Piranha - C-

Rated R for gore and graphic nudity.

And the award for worst ending ever goes to - this. As Spring Break begins, a small Arizona town sheriff (Elisabeth Shue) has plenty to deal with as hundreds of kids descend on the local lake. And that's before her 17 year old son breaks his promise to watch his two smaller siblings. And just after prehistoric piranhas have been released by a seismic event. The film begins interestingly enough with Richard Dreyfuss essentially reprising his Jaws character - 35 years later (though their last names differ). But the way he's dispatched informs the gory, senseless, and occasionally tense film that follows.

Ving Rhames, Eli Roth, and Christopher Lloyd have fun in self-parody mode. Jerry O. Connell gives the film's "best" performance as a Girls Gone Wild type douchebag producer. His debauchery is disgusting, hilarious, and uncomfortable. As the sheriff's budding love interest, Adam Scott thinks he's actually in a good movie, which makes the abrupt ending all the more shocking. Too bad the ending is as tacked on as it gets, subverts everything that comes before it - including fossil records, and puts the lives of children in danger without resolution. C-

Note: For all you atheists out there, see Kelly Brook.