Jaws 2

When the kids are lifting the unconscious Mike Brody out the water as the shark comes out the water and runs along the side of the boat you see the main pneumatic piston in its mouth if you look carefully.

That and the mouth gets all bent out of shape when running alongside the boat.

The shark in _Jaws (1975)_ (qv) smashed through the left side of the Orca, but at the beginning of this film when the divers find the wreck of the Orca, the left side is untouched.

We also see a sign saying "Orca" under the pulpit of the boat, which was not there in the original film.

The only place which the word "Orca" appeared in, was at the back of the stern.

The sea alternates between choppy and calm between shots in most of the shark hunting sequences.

When the shark attacks the red boat, the mast appears to have sheared off or collapsed, but in subsequent shots it is still standing.

In the very beginning, as Brody travels to the party, an aerial view of the truck reveals the shadow of the camera perched on the railing of the bridge, along with several crew men.

When the police launch spots the sailboat that Tina and her boyfriend Ed were using, there is no apparent damage to the port side of the boat.

When the launch finally pulls alongside the sailboat, the expected damage is visible again.

During the water skiing sequence, the background shots alternate between a clear and cloudy sky.

The first kid who gets knocked into the water, Michael's friend, pulls himself into the boat and is soaking wet but seconds later he is dry.

Brody wears his badge on the right side of his chest, whereas all New York and Massachusetts law enforcement officers wear their badges over the left.

The morning after Brody is fired and he is in the kitchen looking at himself in the mirror, just as he turns around when his wife walks in a boom mic is clearly visible.

In one of the sequences where the shark attacks the kids, underwater shots of the shark (meant to be a great white) are actually stock footage of a black tip shark.

This is obvious, as you could imagine, from the black tip markings on the visible dorsal and pectoral fins.

It is a smaller and less aggressive shark than the great white.

When Brody is cyanide tipping his bullets, the amount of cyanide on the bullets changes between shots.

After Mike's friends pull him out of the water, unconscious, his head keeps moving further and further to the right.

At one point, he actually picks his head up, and sets it back down.

Reflected on Ellen's shades when she first notices her husband up in the shark tower.

After Mike gets knocked cold during the shark attack, he slides off the boat and into the water, but when the shark flips it over a moment later, not only is he back on board, but he is sitting upright as if he is awake.

When the shark attacks the patrol helicopter, one shot of the helicopter going under reveals the shark with his head facing away from it.

Presumably, he should be facing the left side of the helicopter if he drags it down by the pontoon.

In the shot where the camera is on the shark's back as it's heading toward Mike while his friends try to lift him up out of the water, a large crew boat is visible in the background behind one of the sailboats (upper right corner of the screen) As Mike Brody sits at the bar, the glass of coke before him disappears and reappears between shots.

When Brody is heading towards the teenagers near Cable Junction, we see his view from the direction he is approaching them from.

In the shot seen from Cable Junction, Brody approaches them from behind, which is not the direction he was coming from originally.

Before the group of recreational scuba divers are surprised by the shark, one of them encounters and tries to trap a spiny lobster.

The spiny lobster species is native to Florida and the Caribbean, not in northern areas such as Massachusetts or New York State where the movie takes place.

When Brody leaves his police car and walks down to the beach to look for evidence, he looks into the water then sits on sand to remove his shoes.

As he sits, you see that the seat of his pants are already soaked.

The scene was apparently shot over, and his pants were still wet.

When Tina and Eddie discover the dead whale on the beach, they are standing on a large sand dune which is right beside the whale.

When Chief Brody and Dr.

Elkins arrive on the scene, the sand dune is no longer there.

When Brody and Ellen are sitting at the kitchen table on the morning after Brody was fired, when Ellen stands up to talk to their house keeper, the shadow of a crewman holding a boom mic is visible on the wall on the right of screen, while the shadow of the boom mic can be seen above the doorway.

After Brody crashed the police boat into Cable Junction, in the behind shot, shadows of the camera and crewmen can be seen on the stern of the boat, below the word "Police".

In the overhead shot of Brody and Elkins walking towards the dead whale, there are only about ten or twelve people standing around it.

In all subsequent shots, there are around twenty there.

In the shot of the boat exploding, it is clearly not on fire before the explosion.

The original Deputy in "Jaws" is named Len Hendricks.

The same character is addressed in a scene with Mrs.

Brody in "Jaws 2" as Jeff, 3 times (the actual name of the actor).

In the credits he is now named Jeff Hendricks.

When the helicopter is trying to tow the boats a rope stretching sound effect is heard, yet the rope it not taut.

As Brody approaches the lighthouse while out on the police boat, he passes a buoy on the left of screen.

In the shot looking at Brody from behind the top of the lighthouse, the buoy has vanished.

When Ellen Brody is hugging an hysterical Tina on board Tina's boat, she holds her arms in an embrace, before putting her hands around Tina's head.

In the next shot she is seen again holding her arms in an embrace as if the second shot hadn't happened.

The shot after this shows Ellen again holding Tina's head.

When the shark first attacked the kids, Jackie and Sean fell into the water but in the next scene later on they look liked they never did.

However, we do not know how much time passed between these two scenes and it could well be that they dried off in the hot sun.

When Brody sets out in the police boat to find the boys with his wife and the deputy, he has a green MA1 type bomber jacket on (which he left the house wearing).

When they find the girl hiding in the drifting sailboat, he takes this jacket off and wraps it around the girl and hands her over to his wife.

His wife, the girl and the deputy then wait for a nearby boat to take them back to land while Brody continues on by himself in the police boat looking for the other kids.

He does not take his jacket with him and is seen only in his T-shirt and shorts.

However, at the end of the film, Brody is wearing a green jacket again.

However, this is an army type jacket that is a completely different style to the MA1 jacket, and has front breast pockets and epaulets (straps) on the shoulders which the MA1 jacket did not have.

It is possible that this jacket was already on the police boat beforehand and Brody simply found it and put it on as the weather was changing.

During the ceremony at the beginning, while Len is asking Ellen to check the bar, Brody looks at the camera for half a second while his eyes scan the room.

However, this is not a character error as it simply shows Brody was scanning the entire room.

The opening shot of the kids group in the bar is mirrored.

The chalk board writing is backwards, the Wurlitzer label on the jukebox is backwards, Andy's MIT shirt reads TIM.

The whole first shot is mirrored up until the first cut with Michael at the bar.

This is because the wall of the bar is made up of mirrors which is made clear when Lucy and Patrick (the couple drinking while linking arms) are seen together as you can see them and their reflections.

When Brody fires six shots at what turns out to be bluefish during the crowded beach scene, he unloaded the spent casings from his revolver as if he were going to reload.

He doesn't reload, but he stoops down and picks up 9 casings off the sand.

However, upon closer examination, you can see unspent bullets on the sand with the empty casings (Sean picks at least one up).

It is likely that while Brody was struggling to reload with fresh bullets he had in his pocket, he dropped them onto the sand, at which time he was told that he was only firing at a school of bluefish.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...(did anyone really think it was?

A great movie! Tense and brutal.

Water skiers, divers, parascenders, sailors and swimmers: the coast of Amity Island is like an all you can eat buffet to a Great White Shark. Only three years after destroying Bruce, the man-eater who came to sample the island's local delicacies in Spielberg's summer blockbuster of '75, Police Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) finds himself facing another toothy terror with an equally voracious appetite.

The biggest problem with Jaws 2 is it ain't no Jaws, and it feels like writer Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler wrote the film with the original's screenplay sitting right next to it. The film has some seriously suspenseful sequences, a handful of decent location shots, but doesn't have that "come from behind" vibe its predecessor had the benefit of.

For me, Jaws 2 was almost of same level as Jaws. The only problem this part had, was pacing.

There are some good scenes in Jaws2 (developing a photo) but it never even comes close to the perfect movie that is called Jaws. Yes, it still has Roy Scheider in it but it just falls flat compared to the original.

No going to beat the 1st one but it's very very well done and captures the magic of the late 70s perfectly. Great camera work and direction.

Three year later in 1978 the legend of Jaws continues in this sequel, although, not as good as the original is still has it good points. The sequel focuses on Martin Brody's children – as we see in the first one Mike Brody likes to go out on his little boat, but in this one he goes sailing with a few of his friends, and before he knows it the shark is after them, and the dramatic score kicks in.