You tell me, baby

No, I asked you the question!

I can't believe this shit sequel actually made it to two pages.

Ugh.

still on page 1.

Just wait until the Jaws 3 thread, noob.

okay "DVD Talk Hall of Fame".

Considering that they took Michael Brody back to Amity after he bumped his head, they needed Sean out there for Martin to give a shit.

I was surprised Vaughn was still mayor after the events in JAWS. And I will say that the driftwood corpse does rival the scare from Ben Gardner in the original.

Show us on the doll where Jaws 2 touched you, WeylandYutani.

Instead of a doll, just hold up a stuffed cock because it's pretty clear that's where Jaws 2 touched WY. I guess Jaws 2 could've fingered WY in the butthole with his fin though. Okay, hold a stuffed butthole as well and have WY choose.

Holy shit. I leave the thread alone for an hour and THIS is what's become of it?

Come on. JAWS 2, baby, come on.

lol,

keep going at it. Let's keep this shit on the front page.

lol.

Is that the best you can do? Seriously?

Guess you guys are sucking each others' dicks already, eh? Good to know.

"Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet...."

- Mr. Wolf, Pulp Fiction

I liked it more than Prometheus. The kids were smarter than the astronuts.

Funny, I seem to recall WeylandYutani berating me for making a negative comment about Ridley Scott in another thread, yet here he seems to have no problem trolling through this thread and pissing off everyone.

Hypocrisy? On the internet?

Well, that just tears it!

I think I also saw Jaws 2 before the original. They kind of ran together for me until I got older.

For sequels standards, its a very good movie, unlike the next 2 Jaws movies that were horrendous. I probably haven't watched it since the early 80's when it was on HBO everyday, but do remember always enjoying it. I always remember Roy Scheider banging that cable pipe to get the Sharks attention at the end of the movie.

I smell a time out coming for someone...

Jaws 2 was bad compared to the first one, but the producers wanted to tie the film into the whole teen slasher craze, so this film is what you got. Not the worst, but not too bad either.

Favorite....review.....ever! From TIME magazine:



JAWS 2

Directed by Jeannot Szwarc Screenplay by Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler

Well, the big questions might as well be answered first. Is Jaws 2 as scary as the original Jaws? No. Is it as much fun? No. Will it make as much money? No. Is it a total catastrophe? Not quite. What, then, is Jaws 2? Quite simply, it is an almost scientific exercise in showbiz mediocrity. This smooth and passionless spectacle is too impersonal to win anyone's affection and too inoffensive to inspire hatred. It's so bland that it evaporates from memory as soon as the final credits appear onscreen. Were Jaws 2 not a sequel to one of the most popular movies of all time, it would probably sink, without fanfare, into the briny deep of drive-in triple bills.

Jaws 2 does have a few things in common with its illustrious forebear. It cost tons of money, is set around Amity (a.k.a. Martha's Vineyard), has a score by John Williams and stars a rather petulant shark. Roy Scheider, looking unaccountably like George C. Scott after a hunger strike, is back as the local police chief, and so are a few members of the Jaws supporting cast (Murray Hamilton, Lorraine Gary, Jeffrey Kramer). But the crucial elements of the original have vanished: there is no wit, no genuine terror and no cinematic dazzle. The first Jaws was made by Steven Spielberg, a virtuoso director with a Hitchcockian ability to whip an audience into a frenzy of simultaneous delight and horror. Jaws 2 seems to be the work of a computer that has been programmed by the same drones who used to manufacture Universal Pictures' disaster movies.

It is sad to contemplate how little imagination has gone into this effort. The rudimentary plot is set forth in a gee-whiz script that stops at nothing, including the invocation of prayers, in its pursuit of the cornball. The obligatory beach-riot scene is a crude recapitulation of the one staged by Spielberg three years ago. Instead of presenting fleshed-out characters (and actors like Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss to play them), Jaws 2 is largely populated by nubile teenagers who appear to be graduates of the Mickey Mouse Club of Dramatic Arts. When these kids meet their unsavory fates, one feels more relieved than mournful.

Director Jeannot Szwarc goes through all the motions of making a horror picture, but he fails to realize that audiences like a dose of suspense along with the carnage. In Jaws 2, the mechanical shark rears its fake head at virtually every appearance and attacks with predictable regularity. There may be more casualties than last time around, but more proves to be much less. The prosaic shark of Jaws 2 becomes such a bore he might as well be a carp.

For all the film's torpor, it is not incompetent at the technical level. The stunts often look real, and one of them, involving a helicopter, actually jolts us out of our seats. But scare movies are not just technology; to come alive, they must have spirit as well as profession alism. Jaws 2 is only a piece of presold merchandise, untouched by human hands. It spouts buckets and buckets of blood, yet remains, to the bitter end, completely bloodless.

Frank Rich

The craze didn't start yet. Jaws 2 came out before Halloween. It does have similar elements to a slasher film, though.

And KC, I agree. I completely forgot about this. Love the art work.

Not having the shark roar was a good decision.