Piranhaconda (2012)

Powerful

Overrated and overhyped

How sad is this?

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

SyFy teams up with Roger Corman to bring us a TV14 bikini/ cleavage cheese fest. Michael Madsen is the smart guy in the movie. On an island in Hawaii tourists, criminals, a movie set, botanists, and Madsen fight an impossible combination of a creature who is native to the Amazon.The snake is computer generated and as bad as the acting. Kills are finalized with a blood mist spray. The sound track was good as it was something I would expect from "Pulp Fiction."Great film for campy film lovers.

Jim Wynorski directs and Roger Corman produces this sequel of SHARKTOPUS. Razor sharp teeth makes it hard to spend any safe time in Hawaiian waters. A giant snake with a mouthful of knife-like teeth can chomp anyone in half. Scientist Lovegrove (Michael Madsen) steals an egg from the creature and plans on making some big bucks. Not that easy; thinking he is of importance, a group of bandits turn kidnapper and hold Lovegrove for ransom. A documentary film crew stumbles across the kidnapping and leads the hungry piranhaconda to a starring role in a nasty gore feast.Players include: Rachel Hunter, Rib Hillis, Chris De Christoper, Shandi Finnessey, Terri Evans, Michael Swan, Diana Terranova and Kurt Yeager.

When a low-budget movie shoot stumbles upon a massive snake/killer fish hybrid living in the jungle near their shoot, they try to find a way to get away from the creature and the terrorist squad in the area intending on holding them for ransom.This was an absolutely impressive creature feature that's an absolute blast to watch. Among the best qualities on display is that this is just cheesy and goofy enough to be really enjoyable, and that this one manages to do so the entire time is an even better accomplishment. That almost everything in here does make for an entertaining cheesy good time as this is filled to the brim with lots of action including the shorter attacks of the opening group at the waterfall, a nice chase through the swamps as it stalks a crew-member, a later scene of the scientists getting attacked and the rather fun ambush on the vacationing couple on the secluded beach that there's a lot to like here about the shorter attacks here. While those are a lot of fun, its biggest scenes are the attacks on the hideout with the charge against the kidnappers to free the group being fun enough, but it's really the final part here with the massive gunfight between the two forces that brings the explosive charges of their big trap into focus which brings the creature in which the snake's antics of ambush kills make for an entertaining cheesy good time that plays out in tons of kills and even a few surprisingly- suspenseful moments full of great action that carries along into the finale quite well. The majority of the enjoyment from here comes in the film's high-level of cheese featured, from the utterly dreadful-looking CGI creature to the cheesy slasher movie being shot, and with the creature's origins also painting quite a cheesy picture here, there's plenty of fun, cheesy antics throughout here that are a lot of fun. While there her are what make this one enjoyable, there's a few problems that hold this down. The biggest problem here is the film's rather problematic story, which is quite haphazard and lazy. This one here does a fine enough job with the creature until it gets to its origins, as the fact that this is explained as a factual creature is a bit of a stretch because it claims to actually exist as a legendary guardian spirit. This is quite hard to fathom the reasoning behind this when it worked perfectly fine as an ordinary mutation running amok. As well, the terrorist inclusion into the story makes no sense when their body-count would've worked better as cast or crew-members on the film to achieve the same effect, and the event featured in the finale are pretty unrealistic merely to keep the film going. The other big flaw here is the rather goofy-looking CGI that's pretty hard to ignore here as the creature tends to go through all the usual motions of changing size and proportions from time-to-time, gives an appearance of being obvious about the nature of its execution and coming along the inability to remain connected to the action on-screen. Otherwise this is a fine and worthwhile effort.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity and Language.

I really wish that the Syfy channel would make a minimal effort to keep their original movies somewhat believable. This movie has a fish species cross breeding with a reptile. I can not even imagine how that would happen in real life. I mean if they are going to plot this scenario make it on another planet not on earth. It is easy enough to put aside believe if it is not on earth. Yeah I know they are science fiction and fantasy but this one is not at all believable to me. Of course the acting is B movie but the theme is totally lame. The women in bikinis are not bad so there is some entertainment in this movie but not that much.