i guess my big mistake be to watch this remake of 95 piranha back to back with joe dante 78 original . i do the same last week with the omen . curiously enough and watch the remake right after the 76 original and really make me appreciate the 2006 version quite a bit for various reason . but this approach sort of backfire on the 95 piranha version . it enhance the fact that it really be a less picture . basically and the 95 version be more or less the exact same film and a it tell the same story and follow it practically scene by scene ( only barabara steele character and the military intervention be write out of it ) . but the cinematography wasn not as good . the acting be bad too . especially alexandra paul ( play heather menzies character ) show me again what a horrible actress she be . bradford dillman ( from the 78 version ) have his charlton heston way of act go and which be amuse and while in the 95 version william katt do a good job at be william katt . so i do not mind him and really . but the whole cast be pretty much inferior and the only worthwhile event be spot james karen ( return of the living dead and part 1 and 2 ) in a cameo . john carl buechler make up effect aren not as neat a rob bottin . the musical score have some ring to it and but pino donaggio score be much more memorable in the original . so all these shortcoming really shine through with have just re watch the original a part of this double bill . since scott p. levy remake do follow dante original and i guess it be entertain enough to sit through and though it lack the wit dante original have . but what really make me not like levy version very much and be the fact that quite a bit of stock footage from the first film be re use during the piranha attack scene . i never like it when filmmaker do this ( and i be not talk about use footage for flashback or other valid reason ) . i mean and if you do not have the budget ( or imagination ) to come up with newly shoot material and then for pete sake and do not do a frickin remake . but roger corman produce this ( cheap ) remake and so i guess i shouldn not be all that surprise about the re use of footage . if you do decide to watch piranha and then make sure it be a while since you have see the original . you might enjoy this remake a little more then . and oh yes and that cool little stop motion creature from the original be nowhere to be find in this film and a to be expect . but what bad and there also isn not any female nudity in this one ( the original really have quite some titty shot go for it and and that blonde girl from the opening scene even accidentally pull her underwear a bit down too far when remove her jean . ) . figure and a this 95 version be make for tv .