Jaws 3-D (1983)

Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong and Louis Gossett Jr. star in this 1983 thriller sequel. This installment takes place in Florida where a Great White Shark terrorizes a Sea World Theme-Park. Quaid (Innerspace) plays Mike Brody, son of Amity Police Chief, Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) who works as the park's engineer along with his girlfriend, Kay (Armstrong), a marine-biologist and they try to stop the shark from terrorizing the customers. Gossett Jr. plays Park Manager, Calvin and Lea Thompson also appears as water skier, Kelly. The film has tense moments, but the shark starts to lose it's bite because of bad 3-D effects and acting. Fans of creature features, give it a try.

As Sea World is about to open a new attraction, the resident workers find the area home to a shark only to have it die rather quickly yet when they find the shark's mother still living inside and attacking the facilities they race to stop it before it destroys the park.This one wasn't that bad and was actually pretty decent. One of the film's greatest factors is that the characterization scenes aren't all that aggravating to sit through. The bar scenes and the few scenes with the couples on the job are decently done, giving off a nice sense that a normal couple could be involved in these types of affairs without being forced into them. The action does come along at the end in all the right installments, featuring a lot of big action set-pieces that come off really well at first with the brief first attacks as well as the great encounter in the lagoon when they first encounter with the smaller shark. The discovery of the mother starts the film in earnest as the sight of the shark appearing in front of a panicked crowd of tourists and crashes into their structure has delightful possibilities, and they are somewhat played nicely here. The race to fix the stranded visitors is a nice suspense-builder, coming off in a very elegant manner and allowing for some really nail-biting scenes following the shark attacking the complex itself providing some nice action. The chase through the underwater ship is pretty nicely done and comes off with a great air of urgency about it. The shark in here also looks the closest to a real shark, giving off a realistic shape that is really close to a great white rather than a demonic face with a shark's body. It also displays a realistic touch by moving its upper lip to attack, something that none of the other sharks did. This wasn't all that terrible as there actually isn't that much to really dislike in this one. Most of what's wrong with the film is that the effects are pretty abysmal in general. The 3D effect isn't employed beyond poking objects into the camera for no reason, while the green-screen photography present also doesn't help matters, often times making them look worse. There's no believability at all in hardly anything in the film, especially the young, lifeless shark and this really hurts the film. It's nearly impossible to have any fear or tension in a film where the main threat isn't imposing, and it's on display nearly every time there's a shark on-screen here. The stupidity inherent in so many situations is a major crime, especially the shark's capture and display to the public being quite obvious and wouldn't play out in real life. The measure of taking out the creature also applies, as it really defies logic and in a scene full of nonsensical things, it's hard to pick one thing about the ending that really works. The shark itself deserves mention, as the body count in here is really unacceptable. For a giant shark to cause as much damage and mischief as it does, to be around as many thrashing bodies in the water as it always manages to be around, and the fact that it sneaks up on the victims isn't going to be left out. There should've been more kills in here, and with so many missed opportunities, it's a real shame. These are the main things involved with this that really bring it down.Rated PG: Graphic Violence and Language.

If this movie was made in 2017, the rating would probably be R or MA15+, but because it was made in 1983 and it is fake, it is PG. And because it's so fake, that makes it 3/10. I'm warning you, it is very fake. It is also very boring cause there are parts we don't even need to watch, that are useless, but the parts that are exciting is probably because of the 'fakeness'.

I actually find this plot to be very unique. Neither of the other two JAWS sequels are so distinguishable. They take place in open water and the shark destroys some boats. This one is in a whole different environment... Sea World. People are saying this plot is ridiculous except it's really not because having a live great white shark in captivity is every aquarium's dream. Sure the shark bashes through steel mechanized gates but is that really such a far leap from pulling apart an entire pier or pulling down those yellow barrels like the shark did in the first movie? Unfortunately everything positive I could say about this movie stops there.While the look of the mechanical shark improves with each sequel this one did a terrible job at showing it properly. Also there's a scene where the baby great white is attacking a sunken ship to try getting to some people but it's clearly a guy ramming a toy shark into a miniature ship prop. The baby also hardly ever moves its tail for some reason so it looks like its just drifting in the water. The effects have their moments but they're mostly cheesy and laughable.The acting is uninspired and none of the characters are really memorable. There were times where I was like "oh yeah... THAT guy exists..."Every time I saw the shark fin rise to the surface and heard that iconic music playing it felt like the director was just saying "Oh! I get to make a JAWS movie! That means we need lots of these shots!" There was no tension to those shots like there was in JAWS and even a little in JAWS 2.It's bad but I've seen worse. The only reason I gave it a 4/10 instead of a 2/10 is because I didn't take the film very seriously so I got some good laughs out of it.