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June 26, 2025

Jaws is a masterpiece, but Jaws 2 deserves a legacy, too

- MAYA SALAM

As a child, I collected so many shark jaws that my mum disappeared them all one day while I was at school because my room allegedly smelled "fishy".

I suspect it was my general fixation on the beasts that didn’t pass the sniff test.

When I first saw Jaws at age eight — more than a decade after its 1975 release — it exploded my already shark-obsessed young mind. I should have been more scared, but instead I was captivated. When I saw Jaws 2, not long after, it spawned another great love of mine: monster movies, with all of their suspense, horror, surrealism and spectacle.

The original, which was directed by Steven Spielberg, is of course a monster movie, too — probably the best monster movie ever made — but it was also a masterpiece that changed cinema. But Jaws 2, released in 1978, was not trying to be anything but a monster movie. On that score, it's a horrifying success and a feat in its own right — a sequel that delivers more of everything I want (which explains why I rewatch it every summer): more shark, more shark attacks, more screaming teens.

The film takes us back to Amity Island four years after the events of the first movie, with some of the same cast members returning. Roy Scheider is Martin Brody, the beleaguered police chief who once again is fighting to protect the seaside town from another killer great white. Scheider plays him with full-tilt, man-on-a-mission madness. Lorraine Gary is Martin’s wife, Ellen, and is more present in the sequel, offering crucial balance to her frenetic, spiralling husband. And Murray Hamilton is Mayor Larry Vaughn. How the mayor kept his job perhaps requires more suspension of disbelief than the fact that another shark is terrorising the same community.

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