Why JAWS 3-D doesn't work!!!

                                

Director: Joe Alves    Writers: Peter Benchley (suggested by the novel "Jaws"), Richard Matheson & Carl Gottlieb (screenplay), Guerdon Trueblood (story)
Stars: Denis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon ManCorkindale

 

JAWS 3-D or otherwise known as "JAWS 3" is one of the other crummy sequels in the franchise of  Steven Spielberg's classic movie JAWS. This film was considered to be a cheap gimmick to get audiences into theaters do to its bad acting, poor writing of script, and story line that didn't make any sense.  The film in my opinion could have been good, but it really needed a reality check and is one of the negatives I'm going to discuss in this blog.  

Background:  Originally the producers of  JAWS 1 and 2 pitched JAWS 3 to be a spoof but was shut down do to conflicts with Universal Studios; however, Joe Alves was suggested to work in the film because he had worked on the other previous JAWS films as a production designer and a second unit director. He got the job and writer Richard Matheson who was involved in Steven Spielberg's film Duel was hired on set but did not agree with the director.

Storyline: The story is about Michael Brody, son of  Chief Brody from the previous films is now working in a Florida resort, SeaWorld along with his wife as marine biologists who previously discover a baby Great White Shark has broken into the facility. They capture the baby shark for world wide news but later dies. Eventually a 35-foot mother shark who had fallowed its offspring into the park begins terrorizing tourist of the resort.  

The story for the film in my opinion is very lousy as-well as the acting. The film is contains many inaccuraties throughout the story. For example, in the film they suggested that the mother shark had fallowed its offspring into the park. That doesn't happen in real life. Sharks don't mother there young.

Another thing that is wrong with the film is that in the movie, a marine biologists wants to capture the great-white shark that ended up sneaking into the reserve of Sea World so they can keep it as a main attraction. Whats wrong with this is that its illegal to do so because sharks can become big and eventually become impossible to tame. They're not like killer whales that can be tamed.

Also, this film  needs a reality check because  in the movie, the shark is suggested to be measured 35-feet in length, but when the shark is near a person or eating a character, the length is not in proportion to 35-feet and can easily predicted to be at least around 25-feet. In other words, the shark is too small.

 (see image bellow. Its not accurate to the movie but gives you a general idea.)

Director: Despite Joe Alves was the director, he was criticized on set even by his own writer who wasn't satisfied with the finished film. The writer complained that he wrote a very good script that Joe Alves did not agree or follow and at the time, this was the only film that Alves had ever directed. So Joe Alves is a very creative man but as a director, nope. This wasn't his movie or probably should never have been for his poor decisions.

Action sequences/ Special effects: The action sequences and special effects in the movie are actually ok for most scenes at at-least.  Joe Alves had promised for the film that they were going to show realistic designs for the mechanical shark thanks too experimentation with props and science. The shark actually looks good for the most part. When the shark opens its mouth in the film, it exposes all these gum layers and gore stained into the teeth. The sharks death in the very end was really amazing. When the shark explodes, gore flies through water and in the same time, the teeth fly in front of the camera conveying the name of the movie. That's really good but if only the story had made sense and was good, this would have been a really good thriller. As if the shark ate the script too.

 

Acting & Casting: The acting in the film is very terrible and has no direction.  The characters make dumb decisions or will perform incoherent tactics. The film consists cliché stereotypical acting with stupid underdeveloped characters that jump all over the place that make the entire film look murky. 

Music: The music is composed by Alan Parker who adapted the "shark theme" from John Williams. His music sounds menacing in the beginning of the film but later becomes and boring.

Summary: The film really messed up the series and could have showed a lot more but came across as a stupid film. This film is exactly the reason why we have the JAWS rip-off movie the Deep Blue Sea. JAWS 3 was a failure, but at least it made JAWS 2 a decent sequel. Even though this film wasn't good, it was still more tolerable then JAWS THE REVENGE. So if your looking for a good JAWS sequel, I suggest JAWS 2 because it seems to be the only  good sequel in the series.

"That's a wrap!"

Charlie the pundit