Piranha II: The Spawning (1982)

A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort. James Cameron has made some terrific films over the years like Terminator 2: Judgment Day but there's also one that he would probably want to forget and that's Piranha II: The Spawning, i mean this film is incredibly stupid it has Piranha's that can fly and kill you, the perfomances is what you would expect although there's at least one good song from the soundtrack but that's it really. Even good director's must start from garbage to reach greatness. (0/10)

The only reason I watched this movie because it was the directorial debut of one of my favorite directors and probably one of your favorite directors, James Cameron. I did not see the original "Piranha" movie, but I have seen "Piranha 3D", which happens to be the most critically acclaimed movie not screened for critics ever made. Not much, but that's something. I really don't care to see the original, as this one is just plain bad. Even the opening credits seem to be done in a really choppy manner. The cuts in this film are really bad. What was it about little things attacking people in movies at this time? The original film was released the same year as "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes!".This movie features piranhas that are actually genetic experiments that are able to fly. We get so many shots of these little things just swimming and flying aimlessly. It's a pain for the eyes to see these cheap special effects and listen to these weird sounds they make. I don't recall a single character's name. This movie has way too many characters and not a single one is memorable. Almost all of the acting is really bad. It's especially pitiful when the one guy, "I'm a kill those fish". This film is also painfully boring. It builds up to an attack that only lasts for a few minutes. "Piranha 3D" knew how to do its pacing and it went all the way with its detail and was shot nicely. Something like "Evil Dead" holds up because of how well it looks. This is just a shoddily put together film with nothing memorable. It's easily the worst thing James Cameron ever worked on and it's nice to know he only went uphill from here. Cameron himself is an atheist. When your career starts with a movie as bad as this, I can understand you lacking faith. *

Piranha (1978) is a great movie. But this is better. 3.5 is underrating it. This is one of the scariest horror movies of all time. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. If this movie does not scary you then no movie will. I give 10 out of 10 because it is a great movie. The Jaws movie are better. Anaconda is also better. But still this a great movie. I think reason people do not like movie is because it is a sequel. Godzilla (1998) is better. Still this is a great film. This is the best Piranha movie. The original Piranha is a great movie. This is better. James Cameron is a great film maker. This is better then Terminator. The only Jame Cameron movie I have seen that is better then this one is Aliens. And have seen Terminator 2 and all of his big movies.

I thought the first movie was pretty bad, but at least it ripped off Jaws, shamelessly and in a fun way and it had action and a general fast pace.But the sequel, being a James Cameron movie, I expected it to be better than the original. When it fact it's worse. Much much worse.First of all the cheap look of this movie, makes The Terminator's low budget seem like an expensive movie. And the movie cost less than 145.000 dollars to make. But still, shooting on Jamaica, they could have taken advantage of the scenery and given us some nice land and sea shots. This movie has none of that. The weather is even pretty bad during the first part of the movie.Second of all, the actors are all hideously ugly. And the boy and his mom seem to have an incestuous disturbing relationship.The acting is embarrassing at best. Except from Lance Henriksen who is below average. But not much more than that Trisha O' Neil gives the best performance of the entire cast. She reminds me a little of Ripley in Aliens in looks and acting.Steve Marachuk is doing a decent job.But the feel of the movie is like watching some nasty 70'ies porn movie.And for James Cameron being the master of creature movies during the 80'ies: The Terminator and Aliens, the flying piranhas are embarrassingly badly done.Lots of gore. But almost no action what so ever. In the third act when all of the hotel guests are attacked by the flying piranhas, it would have been a great chance for some action, but even here the movie disappoints. That scene is over in a couple of minutes and is as badly done as every other scene with the piranhas. And don't even get me started on the toy-helicopter being blown up or the fake explosion of the underwater-wreck which is also a model combined with shaky camera and sound effects to create the illusion of the explosion.As for the story-part, I didn't even realized until the very end that the boy was Lance Henriksens son. And that's bad writing. Also not something I would expect from James Cameron.I' m amazed but also glad that he was allowed to direct The Terminator after directing this crap. Also amazing he could get a budget of 6 million dollars for The Terminator as he had not proved himself even remotely with Pirahnas 2.Avoid this crap at all cost.