{"id":44178,"date":"2024-07-04T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44178"},"modified":"2024-07-04T00:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:14:29","slug":"jaws-2-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/04\/jaws-2-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaws 2 (1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. That\u2019s the sad fate for Sheriff Brody who, years after the events of \u201cJaws,\u201d is now seen as the crackpot of Amity Island. Despite the fact that the mayor admitted defeat in the end of \u201cJaws,\u201d and in spite of academic backing, and a very experienced shark hunter dying at the teeth of the beast, Amity Island has a streak of memory loss prompting a lot of people to forget what Sheriff Brody accomplished at the end of the original movie.<\/p>\n

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The writers sadly back track for us with \u201cJaws 2\u201d eliminating a lot of the importance of Brody\u2019s mission in \u201cJaws\u201d as a means of advancing the whole plot of this follow up. This means making Brody a drunken has been, the local politicians absolutely devious for the sake of being devious and turning the great white shark in to a slasher villain. \u201cJaws 2\u201d is something of a man vs. monster movie again but this time with Jaws upping their body count and transforming them in to a slasher villain of a sorts.<\/p>\n

Jaws is still as angry and hungry as ever, but the newest shark is some kind of scarred monstrosity that coincidentally torments Sheriff Brody\u2019s children in the second half of \u201cJaws 2.\u201d The follow up to the blockbuster is essentially one part a goofy mystery where Brody is still suffering from PTSD from his encounter with the great white. Despite it being you know, nature and all that, everyone insists that the big old shark isn\u2019t coming back. This makes him an even bigger emotional wreck who has to prove himself. Again.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Following is a bigger (and younger) cast with bigger cannon fodder, including his two sons. They\u2019re all meant to be classic slasher movie targets while adding Brody\u2019s sons give us some emotional stakes. Much to their horror the shark sets its sights on the group, leaving them stranded and desperate to make it back to shore. Despite some fleeting moments of tension, as well as Donna Wilkes\u2019 epic scream of horror, \u201cJaws 2\u201d is a pale follow up that repeats the beats from the original film.<\/p>\n

It also destroys Sheriff Brody as a means of advancing us in to this new premise, which is paper thin at best. Maybe it\u2019s time to move somewhere bereft of shark life and ungrateful town folks. \u201cJaws 2\u201d has its small base of fans that think it\u2019s a solid follow up, but I found it to be great background noise, at best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. That\u2019s the sad fate for Sheriff Brody who, years after the events of \u201cJaws,\u201d is now seen as the crackpot of Amity Island. Despite the fact that the mayor admitted defeat in the end of \u201cJaws,\u201d and in spite of academic backing, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,71,477,922,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-44178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-horror","tag-sequel","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44188,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44178\/revisions\/44188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}