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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Rather redundant, rather biting. What, fish again?! Still, not a bad sequel.
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Roy Scheider is the only redeeming quality of this sequel.
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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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Delivers [Nearly] as much as the first
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The first of three crummy sequels unworthy of the original.
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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. Full Review |
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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 Full Review |
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