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The acting in this movie is really good.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Piranha (1978) is a great movie. But this is better. 3.5 is underrating it. This is one of the scariest horror movies of all time. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. If this movie does not scary you then no movie will. I give 10 out of 10 because it is a great movie. The Jaws movie are better. Anaconda is also better. But still this a great movie. I think reason people do not like movie is because it is a sequel. Godzilla (1998) is better. Still this is a great film. This is the best Piranha movie. The original Piranha is a great movie. This is better. James Cameron is a great film maker. This is better then Terminator. The only Jame Cameron movie I have seen that is better then this one is Aliens. And have seen Terminator 2 and all of his big movies.

A piranha with a twist that's more terrifying, as now our killer fish are airborne. Yes, I know it ludicrous, but it's fun none the less, and as an added bonus, we have James Cameron behind the camera in his first feature, prefore to his '84 blockbuster, The Terminator. We have plenty of suspense, and some teasing shots of our man eaters, small bits of gore here and there, to hold us off, until the horrid realization is made, and the real hell breaks loose. That neck sucking scene in the mortuary by one of the killer fish, always stays in my mind, since first viewing it in '84. You should see the rest of the guy. Aside from this and all it's terrifying fun, so much scarier than the original, and bloodier, this isn't a badly made feature, a good starting point for Cameron, who was to later on, be one of those masters for creating hit after hit like the Scott's or Bruckheimer's. One openly candid shot, I liked, features a girl with big hooters, sunbaking on the beautiful Caribbean. There are of course some hotties in this too, one very young, a standout. Piranha does maintain it's suspense throughout, you want to run for cover from these blood sucking fish, and that's what makes a horror movie, and don't underestimate the violence in this either. For Piranha fans especially, or ones let down by the original.

First things first, I have seen much worse movies than Piranha 2:The Spawning. However, that is very little to say in its defence. I enjoyed Piranha, it wasn't a masterpiece but it was very entertaining. But Piranha 2 just didn't work. It has no bite or conviction, and I just couldn't take it seriously. It is sad really that it was James Cameron's feature debut. It makes me sad that a decent director starts out on his worst movie, and sadly his direction is quite leaden here. The deadly fish themselves are laughable and lack any menace, the story is preposterous, the script is a complete shambles, the characters I was indifferent to and the acting was amateurish even from Lance Henrikssen. The pace is also incredibly dull, some parts I found hard to stay awake in. In fact, Piranha 2's only redeeming quality is that it's short. Overall, a souless and leaden mess. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Last year pre: Avatar's release, I saw a hype interview for Avatar with James Cameron. The interviewer (justifiably) crapped on and on about all the great stuff Cameron has made over his career, focusing on T2 and Titanic before commencing to fawn about Avatar for the next 12 minutes, with Cameron contributing about 5 smug "you know it" comments without actually talking himself up for fear of any "King of the World" backlash.Then the interviewer did the but you know he wasn't always this successful bit, you know when the guy drags out a clip of the interviewee when he/she was a kid in a commercial or something.In Cameron's case it was a little different, him being a director and all, so the clip was a 20 second burst of Piranha 2: The Spawning, his first film from the 80′s, a low budget drive-in special.Cameron's response? "Yeah but it was the best flying piranha movie ever made!" Now I still realised that this was a movie with a 99% chance of suckage but I thought rather than watch T2 or Aliens for the 27th time, I'd watch a couple of his earlier efforts including yes: Piranha 2 – The Spawning. The finest flying piranha movie ever made.P2 – Judgement Day is set in Saint Anna in the Caribbean and focuses mostly on one family really, which is lucky so Cameron doesn't have to spend too much time introducing new characters. Luckily the family includes a much younger Lance Henriksen as the local cop, (holding true to his credo of doing just as much sh*tty stuff as good stuff), and also a young ugly kid who happens to be his son, and his mum who is a driving instructor.The first half of the film can't decide what it wants to be, so it is a wannabe sex comedy - only without the sex and the comedy.Even without the sex though there is much random toplessness. The amusing sign of the times is that there is a noticeable lack of enhancement surgery if you know what I mean, which in this case wasn't a bad thing as the 44DD era has been going for so long that sometimes a change is as good as a holiday.About half way through though it seems that the movie studio got the dailies through and demanded some flying killer fish. From this point the movie faithfully follows the normal horror conventions. Sex = death, being naughty = death etc But how the f*ck do you justify flying killer fish? You blame the army that's how! So now we have genetically altered flying killer fish with bloodlust. As a vacationer how does one escape that? Run? Wave your arms? Lie down with your hands over your head? Wear a hat? Or you could go inside and shut the door, no-one seems to think is a good idea, in this film at least.The ending could only come from a drive in special such as this, at least one with genetically altered flying killer fish, they blow up the fish's lair. So the school of piranha are fortunately planning to all be in the same spot at the same time apparently.Does it work? Who cares, just the fact that Cameron tried it in the first place is enough for me.There is practically no SFX in this film aside from some lousy fish stuff, which is justifiable given that the budget of P2 would now be James Cameron's lunch money for one day on the set of Avatar.P2 is the best thing that could happen when you decide to make a sequel to a killer fish film.Final Rating – 5.5 / 10. Amusing in a retro unintentional way, but you could blow 90 minutes in worse ways.If you liked this review (or even if you didn't) check out oneguyrambling.com