Jaws reviewed by Mark Kermode

[@McSuperfly101]

One of the hallmarks of a great movie is that when you're channel flicking and you come across it, no matter how far through, you always can't help just watching.

[@Richs_reef]

That is exactly how I feel about this film and Jurassic Park

[@DanCookMovieReviews]

The greatest movie ever made. I’ve seen it over 300 times and it just gets better and better 🦈

[@mattlacy3533]

DC Movie Reviews I’ve seen loads of amazing movies. My 2nd favourite film has changed at least 20 times. Nothing will ever ever beat this.

[@fuzzy1237]

301 for me

[@kingofthesharks]

Agreed greatest movie! I got 5 copies of the film plus the book and making-of book!

[@NickHunter]

@@kingofthesharks I've got the making of the making of the writing of the printing of the book of the movie about the documentary of the script which I've read 6003 times

[@edmann1820]

@@NickHunter I've got all that but I've read it 6004 times plus I was in the movie. I played the sharks dorsal fin.

[@afcpuzon3078]

Would love to hear Mark just wax lyrical about classics, with such adoration as he does here, more often

[@Paul-sc6ic]

Look for the Kermode on film podcast, more depth and detail about older and new films

[@senorblanco5036]

Agree! I just wish he'd talked more about Jaws in this 'review'!

[@RockSteddie77]

JAWS is my favourite film of all time, I've lost count of the number of times I've watched it but it never gets old. The definition of classic.

[@NickHunter]

Hooper: "I'd like to speak with Chief Brody" Ellen Brody: "So would I"

[@spoonlamp]

One of the greatest films ever made, already got my ticket for tomorrow woop woop.

[@theyoungmoviegoer5915]

Same

[@mattlacy3533]

spoonlamp Next Thursday for me and I’m so happy

[@borismuller86]

spoonlamp it’s legitimately one of the few films that truly lives up to the hype.

[@CashelOConnolly]

No it’s not! It’s horribly dated and takes forever to get going

[@whereami2477]

@John Cornell Couldn't agree more

[@bonjovi7399]

Cinematic masterpiece. 10/10 It plays to a packed house at the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle every summer. And they still scream at both of the jump scares.

[@jeffebdy]

I remember back in 1975 as a kid... the queue around the cinema... being awestruck... Friday night... then going again with my mate the following Friday and once again being awestruck...it changed my swimming experience in the sea even now as a 55 year old...I preferred the film to the book... hasn't dated

[@amjid300]

Watched this on TV last week. Holds up even in 2019. Classic film.

[@GA-1st]

Still, IMO, Spielberg's greatest film. I love a lot of his other films, but this one is just something - magical...

[@darrylwynwilliams1760]

Totally agree 😄

[@trevorbrown6654]

Schindlerd list might be Spielbergs most personal film but Jaws is probably his most beloved. A film that could have turned out to be a disaster turned out to be a masterpiece. Great script, brilliant acting, fantastic editing and that score! Incidentally the current (August) issue of Empire has a really interesting article about the making of Jaws 2 that is well worth a read.

[@joshhunt4146]

‘You yell 'Barracuda,' everybody says 'Huh? What?' You yell 'Shark,' we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.’

[@wiseguy100]

“You’d like that wouldn’t ya, get yer name in the National Geographic”.

[@Mrster]

*Manic Dreyfuss laughter*

[@mitrooper]

In hundreds of years, people will still watch Jaws.

[@Mr72Dolphins]

If they still have eyes

[@mitrooper]

@@Mr72Dolphins lol, bionic eyes will do.

[@eivom1]

@@mabusestestament if they still have people after sharks take over the world

[@mitrooper]

@@mabusestestament We don't have dinos anymore, but we still got a great dino movie in 1993.

[@thehitherto5348]

It's almost ridiculous how good Jaws is compared to other "shark movies".

[@jonallenmcnamara5339]

Or just to other movies in general. It's incredible.

[@jonallenmcnamara5339]

@@telectronix1368 Exactly

[@edjordan5043]

If you do not like this film,there is not the faintest crumb of hope for you. It marries suspense,horror,black humour,tragedy,camaraderie ,united by a common purpose to understand and to survive.The triumvirate of Sheider,Dreyfuss and Shaw is just breathtaking.Never gets old.The best scene of all is the Indianapolis speech.I hear tell that this was Robert Shaw's own work.Regardless,it is an outstanding monologue, one which chastens me every time i hear it.....

[@lynnk3933]

just brilliant!....got tickets over the weekend and despite watching it so many times on the small screen....the big screen just takes your breath away...even noticed little things i’d never even seen before. Fantastic!

[@johnkennethwiseman682]

i agree 100 per cent

[@NoName-jq7tj]

I saw this film three nights ago at the Cineworld in Basildon, Essex. It was absolutely brilliant. You have to see these films on a big screen. The Prince Charles Cinema in London show this film in the first week of July every year.

[@stephennnnnnnnnnnn]

This is a perfect film.

[@toonu]

After seeing a review by Kermode for Jaws pop up on my KZbin feed, I rushed to my local cinema website and found that my two favorite seats in the house were free for this viewing. I snapped them up so fast. This film is so important to me, and I simply can not wait to watch it on the big screen at long last.

[@jaybizzle1995]

both Jaws and Matrix rereleased this week.. they should just scrap half the current blockbusters that come out and rerelease a few classic ones every summer

[@Simonize41]

Jonno Brown Cinemas should do a ‘Classic Movie Night’, even if just once a month. Imagine: Goldfinger, The Great Escape. Close Encounters..., Raider of the Lost Ark, North by Northwest, The Towering Inferno, Bullitt... the list is almost endless. People would go and see them, especially if only once a month as it wouldn’t be so hard on the pocket. That’s my tuppence anyway. :-/

[@KieranIsWriting]

Simonize41 Vue does

[@Salena905]

That's such an iconic scene. The whole film is awesome. All the characters were played superbly. Watched it on the cinema screen back in the day, was around 14 or 15. Sat near the front as my Dad thought it would be a " good idea" Not. I was petrified! But didn't let on as didn't want to be teased about it days ,weeks after. Was eating Popcorn at the time of the first attack 🤢 luckily wasn't sick but nearly. A few years later went padding in the sea with my boyfriend, & was still nervous being in the sea because of that film. My kids saw it when they were older & they love it even now. One of my daughter's friends even now they're all adults is still scared of the sea due to Jaws. I wonder if Steven had any idea of how much effect this film would have on people.? 😁⛵🦈.

[@scottyblackley6049]

The original summer blockbuster and over 40 years later few summer movies have matched its sheer brilliance

[@GA-1st]

That's a myth. Actually, "Mary Poppins" was. But that's okay. "Jaws" was a bigger hit, even adjusted for inflation...

[@AndyGait]

Lost count of the number of times I've seen this film, but never in a cinema. Might have to go see it.

[@hasenaali2010]

Saw it at the royal Albert hall with an orchestra which is amazing and I also saw the film by a public swimming pool as part of an outdoor pop up cinema event

[@douglaskane7749]

a film that even if the effects are and even at the time dated , that last 45mins on the boat is s masterpiece in filmmaking. the score, the interactions , the live shooting star .

[@lazycalm41]

Jaws is simply a masterpiece! And it kick started Spielbergs career. Just imagine if it had bombed at the box office in 1975. Think of all the wonderful Spielberg movies that might not have been made if not for Jaws!!

[@lazycalm41]

@@neiladlington950 Yes I know about Duel too, terrific movie! But Jaws was massive at the box office even though it was predicted to be a flop. Hence it kick started his movie career.

[@Tymbus]

The shots of the shark passing under the boat really sold the shark.

[@johnkennethwiseman682]

saw it on the big screen twice, 2010 and 2015. seen the movie millions of times on tv and vhs/dvd and yet it still amazes and terrifies me. John Williams' score just stole and sold the show. the shark is as fake looking as hell but never ceases to scare me every time it pounces. some of the scary moments are without the shark too. and Spielberg was only a "kid" when he made it. he dreaded making it but he stuck it out till the end. it paid off for everyone. The Exorcist will always be Mark Kermode's favourite, mine will either be Jaws or The Omen.

[@stevieh9860]

1975. Released on Boxing Day if I remember correctly. Everyone at school either went to see it, or pretended they had, and gleefully recounted the really gory bits. (Whether they had seen it or not). I saw it, at least twice, with a really bad print of Queen Live at the Rainbow as support movie. It is a great movie, tension, a tight script, and brilliant acting from the three main leads. It is one of those you have to watch every time it is on TV.

we're gonna need a bigger clip.

[@Salena905]

Clever 😂 👏

[@beyond1957]

A radio controlled model boat inspired by the film named Amity can be seen sailing at the Yacht Pond Gorleston on Sea UK.

[@tylerdurden5303]

The making of Jaws should be a movie itself!! It was an absolute nightmare to shoot.

[@RogueWJL]

One of the greatest (and up there in my top 3) movies ever made. Seen it countless times and whenever it's on TV I am drawn im. Needs a big screen re-release for sure

[@neilblackshaw3486]

I saw this on the big screen, back in 1976 when it was released in the UK. What an amazing experience. I'd never seen so many people queueing too watch a film.

[@fringelilyfringelily391]

Great score, but John Williams owes a very big debt of gratitude to Igor Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring.

[@GA-1st]

Yeah. But Stravinsky was ripped-off much more recently by Sol Kaplan for the ST:TOS episode "Doomsday Machine," which is more-likely Williams' "inspiration"...

[@seanp8220]

Everyone owes a debt to Rite of spring tbh. It was more influential than can be quantified.

[@davidprice6994]

Jaws is the film that i saw with my mum aged 10 on Boxing Day 1975 at the Plaza Leicester Square in London. Ive still got the poster magazine and film programe my mum bought me in the lobby of the cinema. Its the perfect summer blockbuster and film. Jaws rules ok....

[@Rascal2006]

Can’t wait to see this re-release on Monday. Never seen Jaws in cinema before

[@alanzyoutube]

I went to see it after the re-master and there were people in the audience saying (before-hand) "he's going to say it, he's about to say it" and then Brody "you're going to need a bigger boat" and some people cheered!

[@larssonk22]

Same!

[@Packard63]

Went three times to see it in 1975...……...about time I watched it on the big screen again...……...can't wait!

[@BradHominem]

It's weird that Jaws gets sci-fi near the end with the shark being a robot shark!

[@nigeh5326]

An Aussie couple called Taylor filmed a lot of the real shark footage, and they did a fine job

[@NikLikesThings]

Jaws is my favourite film of all time. I have so many versions of it on Home Media, multiple prints of the book including a first edition and I've seen it at the cinema countless times including a performance at the Royal Albert Hall with a live orchestra and an outdoor screening on a pier at night - but I can assure you I will be attending all three showings at my local cinema this week.

[@markbuck100]

When I worked in cinema I had the pleasure many times of showing this film in 35mm and on digital a true honour and something I always look back on

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Let me guess with Kermode : “Best film that Spielberg has ever made! I watched it at the Odeon Barnet in 1975. I physically lost control of all of my bodily functions, etc.”.

[@danielishere734]

jaws and close encounters my fav

[@larssonk22]

What about Schindler's List?

[@NickHunter]

DAMN that mashed potato looks tasty....

[@ridd22]

Watched this again recently on a pristine Blu-Ray through a digital projector and my goodness, what a joy. I've seen this movie soooo many times I should be bored by it but that's never gonna happen. Heart, soul, jumps, yucks and three dimensional characters. It is what cinema is all about. Pure Magic!!

[@octoberphoenix]

Brilliant film, with a perfect film score too, my all time favourite.

[@aazell]

Just saw this at Crouch End Picturehouse. The woman next to me sprang about 2 feet out of her chair when Ben Gardener's head popped out! Really was meant to be seen on the big screen and even though I've seen it countless times before on TV it was totally worth the ticket price!

[@CorbCorbin]

I was lucky enough to see Jaws in a theater during a short run before the release of Jaws 3D.

[@KardKing66]

Just returned from seeing this on the big-ish screen at London's extra-special Regent Street Cinema! Such a treat...

[@knightm27]

Saw it at Cinema City, Norwich. Still a magical film.

[@aselene8890]

Jaws is the very definition of how to make the perfect movie, it just does everything right from the get go and oh boy what a start. Lost count how many times I've seen it. I remember took me years to watch ben gardners head pop out without watching through my fingers lol

[@jwnj9716]

Jaws (Classic), Jaws 2 (Underrated fun sequel, did it really need a sequel? No but its good), Jaws 3 (ehh) & Jaws 4 (Oh My God.....). The Shark deserves all the credit for not working.

[@paladinbob1236]

and finishes with sharknado ? {grins} :P

[@jwnj9716]

Oh double NO!

[@paladinbob1236]

@@jwnj9716 hehhehe :D

[@obscureentertainment8303]

I do like the joyful madness and misplaced ambition of Jaws 3.

[@dayglowjoe]

saw it at the spielberg season at the bfi three years ago. it's a film i've watched hundreds of times (wore my vhs out as a child!) but it was electrifying to see it aon the big screen at last. like a whole new experience.

[@mansnotbot4160]

I was born in 1985 but have never seen Jaws on the big screen. I'm so excited!

[@markhemming318]

Absolutely loved the Robert Shaw character.

[@amasulem]

One of those rare films I had to go read the book subsequently for.

[@nigeh5326]

Same here I remember a lad passing round the book at school and all of us reading the 'dirty' part giggling as 12 year olds do :-)

[@amasulem]

@Litshttam Corrected ;-)

[@DevonDumpling70]

It's being shown at our local Vue Cinema next week and I've got tickets. Never seen it on the big screen so I really cannot wait.

[@Jahson70]

Jaws was the first movie I had ever seen on a big screen (Butlins - Ireland - 1979) I was 8 and a half years old. I had to sit on the high part of the seat at the back of the cinema to get a good view. When the head scene came on it frightened me so much that I fell off the seat and hit my head on the floor. I ran back to our chalet crying like a baby to my Ma. I had nightmares for months about that head. I couldn't get it out of my mind. Anyway, the next time I had seen the movie was a about a year later (Summer Project for kids - a big home made sheet for a screen, lots of other kids there) I squinted through my fingers when the head scene was coming up, I was so scared to watch it but I did anyway. It wasn't actually as bad as I had remembered it the year before, so I stayed and watched the whole movie this time and I just thought it was amazing. I think I remember being more happy that I wasn't scared of the head anymore than I was about the movie. Since then I have watched this movie every year, at least once, sometimes twice. I'm 51 now and Jaws is still my all time favourite movie. We actually went to see it once again on the big screen a couple of weeks ago (Omniplex - Santry in Dublin). I think it was the original cinema release because it had that old whale sound in it, the one before they put in the real whale sound after we found out what whales actually sounded like. The old sound is much creepier though and fits in better with the overall feel of the movie. It's was great seeing it on the big screen after all those years even though I'd rather the 2D version, the 3D version took more away than it added but that was all that was being shown so we had to suffer it. Better than nothing I suppose. From start to finish this movie is a masterpiece. The setting, the actors, the director, the score, the atmosphere, every scene has its own little piece of magic in it, the start, the middle and the end, there is not one scene that I don't like, each of which I could comment on here, but I won't, would be here all night. But it brings a sense of nostalgia that not many other movies tend to achieve. The 70s was a great decade for movies but Jaws is the most enduring and the most endearing of them all. Wow, what a perfect movie.

[@UncleDeadly76]

Saw it on Brighton Beach in 1995 in one of my favourite cinema experiences. The noise of tens of thousands of people when the shark gets blown up may have woken up the whole of the south coast!

[@babyshambler]

Simon's "play the whole movie" line is what us fans call the 'Jaws law'. No matter where you stumble across it late at night, you have to watch it to the end.

[@megadaveaction]

Best film ever. Also, worth pointing out to any Jaws nerds out there, the podcast Inside Jaws is a wonderful dramatisation of the making of this classic, and the real life stories that inspired it.

[@Sol3UK]

I'm taking my mates son to the cinema on Thursday to see it for the very first time, lucky bugger.

[@CS-mo7xp]

reminds me, in about 1995 I won a copy of Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer on vhs, in one of Mark's cult film competitions on radio 1. but a video of Jaws turned up in the post instead. so he still owes me that Henry video, just saying...

[@davidedwards8365]

Spielberg’s masterpiece. Not a second wasted. Perfect film-making. And John Williams - god 🙌

[@invisiblekid99]

What I absolutely love about this is, that after THAT line, 30 seconds later, everyone knows what they are dealing with. Today, they'd drag that out until the last 20 mins with the other two laughing at Brody.

[@kevalinopicks5555]

Right up there with my all time favourites. I’m old enough to have seen it first time around and must have watched it fifty times since. If I ever put the tv on and it’s showing, it’s still compulsive watching.

[@karanvirkooner1993]

absolute classic

[@acquiescence5331]

I've heard of this film. They say it's quite good apparently.

[@LeroyKinkade]

'This is my wife's Holiday Roast!'

[@LeroyKinkade]

Great quote thanks.

[@jackdavide5742]

Great on big screen! One of the great films. I think part of the horror and tension comes from not seeing the shark and watching people being on water, chased by the shark, with no land around....Open Water always reminds me of Jaws.

[@jameswetherell5287]

My fave film. Never gets old. Best seen with a cinema audience of fellow fans to!

[@ReadyFreddie7]

I went yesterday, having never seen Jaws before. I was astounded, absolutely brilliant! The jump scare got me as well. 😅

[@harveyhalloway]

My favourite movie of all time, born in 1975 the year it came out!

[@michaelmyers8288]

One of the best films ever made.

[@Simonize41]

2pm tomorrow afternoon. Can’t wait!

[@Bateman61405]

One of the greatest films ever made! No question.

[@BinaryRex18]

Even though he's made many great films, I would argue that "Jaws" is Spielberg's magnum opus.

[@adamcollins915]

After seeing the shark for the first time, can't think of anything more appropriate than 'your gonna need a bigger boat'.

[@jamesaitchison9478]

Jaws is a sublime classic for the ages.

[@finhyland4270]

My fav film, has everything, great directing, acting is brilliant, memorable characters, iconic scenes, even now if I'm flicking around and it's on il watch it.

[@DogsBAwesome]

The jump scare raised me off my seat the first time I saw it on the big screen.

[@wesleyhalfpenny3873]

In particular it's the last hour of the movie that is just so good! Not many movies hold a candle to this.

[@JP1234815]

I've found that if you treat Jaws as a film in 2 parts you can't go too far wrong. The first part is all about the shark and how it's destroyingthe community of Amity. The 2nd part is almost like a 'buddy' movie as the three men bicker and later find friendship with each other. Some have said it's an analogy of the USA in the mid 70's - but I think people are looking for meaning where there is none.

[@sandrastumpf7177]

I LOVE this movie. Have since 1975.

[@rebeccam9]

This is one of my fav films ever!! Never mind the shark , the characters / actors are fantastic ...great review Mark ..I could easily write a several thousand word essay on why I love it if you would like ? Haha 😉 P.s I got to see Jaws in the cinema a couple of years ago..cinema was empty

[@adamcollins915]

Can't believe it is an ad lib. Brody was going to say something to Quint after seeing the shark. 'Your gonna need a bigger boat' seems right.

[@abbyhuntley3171]

I think the subtlety of the sound design is what makes Jaws scary

[@chrishiggins7166]

Director Steven Spielberg delivers A frightening, stylish, well acted, intriguing & original as the film focuses well on its style & story. (85%) (4/5 stars) (positive)

[@tolhaller]

"It only looks like an island when you look at it from the water." "That makes a lotta sense!"

[@larssonk22]

Managed to get tickets to see it can't wait!

[@potterpotty01]

damn this makes me want to rewatch jaws, like now!

[@mrfarkyhars9192]

Y’all know me, y’all know what I do for a living.

[@mixlexic]

I absolutely love Jaws and can’t wait until I show it to my kids, Da da

[@Doctor_Smith]

The greatest Shark film ever, and there just is no comparison.

[@GnCFilms]

"Dryfuss" is how his name is pronounced, FYI :)

[@stefanbielik1935]

Check out the camera angels in this movie. Spielberg and his teams are magicians.

[@jacobpablo13]

I went to Martha’s Vineyard and met Quint. He landed me with a hook and hunk of chocolate and he cleaned me for free....

[@TALKINGWITHJAYSPRINGETT]

great review man really enjoyed hearing your review, i just did a shark week on my channel going through some of the best and yesterday i ranked them all worst to best :)

[@TheDEATHSTARIII]

the only problem is they only showed it twice at cineworld

[@dontsayitisntbecauseitis3845]

If you don’t like Jaws, you’re either blind, deaf, mad, or a Michael Bay fan.

[@edmann1820]

Without Jaws there would be no Michael Bay movies.

[@cliffwhite2812]

I remember the first time I saw it, the moment the bullet hit the airtank, the packed cinema erupted into a huge cheer!

[@doublediamond9226]

I’m always torn between Jaws, Jurassic Park and The Last Crusade, but I think Jaws just about swings it