Mega piranhas

[ladyofastolat]

I was considerably cheered up last night by catching the last half hour of what must be the most hilariously awful made-for-Syfy movie ever, and then chuckling over the just as hilarious bad reviews on IMDB. I missed the start, but apparently scientists have been trying to embiggen food sources. Naturally, the first animal they test this on is a piranha. Things Go Wrong. The piranhas (which, for some reason, double in size each day, which presumably means that they will end up as bigger than the entire world in a rather short period of time that I can't be bothered to work out) escape from their Amazon home due to the machinations of a sub-plot, but decide not to bother eating the locals, and instead head towards Washington. When we started watching, they were in the process of shrugging off a direct hit from a nuclear warhead, and eating the submarine that fired it. Later, they reached Florida, where, despite being bigger than double decker buses, they were able to launch themselves out of water three inches deep, fly 200 yards through the air, and crash into the top of a tower block. (How this helped their survival, I don't know.) Smoke was seen billowing from towers well inland, so presumably they can teleport, too.

In the end, some intrepid divers managed to wound one of the fish, so all the others stopped their incredibly badly animated eating of humans, and raced off to tear their injured comrade to pieces. The heroes rejoiced in slow motion against a sunset, and announced that the world was saved, conveniently ignoring the fact that the sole injured fish would have been eaten in minutes, and the rest of the piranhas would then return to their regularly scheduled hurling of themselves at inland hotels.

It's being shown again in the wee small hours of Friday night. I think I might just record it for the next time I require a laugh.

Comments

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

That sounds GENIUS. My favourite bad movie is Atomic Train (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Train), which is so dreadful it cured period pains. I raved about it in a post (http://bookwormsarah.livejournal.com/12490.html) a few years ago. I have it recorded somewhere for when I need cheering up.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Yay! I saw that was on and looked promising but decided to go to bed : with that review I shall have to look out for it next time round!

(possibly when pp is out, I don't think he really appreciates the art of the terrible movie...)

I saw a brilliant one the other day about very badly CGI'd plesiosaurs, but I can't remember the name of it now.

[elegaer.livejournal.com]

Mega Piranha is one of the best films *ever*. Just for hilarity. Especially the piranhas exploding when they hit buildings.