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Jaws 2 (1978)

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Reviews Counted:19

Fresh:11

Rotten:8

Average Rating:5.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

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... 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]

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

Starring: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo, Jeffrey Kramer, Collin Wilcox, Ann Dusenberry, Mark Gruner, Barry Coe, Susan French, Gary Springer, Donna Wilkes, Gary Dubin, John Dukakis, G. Thomas Dunlop, David Elliott, Marc Gilpin, Keith Gordon, Cindy Grover, Ben Marley, Martha Swatek, Billy Van Zandt, Gigi Vorgan, Jerry Baxter, Jean Ann Coulter

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

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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01/01/00
Almar Haflidason
Almar Haflidason
BBC

No review available.

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07/27/04
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

...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
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central

No review available.

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08/23/03
Brandon Judell
Brandon Judell
PopcornQ

No review available.

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

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
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

Delivers [Nearly] as much as the first

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07/11/03
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

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
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

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05/23/01
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken's Horror Films

No review available.

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

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

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04/23/07
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com

The first of three crummy sequels unworthy of the original.

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

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

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Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
07/25/01
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

Roy Scheider is the only redeeming quality of this sequel.

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

No review available.

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07/01/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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02/25/07
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

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

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09/21/03
Rebecca Murray
Rebecca Murray
About.com
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Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
 
 
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