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Premise: A great white shark loose in SeaWorld. The Brody boys have to save the day.
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Lea Thompson, Louis Gossett, Jr., Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale
Review: Probably the worst in the series (Jaws and Jaws 2 are still the best shark films where the shark is the bad guy) as even Jaws the Revenge was nominally more intelligent than this outing (it did have Michael Caine after all).
It's got all the trappings of a Jaws film, music, occasional disappearances, big showdown scene. But it's surrounded by crap. People in a tank playing with an obviously fake shark. Simon MacCorkindale. A shark swimming backwards. Sharks with emotional connections, like love and revenge.
The 3-D effects are still obvious, even when edited for television or cable. The speargun, the teeth, the arm, the shark heading from the underwater tunnel to the control room, the breaking glass... And they really don't work when viewed in 2-D.
Overall: Bad
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