Mega | Piranha 2010

Enter our hero: Special Agent Fitch (played with unintentional gravitas by Paul Logan), a man whose biceps have their own character arc. He is teamed with a ditzy but brilliant scientist, Sarah (Tiffany), to stop the fish before they reach the Florida coastline and, presumably, Disney World.

If you demand realistic ichthyology, compelling character development, or visual effects that don’t look like a screensaver gone haywire, run away. But if you want to see a man judo-chop a giant fish, watch a helicopter get swallowed by a ripple in the water, and listen to dramatic music swell as a torpedo explodes in a digital mouth—then welcome home. mega piranha 2010

In the grand, splashing pantheon of killer fish movies, 2010’s Mega Piranha holds a peculiar, gore-soaked trophy. It is not a good movie. In fact, by conventional standards, it is a catastrophic failure of logic, CGI, and narrative coherence. But that, of course, is entirely the point. Enter our hero: Special Agent Fitch (played with