10 Movie Sequels That Got A Raw Deal
3. Jaws 2
It helps to think of Jaws 2 less as a sequel, or if you do then make it the only legitimate sequel to Steven Spielberg's classic. Jaws 2, after all, does the least to connect its story to the original beyond just throwing another shark in the water. The other two sequels get convoluted as hell trying to justify why one family seems to be terrorized by a particular species of maneater.
What Jaws 2 does successfully, however, is move as far away from Steven Spielberg's action-picture tendencies and delve more into horror. Jeannot Szwarc's follow-up is a straight-up slasher flick.
Gone from Amity's shores are the complex characters wrestling with a seemingly unstoppable threat, the great white in Jaws 2 is malicious. It even leaves calling cards for its hunter, the half-eaten beached whale being no different than the