Rating: PG
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 05/22/2001
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 1/5.1/2
Run Time: 117 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Despite being a less well-regarded virtual remake of the original film,
Jaws 2 earned a tidy sum at the box office by combining its predecessor's winning formula with the popular teen horror craze, helping to spawn the era of blockbuster sequels.
Roy Scheider returns as Sheriff Martin Brody, whose small resort town of Amity is poised to bounce back from the economic hardship it encountered after becoming widely known as the site of vicious shark attacks. But at the same time that Mayor Vaughn (
Murray Hamilton) is welcoming a real estate developer to Amity, two divers disappear and a party of waterskiers is consumed by a shark. The incidents are explained away as accidents, but Brody knows better, tipping his bullets with cyanide and forbidding his sons Mike (
Mark Gruner) and Sean (
Marc Gilpin) to participate in a teen sailing regatta. Everyone foolishly chalks up Brody's fears to trauma-induced paranoia, and the regatta goes forward, with a hungry great white trailing the youthful contestants and hungrily picking them off one by one. Director
Jeannot Szwarc would later helm another sequel,
Supergirl (1984).
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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An Underwater Rampaging Frenzy.
Roy Scheider does a solo number in this follow-up to the 1975 blockbuster minus Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss and director, Steven Spielberg. Police Chief Martin Brody (Scheider) takes on another vicious great white shark that's launching savage rampaging attacks on teenagers on sailboats. There's plenty of excitement in this one like in the first one.
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