Jaws - The Revenge

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A fine piece of carnivorous passion.......2007-08-16

As the film's title identifies, our legendary shark menace can hone in on blood from miles away- hundreds of miles in fact, notably alighting upon a particular target residing upon the shore. Did the Brody's simply leave a trail of chum from Martha's Vineyard to the Bahamas; perhaps Hoagie dropped it from his plane. Nevermind. Jaws in his ravenous hunger bore that vehicle to the seafloor.

Nevertheless, one can't help but gape at the sheer prowess of Spielburg's instrument of cinematic horror. Jaws defies the fallibility of such creatures as Dracula, slain by the heart-driven steak, the Wolfman, silenced by a silver bullet, or even the impermeable blob, suspended in animation. Not only can the sea's greatest killing machine withstand being blown up, electrocuted, and subsequently blown up while striking fear into tourists at a local SeaWorld, he rises once more to exact revenge upon his land-based nemeses, the indefatigable Brodys. It's no wonder that he now exhibits a tendency to roar, lavish the warm Carribean waters, an alien and inhospitable environment for a great white, as well as spontaneously explode after leaping twenty feet from a water depth of less than ten, having been impaled upon a wooden prow.

Yet, Jaws: The Revenge deserves as yet unaccounted-for credit. The extraordinarily large prehistoric beast fortunately lacks the imbued twenty-five cent arcade qualities of the shark of Dennis Quaid and Bess Armstrong. We, as an audience, are allowed to view retro Jaws in his classic fury, striking fear into beachgoers and boaters, young and old alike. Furthermore, we see genuine character development in the interactions between the adult Michael Brody and his young daughter.

Unfortunately, who lies out on the sofa to watch a Jaws film that depicts human character as opposed to human casualties? How can a horror/thriller genre sport sappy relationships and love-making welders? Therein lies the inherent flaw of Jaws: The Revenge. Take a hint from South Park- if you've got to kill the main character every installment, produce a comedy. Don't straddle a blunt line between frightening, fruity, and downright ridiculous.

Consider seeing this film only if you think that believable scripts, good special effects, and originality are overrated.......2007-05-13

It's no accident that there never was another "Jaws" movie after Jaws the Revenge. Even the movie Deep Blue tried hard to avoid being thought of as Jaws 5. Why is that?

Probably because this sorry piece of filming terminated the giant shark in more ways than one. It's NO exaggeration, whatsoever, to say that this film works better as an unintentional comedy than as a horror/science-fiction movie.

If you are thinking of renting or, heaven forbid, buying this movie I will refer you to something that lambasts this movie better than I can. Do a you tube search for "richard jeni jaws 4" and you'll find a short entertaining video that gives Jaws the Revenge a proper mockery. A more accurate title would be Jaws the Joke or Jaws the Ripoff.

Here are my rankings of the Jaws movies:

Jaws: 5 stars (only one worth owning, get it)
Jaws 2: 3 stars (ehh, I guess there are worse things you could do with your time than seeing this inferior sequel)
Jaws 3: 2 stars (starting to get crappy)
Jaws the Ripoff: 1 star (only because you can't give 0 stars on Amazon)

This time, it's bad! .......2007-03-14

I saw this movie on TV since there was nothing else on and I must say that I couldn't stop laughing. The movie is so bad, that it is a comedy! In the begining of this movie, they start off by saying that the events in Jaws 3 never happened (reason why it's called "Jaws: The Revenge" instead of Jaws 4) and that the sharks from the first two movies were the new sharks parents. So the shark follows the Brodys to kill them all! What a dumb plot you must think, but it gets even worse by the bad acting and action. In one scene the shark jumps out of the water and locks it's jaws on a plane! Come on, I bet the guy who wrote "Basic Instinct 2" could do a better job.
-Ben Russell

This Got Made.......2006-12-22

I just saw the end of JAWS: THE REVENGE again on latenight cable TV--where it belongs--and I'm still stunned by the incredible lameness of every aspect of this movie. For everyone who quibbles about the unlikelihood of finding a Great White in the warm waters of the Bahamas: this shark also roars. Like a lion or something. A roaring shark. You read that right.

The filmmakers also keep cutting shots from the original JAWS into the climax. As a reminder that there was actually a good film at one time here? A distraction from how horrible this one is?

They paid Michael Caine enough to be in this stink bomb--but obviously not enough to wear a wet shirt after climbing out of the ocean. His expressions often convey that he's there but you're lucky he's at least facing the camera.
Was there something better he could have been doing? Yes. Picking up his first Oscar for HANNAH AND HER SISTERS. But he missed the Oscars to be in JAWS: THE REVENGE. At least he went on national TV to admit that he did this movie because he had a home right there in the Bahamas (he even pointed at the house during the interview).

The demise of the roaring shark is a baffling, badly-edited violation of all of our natural laws and logic. Shark rises out of the water. Boat rams shark. Shark explodes. Boat explodes. Everyone survives, even the annoying Jamaican who got chewed up several minutes before. Roll footage clearly the same of the blown-up shark sinking from the original.
Wow. It's that bad.

The tag line for this movie was "This time it's personal."
They were right.
That studio's really got it in for us!

What a crap!.......2006-10-02

Looks great but don't get trusted, this is the worst killer shark film ever! The shark looks so fake and during all the movie he only killed like 4 people and that's it. So please don't see this movie I'm warning you.

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Jaws of Death
The Shark Whisperer

The Jaws of Death
Starring: Jerry Albert , Jennifer Bishop , Courtney Brown , John Chandler , and Buffy Dee
Director: William Grefe
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Release Date: 2005-03-01

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Jaws of Death.......2006-08-25

The copy I received in DVD form was perfect. Many thanks for the memories - I wrote the screenplay under a nom de plume because the director couldn't read . . . I also wrote the concepts for Lucky Lady with Burt Reynolds and the TV series In Search Of . . . plus wrote and directed Bloodstalkers and "starred" in The Search for Bigfoot while appearing too in the Smithsonian Series "Monsters Myth or Mystery"

The Shark Whisperer.......2004-12-31

William Grefe: the name is synonymous with "horribly made movies." This little gem from 1976 cashes in on the "Jaws" craze with perhaps the most ridiculous concept in fish movies ever: a psychic hero who communes with the sharks telepathically (somehow via a necklace obtained on Mindanao during a "shark god" ceremony, in a subplot that involved much running through a jungle) and defends his toothy friends. Well, really not so toothy, actually. The movie uses Nurse Sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum); large, sluggish sharks, which although they do have teeth, are generally harmless unless provoked. You can spot the Nurse Sharks by looking for the wide head with pronounced barbels (thin, whisker-looking organs in front of the nostrils that are used for sensing touch and taste). End of ichthyology lesson.

Back to the film: this poorly made rip-off contains some of the worst acting and screenwriting in memory, another signature of a Grefe production. The hero (Richard Jaeckel) grimaces through the movie like Mod-Hair Ken in need of Imodium AD. He takes his fish extremely seriously, and becomes a one man shark-feeding machine, placing anyone who crosses his path into the gums of his nurse shark friends. The leading lady is Jennifer Bishop, who may be the worst actress I have ever seen, and wears more eye makeup than Tura Satana. Her aquatic dance scenes are so exciting I believe I may have dozed off during the bulk of them, except during her brief tango with Sam the shark. Her husband, only slightly more overweight than Mr. Creosote, and unfortunately spending much of the film in shorts, is the evil villain, and is very scary (if you happen to be scared of a 500 pound Weeble.)

There is also a subplot about a hurricane. I was left completely stumped by how that in any way furthered the film. There is also a demonstration of why you shouldn't go shark fishing in a tam o'shanter.

I have seen "Piranha," and had previously considered it to be the worst fish movie I had ever seen, trailed very closely by "Jaws 3-D," but no more: this is it, the champion all-time worst fish movie I have ever seen, or ever hope to see. It is pure and classic Grefe.

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A fine piece of carnivorous passion
Consider seeing this film only if you think that believable scripts, good special effects, and originality are overrated
This time, it's bad!
This Got Made
What a crap!

Jaws: The Revenge
Starring: Lorraine Gary , Lance Guest , Mario Van Peebles , Michael Caine , and Karen Young
Director: Joseph Sargent
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Release Date: 2001-05-01

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A fine piece of carnivorous passion.......2007-08-16

Consider seeing this film only if you think that believable scripts, good special effects, and originality are overrated.......2007-05-13

This time, it's bad! .......2007-03-14

This Got Made.......2006-12-22

What a crap!.......2006-10-02

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A fine piece of carnivorous passion
Consider seeing this film only if you think that believable scripts, good special effects, and originality are overrated
This time, it's bad!
This Got Made
What a crap!

Jaws: The Revenge [Region 2]
Starring: Lorraine Gary , Lance Guest , Mario Van Peebles , Michael Caine , and Karen Young
Director: Joseph Sargent
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Customer Reviews:

A fine piece of carnivorous passion.......2007-08-16

Consider seeing this film only if you think that believable scripts, good special effects, and originality are overrated.......2007-05-13

This time, it's bad! .......2007-03-14

This Got Made.......2006-12-22

What a crap!.......2006-10-02

Average customer rating:

A fine piece of carnivorous passion
Consider seeing this film only if you think that believable scripts, good special effects, and originality are overrated
This time, it's bad!
This Got Made
What a crap!

Jaws: The Revenge [Region 2]
Starring: Lorraine Gary , Lance Guest , Mario Van Peebles , Michael Caine , and Karen Young
Director: Joseph Sargent
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Customer Reviews:

A fine piece of carnivorous passion.......2007-08-16

Consider seeing this film only if you think that believable scripts, good special effects, and originality are overrated.......2007-05-13

This time, it's bad! .......2007-03-14

This Got Made.......2006-12-22

What a crap!.......2006-10-02

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