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Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Jaws 3-D (1983)


Anaglyph 3D was all the rage in the 1950s and had a brief resurgence in the '80s with some memorable titles like Friday the 13th 3D and Amityville 3-D, which always suggested a better time than it was actually able to deliver. 
In a complete departure from the first two films, it focuses on Brody's kids, who now work at a SeaWorld marine park, where a great white makes its way in through the gates and terrorizes the parkgoers. There is approximately one scene in this movie that remains completely memorable (and makes cheesy use of its 3D novelty), but the rest is pretty hokey and can safely be skipped when going through a rewatch of the series.

1 underwater tunnel out of 5

2 comments:

Dr Faustus said...

Jebus. That was bad, like you said. It had no plot for about 90% of the runtime, just a series of things that happened, followed by more things that happened, etc, with no dramatic connection to each other.

WARNING: SPOILER BELOW!

I watched the 2D version. The shot from inside the shark's mouth as she chewed down on the guy in the tunnel was the best part for me.

budarc said...

Haha, in that case you aren't going to be too thrilled with Jaws 4 either, although they wisely chose to ignore the events of this film. I still find it kind of crazy they never tried reviving this franchise since the '80s; that's how dirty they did that poor shark.