Sounds cool, but looks can be deceiving.
There are problems and plot holes in just about every scene in Piranha 2, and the movie just ends up looking downright pathetic in the end. You meet characters that have nothing to do with the movie, ("You're a doctor?" "No...I'm a dentist..." What?! That scene has nothing to do with the movie!!!!) seriously taking away from the action. It's almost as if they are just there to make the movie longer, because without them the movie would be only about an hour and ten minutes, and the Piranhas are only actually in about five of them. You know what that leaves us with? A whole lot more of useless characters, pointless conversations, and long boring stretches that leave major plot holes. I would give some examples of the plot holes, but I'd end up giving away the entire movie, because its alllll plot holes that lead to nowhere.
Now don't even get me started on the special effects: the SciFi channel's special effects far surpass these flying rubber fish on strings, that's all I'm going to say...
Not even the acting can save this movie. Why? Because the acting isn't that great either. To me, it seemed forced, as if the actors didn't even really want to be in the movie in the first place...
And in the end the movie's not even worth your time. Yes, I normally don't mind bad special effects, and yes, I even think most SciFi channel movies are great, but boy, is this one a stinker. They say there's a first time for everything, and this was my first time giving anything one star and a failing review. (I really want to know how they got Lance Henrikson to sign up for this movie...) Jeez, most movies like this one made in the `80's weren't this bad...
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just when you fought it was safe to go a resort again by Jarrett P. Suhr (Fortlaterdale , Florida, USA)  5 Stars
March 30, 2009
I am retyping here my review of a classic jaw rip of sequel. When you think of jaws rip of you think of stuff like the Beast, Creature, stuff like that. Here is my review of 1983 horror cult classic Pirhana 2 the Spawning or Pirhan Part 2. This right up your ally if you enjoyed the original Roger Coreman Pirhana from the 1977. As the movie begins a group of divers is veciously attacted by a new stronger even deadlier new strain of mutant pirahnas. Now crossed with flying fish they are capable of attack in water, on land and in air. The mutated flying scale terro go on a kill spree killing several innocent resident of the local resort. It's up to a marine biologist, here harbor master husband, and and ex marine who designed the killer fish to destroy the Piranha's send these scale devils to the depths of Hell from which they came. Will they succed. Find in the thrilling, underwater, bonecrushing finaly. This is a good film classic B movie style at it's best. The lines are horrible written the stertypes unmatched. The gore effects seem mild and tsmed compared to the gore effects of the R rated films of the 1990s to the present day. If you enjoyed the original this right up your alley. I also recommend Bio Shcok about a group of scientist that discover unwater race of alien that come in the form of giant eeel like creature, Peter Bencly mega movies, Creature and the Beast which recently got a 20th anniversary two disk release as well as Orca and Devil fish the worst of all the jaws moves if you love real bad movies with bad acting effects gore and everything else the english cut of Devil Fish is a most see film. I give Piranha to the spawn 4.5 out of 5 some of the gore effects were a bit tame there were some slow parts where not much important happened.
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Piranha II by John Catania 5 Stars
July 29, 2008
Flying killer piranha! What more can I say? If you like to laugh at old sci-fi/horror films, you'll like this.
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