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Ushering in the age of the inferior sequel, Jaws 2 was essentially a license to print money. Indeed, the film did very well despite blatantly replicating the plot of Steven Spielberg's original, though to lesser effect. Roy Scheider returns as Martin Brody, sheriff of the small island town of Amity. Just as the beachside resort is rebounding from the previous movie's shark attacks, another great white is snacking on divers and water-skiers. Naturally, the town fathers don't want to confront reality and choose to proceed with a lucrative sailing regatta, resulting in a grisly loss of life. Besides the fact that director Jeannot S
Ushering in the age of the inferior sequel, Jaws 2 was essentially a license to print money. Indeed, the film did very well despite blatantly replicating the plot of Steven Spielberg's original, though to lesser effect. Roy Scheider returns as Martin Brody, sheriff of the small island town of Amity. Just as the beachside resort is rebounding from the previous movie's shark attacks, another great white is snacking on divers and water-skiers. Naturally, the town fathers don't want to confront reality and choose to proceed with a lucrative sailing regatta, resulting in a grisly loss of life. Besides the fact that director Jeannot Szwarc takes an impersonal, workaday approach to the film, Jaws 2 manages to be both stylistically flat and openly cynical about its commercial intentions. Of chief interest here is Scheider's performance, which wisely reflects the emotional fallout from Brody's last trauma in his obsessive behavior here. --Tom Keogh
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Manufacturer: Uca Catalogue
Release date: 3 April 2006
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5050582423808
Tags: Action/adventure (1), AFI Top 100 Thrills (1), Vanity Fair 50 Greatest Films Of All Time (1), AFI Top 50 Villains (1), AFI Top 100 (1997) (1), AFI Top 100 Movie Quotes (1), Essential Cinema (1), AFI Top 100 (1), Killers (1), Dramas (1), Blockbuster (1), Action (1), High Seas (1), Sharks (1), Recommended (1), Animals (1), Suspense (1), Adventure (1), Horror (1)
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