20 Things You Didn't Know About Jaws 3D

The plot of Jaws 3D - a giant shark invades Sea World, wreaking havoc - sounds great on paper. It's almost as if Deep Blue Sea came thirty years too late. Every film in the Jaws franchise has a different tone - the first clearly aiming for action-horror, the second slasher, the fourth even has "Revenge" in the title.

But Jaws 3D's plot differs greatly from the others. When it was first pitched, a different trend was riding high at the box office, and they were produced by Irwin Allen. Allen is known best for producing disaster films such as The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure as well as the TV show Lost in Space. Something about a large group of people trapped in death-defying situations cliqued with 1970s audiences, perhaps because they were lost adrift in crises beyond their control like Watergate and Vietnam.

At the end of The Towering Inferno, someone suggests the remains of the burned tower stand as "kind of a shrine to all the !*$% in the world." And somewhere in New York, a little tyke named Donald Trump was listening.

By the film's last act, a group of tourists are rammed by the shark, trapped in an underwater glass tunnel that is slowly filling with water, very much like an Allen disaster picture. Louis Gossett Jr.'s park manager character is as much to blame for the crisis as the electrical subcontractor who cut corners in Inferno, turning a blind eye to a marauding man-eater.