Desecration of the shark

The Last Jaws (1981)

What better way to make some easy money with movies than to ride with the fame of one of the biggest horror hits ever made. At least that's most certainly what the producers of this movie were thinking. Spielberg's Jaws (1975) was such a huge hit with such a simple idea that spawned quite a few sequels of it's own. But this movie is not one of the original sequels, this is exploitation at it's finest, or worst, depending on how you see it. This basicly takes the story of the first two original Jaws, combines them and takes out all the nonsense drama in between. Now in an exploitation movie that's usually a good thing, you get more of what you loved about the original, but in this one it's not really. There's not really any blood and guts, not that much action and most surprisingly to the likes of it, no tits. So the entertainment values are quite low without any drama in it either. But it is somewhat goofy in how it's made so there's a few unintentional laughs in there, mostly involving bad acting, bad effects and a ridiculously predictable plot. So it's not a total failure on the campy department, but still didn't offer enough to keep me entertained. As a curiosity this is a nice movie, pretty much a perfect example of Italian exploitation on the success of Hollywood movies and from what I've read it did make some money also, so it surely worked despite a few lawsuits from the creators of the original.
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