Sorry, this movie sucks

A Disappointing Continuation

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

After a captured Great White escapes from a sea park, a former biologist and a victims' sister find their quarry is part of a school of genetically-engineered sharks and must team with a TV-show host to stop them from attacking more.This turned out to be quite a fun if slightly cheesy killer shark effort. What really works here is the fact that this one gets some nice shark action throughout here as this one plenty of action along the way. It even manages to switch nicely from suspenseful to cheesy, as the opening ocean-going attack on the sister and the first attack on the worker in front of the tourists come off as highly suspenseful scenes as the ocean attack features the stalking through the wrecked ruins while the tank attack is based off the struggle to get out of the water before being eaten as the whole thing is in front of children and a news-crew. There's also plenty of cheesy action here that comes off every nicely, from the capture of the shark as well as the escape attempt of it swimming into the sea afterwards, while the film's two big highlight scenes work in a nice mixture of both as the underwater cage attack works with the brutality of the sharks' relentless banging into the cages and the slow realization of the flimsy cage not holding them out with the goofy shark heads coming through and dragging them away, while the other big scenes here is the great attack on the surfing contest where the high body-count and the action is immensely fun and enjoyable that gets fun again with the relentless action here that it comes off rather well. Even the finale in the cave ins incredibly thrilling battling with the different creatures in and around the caves, even through this here does come with what is the film's only real flaw here in the laughable special effects here. While it's not the fault of the live-action stock-footage which comes of really well and is integrated nicely into here, but overall there's little else here that works about the sharks. The CGI looks best here where it's not noticeably obvious, but the prop-heads are pretty cheesy-looking, never once betray their rubber nature and always configured into the same position that carries on for each scene that runs itself into the ground by featuring the same thing which really ruins the effect. These here are what hold this one back considerably.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, Brief Nudity and a mild sex scene.

Shark Attack 2 (2001)** 1/2 (out of 4) Don't let the title fool you because even though they're selling this as a sequel to the 1999 movie this here is actually a remake of JAWS 3. Let's see if this plot reminds you of anything. We have a new water park open and its greedy owner likes the idea of capturing a Great White shark that recently killed a woman. They're able to get the creature in for opening day but it kills a man and breaks free from the park so the doctor at the park must team up with a TV personality to try and kill not one but six mutant sharks. The mutant shark part is the only thing that connects this to the first film. I'll admit up front that I love sharks and this movie was entertaining enough to get its job done and it's certainly a lot better than JAWS 3. What shocked me so much is that Universal went to court over some Italian rips and got them pulled from theaters and these films have never shown up on official releases in America yet here's a movie that rips off just about everything storywise and yet nothing is done about it. And that's a good thing because as long as you don't take this thing too seriously you should have fun watching it. This is a step up from the first movie for a number of reasons but the biggest is that we get a lot more shark attacks this time out. Yes, we're still seeing stock footage of sharks but there are a couple dummies here as well. One of the dummies is pretty funny because it's obviously just a blown up rubber shark and it's certainly way too big for what's going on in the scene. Another one of the sharks appears to be some sort of cut out but I couldn't tell what kind. The shark attacks are a little better done here as well, although it's still an obvious fake shark that is biting down. In one of the attacks it appears that the shark is gargling the victims blood, which is something I don't think I've seen in any other shark movie. Thorsten Kaye plays the main doctor and is good enough for the part. Nikita Ager plays a victim's sister but she comes off quite annoying from start to finish and her relationship with the doctor isn't very believable. Those wanting high class productions aren't going to enjoy this thing but if you're a fan of the genre and get an added kick out of shark movies then there's enough here to make it worth viewing at least once.

Shark attack 1 was a film that was almost devoid of positive aspects. It had Casper Van Starship Trooper, but that was about it. Not much Shark action, not much gore, not much of anything...Luckily for folks like me (drunken bald types) Shark Attack 2 UPS the sharks stakes by giving us multiple sharks overdubbed with roaring lions! And very little continuity between the stock footage sharks and the bright blue plastic sharks attacking the cast! And the usual terrible Nu-image half arsed production! Shark Attack two is exponentially more eventful than the first one. You've actually got sharks killing folks, which happened seldom in the first one. You've also got ridiculous dubbing, really bad CGI, terrible (but welcome) gore, and a film so aware of its own crapness that you can't help but enjoy it.You know what I mean by 'enjoy', don't you?

this movie could be called a blatant rip-off of "Jaws 3",at least the beginning of it.however it has an added twist and it's a much better movie.the shark attacks are really bloody and violent in this one,and the are frenetic at times.i'm not sure if this movie is better than the first,but it's still pretty good.again there's lots of action,and the sharks are fear inspiring.the acting is pretty good.the movie is a bit too melodramatic at times and lags once in awhile.even so,it's an entertaining movie with some thrills and some nail biting tension.there are a lot worse movies out there in the genre and in general.if you wanna fill 90 minutes or so,you could do a lot worse,and you may even enjoy it.my vote for "Shark Attack 2" is 7/10