This is not a film to stimulate the brain cells. There is nothing subtle about this film at all! Set on the edge of a lake in Arizona during the week of Spring Break (an American phenomenon, it seems. I imagine the British equivalent is an 18-30 week in Ibiza, or is it really more like heading to a festival?). There are lots and lots of skimpily dressed girls and boys, and curiously, all of them are slender and good looking!
However, it is a curiously moral tale.
The son of the sheriff is a good boy who is supposed to spend Spring Break babysitting his younger twin siblings (something that in the world of teenagers at Spring Break makes him a loser rather than a sweetheart for helping out his single Mum).
Then, the downfall. He is offered a job as a location scout for a small group who wish to shoot soft-porn on location at the lake with a Spring Break theme. He bribes his siblings to stay in the house and not tell his Mother that he has left them and then heads off.
Of course, disaster strikes! An earthquake has released killer piranhas in their thousands from a prehistoric underground lake into the lake above, with very gruesome consequences!!! Debauched Spring-Breakers and porn-crew alike get munched to pieces, whilst our hero, his cute siblings and their even more heroic mother, the take-no-nonsense sheriff, survive to live another day.
Goodness prevails hurrah!!
It wasn't really scary, but it was very good at making me jump (something I imagine would be enhanced by the 3D if we;d had it).
Altogether, quite entertaining, but not for those with a delicate disposition!
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