Jaws 2

Watch: Jaws 2

6/16/19781h 57m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... ~

Overview:

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Director:

Jeannot Szwarc

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$20,000,000.00

Revenue:

$187,884,000.00

Key words:

dying and death
rescue
island
panic
mayor
shark attack
police chief
current
boat accident
animal attack
sailing
sequel
scuba diving
creature
shark
great white shark
killer whale
high-tension current
water skiing
tourism

Cast

Roy Scheider

~ as ~

Police Chief Martin Brody

Lorraine Gary

~ as ~

Ellen Brody

Murray Hamilton

~ as ~

Mayor Larry Vaughn

Joseph Mascolo

~ as ~

Len Peterson

Jeffrey Kramer

~ as ~

Hendricks

Collin Wilcox Paxton

~ as ~

Dr. Lureen Elkins

Ann Dusenberry

~ as ~

Tina Wilcox

Mark Gruner

~ as ~

Mike Brody

Barry Coe

~ as ~

Tom Andrews

Susan French

~ as ~

Old Lady

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Reviews (5)

IB
Ian Beale
Written 8 year(s) ago
10
Excellent sequel!

Intense sequel directed by Jeannot Szwarc (who also directed episodes of Columbo alongside Steven Spielberg!)

Performances here are every bit as good as the original and Szwarc manages to infuse of great sense of style to the proceedings - building upon and adding even more depth to the Brody story. The camerawork is extremely stylish - some great gliding point of view shots.

John Williams outdoes his work in the original movie with his Jaws 2 score.

The film feels more brutal than the original and leads to a nerve shredding climax.

A great counterpart to Jaws (1975).
- Ian Beale
JPV852
Written 4 year(s) ago
7
Adequate but still entertaining sequel has some okay practical effects with the shark though still really silly given what happened in the last one nobody in charge would listen to Brody. Nothing overly special and doubt I'd revisit this anytime soon, but an okay sequel. 3.25/5
quasar1967
Written 4 year(s) ago
8
just as good as the original, if not better
r96sk
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
A disappointing follow-up.

I enjoyed Roy Scheider's performance and the core action sequences near the end, but everything else is a bit boring. 'Jaws 2' puts high focus on the teenagers, though their story never possesses any intrigue. The effects for the shark, meanwhile, are a step down from the original.

It's not terribly far from being watchable, a slightly shorter run time might've helped in that regard, but I just personally found it to be an uninteresting 115 minutes or so. Perhaps initial director John D. Hancock's ideas would've came out better, though he was fired during production; speaking of which, the issues behind the scenes for this - and even the first film, really - are pretty fascinating.
CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
5
It's only after watching this that you realise just how crucial to the success of the first film Robert Shaw was. This is not the worst sequel I've seen by any means, but without his gnarled and charismatic "Quint", we are left with a pretty mundane effort from all concerned. This time our hungry finned friend has a group of young sailors - including, of course, the Brady bunch - "Michael" (Mark Gruner) and "Sean" (Marc Gilpin) firmly in it's sights. This necessitates their sheriff father (Roy Scheider) having to defy his own loathing of the water to try and rescue them. Director Jeannot Szwarc tries to mix it up a little, but there is just too much inevitability about the ending; and the screaming hysterics of the weans - especially the truly irritating "Jackie" (Donna Wilkes) started to get under my finger nails quite quickly. The photography is good, and some effort has been made to disguise the more mechanical elements of the shark attacks, but the calamitous fire pan to fire scenarios recycle themselves once too often. John Williams' score still works well to help generate some semblance of a sense of peril, but I'm afraid this isn't remotely scary and was quite a disappointing watch.