Jaws 2

Pros: Roy Scheider's performance
Cons: Pacing, story, no Spielberg, and plot warmed over from previous film

Considering the success of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, the 1975 blockbuster about a great white shark terrorizing the beachgoers and swimmers of the small town of Amity, it isn't surprising that the executives at Universal greenlighted Jaws 2, ...

Pros: Great performance from Roy Scheider
Cons: The pace drags, and the teens in peril plotline is lame.

Jaws 2: MCA/Universal
Rating: USA: PG

Back in 1975, fledgling young filmmaker Steven Spielberg unleashed his monster shark film Jaws on unsuspecting audiences worldwide. The film (which I’ve reviewed here at...

Pros: Schneider's Brody, Hamilton and Gary's support
Cons: The teens' acting

After the smash-success of J aws, it was really impossible for there not to be a sequel, and just as the first movie became one of the most influential monster movies of all time, Jaws 2 would become the ...

Pros: entertaining, some scary moments, shark attacks
Cons: replayed story line, hard to believe in some places, can be predictable

The phenomenal success of the film Jaws back in 1975 virtually guaranteed that a sequel would be made. The problem with sequels is that they usually have a hard time measuring up to their predecessors...and Jaws 2 is no exception. Now in this films defe ...

Pros: Roy Scheider.
Cons: Horrible acting by everyone other than Scheider. Extremely predictable. Poor rehash of first film.

It really was a no-brainer that a sequel to the groundbreaking, box office smash "Jaws" would be made. But, the sequel is really a pretty bad movie with horrible acting, lame dialogue, too much predictability, and not much originality to it.

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Pros: More bark
Cons: Less bite

Some key players besides Roy Scheider stuck around for a second helping of Jaws, which accounts for the production's classiness. Producers David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck prostituted their box office sensation because, according to Brown in Jaws 2's...

Pros: Scheider's performance; the return of John Williams' scoring mastery
Cons: The shark scenes and the teens in peril are just too far too predictable

Like the two other horror film sequels I've reviewed, HALLOWEEN II and THE RAGE: CARRIE 2, JAWS 2 falls under the category of being "Good But Not Great." This basically means that there is certainly enough to recommend the film, but not enough for the...

Pros: nice movie, shark's make over
Cons: did anyone learn their lesson?

"Jaws 2" is the sequel to the great Jaws. In it, a shark starts terrorizing the people of Amity. Roy suspects something, but once again, the Mayor Vaughn places his idiocy. In Jaws 2, a great white shark goes to the island and you know it: the ...

Pros: Great classic flick!
Cons: Repetitive story

I was a huge fan of the original Jaws movie but for some reason, sequels sometimes give me a bad feeling. Now, I am not sure about this, but I am fairly sure that this shark is not the same one as in Jaws. It looks like an over grown fish that ate too...

Pros: Very good, exciting follow up to the 1975 blockbuster
Cons: Not enough sexy Lorrain Gary

Look there was virtually no way to make a sequel to the origial Jaws that would be quite as brilliant. But this movie is at least 4/5ths as good and that is quite a compliment. Scheider indeed does an excellent job in his second round as Chief Brody...

Pros: Jaws Returns, Action, Good Acting
Cons: Too Slow for some?

I was a huge fan of the original "Jaws" movie but for some reason, sequels sometimes give me a bad feeling. Now, I am not sure about this, but I am fairly sure that this shark is not the same one as in Jaws. It seems that it's just another big...