Well just when you thought it was safe to go to Sea World...
...comes an unnecessary sequel for the Spielberg classic, turning the Jaws brand into a gimmic movie in the 3-D format. I look at this as Jaws 3, with the gimmick more or less a nuisance in an otherwise okay sequel. This isn't as rotten or even bad as I was expecting, but the film just looked rather cheap to me, although I read it cost like 20 million and some change to make! A severed fish head, a severed arm of a member of Undersea engineer's (Dennis Quaid) crew trying to lock a protective gate keeping aquatic life from inflitrating UnderSea, and even a skeleton hand from a exhibit named Wilber coming at the screen closely didn't rock my world, but if the plot could salvage the gimmick 3-D scenes...fat chance.
Undersea is the master idea of Louis Gossett, Jr's Calvin, the operations manager of Sea World, hoping the underwater theme park will make him a tourist destination unlike anyone else. But Great White will be a major kink to say the least. Well, a mother Great White after her baby Great White will crash the party. Calvin, one who sees dollar signs [natch] first and thinks a little less about hasty decision-making leading to possible catastrophe, insists on setting up a display for baby Great White, dumping the fish without the permission and consent of marine biologist, Kathryn (Bess Armstrong), into a pool, not aware of how such a fish needs to be trained and indoctrinated into captivity in time. Dead shark means mad mama.
The film includes a cocky, self-assured oceanographer from Great Britain, named FitzRoyce (Simon MacCorkindale), and his colleague played by P.H. Moriarty, and while they offer a bit of personality to the proceedings, overall the film doesn't really feature the kind of well-defined characterizations so associated to Jaws. Quaid wasn't quite in Scheider's league, but you'd think Gossett might have added a bit of cred to the cast...he was relegated to supporting cast status and factored very little in the entertainment value of the film.
While The Revenge (the fourth film) is fun as a film to gleefully giggle at for all its stupidity and ineptitude, the third film is just rather dull and lacking in thrills.
Undersea is the master idea of Louis Gossett, Jr's Calvin, the operations manager of Sea World, hoping the underwater theme park will make him a tourist destination unlike anyone else. But Great White will be a major kink to say the least. Well, a mother Great White after her baby Great White will crash the party. Calvin, one who sees dollar signs [natch] first and thinks a little less about hasty decision-making leading to possible catastrophe, insists on setting up a display for baby Great White, dumping the fish without the permission and consent of marine biologist, Kathryn (Bess Armstrong), into a pool, not aware of how such a fish needs to be trained and indoctrinated into captivity in time. Dead shark means mad mama.
The film includes a cocky, self-assured oceanographer from Great Britain, named FitzRoyce (Simon MacCorkindale), and his colleague played by P.H. Moriarty, and while they offer a bit of personality to the proceedings, overall the film doesn't really feature the kind of well-defined characterizations so associated to Jaws. Quaid wasn't quite in Scheider's league, but you'd think Gossett might have added a bit of cred to the cast...he was relegated to supporting cast status and factored very little in the entertainment value of the film.
While The Revenge (the fourth film) is fun as a film to gleefully giggle at for all its stupidity and ineptitude, the third film is just rather dull and lacking in thrills.
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