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Shark Attack 2

Shark Attack 2

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Better than the first but still REALLY bad!
Review: I'm gonna make this short. There is no reason to buy this. It is a Jaws rip off! They coppied almost half of this movie from Jaws. They even use the line "Out of the water,get out of the water now"! How cheap is that! The graphics are horrible and the shark modals look like cheap blow up toys! The acting is okay but compared to Jaws's acting it sounds like Roseanne Barr singing "My Heart Will Go On"! Yep. Well you get the point.Buy Jaws or Deep Blue Sea insted.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Better than the first but still REALLY bad!
Review: I'm gonna make this short. There is no reason to buy this. It is a Jaws rip off! They coppied almost half of this movie from Jaws. They even use the line "Out of the water,get out of the water now"! How cheap is that! The graphics are horrible and the shark modals look like cheap blow up toys! The acting is okay but compared to Jaws's acting it sounds like Roseanne Barr singing "My Heart Will Go On"! Yep. Well you get the point.Buy Jaws or Deep Blue Sea insted.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: The sharks are back, but without bite.
Review: in 1999, the barren SHARK ATTACK was created and it in no way deserved a sequel. But in 2000 we got one anyway. And it has something the first film lacked. Sharks. Bye the way, they attack people. By that alone, we are seeing a better shark film. One scene involves a surfing regatta that is cut short by several attacks.

It's not a much better film, mind you. It still suffers from budget crunching, amateur acting and a big torpedo-like shark to make you laugh. And when it comes time to destroy the sharks, 5 of them are killed off-screen.

The DVD has a pretty good transfer. The video is of a standard television ratio so don't bother watching it on the widescreen. This film is best enjoyed at 3:30 in the morning when everyone around you is sleeping.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Mutant fiberglass sharks terrorize Cape Town!
Review: In the early 1980s Universal/MCA sued Film Ventures International for copyright infringement because the Italian exploitation shark shocker FVI was distributing too closely resembled Universal's trademarked Jaws series.

So why aren't they filing a similiar legal complaint against distributors Nu Image, Trimark, and the makers of Shark Attack 2? This movie lifts entire sequences, as well as plot lines, directly from Jaws 2 and Jaws 3-D (why anybody would rip off that cinematic turkey is beyond me) so blatantly it's, well, jaw dropping.

The mutant sharks from the first Shark Attack movie head over to Cape Town and the next thing you know our heroes (if you can call them that) are up against stock footage mixed with the most lifeless looking fiberglass sharks to ever disgrace no budget schlock cinema. There's an Evil Capitalist subplot so shopworn that it falls apart and sinks out of sight after the first fifteen or so minutes, the debris of which pops up every now and then. The female lead wants revenge against the sharks for eating her sister in the carbon copied Jaws 2 opening scene, she falls in love with the lead, not because their characters have anything in common, outside of being in the same movie, but you have to have a T&A love scene in these kind of things to keep the audiences attention.

There is a character named Kenny, guess how long he lasts and where he ends up.

So it goes.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: HÜP
Review: It is a magnificient story about thriller created by sharks in South African coasts.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: This is NOT good!!
Review: It's sad when, even with high-tech special effects, Jaws, which was made in the 1970's, is still better than this.

And how many times have people said it? SHARKS DO NOT ROAR!!!
When sharks roar in movies, I don't find it frightening, I find it amusing.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: spleen splitting fun
Review: jese man, talk about b movie magic. ive never cared so much about a man's(whoever the director is) broken dream to make a movie. it is so poorly done, they even let footage of a dolphin substitute for a shark. god bless america!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Make your own shark movie!
Review: Much like it's predecessor and successor, Shark Attack and Shark Attack 3, this movie gives new meaning to the word terrible. It's hard to even describe how bad this movie is.

However, if you were interested in making your own Shark Attack 4 movie there are only a few things that you need to keep in mind. Your movie needs to start with some sort of unexplained attack related to some strange creature that is later discovered to be some scientifically altered shark. Then you need some sort of rogue scientist who has recently been fired from his job or is of ill repute for some reason or another and an attractive scientist woman who ultimately will fall in love with this rogue scientist. These scientists must realize the eminent danger posed by the mutant shark and immediately confront some wealthy bigwig. The wealthy bigwig then must ignore the scientists' pleas in an effort to make some money on some sort water related activity. Finally after shark related deaths start occurring at that water event, the wealthy bigwig tells the scientists to hatch a plan to kill the sharks. The plan needs to involve stringing a bunch of batteries together to lure the sharks to some sort of bomb. On the eve of the execution of this plan, the two scientists have to hook up in the water. The day of the plan needs to involve a close call with the shark eventually getting blown up.

So that is the format if you ever yearn to create a Shark Attack movie. However, if you find yourself with that urge, please make sure that you are one of the people eaten by the shark because these movies just need to stop being made.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GO TO THE VIDEO STORE..
Review: Nothing can prepare you for the terror that is SHARK ATTACK II!!! Marvel at the hapless "actors" climbing into the mouths of fiberglass sharks! Gaze in awe at the lack of talent displayed in every scene of this drek!! Watch "Jaws" and compare scene-by scene rip-offs everywhere!! Goodness me, where to start? First note to the "Discovery Channel"-get your lawyers on this one ASAP! Not only have they probably ripped off every bit of stock footage that you have of sharks they even have one of the brain dead characters pretend to work for you guys a'la "The Crocodile Hunter." Secondly-what language was this filmed in?-it appears to be English re-dubbed into English. I particularly savored the scene where the head bimbo is emoting concern for the nominal hero saying words without even moving her lips! Imagine working on her ventrilaquism while her new lover is facing the menacing shark pictures and carboard fins!!! I don't see a future there!! Before I go to far(trust me I could go on) I really meant to say that this is crap-buy it if you wanna waste your money-watch it if you wanna waste your life.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Worst shark movie I've ever seen.
Review: Now, keep in mind, I've only seen six shark-based movies in all. There are the four Jaws films, Deep Blue Sea, and now Shark Attack 2, which is, yes, even worse than the much hated Jaws the Revenge. Actually, not to my surprise at all, this movie rips off every one of the aforementioned films (yep, from genetic tampering in Deep Blue Sea to even all the way down to the "character at the end who should have been eaten but surfaces injured and alive" ending from Jaws the Revenge), but it's not as if though this couldn't have been a fun movie. For crying out loud, I enjoyed Octopus.

But no, Shark Attack 2 is a bad movie in any way you put it. It begins with two sisters scuba-diving, and one of them is eaten by a big great white shark. Said shark is later tranquilized and placed in an exhibition in a park called Water World, of all names. Anyway, the shark escapes in a scene that still boggles me with its horrendous special effects and lack of coherent continuity. Thus, the surviving sister, a shark expert named Nick, and a Steve Irwin-wannabe set out to hunt this shark, only to discover a terrible secret about its origin.

Having never seen the original Shark Attack, I can't say for sure how this one continues the story, though I'm figuring the stuff about the cancer research involving sharks has something to do with it. But all that aside, this is a very basic hunt-and-kill movie, from both sides of the field, be it sharks trying to eat humans or humans trying to kill the sharks. How hard can it be to screw such a concept up? Apparently, very easily, if you don't have the proper budget or acting chops to back a production up.

The movie mostly relies on stock footage for its visual effects, which hinders continuity considering we explicity see a shark without an eye in one scene, though all stock footage clearly features a shark with an eye. For the genuine effects themselves, the sharks don't look so bad underwater, they're quite passable then, but when they surface to chomp, wow, it's like looking at a giant, shiny toy. Check out the surf competition massacre, where it's obvious they're not dragging the surfers in the water, the surfers are simply falling into their mouths.

The script has an amusing tendency to get pretty trendy, especially with all the Steve Irwin and Discovery Channel references (there's even a "Cartman" imitation at one point). Even if this were a "good" movie (as good as such a movie can be), it'd date itself mighty quickly with its trendiness. The story itself has a lot of silly moments that raise a lot of questions. For one, are there really such things as glock handguns that work underwater? Would somebody really use a bomb that couldn't be disarmed? Would a couple really make love in water, especially with all the violence that'd been associated with it?

When I think about it, the only thing worthy of note is that Nikita Ager bears a passing resemblance to Erika Eleniak, which means she's kind of hot. Everyone else here delivers pretty weak perormances (Ager included), and I swear, some of them even sound like their voices have been dubbed over (particularly Thorsten Kaye, whose tone of voice varies constantly like a concert band doing warm-ups). Just watch the first two Jaws movies again for fun shark thrillers.


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