Steven Spielberg made his Hollywood debut in 1975 with the critically acclaimed thriller, “Jaws.” The film was an enormous financial success. This led to a whole franchise of films that featured other great whites sharks terrorizing Brody’s family. The second, Jaws 2, was released in 1978. The most recent movie in the franchise is “Jaws: The Revenge,” in 1987.
It was preceded by the film “Jaws 3D”, released in 1983. The 3-D effects were achieved using special 3-D glasses. Mike Brody and his family are the main characters of this story as they try to stop a great white shark that has escaped from SeaWorld. Dennis Quaid portrays Mike Brody, who works at SeaWorld and has a romantic relationship with Kay Morgan, played by Bess Armstrong.
The fourth film doesn’t just ignore the ending of its predecessor — it doesn’t acknowledge “Jaws 3-D” in any way. Mike, in this film is not a SeaWorld employee but a marine scientist. Lance Guest plays him this time and he has a Carla, played by Karen Young. She helps him fight a shark who has an individual vendetta towards the Brodys. Some people, however, think it’s best that “Jaws: The Revenge”, essentially pretends that “Jaws 3D” never existed. Critics and fans both slammed the movie.