Jaws 3-D (1983)
Genre: Action / Horror
Duration: 99 minuten
Alternative titles: Jaws III / Jaws 3
Country:
United States
Directed by: Joe Alves
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong and Lea Thompson
IMDb score:
3,8 (52.873)
Releasedate: 22 July 1983
Jaws 3-D plot
"A deadly new attraction."
From tunnels made of clear plastic, tourists at Florida's Seaworld Marine Park can observe the life of fish, including a newly-captured juvenile shark, in their natural environment. However, no one has counted on a great white shark, in search of its young, terrifying tourists with incessant attacks on the underwater tunnels and the tourists in and on the water.
Actors and actresses
Michael 'Mike' Brody
Kathryn Morgan
Philip FitzRoyce
Calvin Bouchard
Sean Brody
Kelly Ann Bukowski
Jack Tate
Dan
Liz
Ethel
Reviews & comments
Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3690 votes
Not a bad idea in itself to change the location for a third Jaws, because we have already seen that Amity Island. And let's be honest, using Sea World as the backdrop for your shark movie doesn't sound that bad either. In addition, Jaws 2 showed that you can easily make a nice sequel to a masterpiece like Jaws. And yet it went wrong with Jaws 3-D.
There isn't much wrong with Jaws 3-D for a long time. It's nowhere groundbreaking or really noteworthy, but Dennis Quaid and Bess Armstrong play great roles and the setting of Sea World turns out to be a nice change, with Louis Gossett Jr. as a somewhat greedy boss and Simon MacCorkindale as a slick television man. However, one fails as soon as tension has to be built up. We mainly see sequences of divers doing something underwater in the dark, we see a few frames of a shark and some blood appears. Certainly the third act of the film - which is supposed to be the big spectacle - is just a pretty dull event. Divers are making repairs underwater and a shark swims painfully towards them. They probably already knew that Jaws 3-D would not deliver a high-quality masterpiece, so it would have been better to make things campy. But that doesn't happen, the film tries to be exciting, but is especially dull and often unintentionally hilarious when the camera zooms in on objects again because the film is made in 3D. There is entertainment in this film on that front. Just not enough.
2 stars.
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Onderhond
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- 87679 messages
- 13026 votes
Nah.
The idea itself is good. Just cut out half an hour and try to make a smooth genre movie out of it. No more serious hassle, no characters that need to be explored endlessly and no endlessly boring middle part.
But a good idea alone will not get you there, that much is clear. The performance actually counts double for a simple movie like this one and it's really worth crying out for. In fact, it's just a complete mockery on all fronts.
But most of all those effects, of course. The flattened 3D is barely visible, childish effects that immediately destroy any attempt at atmosphere. You can laugh about it a few times, but after a while it becomes very painful. That shark doesn't look like much either, a cardboard thing that barely moves.
Acting is sad, the setting rather stale and despite the fact that it only lasts 90 minutes, the film still doesn't burn. It is right that this one is being razed to the ground, I have nothing to do with the other Jaws films but this is just pure ignorance.
0.5*
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N00dles
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- 639 messages
- 2317 votes
What a boring, slow bolt movie. Not only in terms of content and in terms of pacing extremely boring, but the film is also very poorly put together in terms of editing and camera work. I expected some kind of Sharknado-esque state at first (so bad it CAN be fun), but this is bad on a whole another level.
Where the original managed to create a certain tension with ominous music, this is not noticeable in Jaws 3-D. The shark is either there or it isn't.
When the shark is not there, it immediately seems as if you are watching a completely different kind of movie. Boring dialogues between people who are annoying and/or irrelevant, but still get too much screen time. Ugly, faded images of a water park with especially many water skis and dolphins. Meanwhile, you are constantly wondering when something exciting will happen. It looks like a behind-the-scenes of the Dolfinarium.
And if the shark is there... it's still a yawn feast.
No ominous tune, no exciting montage, no gruesome action. It's suddenly "bite" and done. Nothing is portrayed properly. Sometimes you don't even know what you're looking at. Sometimes the attacks are without consequence and everyone comes out of the water unscathed. yay.
The effects are also really to cry and - even for the time - shockingly ugly. Even with 3D glasses on it would have been a horror. Ugly lighting of '3D' elements, obvious green screen effects, it seems as if an intern put this together in an afternoon.
I can't imagine studio bosses seeing this and being excited. I would be ashamed of myself if I had worked on the film.
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