20 Terrible Movies That Do NOT Deserve Their Fresh Rotten Tomatoes Scores
16. Piranha 3D
Score: 74% (Average Score: 6.20/10)
Consensus: Playing exactly to expectations for a movie about killer fish run amok, Piranha 3-D dishes out gore, guffaws and gratuitous nudity with equal glee.
Piranha 3D's score is one of the weirdest on the whole site.
As recent movies like Beast (2022), Crawl (2019) and 47 Meters Down (2017) show, it is perfectly possible to make a creature feature that manages to offer silly thrills while still being a well-made and suspenseful ride, but Piranha 3D is nothing like those.
Essentially, this particular B-movie is complete trash driven by two things: gory violence and naked women. That really is pretty much it. The movie is not very funny, it largely lacks tension, the performances are forgettable, the story is paper-thin - this is not a film constructed with any artistry.
There might be some ironic enjoyment to be had, but that certainly doesn't make this movie good. Honestly, thanks to the Piranha 3-D's crude, low treatment of its female characters and an often mean-spirited tone to its violence, it would be hard for many to credibly justify this as even a guilty pleasure, let alone a good film.
Simply put, this RT score is a very unfunny joke. And when you consider that horror classics like Final Destination and Saw were shunned by critics for being gore-fests while this artless load of gratuitous nonsense got a free pass, its positive critical reception only seems even more inexplicable.
Deserved Score: 30-50%.