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Jaws: The Revenge
The long suffering wife of Chief Brody decides she's had enough of Amity and heads off to the Caribbean to join her son, daughter-in-law and grandchild. However, the shark with an attitude just won't leave her alone... did it follow her ?, is it the same shark ?
313 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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Michael de Guzman
33 books16 followersI grew up seeing hypocrisy pretty much everywhere I looked. I still see it. I believe it must be conquered. I think love, hope, romance and our imaginations are the best way to do it. Most of all I believe that kids get the short end of the stick. We pay lip service to the idea that they are the future, but we short change them. Kids don't have the vote. They don't have lobbyists because they don't have money. Everything about their lives is determined by adults, often to their detriment.
I write about kids who populate the margins of society, who have something big to face in life, who take action on their own behalf, and who are aided along the way by adults who live on the margins themselves. I write about the world we live in, and the world inside my head. They tend to be quite different places.
My latest novel for kids and parents, GROWING UP RITA, is the story of a mother and daughter caught up with the problems of immigration. MELONHEAD and BEEKMAN'S BIG DEAL are now available in paperback and as ebooks.
I attended Trinity School in New York City, and the University of Rhode Island, where I met my wife. We live in Seattle, Washington with our dog, Banjo.
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July 23, 2023
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Yet another Shark Week has come and gone (with twice as many fake documentaries) and this year I chose to read perhaps the most torturous shark story to date -- aside from last year's read --- a novelization of the film Jaws: The Revenge. AKA Jaws IV. AKA The One That is Somehow Worse Than Jaws 3.
Jaws: The Revenge: it's a tale as old as time. Man kills shark. Man kills a different shark. Possible descendent of deceased sharks follows the man's family to the Bahamas and begins systematically killing them.
You know, that old story.
In an attempt to fix the many problems with the film, author Hank Searls (the "nationwide #1 bestselling author of Jaws 2") makes things even worse, with a story that doesn't feature a shark killing anywhere between pages 14 and 240, a bizarre story about the cartel and that major plot point: voodoo.
THE PROBLEM: A Great White shark follows the widow of Chief Brody to the Bahamas to continue killing her family.
THE SOLUTION: The shark is killing off the Brody family, but only because he's been placed under a voodoo curse thanks to Michael Brody's recent destruction of a voodoo doctor's magic gourd. That other old story.
THE PROBLEM: In the original novel, Jaws, the characters are so horrible that you begin to root for the shark.
THE SOLUTION: Make them even more horrible! While Ellen Brody used to insult her children's homework, tells her son his PhD work is "beneath" him and thinks it's okay to feel good about physically punishing your children to get some contact with them, the other characters are no better. Michael seems to think his wife can't have a job and be a mother, reassures her that she's a good person because she's "pretty" and a "wonder in the sack" and desperately wishes they could have a son instead of his lame daughter.
THE PROBLEM: For the most part, the terrifying shark barely kills anyone and isn't all that scary.
THE SOLUTION: Add in a scene in which the shark cures a rich businessman of his alcoholism which just makes you like it more. I wish I was making this stuff up.
THE PROBLEM: No one talks about that time Dennis Quaid as Michael Brody was terrorized by a shark at SeaWorld. Not even Michael Brody.
THE SOLUTION: Never ever mention that time Michael Brody dealt with a 3-D shark while working at SeaWorld.
THE PROBLEM: Michael Brody is unwilling to warn his family about the existence of a shark intent on eating them because it would worry them if they knew. (And you know, also stop them from going in the ocean!)
THE SOLUTION: Michael Brody is protecting the town's commerce which has suffered as of late by tracking the shark with his partner Jake so as not to ruin the annual Junkaroo festival. See also: almost the exact same plot from Jaws.
THE PROBLEM: The original Jaws story diverted too much time to a mob subplot and not enough time to a man-eating shark.
THE SOLUTION: Add in a cartel subplot starring Hoagie which takes away time from a not as man-eating shark. Although to be fair, this gives us the most ridiculous scene in the whole story, specifically when a cartel member on water-skis kills a failed hit man with his Uzi.
THE PROBLEM: The film seems to be under the impression that sharks roar and explode upon impact.
THE SOLUTION: As in the original novel, the shark does not roar or explode and instead dies a quick and anticlimactic death followed by much rejoicing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqiWWm...
THE PROBLEM: There just weren't enough horrible puns about seaside animal life.
THE SOLUTION: "One good tern deserves another." - Michael Brody
THE PROBLEM: One of the worst uses of Michael Caine ever.
THE SOLUTION: Add back in all the Michael Caine plot lines that were deleted from the original film. For obvious reasons.
THE PROBLEM: Film was so terrible that we never got that 19th sequel we were promised in Back to the Future Part II.
THE SOLUTION: Build a time machine.
Yet another Shark Week has come and gone (with twice as many fake documentaries) and this year I chose to read perhaps the most torturous shark story to date -- aside from last year's read --- a novelization of the film Jaws: The Revenge. AKA Jaws IV. AKA The One That is Somehow Worse Than Jaws 3.
Jaws: The Revenge: it's a tale as old as time. Man kills shark. Man kills a different shark. Possible descendent of deceased sharks follows the man's family to the Bahamas and begins systematically killing them.
You know, that old story.
In an attempt to fix the many problems with the film, author Hank Searls (the "nationwide #1 bestselling author of Jaws 2") makes things even worse, with a story that doesn't feature a shark killing anywhere between pages 14 and 240, a bizarre story about the cartel and that major plot point: voodoo.
THE PROBLEM: A Great White shark follows the widow of Chief Brody to the Bahamas to continue killing her family.
THE SOLUTION: The shark is killing off the Brody family, but only because he's been placed under a voodoo curse thanks to Michael Brody's recent destruction of a voodoo doctor's magic gourd. That other old story.
THE PROBLEM: In the original novel, Jaws, the characters are so horrible that you begin to root for the shark.
THE SOLUTION: Make them even more horrible! While Ellen Brody used to insult her children's homework, tells her son his PhD work is "beneath" him and thinks it's okay to feel good about physically punishing your children to get some contact with them, the other characters are no better. Michael seems to think his wife can't have a job and be a mother, reassures her that she's a good person because she's "pretty" and a "wonder in the sack" and desperately wishes they could have a son instead of his lame daughter.
THE PROBLEM: For the most part, the terrifying shark barely kills anyone and isn't all that scary.
THE SOLUTION: Add in a scene in which the shark cures a rich businessman of his alcoholism which just makes you like it more. I wish I was making this stuff up.
THE PROBLEM: No one talks about that time Dennis Quaid as Michael Brody was terrorized by a shark at SeaWorld. Not even Michael Brody.
THE SOLUTION: Never ever mention that time Michael Brody dealt with a 3-D shark while working at SeaWorld.
THE PROBLEM: Michael Brody is unwilling to warn his family about the existence of a shark intent on eating them because it would worry them if they knew. (And you know, also stop them from going in the ocean!)
THE SOLUTION: Michael Brody is protecting the town's commerce which has suffered as of late by tracking the shark with his partner Jake so as not to ruin the annual Junkaroo festival. See also: almost the exact same plot from Jaws.
THE PROBLEM: The original Jaws story diverted too much time to a mob subplot and not enough time to a man-eating shark.
THE SOLUTION: Add in a cartel subplot starring Hoagie which takes away time from a not as man-eating shark. Although to be fair, this gives us the most ridiculous scene in the whole story, specifically when a cartel member on water-skis kills a failed hit man with his Uzi.
THE PROBLEM: The film seems to be under the impression that sharks roar and explode upon impact.
THE SOLUTION: As in the original novel, the shark does not roar or explode and instead dies a quick and anticlimactic death followed by much rejoicing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqiWWm...
THE PROBLEM: There just weren't enough horrible puns about seaside animal life.
THE SOLUTION: "One good tern deserves another." - Michael Brody
THE PROBLEM: One of the worst uses of Michael Caine ever.
THE SOLUTION: Add back in all the Michael Caine plot lines that were deleted from the original film. For obvious reasons.
THE PROBLEM: Film was so terrible that we never got that 19th sequel we were promised in Back to the Future Part II.
THE SOLUTION: Build a time machine.
August 2, 2022
This story was good, but needs more shark and less drug runners and voodoo
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July 7, 2023Jaws the Revenge Novelization Discussion
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March 12, 2022
Amazing how much better than the movie this is.
An added subplot revolving around Hoagie's game of cat and mouse with a drug kingpin is more thrilling than anything with the shark, especially when you picture Michael Caine in these shootouts and subterfuge.
The book also adds a voodoo element to the shark which both changes the context immensely yet not at all. Immensely in that the shark is seemingly connected to a witch doctor who has cursed the Brody family, but not at all in that the shark itself is always presented in a clinical, specific point of view that coincidentally attacks when the witch doctor wills.
In any case, the book is more well written than the movie, and is a surprisingly solid, entertaining read.
An added subplot revolving around Hoagie's game of cat and mouse with a drug kingpin is more thrilling than anything with the shark, especially when you picture Michael Caine in these shootouts and subterfuge.
The book also adds a voodoo element to the shark which both changes the context immensely yet not at all. Immensely in that the shark is seemingly connected to a witch doctor who has cursed the Brody family, but not at all in that the shark itself is always presented in a clinical, specific point of view that coincidentally attacks when the witch doctor wills.
In any case, the book is more well written than the movie, and is a surprisingly solid, entertaining read.
August 7, 2019
Wanted to check this out cause I heard it was crazier than the movie and had a really weird voodoo subplot. And sure there was some of that but it was still pretty dull in a lot of places. Ultimately it was like the movie, entertaining when it gets crazy but a lot of boring parts in between those. I did like all the shark sections though. Honestly, whole book should've been from the point of view of the shark.
August 31, 2023
Jaws The Revenge is a movie with a ridiculous premise. This adaptation tries to make sense out of it, but it never quite comes together. A curiosity more than anything else.
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March 29, 2024Not THAT bad. Better than the movie I'm sure.
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November 8, 2023How to not end the Jaws franchise. We will miss you, Jaws...
The third and final sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws and the fourth and final installment in the Jaws franchise also had the shortest production window of the Jaws movies. While the other three films in the series took around two years to produce, Jaws: The Revenge was made in less than nine months. According to associate producer and production manager Frank Baur during the sequel's filming, "This (Revenge) will be the fastest I have ever seen a major film planned and executed in all of my 35 years as a production manager."
On Amity Island, Chief Martin Brody, the hero of two previous shark attacks has died from a heart attack. His wife, Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary), attributes it to his previous encounters with killer sharks. She now lives with Brody's younger and more obedient son Sean (Mitchell Anderson) and his fiancée Tiffany (Mary Smith). Sean works as a police deputy and is sent to clear a log from a buoy a few days before Christmas. As he does so, a massive great white shark bursts out of the water, severing his arm, then pulls him under the surface and devours him, sinking his boat in the process.
Ellen is convinced that the shark deliberately targeted Sean on purpose. She decides to go to the Bahamas to spend time with Brody's older son Michael (Lance Guest), his wife Carla (Karen Young), and their 5-year-old daughter Thea (Judith Barsi). At the islands, Ellen meets carefree airplane pilot Hoagie (Michael Caine). Michael — along with partners Jake (Mario Van Peebles), William and Clarence — works as a marine biologist.
The shark that killed Sean unexpectedly appears and attempts to devour their boat. The crew decides to keep quiet about the shark's presence due to Ellen's attempts to convince Michael to find a job on land. Ellen becomes so obsessive that she starts having nightmares of being attacked by a shark. Then she starts getting psychic feelings when the shark is near or attacks. She and the shark seem to share a strange connection that is unexplained. The crew decides to attach a device to the shark that would track its heartbeat. Using chum to attract it, Jake stabs the device's tracking pole into the side of the shark. The next day, Michael is chased by the shark and barely manages to escape unharmed.
Thea goes on an inflatable banana boat with her friend Margaret and her mother. The shark attacks and kills Margaret's mother. Thea and Carla are traumatized following the attack. Ellen boards Jake's boat to track down the shark, intending to sacrifice herself to save the rest of her family. Michael and Jake are flown by Hoagie to search for Ellen and find the shark in pursuit of their boat (which Ellen has hijacked). During the search, Hoagie explains to Michael about Ellen's theory that the shark that killed Sean has followed her to the Bahamas to exact revenge on the Brodys. When they finally found her, Hoagie lands the plane on the water, ordering Michael and Jake to swim to the boat as the shark drags the plane and Hoagie underwater.
Much to Ellen's disbelief, Hoagie survives. Michael was upset with Ellen because he was worried that she would have been killed by the shark. Jake and Michael hastily put together an explosive powered by electrical impulses. They begin blasting the shark with the impulses, which begin to drive it mad; it repeatedly jumps out of the water, roaring in pain. As Jake moves to the front of the boat, the shark lunges giving it the chance to pull Jake under and maul him. He manages to get the explosive into the shark's mouth before he is taken underwater.
Michael continues to blast the shark with the impulses, causing it to leap out of the water again, igniting the bomb as Ellen rams the shark with the sailboat. The broken bowsprit impales the shark, spraying blood everywhere, and its corpse sinks to the bottom of the sea. In the DVD cut, when the shark is impaled by the bowsprit, its head explodes and sinks to the bottom of the sea. Michael then hears Jake calling for help. He is seriously injured, but he is alive and conscious floating in the water. The four survive the harsh encounter and make it back to land. Hoagie then flies Ellen back to Amity Island.
This Time, It's Not Personal
Similar to Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (which came out the same year as this film), it officially turned the shark movie genre into a dead horse, with no new action or content and led to some later shark-related films to be this way.
The effects of the fourth film’s shark are just awful.
Aside from the obvious animatronics, there's a moment near the end of the film where the shark gets impaled and explodes.
A freeze-frame reveals that the special effects crew just used a toy shark and a toy boat. The practical effects for the shark are far worse than the practical effects used in Jaws 3-D, which is weird since Universal re-used the mechanical shark from 3D in this movie; presumably the four years it spent in storage didn't do it justice.
As to why the shark explodes, it's because there’s another ending (only shown in some TV versions) which simply had the shark bleed to death, taking the prow of the boat with it; an ending that got altered after the test screening.
Speaking of the ending shown on DVD, Jake gets eaten by the shark and there's blood coming out. This would normally mean he's dead.
However, instead, after the shark explodes, he somehow survives.
Unbelievable, illogical and laughable scenes, like the shark chasing after a plane and roaring after getting zapped with an electronic shocker. What the heck? Sharks can't roar because they don't have vocal cords!
Speaking of which, the shark's roaring sounds seem to be taken from an old Tom and Jerry cartoon, which sounds incredibly out-of-place in this film.
The shark sometimes stands on its tail like it's the cartoon character Jabberjaw.
The shark has a revenge plot. It's as stupid as it sounds.
Plot hole: There are plenty of other people to eat, so why is the shark after the Brodys?
The movie feels like a melodramatic soap opera and less like an entertaining summer blockbuster whenever Ellen interacts with Hoagie.
Lots of bloopers (e.g. Hoagie climbs up out of the water and his shirt is totally dry, there's blood in the water before the shark attacks Sean and when the shark crashes through the shipwreck wall, in which Michael is in, the mechanical system of the shark can be seen)
Kitsch and laughable dialogue (e.g. When Michael tells his wife "I've always wanted to make love to an angry welder. I've dreamed of nothing else since I was a small boy."), while it is appropriate enough, it's delivered with complete deadpan.
A bizarre storyline, though the novelization clears things up a little.
Awful and unnecessary subplots, like Michael not liking that his mom is hanging out with Hoagie and he and Carla arguing over their lives.
Unexplained tagline: The tagline "This time it's personal!" makes no sense since a woman said to Martin in the second film "Sharks don't take things personally, Mr. Brody."
Many scenes copy the original film (e.g. Michael and Thea touching their faces and imitating each other like Martin did with Sean when he was a child and when the shark dies, a scene from the first film is stolen where it has the exact shot of the shark sinking into the ocean, not only they copy scenes, but they change the lighting of the copied scenes just to make it less obvious.
Unexplained ending: The film doesn't even explain how the characters got back on land if their boat and plane sank.
Chief Brody died of a fear-induced heart attack brought on by his previous encounters with sharks (How can he die from the fear of sharks when he killed two of them?!).
The idea of placing a Jaws film during Christmas was a poorly thought idea since the first three films took place in the Summer.
The shark animatronic in this film looks really fake and obvious, as well as the blood, especially when compared to the original film.
In that film, the shark looked incredibly realistic for the time due to the way Steven Spielberg skillfully filmed and edited it.
Terrible and sluggish pacing.
For a 90-minute film, it has a really small body count, with only two kills (Four, if you count the shark or Jake in the original cut. But even that's smaller than the body counts from the previous films).
Pointless dream sequences.
Jake is annoying and is always complaining.
To add to that, his phony Jamaican accent is annoying.
Awful acting for the newer cast members in this film and none of them serve any charm from the first two films.
It got so bad that the film permanently killed the Jaws franchise, as no movies or sequels have been made since (unless you count the unofficial Cruel Jaws, which is not made by Universal).
When the shark is killed and the main characters are still in the water after the fact, the sky suddenly becomes a fake wall painting.
Horrible direction by Joseph Sargent.
Redeeming Qualities
Unlike Jaws 3-D, this movie did have a returning cast member, Lorraine Gary, who appeared in the first two movies.
The film also takes place in Amity Island, unlike the third film.
The original score by John Williams and the additional score by Michael Small is well done, especially during the opening credits.
Michael Caine's reaction when the shark appears is appropriate and unintentionally amusing.
The original uncut ending is much better than the actual ending, as the way the shark dies (by getting stabbed and bleeding to death instead of exploding) isn't anywhere as far-fetched as in the final version.
The scene where Sean Brody loses his arm and gets attacked by a shark, killing him insantly is very terrifying and emotional after he is revealed to have died.
However, it is sadly the only good scary scene in the movie.
Although she was sadly wasted, Judith Barsi's performance as Thea was great.
This was sadly one of the last films she appeared in before she was shot to death by her father (a year after this film was released).
On October 5, 2015, 16 days before Back to the Future Day, Universal released a Jaws 19 parody trailer (see above).
In response to the negative reception, Universal poked fun at the film in Back To The Future Part II when Marty McFly gets "bitten" by a holographic shark advertisement for a fictional sequel titled Jaws 19 and his overall reaction is "Shark still looks fake" and when his jacket dries up immediately after climbing out of the water after he fell in the water during the hoverboard chase.
This film introduced the famous tagline "This time, it's personal!".
Final film to star Lorraine Gary.
The shark in the film is nicknamed "Vengeance" by fans of the franchise. Although not confirmed by the movies nor the original novel, there are theories that the great white sharks are actually mutated white sharks rather than ordinary great white sharks, which would make sense for the strength and intelligence of these sharks.
Like Jaws 3-D, Roy Scheider was offered to star in the film. However, he refused to reprise his role.
The roaring sound came from a Tom & Jerry cartoon, in which that particular roar sound effect was a stock sound effect originating from a 1957 monster movie called The Land Unknown.
The third and final sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws and the fourth and final installment in the Jaws franchise also had the shortest production window of the Jaws movies. While the other three films in the series took around two years to produce, Jaws: The Revenge was made in less than nine months. According to associate producer and production manager Frank Baur during the sequel's filming, "This (Revenge) will be the fastest I have ever seen a major film planned and executed in all of my 35 years as a production manager."
On Amity Island, Chief Martin Brody, the hero of two previous shark attacks has died from a heart attack. His wife, Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary), attributes it to his previous encounters with killer sharks. She now lives with Brody's younger and more obedient son Sean (Mitchell Anderson) and his fiancée Tiffany (Mary Smith). Sean works as a police deputy and is sent to clear a log from a buoy a few days before Christmas. As he does so, a massive great white shark bursts out of the water, severing his arm, then pulls him under the surface and devours him, sinking his boat in the process.
Ellen is convinced that the shark deliberately targeted Sean on purpose. She decides to go to the Bahamas to spend time with Brody's older son Michael (Lance Guest), his wife Carla (Karen Young), and their 5-year-old daughter Thea (Judith Barsi). At the islands, Ellen meets carefree airplane pilot Hoagie (Michael Caine). Michael — along with partners Jake (Mario Van Peebles), William and Clarence — works as a marine biologist.
The shark that killed Sean unexpectedly appears and attempts to devour their boat. The crew decides to keep quiet about the shark's presence due to Ellen's attempts to convince Michael to find a job on land. Ellen becomes so obsessive that she starts having nightmares of being attacked by a shark. Then she starts getting psychic feelings when the shark is near or attacks. She and the shark seem to share a strange connection that is unexplained. The crew decides to attach a device to the shark that would track its heartbeat. Using chum to attract it, Jake stabs the device's tracking pole into the side of the shark. The next day, Michael is chased by the shark and barely manages to escape unharmed.
Thea goes on an inflatable banana boat with her friend Margaret and her mother. The shark attacks and kills Margaret's mother. Thea and Carla are traumatized following the attack. Ellen boards Jake's boat to track down the shark, intending to sacrifice herself to save the rest of her family. Michael and Jake are flown by Hoagie to search for Ellen and find the shark in pursuit of their boat (which Ellen has hijacked). During the search, Hoagie explains to Michael about Ellen's theory that the shark that killed Sean has followed her to the Bahamas to exact revenge on the Brodys. When they finally found her, Hoagie lands the plane on the water, ordering Michael and Jake to swim to the boat as the shark drags the plane and Hoagie underwater.
Much to Ellen's disbelief, Hoagie survives. Michael was upset with Ellen because he was worried that she would have been killed by the shark. Jake and Michael hastily put together an explosive powered by electrical impulses. They begin blasting the shark with the impulses, which begin to drive it mad; it repeatedly jumps out of the water, roaring in pain. As Jake moves to the front of the boat, the shark lunges giving it the chance to pull Jake under and maul him. He manages to get the explosive into the shark's mouth before he is taken underwater.
Michael continues to blast the shark with the impulses, causing it to leap out of the water again, igniting the bomb as Ellen rams the shark with the sailboat. The broken bowsprit impales the shark, spraying blood everywhere, and its corpse sinks to the bottom of the sea. In the DVD cut, when the shark is impaled by the bowsprit, its head explodes and sinks to the bottom of the sea. Michael then hears Jake calling for help. He is seriously injured, but he is alive and conscious floating in the water. The four survive the harsh encounter and make it back to land. Hoagie then flies Ellen back to Amity Island.
This Time, It's Not Personal
Similar to Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (which came out the same year as this film), it officially turned the shark movie genre into a dead horse, with no new action or content and led to some later shark-related films to be this way.
The effects of the fourth film’s shark are just awful.
Aside from the obvious animatronics, there's a moment near the end of the film where the shark gets impaled and explodes.
A freeze-frame reveals that the special effects crew just used a toy shark and a toy boat. The practical effects for the shark are far worse than the practical effects used in Jaws 3-D, which is weird since Universal re-used the mechanical shark from 3D in this movie; presumably the four years it spent in storage didn't do it justice.
As to why the shark explodes, it's because there’s another ending (only shown in some TV versions) which simply had the shark bleed to death, taking the prow of the boat with it; an ending that got altered after the test screening.
Speaking of the ending shown on DVD, Jake gets eaten by the shark and there's blood coming out. This would normally mean he's dead.
However, instead, after the shark explodes, he somehow survives.
Unbelievable, illogical and laughable scenes, like the shark chasing after a plane and roaring after getting zapped with an electronic shocker. What the heck? Sharks can't roar because they don't have vocal cords!
Speaking of which, the shark's roaring sounds seem to be taken from an old Tom and Jerry cartoon, which sounds incredibly out-of-place in this film.
The shark sometimes stands on its tail like it's the cartoon character Jabberjaw.
The shark has a revenge plot. It's as stupid as it sounds.
Plot hole: There are plenty of other people to eat, so why is the shark after the Brodys?
The movie feels like a melodramatic soap opera and less like an entertaining summer blockbuster whenever Ellen interacts with Hoagie.
Lots of bloopers (e.g. Hoagie climbs up out of the water and his shirt is totally dry, there's blood in the water before the shark attacks Sean and when the shark crashes through the shipwreck wall, in which Michael is in, the mechanical system of the shark can be seen)
Kitsch and laughable dialogue (e.g. When Michael tells his wife "I've always wanted to make love to an angry welder. I've dreamed of nothing else since I was a small boy."), while it is appropriate enough, it's delivered with complete deadpan.
A bizarre storyline, though the novelization clears things up a little.
Awful and unnecessary subplots, like Michael not liking that his mom is hanging out with Hoagie and he and Carla arguing over their lives.
Unexplained tagline: The tagline "This time it's personal!" makes no sense since a woman said to Martin in the second film "Sharks don't take things personally, Mr. Brody."
Many scenes copy the original film (e.g. Michael and Thea touching their faces and imitating each other like Martin did with Sean when he was a child and when the shark dies, a scene from the first film is stolen where it has the exact shot of the shark sinking into the ocean, not only they copy scenes, but they change the lighting of the copied scenes just to make it less obvious.
Unexplained ending: The film doesn't even explain how the characters got back on land if their boat and plane sank.
Chief Brody died of a fear-induced heart attack brought on by his previous encounters with sharks (How can he die from the fear of sharks when he killed two of them?!).
The idea of placing a Jaws film during Christmas was a poorly thought idea since the first three films took place in the Summer.
The shark animatronic in this film looks really fake and obvious, as well as the blood, especially when compared to the original film.
In that film, the shark looked incredibly realistic for the time due to the way Steven Spielberg skillfully filmed and edited it.
Terrible and sluggish pacing.
For a 90-minute film, it has a really small body count, with only two kills (Four, if you count the shark or Jake in the original cut. But even that's smaller than the body counts from the previous films).
Pointless dream sequences.
Jake is annoying and is always complaining.
To add to that, his phony Jamaican accent is annoying.
Awful acting for the newer cast members in this film and none of them serve any charm from the first two films.
It got so bad that the film permanently killed the Jaws franchise, as no movies or sequels have been made since (unless you count the unofficial Cruel Jaws, which is not made by Universal).
When the shark is killed and the main characters are still in the water after the fact, the sky suddenly becomes a fake wall painting.
Horrible direction by Joseph Sargent.
Redeeming Qualities
Unlike Jaws 3-D, this movie did have a returning cast member, Lorraine Gary, who appeared in the first two movies.
The film also takes place in Amity Island, unlike the third film.
The original score by John Williams and the additional score by Michael Small is well done, especially during the opening credits.
Michael Caine's reaction when the shark appears is appropriate and unintentionally amusing.
The original uncut ending is much better than the actual ending, as the way the shark dies (by getting stabbed and bleeding to death instead of exploding) isn't anywhere as far-fetched as in the final version.
The scene where Sean Brody loses his arm and gets attacked by a shark, killing him insantly is very terrifying and emotional after he is revealed to have died.
However, it is sadly the only good scary scene in the movie.
Although she was sadly wasted, Judith Barsi's performance as Thea was great.
This was sadly one of the last films she appeared in before she was shot to death by her father (a year after this film was released).
On October 5, 2015, 16 days before Back to the Future Day, Universal released a Jaws 19 parody trailer (see above).
In response to the negative reception, Universal poked fun at the film in Back To The Future Part II when Marty McFly gets "bitten" by a holographic shark advertisement for a fictional sequel titled Jaws 19 and his overall reaction is "Shark still looks fake" and when his jacket dries up immediately after climbing out of the water after he fell in the water during the hoverboard chase.
This film introduced the famous tagline "This time, it's personal!".
Final film to star Lorraine Gary.
The shark in the film is nicknamed "Vengeance" by fans of the franchise. Although not confirmed by the movies nor the original novel, there are theories that the great white sharks are actually mutated white sharks rather than ordinary great white sharks, which would make sense for the strength and intelligence of these sharks.
Like Jaws 3-D, Roy Scheider was offered to star in the film. However, he refused to reprise his role.
The roaring sound came from a Tom & Jerry cartoon, in which that particular roar sound effect was a stock sound effect originating from a 1957 monster movie called The Land Unknown.
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January 7, 2010Okay, I have to admit that I am probably never going to really truly read this book.
I am just writing because I wanted to bitch about how bad the movie was.
The MOM/wife from the first two movies kills the shark when it jumps out of the water and she rams it with the front of her SAILBOAT ! HA HA HA HA !
Oh, and the best part...the shark lets out a loud ROAR like a lion when it leaps up !!!! Ha friggin' HA !
Good points about the movie? Actually it had very clear, very frightening underwater footage of a scary shark or fake shark.
I am just writing because I wanted to bitch about how bad the movie was.
The MOM/wife from the first two movies kills the shark when it jumps out of the water and she rams it with the front of her SAILBOAT ! HA HA HA HA !
Oh, and the best part...the shark lets out a loud ROAR like a lion when it leaps up !!!! Ha friggin' HA !
Good points about the movie? Actually it had very clear, very frightening underwater footage of a scary shark or fake shark.
January 24, 2019
Novelization of the movie. Oh man, this makes the movie so much better. Voodoo, drug running, shark POV. I really liked this.
January 23, 2024
He was unsleepingly alert every second of his life, from birth to death.
Someone made this pitch: OK, so we bring in a great white again, of course--goes without saying--but this time it's personal. No, wait, hear me out. We'll make this version of Bruce at least 28 feet long--bigger is better, am I right?--but this time we're going to drop him in a plot intrigued with drug-running, racial tensions, and and and ... voodoo! Yes, and because we've already wrung about as much out of Amity as we can, this time we'll just start the story there as a sort of sop to fans of the franchise, but then we quickly move all the action and everything else somewhere else--to, say, the Bahamas!
"Um, but you do know that great whites don't frequent the Bahamas, right--that they're cold-water animals and don't like the tropics?"
Well, yeah, sure, normally, but, but that's where the voodoo comes in--you with me? Yeah, so the main voodoo guy--the houngan, if you will--a creepy, super-powerful witch doctor with eyes as black and menacing as Bruce the Fourth's--this guy is going to be psychically linked to the shark--it'll be like his spirit animal, see?--and, and, and he's like telepathically calling Bruce IV all the way from Amity down to said tropics--we'll call the place Whiskey Cay--which, of course, is right where the remaining members of the Brody family have congregated, so it'll seem, like, personal that he's even there, where he's so otherwise out of his natural element, which will give all that follows a, by definition, supernatural ambience. You in?
It had to've gone something like that because that overview is, in a nutshell, what Jaws: The Revenge entails. The story takes place 12 years after the events of the original Jaws and 10 years after Jaws 2. (Both of those superior tales are mentioned several times in the course of this book, but, probably wisely, Jaws 3 is totally ignored--as if it never happened.) At the start of this one, though, Martin Brody has been dead for seven months. Youngest son, Sean, is now an Amity police officer (though not the chief--but, yeah, Polly is still doing the printing), and eldest son, Michael, is a marine biologist. Ellen Brody, meanwhile, is not only a grieving widow but, in the book version at least, sort of a hussy. Although I did see the Jaws 4 movie back in the day, I've somehow blocked out most details of it, so I'm not sure if in the movie version of this book Ellen is likewise aroused by and making a play for Hoagie Newcombe (the charter pilot played by Michael Caine) the minute she meets him after Martin's been in the ground those mere seven months. Of course, in the original Jaws novel, Benchley had Ellen have an affair with Hooper, of all people--a misstep Spielberg wisely avoided--so I'm guessing there's just a big difference between the likable movie Ellen and the inconstant book Ellen. And it's not just for that reason that any reasonable person knows Jaws is one of those relatively rare cases where the movie is (way) better than the book, but even with my selective, probably self-preserving amnesia about the movie version of Jaws: The Revenge, I'm willing to guess that this time the book is better because even while it's not especially well-written and for sure hastily edited, it's a fun enough and quick read. But Brody's memory still deserves better.
First line:
"On an evening a week before Christmas a famished gull stood on an icy piling in Amity Harbor."
June 23, 2023
Chanting about "Monday, Monday" in 1966, the counterculture crooners THE MAMA'S AND THE PAPA'S created a feel good vibe that countered undiagnosed cases of the 'Mondayz' for more than twenty years. Likely hitting the airwaves early in NYC, lots of folks were praying that Monday would be good for them and all they'd hoped it to be, following a brutal Friday on the Stock Exchange. Unfolding and avalanching into the first modern global financial disaster, October 19, 1987 saw the Dow Jones drop by 508 points, at the time a shocking and unheard of plunge, forever marking the day as "Black Monday". Cruising the turbulent financial currents of the Summer, another disaster was born in the same year. Rushed and clouded with desperation after the disastrous HOWARD THE DUCK, Universal Pictures plated the fourth and final installment of the series that started with JAWS and gave birth to the summer blockbuster in mid July: JAWS THE REVENGE.
Definitely taking the series into a new direction after two of the main stars of the first JAWS politely declined, JAWS '87 or JAWS IV as it was titled at one point or another, starts out with Shark-Vision(TM), a quasi fish eye POV of a 28 foot, 3000 pound Carcharodon Carcharias. Navigating away from 3-D, Ellen Brody, now minus one son and one husband, senses a malevolence she cannot name in the gray, remorseless waves of the Atlantic ocean. In the darkest depths of grief and bent on revenge and vengeance, JAWS THE REVENGE is really about Ellen Brody and what is left of her family and sanity. Thus, the entire affair goes from Amity, New England to New Providence in the Bahamas, as there, the last male Brody remaining, her oldest, is now studying, cataloguing, and tagging conches ("Conks"), strombus giga, at the bottom of the ocean. That's the world he loves and understands. He's at home down there. Boring work in paradise if you can get it, and that's the way he likes it, uh-huh. There wouldn't be a story here if the shark, a cold water animal and pelagic, didn't go against all odds and follow the Brodys into warmer climes.
Mixed into the Shark POV of stalking, cruising, and killing various things under the sea, JAWS THE REVENGE offers a complete course of Voodoo and Bahamas charm; wangas, marrers, asson, baka, mambo, loa, gad, and bamboche. This "find and kill the shark sequel" movie tie-in of originality doesn't stop there either, pushing interesting side plots concerned with drogas, love, redemption, and vengeance. In fact, JAWS THE REVENGE goes through the painstaking process of how to make cocaine, and ruminates about 'Kaffeeklatsch', which apparently means the drudgery of home life. Ellen Brody, however, isn't interested in that, as she falls for the resident English chap with a 1941 Stearman open cockpit 2-seater biplane, whose seductive technique includes aerial island hopping and Goombay Smash. Mired in duality, as the title may reveal, JAWS THE REVENGE reminds that tears eventually stop but the ache never goes away, and to never rise faster than your slowest bubbles. The ideal end to a savage run that started in the mid seventies, JAWS THE REVENGE hits the right notes for the familiar and the uninitiated--something old, something new, something bitten, something cruel. Leaning into a heroine that is as fierce and unrelenting as the killer shark out for the Brody Family, JAWS THE REVENGE is the perfect summer beach read that will keep you there and far away from the vast ocean.
August 31, 2020
Found this in a charity shop for £2 back in 2004... and surprisingly its not too bad. I made a bit more sence buy bridging the gaps that was never explained in the movie... the movie sees the shark picking off the Broady family or at least one of them in an act of hate filled revenge on tbe sharjs from the first 2 movies (totally blanks out the events of 3). Where as in the book, it explains Mike gets into a bit of trouble with some voodoo priest who puts a curse on Mikes family...
Which me leads to questions... how does the shark know who is a Broady and who is not?
How did it know where Sean would be at the time of his killing?..
On a scale of 1-10 how fucked would the shark be if Sean was an electrician or a teacher or even a high school janitor and didn't need to go on the the water ever again?... same For Mike. Luckily for old nibbles, they both had jobs that require them to be out on and even in the sea.
Also, this book doesn't explain how tbe Broady boys have gone from ages 17 &9 to 33 and 25 in the space of just 9 years (?)
Seans death is grossly dumbed down too. Im the movie the shark breaches, bits Seans arm off giving him a few seconds to take in that he is going to die. Then the shark destroys his boat, fucks him around, no doubt bites him again and drags him off to scream for help that will never reach him in time...
In the book, the shark breaches and inadvertently shoves forward a sign post that Sean was trying to free from a harbour body into his hand then just described as he sees a huge mouth full or pointy teeth and I believe, to the best of my memory that he is just bitten in half and his body is discovered , later on his boat drifting by returning fishermen.
We get more into Hoagies back story and why Mike don't trust him...
When the shark takes a shot a killing Mike in tbe movie, that scene is replaced by him getting involved in a shootout between cops and drug dealers. Mike and Hoagie kind of become friends and Mike asks Hoagie for advice on what to do about the shark and they both decide to keep it quite.
Can't remember, but i think voodoo boy gets killed by Mr nibbles.
Other than that... its pretty much as the movie goes.
It is a bit of a stinker, but nit as stinky as the movie
Which me leads to questions... how does the shark know who is a Broady and who is not?
How did it know where Sean would be at the time of his killing?..
On a scale of 1-10 how fucked would the shark be if Sean was an electrician or a teacher or even a high school janitor and didn't need to go on the the water ever again?... same For Mike. Luckily for old nibbles, they both had jobs that require them to be out on and even in the sea.
Also, this book doesn't explain how tbe Broady boys have gone from ages 17 &9 to 33 and 25 in the space of just 9 years (?)
Seans death is grossly dumbed down too. Im the movie the shark breaches, bits Seans arm off giving him a few seconds to take in that he is going to die. Then the shark destroys his boat, fucks him around, no doubt bites him again and drags him off to scream for help that will never reach him in time...
In the book, the shark breaches and inadvertently shoves forward a sign post that Sean was trying to free from a harbour body into his hand then just described as he sees a huge mouth full or pointy teeth and I believe, to the best of my memory that he is just bitten in half and his body is discovered , later on his boat drifting by returning fishermen.
We get more into Hoagies back story and why Mike don't trust him...
When the shark takes a shot a killing Mike in tbe movie, that scene is replaced by him getting involved in a shootout between cops and drug dealers. Mike and Hoagie kind of become friends and Mike asks Hoagie for advice on what to do about the shark and they both decide to keep it quite.
Can't remember, but i think voodoo boy gets killed by Mr nibbles.
Other than that... its pretty much as the movie goes.
It is a bit of a stinker, but nit as stinky as the movie
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 13, 2023
This is the novelization of the 4th movie based on an early screenplay. The story is a sequel to the movie version of Jaws as well as the original Novel by Peter Benchley ( for example this story , just like the novelization of the 2nd movie, mentions the affair Ellen Brody had that was in the original book but not in the OG movie).
I liked the idea of this book. It tried to give us a sublot for a reason as to WHY A SHARK is out for REVENGE and Why the Shark is STALKING and SYSTEMATICALLY going after the brodys.
It tried. It didnt succeed. The Voodoo plot of Papa Jacques was decent but kind of out of nowhere. I liked the version Of Hoagie better in this book then in the movie. There is more background to him here and explains his initial mysterious demeanor and what he truly is doing flying planes.
The death of Sean was the same in the beginning and the turmoil and grief of Ellen is played out the same. In this book she doesnt appear to have a psychic link to the shark and she doesnt do Flashbacks to scenes she was never a part of but there are flashbacks to scenes of her and her sons from the second book.
I did enjoy the Drug Trafficking Subplot with Lomas and Hoagie and his reason for getting involved with the DEA.
The ending was decent, much better than the movie ending.
This was still the worst of the 3 books, just like it was the worst of the 4 movies.
I liked the idea of this book. It tried to give us a sublot for a reason as to WHY A SHARK is out for REVENGE and Why the Shark is STALKING and SYSTEMATICALLY going after the brodys.
It tried. It didnt succeed. The Voodoo plot of Papa Jacques was decent but kind of out of nowhere. I liked the version Of Hoagie better in this book then in the movie. There is more background to him here and explains his initial mysterious demeanor and what he truly is doing flying planes.
The death of Sean was the same in the beginning and the turmoil and grief of Ellen is played out the same. In this book she doesnt appear to have a psychic link to the shark and she doesnt do Flashbacks to scenes she was never a part of but there are flashbacks to scenes of her and her sons from the second book.
I did enjoy the Drug Trafficking Subplot with Lomas and Hoagie and his reason for getting involved with the DEA.
The ending was decent, much better than the movie ending.
This was still the worst of the 3 books, just like it was the worst of the 4 movies.
July 12, 2024
Not Bad
The novelization of Jaws The Revenge, once again written by Hank Searls (Author of Jaws 2), is a solid effort to make sense of a wild movie. While I do think the book is much better than it's film counterpart, I can't help but have trouble separating the two as separate things because it stays relatively close to the film as opposed to Jaws 2's novel.
The Shark takes a bit of a backseat for a while but the pacing is fine. There is a large subplot dedicated to Hoagie which does take up some time but it is an entertaining subplot and a Voodoo priest plot that does involve the Shark.
Overall, Searls' efforts are good. It's a solid book but it's still Jaws The Revenge, so I struggle to walk away saying it's great. A fun tidbit is Revenge's novel confirms a separate timeline from the movies. Specifically mentioning Benchley's novel and Searls' Jaws 2, separating the film series and the book trilogy.
The novelization of Jaws The Revenge, once again written by Hank Searls (Author of Jaws 2), is a solid effort to make sense of a wild movie. While I do think the book is much better than it's film counterpart, I can't help but have trouble separating the two as separate things because it stays relatively close to the film as opposed to Jaws 2's novel.
The Shark takes a bit of a backseat for a while but the pacing is fine. There is a large subplot dedicated to Hoagie which does take up some time but it is an entertaining subplot and a Voodoo priest plot that does involve the Shark.
Overall, Searls' efforts are good. It's a solid book but it's still Jaws The Revenge, so I struggle to walk away saying it's great. A fun tidbit is Revenge's novel confirms a separate timeline from the movies. Specifically mentioning Benchley's novel and Searls' Jaws 2, separating the film series and the book trilogy.
February 2, 2024
What's with all the voodoo? I mean literally: This shark is being controlled by a vengeful witch doctor called Pappa Jaques! It actually explains a lot of stuff going on in the film. Hank Searls likes to take these movies and makes them extremely grim. But I like this. The ending is that of the original: Jake dies, the shark dies by being impaled by the bowsprit of the Neptune's folly. There are 5 victims in this novelization. Way more than the film, which makes this novelization better than the film, that got 0% on rotten tomatoes.
February 4, 2024
Genijalno! Pisac je pustio masti na volju, razradio pricu filma i napravio nesto potpuno neverovatno sumanuto ali jako dobro napisano. Ajkula je zaposednuta vudu demonom i poslata da ubije Brodijeve od strane zlog vudu vraca. Hogi (Majkl Kejn u filmu) je prikriveni tajni agent koji je tu da raskrinka narko bandu. Ima puno akcije, horor scena, a ajkula ima svoje delove price gde nam je priblizena kao lik. Inace je to dete ajkule iz price prvog filma. Ludilo. Genijalno. Od pisca novelizacije Ajkule 2.
June 29, 2021
A novel based on what is generally considered to be one of the worst sequels ever made. And you know what? Although I was about 14 when I read it, I actually remember the novel being pretty good (and certainly being waaaaaaaaay better than the piece of sh*t that eventually ended up in cinemas), largely because the novel contains a ton of side plots concerning voodoo, drug-dealing, gangsters and back stories that mystifyingly didn’t make it to the screen.
August 3, 2024
There is more story in this novelization than the movie, which is a positive. But there is just no getting around the absolutely preposterous premise. Also, there are some terms and dialogue here that have not aged well. A step down from Hank Searls' novelization for "JAWS 2", but still a better read than Peter Benchley's wildly overrated original book.
December 10, 2024
This is the horrible third book of the “Jaws” series, written in collaboration with the release of the fourth film. The first book was good. The second book sucked. This one was an attempt at a money grab from a movie that bombed at the box office. The book suggests the shark seeking revenge is the result of a voodoo witch doctor.
August 2, 2023
Much, much, much better than the film. Recycles a bit too much text from the Jaws 2 novel (probably more annoying to me as I read these one after another). But I enjoyed this book very much. I will have to find more to read by Mr. Searls.
October 24, 2020
Got through this, which is more than can be said for the film (never lasted more than 10 mins of that). I like Searls, he does his best with this. Better than the film deserves.
November 6, 2021
This poor family, they can't seem to escape the shark. To me, the book was much like the movie. This is a quick read.
December 19, 2022
The third book in the Jaws series. An entertaining thriller.
March 12, 2023
kinda ass, like the characters sucked dick but i like the shark kills 👍🏻👍🏻
July 28, 2017
Well, with this book, I have now completed my reading of the Jaws books (Jaws. Jaws 2. Jaws Logbook. And now, Jaws - The Revenge). Now, I need to start in on other shark themed books for next year's #Shark_Week reading.
I use to joke about how I was a magnet for flooding. 1977. 1979. 1989 - twice. 1990- twice. And minor flooding couple times a year from 1984 thru 1991. And then, my safety city - Montreal- goes and throws a flood at me, trapping me in Downtown, in 1987! 40 days and 40 nights Noah dealt with - when added up, I think I have topped him.
But as much as flooding as touched my life, the Brodys are forever cursed with sharks. The dad killed two - after which, his heart just wasnt the same and eventually, it gave out. The boys- children at the beginning- would end up taking on sharks on two separate (and totally unrelated) times. One would see both boys swim away, unharmed. The 2nd encounter would end up with one son being eaten by the shark. And Ellen, the mother- has to take matters into her own hands in this book and kill the blasted shark.
This book is a novelization of the movie. And there side stories involved - a drug czar, looking to make it big, a cocky pilot looking to romance Mrs. Brody, and some voodoo witch doctors thrown in, for color and because - you know, Caribbean islands and all. Honestly, I could have done WITHOUT the voodoo aspect. (After a while, I was thinking "Hey- when will Bernie show up, dead but walking, with a spear through his head, carrying a chest of gold, while the shark swims around him?" THAT helped make the voodoo part more bearable). But what did surprise me wasnt in the book - it was the memories I had of watching this movie 30 years ago one sunday afternoon, cuz I was bored and nothing else was on. And thinking to myself "Really?!?! How many MORE of these movies are they going to make?"
I use to joke about how I was a magnet for flooding. 1977. 1979. 1989 - twice. 1990- twice. And minor flooding couple times a year from 1984 thru 1991. And then, my safety city - Montreal- goes and throws a flood at me, trapping me in Downtown, in 1987! 40 days and 40 nights Noah dealt with - when added up, I think I have topped him.
But as much as flooding as touched my life, the Brodys are forever cursed with sharks. The dad killed two - after which, his heart just wasnt the same and eventually, it gave out. The boys- children at the beginning- would end up taking on sharks on two separate (and totally unrelated) times. One would see both boys swim away, unharmed. The 2nd encounter would end up with one son being eaten by the shark. And Ellen, the mother- has to take matters into her own hands in this book and kill the blasted shark.
This book is a novelization of the movie. And there side stories involved - a drug czar, looking to make it big, a cocky pilot looking to romance Mrs. Brody, and some voodoo witch doctors thrown in, for color and because - you know, Caribbean islands and all. Honestly, I could have done WITHOUT the voodoo aspect. (After a while, I was thinking "Hey- when will Bernie show up, dead but walking, with a spear through his head, carrying a chest of gold, while the shark swims around him?" THAT helped make the voodoo part more bearable). But what did surprise me wasnt in the book - it was the memories I had of watching this movie 30 years ago one sunday afternoon, cuz I was bored and nothing else was on. And thinking to myself "Really?!?! How many MORE of these movies are they going to make?"
March 14, 2017
This has a pretty decent reputation, although I think that's more because it looks favourable by comparison to the movie, which is widely considered to boast one of the most inexplicable scripts of all time. The book at least offers an explanation as to why the same kind of shark keeps attacking members of the same family, and while it is ridiculously far-fetched and out of kilter with the mood of the franchise, at least there IS an explanation, unlike in the movie.
Searls does as good a job as you could expect with the source material, and adds a couple of sub-plots which don't really add to the core of the story but act as reasonable filler.
In conclusion: a ludicrous premise which would get no attention if not for being tied in to the franchise, but don't blame the author for the content. He was handed a turd to polish.
Searls does as good a job as you could expect with the source material, and adds a couple of sub-plots which don't really add to the core of the story but act as reasonable filler.
In conclusion: a ludicrous premise which would get no attention if not for being tied in to the franchise, but don't blame the author for the content. He was handed a turd to polish.
May 18, 2015
When I said there wasn't enough of Mrs Brody's in Jaws 2, this isn't what I meant. I mean, yes, it is better than the film but what isn't? Thanks to it being based on an earlier draft of the script with more subplots and character development and Hank Searls writing. He managed to make a terrible film and a completely unnecessary sequel and turn it into something quite compelling. It's not as good as Jaws 2 but that's because this is the 3rd film sequel and 2nd novel sequel to something that was already quite self contained.
May 24, 2013
Yes the movie is very bad, However this book isn't a bad read at all. Okay it won't win any awards but still it's a lot more fun than the movie. Searls must of read the screen play and thought how can I make this more interesting or at least less awful. He does it by adding subplots and back stories. Including Vodoo and a spy story which were missing from the film. So if you find a copy it's worth a read even just to wipe the memory of the dire film.
February 13, 2015
To be fairly honest, I love the movies, but the books r way better, I dont really know why it took me this long to pick up those books!!!! It´s partly slow but picks up fast again too, its a really quick read between huge books (if u get lost and out of love between huge ones ;) ) I really would recommend it further, even i preferred Jaws more.
Go on read it , if u look for a fast book for in between :)
Go on read it , if u look for a fast book for in between :)
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