Jaws 3D was not only my first 3D movie experience, but my first Jaws theatre movie.
And my fond memories remain around the gimmicks. Moving the setting from Amity Island to a massive water park gave it a more sci-fi feel. And those classic 3D shots that no kid will forget...the floating limbs...the sharks 'jaws' as it explodes.
On an adult rewatch, the entertainment comes from rediscovery...not 'cause the films great. The cast are very watchable from young Dennis Quaid's leading man, Lou Gossett Jnr's irritable showman and Simon McCorkindale's smarmy version of Quint.
The story plods, as Quaid and girlfriend, never seen again Beth Armstrong, discuss career or relationship...while predictable the park edges closer to opening day.
The mechanical shark is fine but the heavy use of blue screen is a mistake. Underwater, Bruce looks like a rubber turd. Still the VFX add scale and wonder...where the action sequences cannot.
Not a patch on the original (of course), more interesting than part 2, and a classic compare with 'The Revenge'. But then, what isn't?
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The shark is NOT working.
That's pretty much all I can say about Jaws 3. Except at least it's not Jaws: The Revenge. Eurgh!!
Oh, BTW, Bess Armstrong was also in High Road to China the same year with Tom Selleck. Remember that? The rubbish Indiana Jones wannabe film? Then, In the early ninetees, she played mom to a young Claire Danes in the short lived but highly regarded and seminal TV show My So-Called Life.
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