Marred by laughable 3-D effects, Jaws 3 is a difficult film to take seriously. No movie with Dennis Quaid holding a basset hound's ears to keep them out of his water bowl while pouring himself some coffee can be all bad. Jaws 3-D comes pretty close.
This is a sequel that did not need to be made. Make no mistake, Jaws 3, especially compared with the two before it, is not a good movie. The storyline is preposterous, and the movie itself oftentimes feels like little more than one long commercial for Sea World Orlando.
Using today's system, Jaws would likely have been awarded a PG-13 (or perhaps even R - due to the drug use depicted in the opening scene) considering the many bloody feedings portrayed. The movie also includes graphic shots of severed limbs and one victim who is explicitly consumed by the shark.
This poster also indicates that, like Jaws, while rated PG, Jaws 2 “MAY BE TOO INTENSE FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN.” This warning seems to be more prominent, and with a strong emphasis on the “intense” part, than the similar warning in Jaws.
Jaws: The Revenge was a box-office bomb, and was the lowest grossing film of the franchise, with only $51.9 million (domestically). It was also universally lambasted by critics and audiences alike, who lamented the convoluted story, poor acting, and cheap-looking effects.
Parents need to know that Jaws: The Revenge is the fourth movie in the Jaws series, released in 1987. This is everything the original Jaws movie was not: boring, pointless, and astoundingly bad in every way. There are shark attacks -- a police officer loses an arm before being bitten to…
Spoilers. When Hooper goes diving down to Ben Gardner's destroyed boat, we get a jump scare when Ben Gardner jumps out of the boat dead. Quint's death scene is very disturbing as he slides in the sharks mouth and the animal chomps down on him. He screams and gargles on his own blood with Chief Brody watching in horror.
The shark then attacks a woman on a boat. She accidentally pours petrol everywhere and is blown up. She is killed and the shark has scars and burns on its face. The burnt corpse of the woman is shown later on in the film.
The idea that your family or yourself could be attacked by a giant white monster from the water during a peaceful beach trip is how Jaws became the ultimate horror film of the summer. Nothing is scarier than what can happen in real life. Nothing. The unexpected is what is the scariest.
Diane, the motorboat driver, is attacked by the shark and tries to defend herself with gasoline and a flare gun, but the fuel ignites and she perishes when the motorboat explodes. The shark survives, but is badly burned on the right side of its head.
Roy Scheider, who played Police Chief Martin Brody in the first two films, laughed at the thought of Jaws 3, saying that "Mephistopheles ... couldn't talk me into doing [it] ... They knew better than to even ask". He agreed to do the film Blue Thunder to ensure his unavailability for Jaws 3-D.
Jaws the Third, Jaws 3, Jaws III, Mama Jaws, The Mother, or the big sister. Brucetta (a.k.a Jaws the Third / Jaws 3 / Jaws III / or the big sister or the 2nd mother shark) is the nickname for the female Great White Shark depicted in the film Jaws 3-D and serves as the main antagonist.
One problem? The shark's dorsal fin “stopped” the shark from ever coming too far out into the audience, as by the time its jaws were out into the theater, the fin would've “hit” the top of the screen, ruining the illusion. The 3D also makes the movie look somewhat blurry in 2D.
Jaws: The Revenge is without a doubt a bad movie – so much so that it's gained an almost mythical aura. It takes a special set of circumstances to create a film as calamitous as Revenge, and the result is a collision of bad dialogue, hurried editing and terrible special effects.
The three sequels focused far too much on the shark. The shark was the main character just like Michael Myers became the main character in the later, weaker Halloween movies. This simple fact is why these films came nowhere near the level of success of the original.
“I truly and to this day regret the decimation of the shark population,” Spielberg told BBC, “because of the book and the film.” (Benchley, who wrote the “Jaws” novel, said in 2000 that he also feels somewhat responsible for the suffering of great white sharks.)
Sharks are not inherently dangerous: The portrayal of sharks as bloodthirsty killers in Jaws has contributed to a fear and misunderstanding of these animals. In reality, most sharks are not dangerous to humans, and many species are critically endangered due to overfishing and habitat loss.
Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge. Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.
The original theatrical cut, yes. However, Jaws was rated R at first when Spielberg was submitting the film. With some cuts and persuasion, Steven managed to bring it down to a PG.
While the Jaws franchise is not known for its accuracy, Jaws 2 features a surprisingly realistic depiction of one shark victim's fate. While director Steven Spielberg's 1975 movie Jaws might be a masterpiece, the blockbuster is not a realistic depiction of sharks or their behavior.
No, this wasn't as good as the original, but it wasn't bad, either. In fairness, the audiences knew what to expect in this one and had already been shocked by the killer Great White Shark. Thus, it was no way audiences were going to react to the sequel as they did the first Jaws movie.
