JAWS : The Revenge (1987) - Episode 117

The Rewind Movie Podcast

“Sharks come and go, Ellen. People have got nothing to do with it.” We’re wrapping up our Jaws series reviews with a spin around the islands for Joseph Sargent’s much-maligned final entry, 1987’s Jaws The Revenge.

Sidestepping the continuity of the bizarre theme park catastrophe Jaws 3-D, a newly re-cast Sean Brody (Mitchell Anderson) has followed in his father’s footsteps and joined the Amity Police Department, hanging out with his widowed mother Ellen (Lorraine Gary) following the Chief’s off-screen death by heart attack some years before. But, on a routine boat trip to clear some debris from a dock, Sean is brutally attacked by yet another Great White. A distraught Ellen is comforted by eldest son Mike (Lance Guest), now a marine biologist studying sea snails, who whisks her off post-funeral to the Bahamian home he shares with his artist wife (Karen Young) and young daughter (Judith Barsi) to recover from the trauma. Distraction is provided by a budding romance with shifty English prop plane pilot Hoagie (Michael Caine), until a familiar, toothy menace seems to have traversed the wide ocean seeking out Brody blood.

This infamous sequel’s reputation as one of the worst in modern cinema precedes it, but our panel of Gali, Devlin and Matt try their best to assess this unique entry into the 80s franchise pantheon on an even keel. The gang talk corporate shenanigans, via comeback queen (and wife of the studio president) Lorraine Gary’s return to the screen after a near-decade hiatus; awful public art projects; questionable deployment of patois; and correct tuck technique for shark-dismembered limbs. Order up some Bahama Mamas and settle in for the conclusion of the increasingly bizarre Brody family saga.

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