Jaws 2 Details

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This film bores me out of my wits

and the stupid moments like the woman soaking herself with petrol before trying to light the shark on fire don't help at all.

[Highly rated reviewer]

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO BACK IN THE WATER!

Jaws 2 is a very underrated film. Even before the cameras started rolling, the film had a massive mountain to climb, how could this sequel be as good or better the the perfect original? The simple answer to this is it can't. What you actually get is a film of two halves. The first half is actually the best,as a fin cuts the water heading for the shaw of Amity in the twilight misty hours is very unsettleing.The film first half greatly benefits by playing on Brody's paranoia of another shark problem, and again it all falls on def ears. Then the film makes for a more growd pleasing action filled, but less tight second half, by turning into a teen slasher, but replacing the knife of a mad man to a huge set of Jaws. Some of the set peices in this second half are spectacular, and the scene where one of the teenagers falls overboard, and the shark pushing the sail boat away from his grasp is very well staged,and the woman victim who tries to save the youngest Brody son is as powerful as it is sudden, also not to forget the water ski attack in the first thirty minutes is thrilling. But in this film you can pinpoint the exact moment the series gets silly, as the scene where the Shark attacks the Helicopter, although spectacular is still pushing the bounds of realism too far. Also we see too much of the shark, and this effects the tension.It's a good job John Williams is on board to do the music score again, as again he proves his skill at turning dull scenes into a thing of nail biting tension. Apart from Scheider's Brody who again turns in another great performance, the characters in this sequel are under written and are obviouse shark food. The eldest Brody son is very bland and his acting at times it pittyful.

The film also suffers from not having the chemstry of the characters of Speilberg's masterly original and not having Dreyfuss's Hooper to join Brody leaves a big hole to fill, but in a way also adds to the film, as Brody has to tackle the Shark alone without the help and advice of others.

If Jaws 2 was the first film, critics would have been much kinder to it, as although not perfect it still stands as a good sequel to the classic 1975 original, that still offers some good shocks, and great performance from Scheider and a great mucis score from John Wiliams, and if you compare it to Jaws 3 and Jaws The Revenge, the film feels like a masterpeice!