Paul Evans Sea world is under siege from the Great White monster, that's basically the entire plot, throw on the kids from Jaws 1 (all grown up rather quickly,) some cute dolphins, some horrific 3D effects, and a hugely camp performance from Simon MacCorkindale and you have a film.You need to be watching it in 3D or it looks horrific, the effects are bad enough as it is, without 3D they look shocking, floating limbs and fish heads etc.I liked the opening scenes with the music and the dead fish etc. quite atmospheric I guess, I think by now though the Jaws franchise is looking very very tired, Jaws 2 was a fairly decent sequel, but they should have stopped there. The film definitely misses Roy Schneider who was the focal character (apart from the Shark of course.)It's definitely better then Jaws The Revenge which is an absolute waste of time. In shark terms this film would be a Basking Shark, it certainly lacks any bite of any kind. It's a film you watch for a bit of fun, it's hard to take this one seriously. 4/10

ofpsmith Everyone's made fun of the awful special effects in this movie. To be fair, I didn't watch it with glasses but I've heard that it's not much better if you do. What makes it worse is that these aren't the kind of bad special effects that you have to look for. They hold on them so you can have the ultimate 3-D experience. But because it's not in 3-D they just come across as gimmicky and annoying. And there's a lot of scenes like that. Most of the movie is just bad 3-D. These flaws are enough to distract you from other, more conventional flaws. For one thing, the story is bland, and I mean bland. Jaws gets trapped in Sea World in Orlando, Florida. And before I go any further I just have to dwell on how dumb that marketing trick was. Is that really the coverage you want? On top of that, the characters are all stock. Almost none of them have any personality at all. There's no reason to care about any of these people. The bottom line is that Jaws 3-D is just a mix of awful special effects with a really lazy, uninteresting script thrown in as filler. Any resemblance of tension or suspense that was seen I the first movie is gone. Instead, it's just a hallowed out shell.

Julian R. White I've always been a big fan of the Jaws movies, and pretty much all of the old classic monster flicks. I'm also a shark and marine biology enthusiast as well. That being said, I sure had a lot of problems with this film. My main complaint would be the very poor use of special effects, which was quite unexpected, as previous Jaws films had effects that were quite impressive for their time. It really angered me to see the treatment of the baby shark when it was captured. (Yes, of course I know this is just a film, and the shark was a prop.) The only reason I say that is because the film seemed to not incorporate much scientific fact, if any at all into the Sharks biology and instincts. All in all, it is probably my least favorite of all of the Jaws films. I don't want to say I totally hated the movie, but it was difficult to sit through the entire thing.

Leofwine_draca By now the series had descended into laughability, something at a high with this cheesy 3D take on the killer shark theme made to cash in on the short-lived 3D craze of the early '80s. Immediately we're bombarded with those blocky yellow titles that fly out of the screen and get to watch lots of things fly out at us throughout the film's course. Objects include jets of water, a harpoon, the inevitable shark and my favourite, a cheesy severed arm which lingers on the screen for minutes. None of these are as much fun as they were in, say, Friday the 13th Part III. All of these effects are made hilarious by the bad special effects, which are so unrealistic that it looks like little, if any of the film was actually filmed underwater at all! The link with the previous films is so tenuous that you have to wonder just why they bothered at all to associate it with them - surely a clean break would have been a better bet? This time Dennis Quaid plays the far too-young hero, and it's hard to believe that he went on to quite a successful career after his bad performance here. At least he isn't alone, as just about all of the cast are stupid and unconvincing in this film - with the possible exception of an under-used Louis Gossett Jr, who is pretty cool as the chief of the theme park who has to face up to the consequences of his playing with nature.The people are a clichéd bunch as per usual - there's the clean-cut girl, the "risky" younger brother who gets himself in trouble, two imported British actors as a pair of hunters who plan to trap the shark, plus loads of forgettable youngsters who fade from the memory the instant the film finishes. The plot is merely a string of clichés, and you can pretty much guarantee that what you see here has been done before - there's even a group of people being trapped in one location with time running out, a disaster movie staple if ever there was one. The rubber shark is overused here too, making it unrealistic and in places ludicrous.The whole idea of a complex being attacked by sharks is done a lot better in the recent hit thriller DEEP BLUE SEA, which at least doesn't take itself too seriously and remains frequently exciting. Exciting is about as far as you can get from JAWS 3, which also totally fails to build up any suspense that its predecessors sustained - here, at the climax, you just think "that's it?" instead of sitting back in satisfaction with the previous two films. You may think that the idea of a mother shark coming back to avenge the death of her young is a clever one, but go back twenty-three years previously and you'll notice it was already done in GORGO anyway.But perhaps I'm being too harsh. Whilst bad, JAWS 3 isn't quite the worst film ever made. Some scenes are cool - I loved the close-up of the slimy, worm-infested mutilated head we see in one instance, which undoubtedly helped to earn this film a 15 certificate. It's also watchable on a schlocky level, and sometimes reaches the level of bad '70s disaster flicks like METEOR and others. The best I can say about this film is that it's rarely boring (only at the beginning, which takes half an hour to start). You may think that things couldn't get worse after this, but JAWS: THE REVENGE followed four years later...