Jaws 2

I'm not going to re-litigate the flaws of Jaws 2. You know them: unnecessary plot repetition of Jaws, the teenagers are annoying, reliance more on kills than tension, plays like a slasher movie. What I will add to the discussion is that this movie's biggest crime is being the sequel to a movie of the stature of Jaws, and that Jaws didn't leave a direction for another movie. Doing a sequel that's pretty much Jaws all over again, where everybody thinks Brody is paranoid because of what happened already, is about it. Jaws 2 didn't need to exist, but it was the best option they had. If Jaws 2 was the first movie, it still wouldn't be all that memorable, but it wouldn't be looked at as so inferior because of the shadow cast by its predecessor. Not every sequel can be Aliens or Dawn Of The Dead in matching or surpassing the original, and that's okay. It's only a crime when the sequel is a step down. So ... yeah. Jaws 2. I saw it. It was fine. I wish it had focused on Brody's PTSD and paranoia more than his dumb son and his son's dumb friends, but judged for what it is, it was a good folding laundry kind of movie.