Jaws 3D

Seriously, what’s the whole idea of making “Jaws” into a franchise? What can they possible think of for the sequels? All the films are about a giant killer white shark that just preys on its victims until a group of people come around and they kill the shark. In the case of “Jaws 3” or better known as “Jaws 3D,” released in 1983, we are taken away from Amity Island and instead are in SeaWorld. Unlike Amity Island, this place has underwater tunnels and plenty of people for the shark to feed on.

As I had stated already, “Jaws 3D” takes place in the SeaWorld water park. Suddenly a new white shark arrives into the park and starts to feed on the park employees, water skiers, and so on. Then at the climax of the film we get a sudden twist. Apparently what they thought was the shark that was killing people apparently was the baby shark, whose mother is obviously larger in size. In case you’re wondering, she “is” in the park.

There are no familiar faces reprising their roles from the first two films, even Roy Scheider as the ever loving Martin Brody. I think that after the second one, he thought that he didn’t want to be in another shameful sequel of “Jaws,” if they ever thought of making one. Who can blame the guy? However, this film focuses on Brody’s two sons. Randy Quaid’s younger brother, Dennis Quaid, is playing the elder son, Mike, who along with his girlfriend Kay, played by Bess Armstrong, are SeaWorld employees. Mike’s younger brother, Sean, played by John Butch, arrives to stay at the park, and befriends the lovely Kelly Ann Bukowski, played by the attractive Lea Thompson (ashamed that she will not get another good role after “Back to the Future”). There is only a passing mention in this film as to why Sean is hydrophobic. All they say is, "something that happened when he was a kid." Why is that? I blame bad writing. Now the person they are having trouble convincing that there is a shark in the park is the park’s manager, played by Louis Gossett Jr.

Like a lot of other bad sequels, this one just follows the same formula that the first two followed. Shark starts to kill people where our lead characters work, they go to their boss to convince him of a series of shark attacks out there, he doesn’t listen, more people get eaten, so the lead character decides to take matters into his own hands to kill the shark. What is there new for “Jaws 3?” The setting is really nice, it takes place in a water park, Louis Gossett Jr. plays one of the main characters, and a baby shark is captured first before the real shark is, the way the shark dies is awesome, and the final sequence is pretty original and entertaining.

“Jaws 3” is one of those horror movies from the 80s that was released in theaters in 3D, which was a relatively new gimmick at the time. But I have to agree with the Nostalgia Critic when he said that the special effects are terrible, even if you had the 3D it wouldn’t save the movie, but “the story is ludicrous, and the characters are so boring that there is literally nothing that can save it, even if it was in 3D.” Yahoo reviewer Mike Cameo said in his review of this horrendous sequel, “Considering that the studio missed a ripe opportunity for a good fourth 'Jaws' film with "Deep Blue Sea" (1999), it probably would have been best to end the series at "Jaws 3".” Just do yourself a favor and avoid this film. I would have to give this film a 1.

Did they end up leaving it as a trilogy? Find out tomorrow when I thankfully will finish off “Jaws-a-thon.”