Jaws: The Revenge - An Awfully Good Way To Kill A Franchise?

[@robwalsh9843]

"Did I see the movie? No, but I saw the summer house it paid for" -Michael Caine

[@tylertilwick6852]

Martin Brody dying from a heart attack due to the stress of being a police officers and the years of cigarette smoking or even just dying of cancer would’ve made more sense than the “fear of the shark” killing him!

[@Godmadegav]

Exactly I don’t think this a man who killed a shark not once but twice would have a fear of sharks

[@bayerhead]

I just rewatched this film today and this movie is about psd. Brody dying from a heart attack due to a shark is silly. His wife saying it makes tons of sense.

[@grapeshot]

They did my boy Brody bad talking about he had a heart attack because he was afraid of the sharks. Considering he killed two of them. So if anything shark mothers should be telling their little children be good or Brody will come and get you.

[@JoBloOriginals]

The sharks should be afraid of him!

[@johncap6495]

I think he was more afraid of drowning 😂

[@stefanfilipovits21]

I didn’t think this movie could get any more ridiculous but then you hear about the voodoo plot point in the original draft of Jaws The Revenge

[@JoBloOriginals]

I wish they had left in the drug lord plot - would have given Caine at lot more to do.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

Seeing Michael Caine go all Miami Vice while a colossal killer shark occasionally butts In definitely would’ve been memorable

[@bobgunter9608]

Isn’t the voodoo stuff in the book adaptation of the movie.

[@ScarysReviews]

that is referenced by Michael. ''c'mon mum, you can't believe that voodoo'' Interesting enough, Peter Benchly wrote, The Deep. which, got a film adaptation, stars Robert Shaw. has a Voodoo sub plot, there's sharks, but the main sea creature is a Moral eel. so, there's a loose connection between Jaws 4 and The Deep, and Jaws.

[@leonardHughes-iq3wv]

​@ScarysReviews I remember reading the novel back in 1987.i was 22 than.i remember liking the book a lot more than thos monotonous film.

[@NerdWorldEmpire]

So sad what happened to Judith Barsi killed by her own father along with her mother, total tragedy 😢

[@JustJohnny]

What a fun film, the one I've seen the most as it was always on TV growing up.

[@Aiden_Avery10]

Jaws 2: “Sharks don’t take things personal, Mr. Brody.” This movie: “This time, it’s personal.”

[@wstine79]

I love the silly JAWS 4. Michael Cain, the shark Chase through the wrecked submarine, and the shark using the "Jerry Mouse" Roar were hilarious.

[@Job.Well.Done_01]

“ROOOAAhHHHHHH!!”

[@jimbowlan5804]

Not to mention that jaws was the one who planted the wood to get Sean on the boat

[@Job.Well.Done_01]

@@jimbowlan5804 that’s right and JAWS totally waited knowing full well he’d be out there during the Christmas Carol show to dislodge it.

[@PhilLeotardosGhost]

J4 > J3.

[@mightybitchy]

You’re a bunch of dumbasses. Do you actually believe the shark in the original Jaws, is less ridiculous? It’s bigger than a boat, has the strength and speed of a school bus and also roared after it exploded. Not to mention it hid a dead body inside boat hull.

[@petevaldezbc1]

The cast makes this movie good enough that people regularly watch and discuss it for going on 40 years

[@wstine79]

JAWS 4: THE MOVIE THAT PAID FOR MICHAEL CAIN'S MOM'S HOME.

[@TERoss-jk9ny]

Yep! True story.

[@zerovalon6243]

See so it wasn't a waste. Good on him and for his mom.

[@kevo23630]

Actual interview "dont remember being in jaws 4 the revenge, but i do remember the home that it bought me!"

[@leonardHughes-iq3wv]

For some unknown reason amazon wants at the lowest eighty dollars for the 1987 film novel of this which was a lot better than this thing.

[@leonardHughes-iq3wv]

Realistically they should have stopped after 1978s jaws two.

[@kennethfharkin]

The best quote about this film and the reason for making it is from Michael Caine. “I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.”

[@commanderkeen3787]

Much of Michael Caine's work in the 1980s (bar a few notable exceptions - Educating Rita, Hannah and Her Sisters, Mona Lisa) was critically panned. Caine himself said by this point he thought he was washed up and that his career was over and he was looking towards retirement. But even his "bad" movies tend to be good and he always turns in an enjoyable performance. Check out The Island (1980), The Hand (1981), Deathtrap (1982) and a bunch of others from that period when Caine was taking every job that came along to pay the bills, but still giving it his all. All underrated films

[@JeonardShadby505]

I've seen The Hand and Deathtrap! Loved Deathtrap, a good old fashioned murder mystery, and The Hand was cheesy fun that's worth it to see Oliver Stone's crazy ass playing with horror.

[@kennethfharkin]

I’ve always loved Deathtrap. The windmill house it was based in isn’t far from my home on Long Island. As far as this film, he summed it up best: “I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.”

[@markjamesmeli2520]

@@JeonardShadby505 - Outside of Michael Caine, this movie has absolutely NO star power. Which was double the curse, when you consider the stars of the 80s that we witnessed during the decade. God...if any movie make you glad you saw SPACEBALLS instead, THIS one could.

[@lobsterwhisperer7932]

Michael Cains 80's work was mostly for the massive paychecks he was offered, was not picky with work being offered.

[@gorequillnachovidal]

no Dressed To Kill???

[@chibikim77]

The Siskel And Ebert review of this was golden.

[@JeonardShadby505]

I love Ebert's line in his written review: "[I can't believe] [t]hat the director, Joseph Sargent, would film this final climactic scene so incompetently that there is not even an establishing shot, so we have to figure out what happened on the basis of empirical evidence."

[@grapeshot]

Oh yeah, this movie is pure comedy, especially when a short rise up on his tail and roars like it's something out of a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Impressive, most impressive, considering sharks don't have vocal cords.

[@gameguy73]

That's the only scene I liked in the film. It was hilarious!

[@MAMoreno]

The shark roared in the first movie, too. But there's a difference between overlaying a subtle roaring noise on the soundtrack and plopping in a stock sound effect that's about as silly as the Wilhelm scream.

[@greatestnitemare6626]

@@MAMorenothe shark didn’t roar in the first movie

[@coconutpete5207]

Why do i wish for some kind of shark pov flashback like the one the dog has in the hills have eyes 2.

[@matthewstoneback9]

I don't think any of us can blame Roy Schieder for passing on this one, but you've got to admit it would've been a chilling idea to have Martin Brody getting eaten just as the film opened, and a fitting way for his character to go out just like the horrific death of Quint in the classic original. The shark would've had it's "revenge" and this POS could've ended right there!😏

[@JoBloOriginals]

Haha

[@JeonardShadby505]

It would have been like Halloween Resurrection's opening, but hopefully done well this time. He was so missed from this movie.

[@jimbowlan5804]

I think people would have been more pissed than resurrection opening I know I’d be pissed to see Roy being eating in the opening

[@shanecasebeer1364]

I have a high level of tolerance for bad movies, but don't think that I've made it all the way through Jaws 3 or this epic. Nevertheless, I appreciate how both have provided lots of fodder for reviews such as this.

[@ShelbyBaby27]

I like to think Jaws 4 is one of Alfred's side adventures while Master Bruce was in boarding school.

[@JoBloOriginals]

Nice! That time he fought a shark

[@OperativeD]

I know I have said this on other videos about this flick, but once again this film is always going to have a special place in my heart. It was the first film I saw in a movie theatre with my parents. They introduced me to Jaws and it's sequels and so naturally they thought I should see this newest installment. My parents would eventually divorce and my Mom would pass away when I was 9 and then my Father would also pass away when I was 36. Just me now and I still think this movie is a fun one in spite of the ridiculous psychic/revenge plot and Michael Caine having fun while also obviously phoning it in for the paycheck. I would give it more of a 5 or 6 on your scale, but part of that is the sentimental value of it being the first, if not only, movie I saw with both my parents growing up.

[@PhilLeotardosGhost]

I felt this comment, man. It hits deep. RESPECT ❤️ . My condolences for your loss.

[@josymon]

Lookit me, I’m JAWS-us Christ, Supershark!!! 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@kurtwhitehead6454]

That was freakin’ hilarious!! Love the Darrell Hammond impression of Dreyfuss thrown in there - “Damn you!” Thanks JoBlo!

[@johncap6495]

I love at the climax you can hear Michael Cain rambling about hitting it 😂

[@garyleung5760]

The shark roaring at the final standoff stamped it as so bad it's actually good film.

[@stefanhamilton8713]

I always thought it was a great shame that Michael Caine never said “You were only supposed to blow the bloody Jaws off” in that movie.

[@BigEOT3]

Yeah. Where is our Tintin sequel Spielberg and Jackson?

[@jackbenimblejack1]

The distance a great white shark would need to swim from New England to the Bahamas can vary depending on the starting and ending points, but for the sake of this calculation, let's use a rough estimate. Distance: The straight-line distance from, say, Boston, Massachusetts to Nassau, Bahamas is approximately 1,250 miles (2,012 kilometers). However, sharks don't necessarily swim in straight lines due to currents, prey, and other factors. So, let's assume the shark takes a slightly longer route, making the journey about 1,400 miles (2,253 kilometers). Speed: The average speed of a great white shark is around 15 miles per hour (24 km/h) when cruising. However, they won't maintain their top speed for the entire journey. Using the average speed: Time = Distance Speed Time= Speed Distance ​ Time = 1 , 400 miles 15 mph = 93.33 hours Time= 15 mph 1,400 miles ​ =93.33 hours So, it would take a great white shark roughly 93.33 hours, or almost 4 days, to swim from New England to the Bahamas if it swam continuously at an average speed. This is a simplified calculation and doesn't account for factors like rest, feeding, or changes in speed due to currents and other environmental factors.

[@Eyevin]

I knew it was gonna be bad when I saw the trailer and the whole theater laughed.

[@wstine79]

I heard Roy Schneider agreed to star in Blue Thunder just so he couldn't be available for JAWS 3.

[@JoBloOriginals]

He sure made the right choice there.

[@JeonardShadby505]

I sadly never reported that fact in my JAWS 3 review, but yes, just goes to show how badass Roy Scheider was, even when not on the big screen.

[@curtiswinkler8385]

He would have rather been in a 10 minute 8mm porno than do another Jaws movie.

[@wstine79]

A new Awfully Good Movies video always gives me a shark size smile.

[@JoBloOriginals]

This time it’s personal

[@JamesB-mg9pk]

This movie is always entertaining to me. I always watch it when it's on TV. It's bad but good to watch.

[@BlizzardFanatic]

You missed a good bit saying that Jake sounded like Ruby Rhod from fifth element

[@Merylstreep1949]

Now I see where the creators of Futurama got the character of Hermes😂seriously that is Hermes😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lukewright9031]

20:38 This was the ending I saw as a kid and even back then I was like "W.T...F??" or what ever equivalent vocabulary my tiny brain could belt out.

[@YuniorGamboa]

This movie if you see it as a comedy then it makes all the sense😅

[@iamnoone4918]

I always liked Jaws 4 more than 3. Neither of them are good in my opinion but the idea of a shark seeking revenge towards the family is so ridiculous but a fun idea. Also Jaws: The Revenge is my introduction to Michael Caine.

[@ferociousgumby]

PLEASE do not judge him by this underwater turkey!

[@MAMoreno]

Once you've seen two sharks conveniently showing up to attack Sea World just as Sean Brody arrives there, you have to think that fate has it out for this family. The Revenge is simply the logical, if ridiculous, conclusion to a franchise that was already giving us ample reason to think that sharks do indeed "take things personally."

[@seereadnhear]

I remember as a kid watching this movie and seeing how bad it was even the theatrical extended cut or whatever they call it that was the international version was no better but at least Mario Van Peebles lived in that one

[@jasongallagher5464]

They could’ve kept going and I would’ve been there for it

[@LesWalker2023]

I haven't laughed so hard in ages! The edited images in this video are classics! The blood splat on the plane window, the sharks crashing the bar scene, the magnetic shark attractor, and on and on! If this movie had been THIS much fun, I would have loved it! Too bad a seriously deriding and scathing review is so much better than it's source and purpose! Great stuff! For an even worse "Jaws" sequel, of sorts, see the atrocious "Great White" from Italy or wherever, that was a bad Jaws redo also! BAD movies! Bad. Amazing that JAWS could produce such utter crap in it's wake....sad...

[@Malum09]

Very funny that the Director of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three made this one since Spielberg was offered to direct that movie in the early '70s.

[@Anubis22774]

Plane crash edit pure gold 7:45 😂

[@jordansweet8054]

Good to see a reference to The Critic! Such a good show.

[@jasonmountain4643]

Saw this in theaters as a kid. Great movie and great NES game ;)

[@Johnny_B_Goodfornothing]

And to think that 2 movies earlier a marine biologist specifically states that sharks don't have vendettas and now its a major plot point😂

[@abdelali9279]

12:35 13:59 fucking brilliant visual gags!

[@ukmediawarrior]

You know I think I remember someone doing the math on this, and it was possible the shark swam from Amity to the Bahamas in the six days it is shown to have done so on film. An average top cruising speed for a Great White is around 20mph.

[@MegaHJC]

Ellen was absolutely there during the scene in Jaws where Sean mimics Martin at the dinner table. She stood in the doorway and watched the whole thing.

[@smitchelly]

I'm glad I didn't have to scroll too far to see someone said it. 😂

[@stabbyjosh7931]

They could do a jaws five. They did go on to study snails as suggested by Mario Van Peebles, and then the "Giant Pink Sea Snail" from the end of the original Dr Doolittle attacks to get revenges for the snails that died during their research. You can call it "Jaws Five, Crawls!"

[@Diamondelle84]

7:09 Supposedly, the water is too warm for sharks 😏

[@UrbanS_69]

Movie probably would have been better if they'd incorporated the voodoo shark story from the novelization. Not much better, but still...

[@The_Bandit.1997]

Did this guy say the shark in first movie was bad? The shark in the first JAWS was amazing! And better looking than the other sharks

[@davidhamlin7932]

As a kid this one is great. I still enjoy it you just can't take it to seriously like the original. Just treat it like a horror flick

[@cg167]

I've always thoroughly enjoyed your videos. Keep doing it.

[@Valmont1978]

Splicing in The Aviator footage killed me! This video was brilliant in its cutaways!

[@Jared_Wignall]

Makes me wonder how much better the film would have been had the whole voodoo plot been included. If anything, the film would make more cohesive sense rather than what it is now. And I honestly like this more than Jaws 3. Neither of the two films are good, but I’m able to enjoy Jaws: The Revenge in a so bad it’s good sort of way, while I don’t see Jaws 3 being good. The good thing in Jaws 3 is Louis Gossett, Jr, but he’s not in it enough. Though I do like how Michael Caine, who is truly the best part of this film, did this film only so he could finish building his mom a new home. Also, Universal put out ads saying that Jaws: The Revenge is the conclusion to the Jaws trilogy, meaning Jaws 3D doesn’t exist anymore in the Jaws continuity. They were so embarrassed by that film that Jaws: The Revenge is the apparent third film. And both of the “third installments” are not good.

[@devious187]

This movie is truly awful, but the Banana Boat scene still rules, that scared the shit outta me as a kid... and yeah, the novelization is actually much better than the movie, even with the silly, semi-racist voodoo subplot.

[@RC19786]

JAAACCKKK, Jaws-The Retirement, LMAO

[@SirSmoldham]

Vicious... and fully deserved.

[@johncap6495]

When Michael dances with his mother. His wife seems extremely jealous watching them.

[@Job.Well.Done_01]

I own this movie. Still a go-to when I wanna sip some cough medicine 😅

[@deadbydawn93]

One thing I just noticed about the scene when Michael's daughter imitates him at the table is that in the original movie, it is Sean who imitates Martin, not Michael. So, the connection to the first movie doesn't make sense.

[@JoBloOriginals]

One of the many deeply stupid things about this movie :)

[@Dude-oh8vq]

It makes perfect sense. It's about how kids imitate their parents. It happened in the original and it happened in this film. Ellen witnessed both moments too.

[@Dude-oh8vq]

Why is it stupid? @@JoBloOriginals

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

THANK YOU for the 'Tintin' line! =)

[@cc_1983]

The flashbacks she never saw are hilarious!

[@heatherdale5571]

😆 I forgot abut the psychic connection!! 😆 🤣 😆

[@sct913]

I heard a rumor that the MST3K people refuse to do a send-up of Jaws 4: The Revenge. The producers are afraid that anything they could say would only improve it.

[@guywgane3]

As a kid I remember seeing the tracks under the shark and thinking... Spielberg must be sick to his stomach.

[@Tecnicos-qj8pb]

Love this film it was my first Jaws film, great video!

[@themonsterbaby]

Meg 2 went off the deep end, lmao. I just watched it. Fucking reptiles living in the Mariana trench that ALSO are just fine on land. Brilliant. Up next..... The Meg 3 :Megnado.

[@Dr_1212]

Jaws theme 🎶 🦈

[@gabrielsmourning]

Love these but honestly, mate... "Telepathy (like telephone) is “hearing” others' thoughts. And/or being able to communicate your thoughts to others without speaking aloud. Telekinesis (like kinetic energy) is being able to move physical objects without touching them physically"... Every time you say telekinetic I'm expecting the Voodoo Shark to bend a spoon...

[@davidkanengieter]

No, no it's not. 2.5 kills of roaring shark lameness. I hate it more every time i see it. I was one of the many, many kids who saw it in the theater and wished we had snuck into Robocop instead.

[@Cjh6969]

Would have much rather had “Jaws 3, People 0” than any of the crap sequels

[@guapman11]

1 combustion is burning, not exploding, 2 if you're gonna call out mistakes from 36 years ago, make sure you understand what you're sayin

[@kenwuest]

The shark sounds like it roars at least twice in the original, when it passes by the camera after Quint shoots it the second time, then, about a few minuets later, when it surfaces, right before Quint shoots it again. "Jaws the Revenge" is better than it is given credit. It looks like the makers were trying to go for something more complex and focused on character. A mother dealing with grief wants her son out of the water. She, however, comes to terms with it, but he deals with guilt, because a shark has shown up, and he wants to study it, and but chooses to hide it. Instead of sticking with a character dealing with grief, which many movies do, the story switches gears, and covers a different character dynamic. Each could have had its own movie, but here, both are in one. It seems as if "Jaws the Revenge" may have come, in part, from an exchange in "Jaws 2", where Brody asks Dr. Elkins about a shark coming after another being destroyed. She replies that "sharks don't take things personally".

[@greatestnitemare6626]

The shark never roared in the original

[@JLE8811]

Great stuff as always.

[@MegaDazza87]

I have to admit, I haven’t seen this movie but since I have seen the first movie and I have seen the other reviews. This film is tempting me to watch it as a big punishment. Thanks Jesse.

[@JoBloOriginals]

It’s on Tubi this month. Best not to spend money on it

[@MegaDazza87]

@@JoBloOriginals sadly in the U.K we can subscribe to Tubi, but there is other apps to look out for it.

[@FrankieTeardrop1998]

This review has YTP vibes. You should make them.

[@gerardsphere7182]

Jake not dying after being eaten is THE most nonsense scene i remember.

[@JediJunkie247]

Ah, the movie that caused the franchise to jump the shark.😅 I'll see myself out.

[@stephaniegormley9982]

10:15 I admire her loyalty to her husband. (Head of Universal studio) But there's a limit to loyalty, and this exceeded it .

[@laurababyyy1]

Jaws.a movie that doesn’t need a sequel.

[@bayerhead]

I just rewatched this film today and its kind of crazy because i remember a part where the shark specifically follows the Brodies to the bahamas but that actually didnt happen. The plot isnt bad at all. Its kind of a romance film and captures the closest thing to real marine biolgists studying sharks.

[@Mayor_Of_Eureka17]

Ahh yes, Mr. Shade is back .

[@RDJ134]

Skipped school to see this in the theater. Yeah its something.

[@FatHead1979]

Yeah, a massive floating 'dog log'!

[@oscarf5433]

For me the Jaws saga ended in Jaws 2, the Jaws without Roy Scheider are just no good in my opinion, also the absurd out of camera death of Sheriff Broady is laughable but not in a good way.

[@claudetheruler]

The PeeWee scream was hilarious. The PeeWee music honestly meshes amazingly

[@rmarkley79]

How dare you, loved this when I was 10 and the San Diego one with the habitrails under water.

[@sheadupree252]

6:52 she witnessed it from the kitchen doorway

[@JeonardShadby505]

I just realized that when the episode came out, my mistake!

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

"I never saw the movie. By all accounts it was awful but I saw the house it built and its terrific* - Michael Caine

[@nolife6013]

Jaws is a movie that did not need sequels. As do a lot of successful Hollywood blockbusters. Aliens and Terminator 2 are exceptions but that’s because those movies were actually well written and in some ways better than the first one. With Jaws it should’ve just been a 1 and done thing.

[@gallery7596]

To his credit, Joe Sargent (who really had an extraordinary career as a director) said that getting to both direct and produce this movie kinda went to his head, and that it amazed even him how someone who had the experience to know better could embrace such an absurd premise as the one we see in "Jaws The Revenge." Remember him for "The Taking Of Pelham 123," (with Robert Shaw!), and "Colossus: The Forbin Project," and also remember that even Spielberg (whose masterpiece they were trying to duplicate) actually directed the overblown and very unfunny "1941."

[@carlwinters8632]

So, growing up in the late 90's and early 2000's I initially saw the Jaws series in the weirdest order. It went as such. 2,4,1,3. And believe it or not, as a kid, I actually believed that the 2nd was actually better than the first one for a while. Even back then, I thought the 3rd was the worst, and I still do. But now, as an adult, I understand that the first is much better than the second. It's so much more of a story and an adventure. The chemistry or lack there of between Brody, Hooper, and Quint was entertaining. The first was also about Brody growing as a man and overcoming his fear of the water because he literally had no choice. When it comes to the 4th, I think Michael Caine, Loraine Gary, and Mario Van Peebles saved it just enough to make it better than the 3rd. The 3rd was boring!

[@mattyclark9051]

The way it ended it set it up for another jaws movie I think 😊

[@leostenson4476]

You screwed up. You said "while his big brother Martin chats on the phone." It's Michael. Big brother Michael

[@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94]

Yippee! A brand new one! Hoop Dee Doo!

[@Skynet_Scans_It]

I actually really liked this entry as a kid, I was too young to understand how bad it was. I thought it was cool compared to the "boring" first movie. Obviously now I see the first as the masterpiece it is, but The Revenge will always be special to me.

[@paulpouliot9355]

I watch Jaws the Revenge as a guilty pleasure. But, truthfully, I consider Peter Benchley's "Beast" to be the official sequel to his "Jaws" novel.

[@asgads]

I like the shark animatronic

[@kevo23630]

I love another title for a movie Hitman the movie that helped bulid Timothy Olyphant's home.

[@jamesmorant1406]

A shark standing up on his tail, what 😂😂

[@bsfishing7073]

😂the exact style of making fun of the movie was right on