So keep swimming. And don’t go back in the water. Especially if you hear a banjo and smell chlorine.
The story picks up a year after the massacre at Lake Victoria. Prehistoric piranhas, having survived eradication efforts, travel through underground waterways to a newly opened water park called "The Big Wet".
Naturally, a sequel was greenlit. It had a title: (Get it? Double D. As in bra size). It had a director (John Gulager of Feast fame). And then... it vanished into the murky water, only to resurface years later as a direct-to-VOD whimper. piranha 3d part 2
Unlike the first film, which holds an 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, Piranha 3DD sits at just 11%.
: "The Big Wet" is an adult-themed water park owned by the sleazy Chet (David Koechner), featuring "adults-only" sections for skinny dipping. So keep swimming
Piranha 3D was a dumb masterpiece. Piranha 3DD was just dumb. But the ghost of Piranha 3D Part 2 —the water park massacre—remains one of horror’s greatest "what ifs."
5/5 bloody floating inner tubes.
Dimension Films, run by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, was notorious for mismanaging horror franchises. After the moderate box office success of Piranha 3D ($83 million on a $24 million budget), the Weinsteins demanded the sequel be made for a fraction of the cost. They also insisted on converting it to 3D in post-production (a cardinal sin after the first film’s beautiful native 3D).
In 2011, Dimension Films officially announced Piranha 3DD . Wait— 3DD ? Yes. The original title for the sequel wasn’t Part 2 , but the groan-worthy, pun-tastic Piranha 3DD . The “DD” was meant to stand for “Double D,” a nod to the film’s setting: a water park. The story picks up a year after the
The story picks up a year after the initial massacre at Lake Victoria. While the original lake has been declared uninhabitable, a new school of prehistoric, carnivorous piranhas finds its way through underground aquifers into a newly opened water park called . Piranha 3DD (2012) - IMDb