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Roy Scheider's great as always, but the premise of the same town being "sharked" is outrageously silly.
It was a catch-22---if they changed the town/cast, it would've been an entirely non-jarring premise, while on the flipside was the bankability of getting the ol' gang back together in Amity. They went with the easier idea plain and simple.
It paid off for them---but, frankly, I can't watch it without thinking "Really?" every other minute due to the same town being the landscape for the film.
Less violence = Bigger audience = More money
It was a catch-22---if they changed the town/cast, it would've been an entirely non-jarring premise, while on the flipside was the bankability of getting the ol' gang back together in Amity. They went with the easier idea plain and simple.
It paid off for them---but, frankly, I can't watch it without thinking "Really?" every other minute due to the same town being the landscape for the film.
Less violence = Bigger audience = More money
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