Review of Mega Piranha (2010) by Tom H — 13 Aug 2010

The direction's a gabble - all whip pans and whizzing graphics - perhaps to ease us past some malfunctioning quality control mechanisms: certain performers look and act as though pumped full of lard or porridge, while the night scenes are so murky and underlit as to be all but inscrutable.

If it counts as a marginal improvement on its predecessor ["Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus"], that's partly a consequence of the bar being set low to begin with; it smuggles some T&A into its opening moments, thus demonstrating a closer adherence to Corman's Laws, and one or two set-pieces are just dumb enough to raise a tolerant, nay forgiving chuckle.

Generally, though: it bites.