Great white shark 3-D

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Movie
German title Great white shark 3-D
Original title Jaws 3-D
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1983
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Joe Alves
script Carl Gottlieb
Michael Kane
Richard Matheson
Guerdon Trueblood
production Rupert Hitzig
Alan Landsburg
(executive producer)
music Alan Parker
camera James A. Contner
Chris J. Condon
(not mentioned)
George D. Dodge
(not mentioned)
Austin McKinney
(not mentioned)
cut Corky Ehlers
Randy Roberts
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Jaws 2

Successor  →
Jaws - The Reckoning

Jaws 3-D is a American film of 1983 with Dennis Quaid , Bess Armstrong and Louis Gossett Jr. in the lead roles. The film is one of the few to be produced in 3D in the early 1980s and is the second sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws .

action

Michael Brody, the son of Chief Brody, is now an engineer working on an underwater amusement park in Florida that is due to open soon. His friend Kathryn is the senior trainer of the park's orcas and dolphins .

While hunting a group of water-skiers, a female great white shark invades the facility unnoticed and kills a worker, which initially goes undetected. In the enclosure from which the female shark can no longer escape, it gives birth to a young animal that is almost three meters long; After that, mother and child evidently go their separate ways. When Mike and Kathryn pick up Michael's brother Sean, a pair of divers who are after the rare fish in the facility is eaten by one of the sharks.

When the disappearance of the first victim is finally noticed, Mike and Kathryn start a search for the corpse in a mini-submarine, accompanied by Sally and Sandy, the two dolphins in the park, who have recently become very nervous. They are attacked and pursued by a great white shark on an artificial wreck of the facility - Mike and Kathryn can just drag the two dolphins to safety.

While the park manager wants to kill the shark, the biologist Kathryn sees him as a unique opportunity to study great white sharks. Despite Mike's objections, a nocturnal hunt begins, which ends with the young animal being stunned and captured. Meanwhile, the park opens with a big show, during which the captured cub dies of stress. But when the torn corpse of the first victim is found, it becomes clear that a much larger shark is apparently up to mischief in the facility. The mother animal, which is more than ten meters long, appears promptly and causes mass panic and severe damage to the tunnel system, which injures or traps some visitors to the park. In order to save the visitors, the shark is supposed to be distracted because the tunnels have to be repaired from the outside underwater. Wildlife photographer FitzRoyce devises a plan and can actually lure the shark into a giant pump. But his tether breaks and he is killed by the shark, which is able to free itself a little later. The shark chases Mike and Kathryn, but they are rescued again by Sally and Sandy, who attack the shark with rams in its gills.

In a false sense of security, Mike and his girlfriend have to watch as the shark approaches the underwater control station and damages it badly. At the last second, Mike can detonate a hand grenade in the shark's mouth, which the penultimate victim still in it could not detonate.

Mike and Kathryn rise to the surface, where a little later the dolphins perform a joyful dance.

Trivia

  • In this film, the shark only rises its head to the surface twice, otherwise it can only be seen underwater the whole time.
  • The sequence in which the shark's head is in the command center was - as far as the exterior shots are concerned - realized with stop-motion technology.
  • The only reference to the two predecessors is the name Brody of the two main characters.
  • The original plan was even to make a parody of the film. The film would have been about the fact that Hollywood wanted to shoot a third part of the Jaws series, but the staff working on the film (authors, actors, etc.) were attacked and killed by sharks in the most impossible situations. However, it was decided against this plan, because the actual franchise still saw potential.
  • Although the film was made only five years after the second part, the two characters Mike and Sean Brody are at least ten years older.
  • The worldwide box office result was around 88 million US dollars.

criticism

"A horror spectacle staged woodenly and poorly played by the production designer of the two previous episodes with partly effective, but partly quite unsavory effects."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The film was nominated for the Golden Raspberry in 1984 in five categories. In addition to the Worst Film category , nominations were made for Louis Gossett Junior for Worst Supporting Actor , for Joe Alves for Worst Director , for Carl Gottlieb, Richard Matheson and Guerdon Trueblood for Worst Screenplay, and for the Dolphins Cindy and Sandy for Worst Newcomers .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaws 3-D (1983) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jaws 3-D. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used