Jaws The Revenge Review
Starting with a concept so flawed , so illogical, as a shark wanting revenge, pretty much anything is acceptable after this, from the opening scenes of the shark setting a trap with a log for Sean Brody(shades of Loony Tunes Road Runner and Willie Coyote), to exploding for no reason when a boat hits it at the end. Throw in other plot irrationals such as the shark tracking the Brody family to the Bahamas, and managing to get there before them, homing in on Mike Brody’s whereabouts like a heat seeking missile, managing numerous disappearing acts, Michael Caine surviving, Mario Van Peebles surviving even more gallingly, it makes this Jaws seemingly more toothless in more ways than one. To add insult to injury throughout there are clips and references to the original, with Ellen having flashbacks to things she didn’t even experience, and badly remade classic moments like Brody and son at the dinner table. The shark seems to have an average speed of 2mph, and is still roaring( an unattractive and impossible characteristic it picked up in Jaws 3). Luckily for us there was no Jaws 5 which at the rate the series was going would have probably ended up with an incredibly intelligent shark flying through space, and badly scaring but not eating anyone…very…very…slowly. 1/10
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Well, this was better than the movie we watched immediately before it (see shameless review), but that isnt saying much now is it..
It was just the proposterousness of the whole film that was so appauling. When someone gets eaten, they should be, well, dead. Sharks shouldnt blow up for no reason, flash lights cannot electrocute sharks, Sharks generally do not like to eat boats etc... There were continuity errors, bad special effects, accents that drifted in and out (Van Peebles) and even a shark GPS/pacemaker so they knew if it was coming to eat them (and they still got into the water) it was pants!
I was trying to think of some redeeming features of this movie and the only one which is (highly) tangential was the discussion we had about how Michael Caine thankfully resurrected his career after a series of movie roles he did clearly for just the money.
Maybe we should be renting those (the prestige, batman franchise, children of men, even dirty rotten scoundrels) from blockbuster rather than punishing us by renting movies like these - what was I thinking.
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