Redundant and unnecessary.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

If I were going to offer just a brief summary of this movie, it would be simple: if you've seen "Jaws" then you've seen "Jaws 2." I've seen "Jaws" and I quite enjoyed it. But watching this first sequel was a bit of a letdown. It's not that it's particularly a bad movie. It's not. But it's just the same story, tweaked in a few places, but in substance the same. There's a giant great white shark off the coast of Amity Island attacking people. Police Chief Brody (played once again by Roy Scheider) realizes this and tries to get the town to take action to protect people and the town refuses, leaving Brody to eventually have to hunt down the shark. (And I do have to say that the climax to the final confrontation seemed somewhat less than believable.) In any event, it's OK, and Scheider slipped easily back into the role of Brody. But for all its similarities to "Jaws" and in spite of the fact that it's OK, I really have to knock this sequel down several points from the score of 8 that I gave the original. Basically, there are three reasons for doing so:(1) The sheer lack of originality hurts this. It's pretty much predictable all the way through. Sure, as I said, the story is tweaked here and there - but basically you know what's going to happen; you know where this is heading. It's not a "thrilling" or frightening movie the way the original was.(2) The absence of Richard Dreyfuss was unfortunate. It was understandable. Apparently he was busy with "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" while "Jaws 2" was being shot. But I really liked his character of Matt Hooper in the original. He partnered with Scheider well, and Brody and Hooper were complementary characters. Hooper gets mentioned in this sequel. Brody's wife (played by Lorraine Gray) is shown talking to him on the phone, finding out that he's in Antarctica and unable to return to help her husband out.)(3) I'd make the same observation about the absence of Steven Spielberg as director - who was unable to take part in this for the same reason as Dreyfuss. His directing was missed. He had a crisp style about him and put together not only a frightening movie but a well paced and very interesting movie. Jeannot Szwarc is a good director, but to me didn't seem to quite capture the right feel for this. The pacing seemed off. He didn't seem to have as sure a hand on the genre.Having seen this, I'm honestly not sure that I wouldn't have been better off just re-watching the original. (4/10)

The pressure of making Jaws 2 was immense. Historically sequels are poorly received. However, Jaws 2 is an exception. The film couldn't be as good as the original Jaws, that was a given to everyone (ie. This included Paramount,the producers, writers,actors and fans) But somehow, everyone involved in creating Jaws 2 released a worthy succsser to the original Jaws. The storyline wasn't the best, but it was good enough. The script lacked character development and the floating wreckage with the teens was too drawn out. And the mechanical shark breaching the surface of the water was overdone. The original Jaws was highly successful, yet the shark was rarely seen breaching the waters surface. Jaws 2 had a group of talented young actors and the seasoned stars of the movie were great. Although the plot was weak as was character development, the movie was successful. Jaws 2 wouldn't have worked without the amazing musical score of John Williams. He made Jaws 2 scary and of course elevated the original Jaws to greatness. Jaws 2 is a very good film that proved that sequels can be successful.

Jaws 2 is a good movie but as a sequel it's very formulaic.Jeannot Szwarc has made a competent film though I suspect the reason for it being above average is down to the producers Zanuck/Brown and to the incredible score from John Williams. The water ski theatrical poster is actually worth a mention here too as it's a real work of art.The likeable Chief Brody is played well, once again, by Roy Scheider but there's a big gap without Hooper and Quint. The rest of the cast (Ellen, Deputy Hendricks, Mayor Vaughn) don't quite fill the space and we're left with everything of interest hanging on Brody. This is one major negative for the film and the other is the pacing. Scenes in the movie don't build towards the climax as they did in the original. This film is very much of two halves and the first half is really just a time-filler before the finale gets underway.As for positives, this movie has a look and feel very similar to the exceptional first - probably due the producers but who knows. There are quite a few scary moments and one in particular which always sends a shiver down my spine. In my opinion, the first movie is a much more tense and scary watch but the second has many frightening images which stick in the mind - and as a person who doesn't like deep water, it's more the scenes from this movie which I think about just before swimming in the sea.I mentioned it before but it is worth mentioning twice - Williams' score. It really is sublime. The movie's memorable main theme in the intro is played with atmospheric harps, which add to the underwater atmosphere and leads into a blasting fanfare against the "Jaws 2" title shot. If you're a Williams fan then honestly you'll want to watch this movie just for the score.No one will ever rate this movie close to, or above the first but as sequels go it's definitely one to check out.

Jaws 2 (1978) is a horror thriller from America and is the second sequel to Jaws franchise that began in 1975. Four years passed after the tragedy of the great white shark attack that hit the island of Amity Island, now the terror back haunted the island. One of the policemen named Martin Brody had to protect the townspeople and had to rescue his son and the teenagers floating in the sea and prevent them from eating the sharks. Jaws 2 is pretty good, becoming the sequel to the classic movie of the horror movie Jaws (1975)