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Jaws 3-D

This film is about a man who is afraid of sharks. He decides to work in a marina so he can put himself in as much danger as possible with other marine life. One day, a gigantic rubber shark decides to enter the park to see the sights and stuff. Brody Junior realises this and spends the rest of the movie in the water. Anyway, after all the nerve biting tension and thrills, the shark is destroyed and they all live happily ever after in 3D. It's strange how a film can claim to have three dimensions when every character in it only has one... This trashy, thrown together mess is an embarrassment to the series. How far we have come from great dialogue, great performances and iconic thrills to this piece of nondescript tosh. Then again, it was directed by Alan Smithee's uncles cousins brother in law, twice removed. So the results were inevitable.

It took three screenwriters (Carl Gottlieb, Michael Kane, and the estimable Richard Matheson) to concoct what is surely the lamest suspense movie in history. Chief Brody's oldest son has grown up and become Dennis Quaid, working as a manager at Sea World Florida; after receiving a visit from his sea-shy brother, Quaid, girlfriend Bess Armstrong (who resembles Lorraine Gary, the original Mrs. Brody), and other park employees capture a Great White shark--a feat they will live to regret! Originally shown in 3-D, the movie-monster is mainly seen via underwater stock footage. When an actual Jaws is required, director Joe Alves unveils nothing more than a rubberized dummy. Alves has fun foisting severed limbs (not to mention the head of a fish!) at the camera in an attempt to raise chills, but any audience worth their salt won't be rooting for the swimmers. NO STARS from ****

Jaws 3 is a sequel with the return of the dreaded great white shark that sneaks into a water park after it's baby swims into the park and dies. I saw the film and yeah, the special affects are crap but the film was originally in 3-D. You can totally tell when they used the 3-D affects,after the shark explodes it's teeth coming flying at the viewer, the great white comes right at the audience even though it's not moving, times like that. Now I'm not saying this film is great, it lacks a lot. For one thing, Brody's kids grew up pretty fast!There's a lot of cool deaths, this one diver gets snapped and chewed whole only to have his hand holding a grenade out to a person to pull it's ring, two animal thieves get pulled underwater after they have a funny conversation, this one gate inspector gets mauled pretty badly and so on. So come on, give this film a break. It's not that bad of a film and you might enjoy a little of it. This gets the big 6, not good but not bad.

I had avoided seeing this film for fifteen years because of it's bad reputation and because I love the first Jaws as one of the greatest movies ever made. Having survived the horror of "Jaws: The Revenge" once, I decided to see if I could brave this one, though. About the only thing that surprised me was that the premise wasn't quite as dumb as "Jaws: The Revenge" is. And while there is a reference to the events of "Jaws 2" at least they don't insult our intelligence with a shark pursuing one family etc. of any "Brody curse." What sinks this film though is that it's dull in every sense. The FX are cheap and terrible and too often it's hard to figure out what's going on here. Scenes that could have been suspenseful with a competent director just plod along in a muddled fashion. In the end, Jaws 3 comes off more as a glorified made for TV type disaster movie with none of the high quality that elevates the original Jaws above such fare.

Jaws 3-D (1983) was not only a sequel to the first two JAWS films, but it was also one of the few movies that took advantage of the rebirth of the 3-D fad that was sweeping Hollywood during the early 80's (see Amityville 3-D and Friday the 13th 3-D). When the film hit the video shelves, they scrapped the whole thing. Why make a 3-D movie in the first place if you're not going to take advantage of it when it's available for the home video market? The video looked bad when it was released as a rental. Many of the scenes that were shot didn't make any sense or were badly projected. The movie did poorly at the box office and after a couple of years, no more mainstream films were presented in 3-D. The movie itself is pretty bad. Only for die hard fans of the JAWS series. Not recommended, unless they re-release it in 3-D. other than that it's pretty much worthless.