Jaws 3

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Year:	1983
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Joe Alves
Genre:	Reaching new depths of terror.
Starring:	Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Louis Gossett Jr.
Rating:	3/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085750/
Tagline:	Reaching new depths of terror.
Favourite line:	"Never underestimate the power."

Utterly ridiculous but strangely entertaining third outing for the ferocious Great White, this time stalking a waterpark.
See, what happened was this:
The theme park thought it had found the golden ticket when a baby Great White gets trapped in its waters. What they don't realise is that, along with the infant terror, they also have in their waters its mother, a rather angry 35 foot heaving, swimming hulk of pure muscle and teeth.
That's right.
They spotted the tiny tot, just missed the behemoth.
How very incompetent.
Thrown into the shitfest is a link to the past movies, as a worker at the park happens to be son of Chief Brody, from Amity Island.
As unbelievable as it sounds, the park operates in ignorance, the mother shark safely underwater but, perhaps in a bid to free her offspring from its watery prison, the beast breaks cover, eats a couple of people, then tries to bust open the viewing tunnel in a blaze of unconvincing 3-D. People scream, the shark eats a few more limbs before being offed in an undeservedly underwhelming manner.

Now here's the thing: This is, obviously, a load of old gobshite, but I was still gripped. I wanted to watch the riotously poor special effects, wanted to see the small blood balloons burst in the water near a struggling female, desperately wanted to observe the scene inside the sharks mouth, swallowing a diver whole as we look out of her gaping maw from a 'shark's tonsil view,' laughing as the helpless diver rolls around on her tongue for a bit before she bites down on his torso.
Starring a very young Dennis Quaid, a ridiculously OTT Louis Gossett Jr. and a fantastically scrumptious early version of Lea Thompson, pre Back to the Future.
Listen, Jaws it ain't, but it's a damn side better than Deep Blue Sea, I can promise you that if nothing else.
Watch it.
Or don't.
I don't really give a fat one.