Well, here's a real winner for you. Let's take a shark, hellbent on revenge (for a reason we will never know), have it visit Amity to kill Sean Brody and then have it travel to the Bahamas (a place where sharks never go). The kicker is that the shark not only finds out that Ellen Brody has travel plans to go to the Bahamas but beats her airplane there. There are so many flaws with this movie, it's just flat out ridiculous. If "Jaws" is the crown jewel of film-making, "Jaws: The Revenge" is it's polar opposite.
I did find the first twelve minutes interesting as the shark ascended on Amity on Christmas Eve to kill Sean Brody. Even though I didn't like that they killed the little boy from the first movie. It was terrifying. However, the mood was killed as Ellen had the strangest mood swings going from laughing and having a good time to immediately traumatized. It didn't work.
A few days later, Ellen goes to the Bahamas with her eldest son, Michael. Ironically, it's Christmas Eve there. I didn't know that the Bahamas were in a time zone that put their Christmas Eve almost a week behind ours. Weird.
The shark came back and was willing to spit out anybody that wasn't a Brody, including fake Jamaican Jake, who found himself right in the shark's mouth only to have the shark say yuck.
Universal Studios should have reexamined the franchise after "Jaws 3." The scientific accuracy was totally lost in this film. Shark's don't take revenge, they're instinctual animals. Secondly, they don't go to the Bahamas. Most importantly, next time I need to go overseas, I'm just going to rope a shark because if one of them can beat an airplane from New England to the Bahamas then this is definitely the way to travel. Unfortunately, the only place this film is going is in the trash can.
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