A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
- Awards
- 5 nominations
John Edson
- Bob Woodbury
- (as John Edson Jr.)
Rich Valliere
- Leonard Glass
- (as Archie Valliere)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAccording to the book "Roy Scheider: a film biography" (2002) by Diane C. Kachmar, Scheider, who starred in the first two Jaws movies, once said, "Mephistopheles couldn't talk me into doing (it). They knew better than to even ask." Reportedly, Scheider agreed to make Blue Thunder (1983) in order to ensure that he was definitely and contractually unavailable for this film. Scheider had made Jaws 2 (1978) reluctantly due to a contract issue with Universal Pictures, whereby he owed the studio two films after withdrawing from The Deer Hunter (1978). To get out of this situation, he opted to do Jaws 2 (1978), a movie on which he didn't want to work, in exchange for the studio releasing him from his contract.
- GoofsWhen the shark in the public observation pool gets sick, Kathryn jumps in and starts stroking the shark's skin back and forth. That should've hurt her hand; shark skin is smooth from nose to tail, but rough from tail to nose. Carpenters once used shark skin as an abrasive.
- Quotes
Kathryn Morgan: Overman was killed inside the park. The baby was caught inside the park. Its mother is inside the park.
- Crazy creditsIn the original 3D version, the Universal Pictures Logo is in 3D. Plus the title "Jaws 3D" comes "toward" the viewer, clamping together as if it was like a shark's mouth.
- Alternate versionsThe UK cinema version was cut by 7 secs by the BBFC to edit closeup scenes of Overman's mutilated body and to remove a shot of a sea worm emerging from his mouth. The cuts were restored in the video version and the certificate upgraded to a '15' ('12' for the DVD release).
- ConnectionsEdited into Cruel Jaws (1995)
Featured review
You can't tame a Great white.
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
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
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Jaws 3
- Filming locations
- Universal Owned Property, Orlando, Florida, USA(now Universal Studios Florida)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $20,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $45,517,055
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $13,422,500
- Jul 24, 1983
- Gross worldwide
- $87,987,055
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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