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Jaws: The Revenge

  • 1987
  • PG-13
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
3.1/10
53K
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Lorraine Gary and Bruce in Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
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Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.

  • Director
    • Joseph Sargent
  • Writers
    • Peter Benchley
    • Michael De Guzman
  • Stars
    • Lorraine Gary
    • Lance Guest
    • Mario Van Peebles
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.1/10
    53K
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    • Director
      • Joseph Sargent
    • Writers
      • Peter Benchley
      • Michael De Guzman
    • Stars
      • Lorraine Gary
      • Lance Guest
      • Mario Van Peebles
    • 535User reviews
    • 88Critic reviews
    • 15Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 7 nominations total

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    Lorraine Gary
    Lorraine Gary
    • Ellen Brody
    Lance Guest
    Lance Guest
    • Michael Brody
    Mario Van Peebles
    Mario Van Peebles
    • Jake
    Karen Young
    Karen Young
    • Carla Brody
    Michael Caine
    Michael Caine
    • Hoagie
    Judith Barsi
    Judith Barsi
    • Thea
    Mitchell Anderson
    Mitchell Anderson
    • Sean Brody
    Lynn Whitfield
    Lynn Whitfield
    • Louisa
    Jay Mello
    • Young Sean Brody
    • (archive footage)
    Cedric Scott
    • Clarence
    Charles Bowleg
    • William
    Melvin Van Peebles
    Melvin Van Peebles
    • Mr. Witherspoon
    Mary Smith
    • Tiffany
    Edna Billotto
    • Polly
    Fritzi Jane Courtney
    Fritzi Jane Courtney
    • Mrs. Taft
    Cyprian R. Dube
    • Mayor
    Lee Fierro
    Lee Fierro
    • Mrs. Kintner
    Moby Griffin
    • Man in the Boat
    • (as John Griffin)
    • Director
      • Joseph Sargent
    • Writers
      • Peter Benchley
      • Michael De Guzman
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    1saltandpepper66

    The worst

    The movie is one of the worst I've ever seen. The attack scenes are worse than what I used to do with Fisher Price Town and a stuffed seal from Marineland. The shark follows them to the Bahamas; apparently for revenge...revenge for being killed in earlier movies! Or is the shark exacting revenge for his friends who were killed? Or maybe (and here's something they could have pursued) it was the WIFE of the previous shark who decided the wife of her husband's killer should suffer. Well she did suffer, by appearing in this movie. For Jaws 5 I suggest the surviving family members of Mrs. Brodie swim back to New York and start biting sharks.
    2bensonmum2

    "I've always wanted to make love to an angry welder."

    I am completely dumbfounded. What in the world were the people behind this mess thinking? When the movie was over, Jaws: The Revenge left me with more questions than answers. Here's a laundry list of my questions:

    1. How did a movie as good as Jaws spawn this junk?

    2. Regardless of where the shark is in the ocean, how is it capable of knowing the moment a Brody sticks so much as a big toe into the water?

    3. If you attributed your husband's and son's deaths to a great white shark, wouldn't you want to go to someplace like Oklahoma instead of the Bahamas?

    4. Do all Bahamians slip in and out of their accents the way Mario Van Peebles does in Jaws: The Revenge?

    5. Could they have possibly made the shark look any more fake?

    6. Snails?

    7. You mean that piece of welded together scrap metal was supposed to represent all that is good about the Bahamas?

    8. Do sharks really jump out of the water like Shamu and roar like a lion?

    9. What's more frightening - a great white shark or Ellen Brody's hair?

    10. Is there a bigger acting whore on the planet than Michael Caine?

    The best way to watch a movie like Jaws: The Revenge is with a group of friends. There's plenty here to make fun of.
    1theshadow908

    An embarrassing film.

    Jaws: The Revenge is the final entry into the Jaws series, and thank God for that. Ellen Brody is now living in the Bahamas after her youngest son Sean, who has followed in the footsteps of his father and become Chief of the Amity police, is killed by another Great White Shark. In what is the most ridiculous plots of all time, we find out that one specific shark is holding a grudge against the Brody family, and after it kills Sean, it swims against the Gulf Stream down to the Bahamas so it can kill Ellen and Michael as well. Jaws: The Revenge is an embarrassment to anyone who knows anything about sharks, and is the worst of the series.

    The plot is completely wrong in this movie. The whole plot is built off of bs. I can't even allow suspension of disbelief to let me ignore that the shark is hunting the Brody family. It's ridiculous! Aside from that is that the film contains any number of factual errors about sharks ranging from having the shark swim backwards, roar like a lion, stand on its tail, and devour a helicopter. The shark in the first film did unusual things, but nothing that would make a shark lover cry.

    The acting in this movie is so bad that...You know what? I don't even want to discuss it. It's bad. Terrible. Loathsome. Repugnant. What else is there? Lorraine Gray played Ellen just fine in the first film, but for some reason in this film she let all of her acting skill slip away. Even Michael Caine, who is a vastly talented actor, shows absolutely no skill at all.

    Every copy of Jaws: The Revenge should be swallowed by the shark from the first film.

    1/10
    1JonDubya2004

    This time it's personal!

    It's personal because I hate this audience-insulting movie. This has got to be the stupidest horror flick of all times. The ending (all of them) alone would be enough to justify this film's place on the bottom 100 list. I mean the premise (shark is after the Brody family for revenge. It chases (and beats) the Brody's to Jamaica to harrass them and snack on a few extras).

    The effects went WAY downhill for this one. The shark on the Universial Studios tram tour is more convincing then this duct-taped-at-the-seams roboshark. The acting is atrocious (especially Mario Van Peeble and his grating "hey mon" accent)
    3darthquincunx

    Jaw dropping

    There is Montezuma's revenge and then there is Jaws: The Revenge, in either case diarrhea is produced. This is really a terrible film, as if a shark would go out and take revenge on the family that "murdered" his cousins. Nonsense! It is awful to see Michael Caine in this film, I don't know why Michael appears in films like this, he must only do it for the money because the artistic merits of this film are zilch. Poor Lorraine Gary, went into retirement and then only to come out of retirement to do this turkey, and to think she felt obliged to as well, hardly a fitting finale to the end of a career. This film should have won more Razzies than it did but then against it was up against Leonard part 6!

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    • Trivia
      Michael Caine said "Won an Oscar, built a house, and had a great holiday. Not bad for a flop movie." He was paid $1.5 million for seven days work in the Bahamas, and the schedule was so tight that the producers were unable to spare him so he could attend the Academy Awards, and he went on to win the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).
    • Goofs
      Hoagie's plane crashes in the ocean, but when he climbs aboard the Brodys' boat, his clothes are dry. Michael Caine explained that they waited so long for the camera to turn over that his shirt and pants dried in the sun.
    • Quotes

      Shark: Roar!

    • Alternate versions
      The UK cinema was cut by 37 seconds to get a "PG" rating with heavy edits made to Sean's death and shots of bloody bodies in the shark's mouth during attacks. The cuts were restored in the video version and the certificate upgraded to a '15' (later '12' for the DVD release).
    • Connections
      Edited from Jaws (1975)
    • Soundtracks
      Theme From Jaws
      Composed by John Williams

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    • Release date
      • July 17, 1987 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Tiburón 4: La venganza
    • Filming locations
      • Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $23,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $20,763,013
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $7,154,890
      • Jul 19, 1987
    • Gross worldwide
      • $51,881,013
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 29m(89 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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