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Jaws 2 (1978)

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Reviews Counted: 19 Fresh: 11  Rotten:8 Average Rating: 5.4/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins

Synopsis: Amity police chief Brody discovers that there's more than one fish in the sea--the great white shark he destroyed in the first film has a hungry mate ready to wreak havoc on the community. This action-packed sequel features the welcome return of Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary reprising their... Amity police chief Brody discovers that there's more than one fish in the sea--the great white shark he destroyed in the first film has a hungry mate ready to wreak havoc on the community. This action-packed sequel features the welcome return of Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary reprising their roles from the original blockbuster that did for ocean beaches what PSYCHO did for showers. [More]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo, Jeffrey Kramer

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
Screenwriter: Carl Gottlieb, Michael Butler
Composer: John Williams

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May 22, 2001

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3/5

Rather redundant, rather biting. What, fish again?! Still, not a bad sequel.

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04/23/07
Steve Crum
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2/5

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02/25/07
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)
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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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1/5

Roy Scheider is the only redeeming quality of this sequel.

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11/06/05
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
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4/5

A vastly underrated sequel with plenty of shocks and nail-biting tension. Not quite up to the original, but still loads of fun.

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10/21/05
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily
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2/5

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07/01/05
Emanuel Levy
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05/09/05
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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3/5

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07/27/04
Angela Baldassarre
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1/5

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09/21/03
Rebecca Murray
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3/5

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08/23/03
Brandon Judell
PopcornQ
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4/5

Delivers [Nearly] as much as the first

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07/11/03
Clint Morris
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2/5

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11/22/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)
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3/5

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10/11/02
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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1/5

The first of three crummy sequels unworthy of the original.

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09/08/02
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
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2/5

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07/30/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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4/5

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
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62/100

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07/25/01
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide
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...Jaws 2 hits a qualitative ceiling due to the joint absence of Steven Spielberg and Academy Award-winning editor Verna Fields.

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06/09/01
Bill Chambers
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3/5

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05/23/01
Mike Bracken
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3/4

the filmmakers did everything they could to breathe new life into the material without forgetting what had made that material work in the first place

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05/12/01
James Kendrick
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