The only thing worse than watching "Jaws 3-D" is watching "Jaws 3-D" in 2-D. It certainly isn't worth watching for its silly plot and without the gimmick of 3-D, you’d might as well just watch the first one a second (or third) time. I consider "Jaws 2" to be a bad movie which forces me to categorize "Jaws 3" as utterly terrible. Every aspect of the film is like a punch to the Jaw (see what I did there) when compared with the original. Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” was riveting, masterfully acted, and groundbreaking in its technical execution. I had hoped that “Jaws 2” was merely a fluke (see what I did there with the fish pun) due to its young cast, but “Jaws 3-D” manages to be significantly worse. The acting is so bad that half of the movie seems like they left the cameras on between takes and accidentally recorded mundane, non-emotional conversations. I’m sure that Dennis Quaid doesn’t even bother listing this film on his resume. One of the most bothersome aspects is the shark footage, which is painfully obvious in its use of fast motion to create a sense of speed but it just makes it look incredibly fake. Storywise, there's actually a pretty interesting twist. If there were some sort of redemption amidst this mess, it would be that moment of realization that the film isn’t over. Jaws invades SeaWorld – it could have been such a cool setting for a shark attack. But the acting and technical execution of the script are so poor that it's hard to care once the twist rolls around. “Jaws 3-D” is a total trainwreck but there is hope for the “Jaws” legacy: the next film series completely ignores the events of this film and recasts all of its horribly acts characters. If “Jaws 3-D” never happened, the next film will redeem this sad tangent… right?
[Pictured: The film is bad enough, but watching the originally 3-D effects in 2-D makes it that much more painful]
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