Jaws 3

Jaws 3
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Movie Reviews of Jaws 3

Movie Review: The most interesting of the movies.
Summary: 5 Stars

This "Undersea kingdom" attracts an experienced Australian shark-hunter (perhaps the Croc-hunter took too many lessons from watching this film) and his assistant.

It also attracts baby-brother Sean, who has a considerably logical fear of the water. Being trapped on a boat with seventeen teenagers, one of whom is eating while holding you up, would drive anyone to become a cowboy instead of a diver. Sean, however, appears to be an omen of misfortune, for wherever he goes, a shark tends to appear.

A baby shark swims through the gate which is left open by the rather irresponsible water-skiers. You are set up at the start to think the baby, who detects easy prey, will attack the skiers, but breaking with the tradition of Chrissy and the two rich divers, the skiers survive. If anything, they distract the baby. In a sense, this whole nightmare is partly Kelly's fault.

Clearly Deep Blue sea stole some ideas from this film, because most of the actual business towards running the park takes place in the underwater control room. It's not merely aesthetics that convinced them to create a gigantic plexi-glass window in front in either film.

While reunited with his brother, Sean, Mike watches as Kelly hunts Sean like he was a stag. But to Mike, the relationship with senior biologist Katherine is of much greater interest. The only problem I have with Katherine is that her dolphins have a habit of rescuing her. She should be sensible enough to send Dan and Liz, her assistants, into the water instead of her. But, it wouldn't be an action-ATTEMPT (this doesn't succeed, but for farcical horror it is exceptional) if the heroine didn't put herself at risk as well. Besides, the dolphins probably wouldn't rescue Dan or Liz. I assure you it is quite worth it to watch how, just as the shark is about to make a meal of Katherine, her two dolphins show up and start slapping Jaws until she forget about Katherine long enough for her to get away. Biologically, that is how dolphins would put a stop to a shark, because shark cartiledge cannot withstand high amounts of pressure.

Naturally, Calvin Bouchard, the manager, is far more interested in killing the shark than anything else. At least he doesn't insist on keeping things hushed up. But he doesn't listen to the biologist, period. Had Katherine been able to keep the baby shark herself a bit longer, she might have developed a connection with it. To watch her around animals, even sharks, appears almost druidic in her ability to connect to them. The baby shark attacks her only once, and it soon lets her go.

And by the way, it is a biological certainty that all great whites, no matter what age, will commit suicide if they are in captivity. They cannot survive without the sea. Ask any icthyologist. Now, bear in mind, they should have realized this. But, hey, a great white is an excellent money-maker, and quite a reputation-builder.

I love this movie. If you want Jaws to revive itself, you should watch Jaws 2, which is what happens when you lose your supporting cast and have to draw upon pure terror, or Jaws 4, which is what happens when you run out of remaining characters and have to draw on the family. Regretfully, Jaws 4 is how the Jaws situation will ultimately play out, though Ellen's newly developed psychic abilities regaurding sharks mean that the film only makes sense to people who're into that type of thing.

Possible explaintations for Jaws 4's changes. Clearly between Jaws 3-4, some disconnect has taken place. Mike has obviously become influenced enough by Katherine to abandon engineering and study marine biology, but my guess would be that Katherine decided she should remain with her animals instead of going with him to S. America. Somewhere in this, he meets Carla, an artist and scultress, who obviously has Lea, their daughter, before he met her. Carla is not Katherine! Carla is cruel, and doesn't seem to trust Mike. Katherine is stronger and knows what she wants, but works better with animals than she does with people.

Summary of Jaws 3