American scientists over in Venezuela have created a super piranha, that will help cure humanity's worst illnesses and make the world a better place all round. Would you believe it, the darn things have got in the wild and they're growing, feeding and multiplying all in a one'er. Step into the fray a special ops commando guy, a bunch of nasty Venezuelan soldiers, sappy Greenpeace loving scientists and you've got yourself a cocktail of some of the cheesiest, naffest bullshit to hit the screen in ages.
Mega Piranha is so bad i don't know where to begin. Firstly the storyline is incoherent, illogical, non-sensical, it's just a major slab of total fantasy bullshit. A kid could easily see straight through the holes in it's storyline. It's bad, really bad. So if your prepared to suspend belief is it any good then? No, it's not. the acting quality is woeful, truly just awful. Very disjointed unbelievable performances all round. It's got Tiffany in it, you know the pop star form the 80's, that truth be told most kids today won't have clue of. The actors portraying the Venezuelan bad guys put in a decent show right enough but everybody else is just terrible.
The special effects are pitiful also. They look like they've been done by an amateur photoshopper. This movie was made for TV by The Asylum, who make spin-off, rip-off movies on a budget of $100 (the packaging always looks top notch though) that almost always suck. In fact i can't remember one of their movies that was any good. I am Omega probably being the best of them but that ain't saying much.
There seems to be a lot of inconsistency with the piranha's themselves, sometimes they seem fairly small, like say the size of a dog, then 2 seconds later they're the size of a house. Oh and look out for the scene where a piranha impales itself on a lighthouse, that has to be one of the naffest CGI sequences I've seen for a long time. Piranha's will randomly jump out the water and destroy houses, boats, you name it... It's just way, way too far fetched to be enjoyable.
Mega Piranha is one one of those movies we've all seen. A movie that is so bad, that it's actually fucking awful. It is really crap. I cannot recommend you to avoid this one strongly enough. Maybe folks who liked the Mega Shark movies may get something from this, but seriously, for everybody else avoid.