Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Tricia O'NeilAnne Kimbrough
- Steve MarachukTyler Sherman
- Lance HenriksenPolice Chief Steve Kimbrough
- Ricky Paull GoldinChris Kimbrough
- Ted RichertRaoul, Hotel Manager
- Leslie GravesAllison Dumont
- Carole DavisJai
- Connie Lynn HaddenLoretta
- Arnie RossMal the Cook
- Tracey BergBeverly
Recommendations
- 25
TV Guide Magazine
The special effects are awful (the piranhas are obviously hand puppets) and the script worse. - 25
Miami Herald
Sound and image are consistently bad, and Piranha II is the first film in my experience to give screen credit (in opening and closing titles) to a man in charge of "special effects and prosthetics." It can't be an easy way to make a living. - 20
Empire
It plays a lot like a Porky's holiday comedy for the first half, and then the seagoing killer fish learn to fly and big rubber toothy things terrorise the survivors. - 20
Time Out London
A copy rather than a sequel, this has none of the intelligence, wit or tempo that graced the first swarm of hungry fish. - 20
Variety
This is a routine monster film, unrelated to Joe Dante’s 1978 Piranha. Idiotic premise has US government genetic engineering experiments creating a deadly form of grunions (hinted at being used in the Vietnam war).
