Pirana II: Yeni Nesil

You've finally got a fix for "Hey you can beat this villain by just staying out of the water" and then they **barely ever use it**. Sure, it makes no sense that the piranha can fly, but seeing as they can, you may as well have used that ability to the max. But 99% of the victims are still water-bound. Whatever, it's a…

<em>'Piranha II: The Spawning'</em> is woeful. You'd expect more with James Cameron at the helm, but everyone has to start somewhere; he followed up with <em>'The Terminator'</em> and <em>'Aliens'</em> so he did alright! This, his feature directorial debut, is proper rubbish though. It's seemingly less to do with Ca…

***The mutated piranha threat switches from a river in Texas to Jamaica*** Everyone knows this is the film where James Cameron debuted as director, albeit he got fired after only four days, not to mention a week’s worth of pre-production (searching for locations and so forth). Cameron believed Greco-Italian producer…

This is far more fantastical than its original. The fishes in this behave a lot more like the graboids in Tremors where they just seem to be stacking traits on top of each other as the movie needs them to. The idea of having winged piranha is terrifying enough but to have them be able to handle both fresh and salt wate…