The Trailer for Piranha 3DD Looks About As Ridiculous As It Should Be

When Alexandre Aja breathed new life into the Piranha series in 2010, he went about it in the best way possible: he fashioned a pure slopfest wherein every action and statement is done completely tongue-in-cheek—that is until that tongue, cheek, or both were ripped out mercilessly and hilariously. The movie may not have worked very well as a horror movie (honestly, who would want that?), but it sure as hell worked for comedy. And although Aja isn’t the driving force behind it, Piranha 3DD seems to follow in line with its perverted predecessor.

This here new trailer suggests that the movie is going to do everything in its power to one-up the first. The spring-break location may be gone, but who cares when you have a water park filled with stripping lifeguards. Christopher Lloyd and Ving Rhames are back and crazier than ever: one has obviously taken his insanity to eleven and the other has lost his legs, but not his killer spirit and has even acquired some new deadly appendages. Sadly, naked underwater ballet seems to be a thing of the past, but is it completely out of the question to hope for, nay, demand some naked synchronized swimming? It’s only logical, really.

What’s funny is the first Piranha, in all of its patently ridiculous glory, had a good time playing off the brilliance of Jaws (and it helps to have Richard Dreyfuss on hand for that).   With this trailer, however, we aren’t getting echoes of Jaws anymore, at least not Jaws 1; we are getting a variation on Jaws 3, a true mess of a (3D) movie. I can only hope this movie is better than that, but that bar wouldn’t be so high. And honestly, when it comes to Piranha movies, there shouldn’t be a bar at all, unless that bar is involved in hot-chick limbo or something. Then not only is that a bar, it’s a god-damn major plot point.