A Lot or a Little?
What you will—and won't—find in this movie.
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Positive Messages
very little
No positive messages here.
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Positive Role Models
very little
Story too ludicrous to have characters who could be considered positive role models.
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Violence & Scariness
a lot
A police officer loses his arm during a shark attack before the shark kills him. A woman is attacked and killed by a shark while riding on a flotation device with children, who scream and shriek as they witness this. A man is eaten alive by a shark while hanging onto the bow of a sailboat. Brief nightmarish dream sequences in which characters are attacked by a shark.
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Sex, Romance & Nudity
very little
Mild references to the sex lives of the characters.
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Language
some
Occasional profanity: "s--t," "son of a bitch," "bulls--t," "ass," "damn."
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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking
very little
Booze drinking at dinner party, in a restaurant.
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Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Jaws: The Revenge is the fourth movie in the Jaws series, released in 1987. This is everything the original Jaws movie was not: boring, pointless, and astoundingly bad in every way. There are shark attacks -- a police officer loses an arm before being bitten to death by a shark, a woman sharing a flotation device with children is attacked and killed -- but these are few and far between, as the filmmakers would rather spend more time getting to know the characters (the only original character left from the original is the wife of Roy Scheider's character) as they adjust to their new lives living in the Bahamas rather than on the New England coast. Expect occasional mild profanity, including "s--t," and some drinking. Overall, this is yet another example of a movie franchise that wore out its welcome, as each subsequent movie was worse than the one before it. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
What's the Story?
It's the Christmas season in Amity, and Sean Brody has filled his late father's shoes as an officer in the police department. But when he's called on a routine errand in the harbor, he's attacked and killed by a great white shark. In the aftermath of her son's funeral, Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary), scarred by a lifetime of shark attacks, decides she can no longer live in Amity, and, along with her late son's wife and daughter, she leaves for the Bahamas, where her other son Michael works as a marine biologist researching snails. As Ellen tries to recover from her son's death, getting used to life in the Caribbean as a budding romance begins to develop with a charming pilot named Hoagie (Michael Caine), she goes to the beach and sees, much to her dismay, a great white shark attack. Ellen is convinced this is the same shark that killed her son and drove her husband to an early grave due to a heart attack, and she believes this shark wants to kill Ellen as well. It's up to Michael, with the help of his colleague Jake (Mario Van Peebles), to find, hunt, and kill this great white shark before it takes another life.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about sequels. Why do you think movie studios release sequels of original movies that were successful at the box office, and why are these sequels often much worse than the original movies?
B movies tend to be poorly made, badly acted, and filled with cheesy special effects. What are some of the ways in which this movie meets the criteria of a B movie?
The original Jaws won Oscars and was, at the time of its release, the highest-grossing movie of all time. Contrast the original Jaws movie with this sequel. What are the ways in which the original Jaws is a classic movie, and how does this sequel fall way short of the mark?
