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Jaws 2 (1978)

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Reviews Counted:19

Fresh:11

Rotten:8

Average Rating:5.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Amity police chief Brody discovers that there's more than one fish in the sea--the great white shark he destroyed in the first film has a hungry mate ready to wreak havoc on the community. This... Amity police chief Brody discovers that there's more than one fish in the sea--the great white shark he destroyed in the first film has a hungry mate ready to wreak havoc on the community. This action-packed sequel features the welcome return of Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary reprising their roles from the original blockbuster that did for ocean beaches what PSYCHO did for showers. [More]

Starring: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo

Starring: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo, Jeffrey Kramer, Collin Wilcox, Ann Dusenberry, Mark Gruner, Barry Coe, Susan French, Gary Springer, Donna Wilkes, Gary Dubin, John Dukakis, G. Thomas Dunlop, David Elliott, Marc Gilpin, Keith Gordon, Cindy Grover, Ben Marley, Martha Swatek, Billy Van Zandt, Gigi Vorgan, Jerry Baxter, Jean Ann Coulter

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
Screenwriter: Carl Gottlieb, Michael Butler
Composer: John Williams

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Almar Haflidason
Almar Haflidason
BBC
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Rather redundant, rather biting. What, fish again?! Still, not a bad sequel.

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04/23/07
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
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No review available.

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02/25/07
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

Roy Scheider is the only redeeming quality of this sequel.

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11/06/05
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

A vastly underrated sequel with plenty of shocks and nail-biting tension. Not quite up to the original, but still loads of fun.

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10/21/05
Chuck O'Leary
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Fantastica Daily

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07/01/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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05/09/05
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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07/27/04
Angela Baldassarre
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09/21/03
Rebecca Murray
Rebecca Murray
About.com

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08/23/03
Brandon Judell
Brandon Judell
PopcornQ

Delivers [Nearly] as much as the first

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07/11/03
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

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11/22/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)

No review available.

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10/11/02
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

The first of three crummy sequels unworthy of the original.

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09/08/02
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

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07/30/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
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07/25/01
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

...Jaws 2 hits a qualitative ceiling due to the joint absence of Steven Spielberg and Academy Award-winning editor Verna Fields.

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06/09/01
Bill Chambers
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Mike Bracken
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