“People Love Sharks.” Synopsis: Great white sharks bio-engineered and sold as Sea Monkey-like pets terrorize New York City when they get into the water supply and do what great white sharks do best.

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Calamity Brains:

I liked Piranha Sharks.

Frequent readers will know that I’m deeply fond of bad creature features. I’m also deeply critical of most of them for not fully embracing their inherently ridiculous premises. Fortunately, Piranha Sharks is one of those delightfully bad gems that not only embraces its ridiculousness, but rises above it. Though purposefully bad, it also manages to be “so bad it’s good” thanks to amazingly poor CGI, impossible situations, and Kevin Sorbo as the pantsless mayor of New York.

One of the things that makes Piranha Sharks so fun is how plausible they manage to make the (inherently ridiculous) basic scenario. In America, it is absolutely possible that a failed DoD weapons project would turn into a commercial opportunity. And, like Jose Canseco, we would 100% buy tiny Sea Monkey-esque sharks. And of course, in NYC, the urban legends exist for a reason – how often do people flush pets they get sick of? It’s that level of snarky, sarcastic cleverness that makes Piranha Sharks surprisingly fun. I knew going in that the movie would be a CGI-fueled disaster. Reasonably intelligent social commentary from both characters and story was not expected, but you know what? I’ll take it.

As always, our “so bad it’s good” category is not for everyone. There’s nothing scary about Piranha Sharks (except maybe how bad the CGI is), and it is laughably bad – sometimes even by D-horror standards. For those of you who, like us, enjoy some insanity in your low budget flicks, this is definitely a good option for your next drunken horror night. We’ve got the drinking game to prove it.

Calamity Brains’ Rating: B-
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