Maggie McKeown is an insurance agent or some kind of skip tracer, I'm really not sure which. Anyway, she is out looking for two people who have left a debt or something, once again I really could not hear what was said cause I was busy munching on some pop rocks and could not hear over the crackling noise in my head. So while she is out searching in a lush countryside, she comes across Paul Grogan, a crotchety middle-aged bastard if there ever was one, after talking for a bit, Paul takes Maggie up to this reservoir where people sometimes go. Once there, Maggie finds the backpacks of the people she is looking for. Assuming they drowned, Maggie goes over to a release valve and drains the water into the near by river to see if their bodies are in the empty reservoir.

At this point a Dr. Robert Hoak comes out screaming "What have you done!". Well apparently the reservoir was filled with secret military hybrid piranha, and Maggie just let them all out. At this point Paul, who looks like a total dullard, realizes that his daughter is at the end of the river at a new water-park that just opened up. So Paul, Maggie, and Dr. Hoak, all hop on a log raft and head down stream, trying to beat the deadly school of pirahna.

After Jaws came out, apparently anything with teeth and fins made a good monster movie. Piranha is bad, but not horrible. The actors are like cardboard and the fish look like plastic toys. Of course as the piranha head down stream anybody or thing that gets in the way is gonna get nibbled on. The best one is an old drunk who is dangling his feet in the water.

The three heroes on the raft take a few nibbles here and there until they have to make a swim for it. But the best is the ending when they try and corral the evil fish at the edge of the water park. If you like animal flicks this one is quaint, but sub-par in most aspects.

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