Jaws - The Revenge
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Movie Reviews of Jaws - The Revenge
Movie Review: "It's not food he's after."
Summary: 3 Stars
As awful as everyone says, but definitely good for laughs; and better than the novel in my opinion. Even though it made for a more logical motivation for the shark, the voodoo elements of the novel just complicated the plot unnecessarily. I prefer the straight forward plotline of the movie. Although the film has a lot of visual goofs, like the shark's teeth falling out of its mouth while chomping down on the research boat or the ocean splashing against the "horizon" in the final scene, there are some thoughtful moments too, like Ellen, in her grief, using her oven as storage for her pots and pans. Funnier than JAWS 3.Movie Review: Jaws Fans will watch
Summary: 3 Stars
The kids and I are fans of the Jaws movies. The first is the best; the second isn't bad; the 3-D is ...well... you have to be a fan (but the kids like it b/c, as they say, "it looks so weird floating out there"); the last called the Revenge is okay but you have to be a fan. The kids like the action with the boats and plane.Movie Review: poor judith barsi
Summary: 3 Stars
i only purchased this because of the loss of judith barsi (thea brody) who was murdered by her father in 1988 R.I.P even though the movie has bad reviews i got it for the memory of judithMovie Review: JAWS THE REVENGE, IT'S OK
Summary: 3 Stars
IT'S NOT THE BEST JAWS MOVIE AND IT'S NOT THE WORST EITHER,IT IS OK. IT IS GOOD TO BUY [IF YOU LIKE THE JAWS SEIRES].Movie Review: This Time... It's Really Stupid!
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a film about a shark that's contrary to pretty much everything we know about sharks. Jaws starts off in Amity Island (the location of the original film) on some sort of revenge-quest on the Brody family because they keep maiming, killing or otherwise blowing up the significant number of Great White sharks that seem to keep coming into their vicinity. Jaws gobbles up one of Chief Brody's sons (himself now a cop like his pop once was) and there's a lot of close-ups of some renegade piece of driftwood. We get the sense that Jaws somehow managed to use this piece of driftwood to lure Brody's kid a little closer to the water so he could snatch him and eat him up. This is ridiculous right from the get-go, but here it is in about the first ten minutes of the film. Sharks do not take things personally and they don't seek vengeance, but this is only one of the many facts about sharks that the filmmakers will ignore as we progress through this film.
Mrs. Brody (Lorraine Gary) gets very boo-hoo about this attack and decides to visit her other son who lives down in the Bahamas. Somehow, Jaws knows of this and follows her down to the Bahamas. Again, the likelihood of finding a Great White shark in the warm waters of the Bahamas is crazy unlikely, but as we've already seen, the filmmakers don't care much for things such as science or fact. So, Mrs. B tools around the islands and manages to hook up with Michael Caine, who's named after a sandwich for this movie (maybe not, but his name's Hoagie and all I can think of is the hoagie sandwich whenever he's on screen). In defiance of the otherwise talented cast on screen, Jaws manages to out-act them both when he shows just how cunning and crafty he is. See, Mrs. B's other son hasn't suffered enough trauma from being in the water, so he hangs out with Mario van Peebles (as Rasta, Mon!) and does science-y stuff in the ocean that has something or other to do with ocean life. Like I've said, the filmmakers don't care much for science or fact so what Mrs. B's kid and Mario van Rasta are doing in the ocean doesn't much matter. Anyways, Jaws does fun stuff like stop swimming to hide behind some coral or seaweed - only to jump out like some wacky aquatic ninja and eat up some more hopeless victims. Well, the filmmakers have completely thrown fact to the wind on this one because if a Great White stops swimming for even a minute, they die. They will essentially suffocate themself and drown. However, Jaws seems pretty able to manage sitting in idle while waiting for his prey to come directly to him.
Once Mrs. B realizes that Jaws has come to the Bahamas to get her and the rest of her family, she begins to lose her s--t royally. She takes off on her own revenge-quest against Jaws and they're supposedly destined to duke it out somewhere on the high seas. However, Jaws seems pretty easy to find since he's also gained the ability to roar... or growl... or whatever the heck sound he's making. Yep, you guessed it - once again, the filmmakers have thrown all logic and reason to the wind and have now made a Great White sound like a lion (in fact, this reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Captain Lance Murdoch had to jump over a water tank filled with piranhas, sharks, electric eels and a lion). Anyways, Mrs. B drives her boat out into the ocean to have a final showdown with Jaws. Hoagie shows up again and crashes his plane into the water and swims to the boat. Like many other reviewers have noted, even though Hoagie just came from the very wet ocean, none of his clothes appears to be the least bit damp. Why this has garnered such attention is beyond me. I mean, honestly, at this point in the film you've been asked to accept a roaring, revenge-minded shark that pounces on its prey from out of nowhere - why quibble about Hoagie's clothes?
Now Mrs. B and friends are ready to go mano-e-mano with the Great White and we're led to believe that Mario van Rasta buys the farm halfway through this nightmare at sea. After some more nonsense regarding things that sharks don't do, the climax builds up to the point where Jaws leaps a good 15-20 feet out of the water (apparently, he has also acquired the abilities of a dolphin. Maybe Jaws is a mystical shark that takes on the properties of whatever it eats for its own personal gain). Mrs. B and friends run the ship's prow directly into the beast and stabs it. That's right, she stabbed Jaws... with a boat... Cut to a growling, anguished Jaws as he flops about after being skewered like a Great White shish-ka-bob. He dies an embarassing death and everybody relaxes now that the nightmare is... finally... over...
Also, Mario van Rasta shows up after the shark is killed with a friendly "Hey, mon!" and everyone's all ha-ha as the credits roll.
This is the film in a nutshell and the installment that the Jaws series chose to end on (or maybe not chose, I'm sure the studio would've kept churning these things out if the audience hadn't breathed a collective "give me a break" sigh). Why Michael Caine is in this makes even less sense than a growling, stalker-esque Great White shark. I guess he was just slumming and figured a free trip to the Bahamas and a paycheck on top of it was a great way to finish out an Academy Award-winning year (he had won an Oscar whilst he was in the middle of filming Jaws 4). In the meantime, the filmmakers were able to top the sheer silliness of the previous entry (the one where Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr. deal with sharky shenanigans at a Sea World-esque theme park... in 3D, no less!) whilst also soiling everyone's collective memory of Spielberg's original classic film.
In short, this is obviously a terrible film, but it does fall into the so-bad-it's-fun category and is even better to view when capping off another week of Shark Week on TV. With all the things you learn about sharks during Shark Week, watch this film and see just how many the filmmakers got wrong. All in all, go into this expecting exactly what you'd expect from the third sequel in a franchise and you won't be disappointed because "Jaws 4" delivers the silly in spades! However, if you're looking for a film that's along the same lines as Spielberg's original, well then... just go watch the first one again.
Thanks for reading and stay safe out on those high seas, mon!