Watchable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 27, 2025

The thrills are still there, but the intelligence and humor and theatrical flair that made jaws so much fun are gone.

| Aug 14, 2024

In Jaws 2 the shark sits up and begs to have its unreality noticed. With its lifeless eyes and autopilot movements, it looks as if it would be more at home patrolling your bath-tub.

| Aug 14, 2024

While it's not worth standing too long in line for, it's [a] pleasant little thriller.

| Aug 7, 2024

An aquatic slasher film that takes the time to explore Sheriff Brody's PTSD from the first film, Jaws 2 had no need being this good. While most of the teens are indistinguishable, Marge's death is horrifying and their fear is real and palpable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2023

Jaws 2 (1978) is a superb slasher movie...

| Sep 10, 2021

A fairly decent sequel...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 27, 2021

By telling the same story again (and with a weighty two-hour running time), it merely reinforces the notion that Spielberg's vision was comprehensive and complete.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 30, 2020

Jaws 2 manages to entertain and scare. At the end of the day, isn't that what it's all about? [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 1, 2019

Doesn't have Spielberg's storytelling elegance or sense of pacing, but by pretty much any measure Jaws 2 is a solid adventure yarn

| Jun 3, 2019

Far from a classic, but a very worthy follow-up.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 28, 2018

There was reason to believe that "Jaws 2" would be a mess. It isn't. It's better than most sequels. It's formula-ridden but slick, and the special effects work as intended.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2018

I am also a fan of slasher movies, so I like that the film almost seems like a Jaws-ified response to the slasher boom, as the film's second half revolves around a group of trapped teens being menaced by the shark.

| Sep 28, 2018

Stalwart Scheider is in full control of this blasé follow-up that makes one wonder why mayor Murray Hamilton hasn't learnt any lessons from previous events.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2018

While it lacks the originality, wit and character interplay that gave "Jaws" an exceptionally appealing impact, "Jaws 2" is proficient enough to avoid bombing out.

| Oct 17, 2017

It never comes close to the classic status of its predecessor, but for drive-in horror thrills, this still has sufficient bite.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2017

Unnecessary sequel has less plot, more peril and violence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 27, 2016

The surprise in Jaws 2 is that, given the givens, it came out as well as it did. For me, in terms of sheer visceral zapping, it's better than the first time around (or under).

| Jun 16, 2016

Nowhere near as good as the first, and lacks the traces of true stupidity that make the latter two fun bad movies.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 11, 2012

Despite a notable but effective change in story emphasis, Jaws 2 is a worthy successor in horror, suspense and terror to its 1975 smash progenitor.

| Jul 6, 2010