Jaws: The Revenge - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[chad]

The scene with Mike Brody and his daughter Thea sitting at the table imitating him mirrors the scene in Jaws (1975) where Sean imitated his father Martin while sitting at the dinner table.

[sandra]

Mostly set in the Bahamas, the bulk of the movie was filmed on the North Shore of Oahu, HI, near Turtle Bay, and on the northeast side of the island.

[leo]

Fourth and final "Jaws" movie.

[ray]

Hoagies plane is a Cessna 310.

[edgar]

Set mostly in the Bahamas, the film's storyline includes its Junkanoo Festival, previously known to movie-goers from also featuring in the earlier James Bond movie Thunderball (1965). The annual parade is also featured in After the Sunset (2004).

[camila]

When Polly tells Sean Brody about the log stuck on a buoy, he asks, "Where's Lenny?". He is possibly referring to the character Deputy Lenny Hendericks (Jeffrey Kramer) from Jaws (1975) and Jaws 2 (1978).

[darrell]

This is one of Michael Caine's notorious "paycheck movies", along with The Swarm (1978), Ashanti (1979), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979), The Island (1980), The Hand (1981) and Blame It on Rio (1984). When Caine was asked about this movie in an interview, he answered, "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."

[ronnie]

According to "Rating the Movies", "After a miserable theatrical showing in the U.S., the film was given a new ending for its European release." The ending is the version where when the shark is stabbed, the shark is blown to pieces with three shots from Jaws (1975). This ending also has Jake floating around after the shark's destruction. When this movie was released on video cassette in North America, the European ending was used. When AMC aired this movie in the early 2000s, they showed the American ending where the shark is stabbed, bleeds profusely, then sinks. As of 2014, however, AMC shows the European ending, rather than the American one. This often leads to confusion for viewers on the original ending, when watching a re-run on television.

[kenneth]

Bruce the Rubber Shark was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor in this movie, thus making him the first animal nominated for one since Jaws 3-D's "shrieking dolphins," Cindy and Sandy.

[gabriel]

Michael Caine is the second actor to follow up an Academy Award-winning performance with a Razzie Award-nominated performance in a Jaws (1975) sequel. The first was Louis Gossett Jr., who won an Oscar for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), and then was nominated for a Razzie for Jaws 3-D (1983).

[ken]

Roy Scheider was offered a cameo, but declined, stating, "Satan himself could not get me to do 'Jaws' part 4". Reportedly, if Scheider had accepted the bit part, the shark would've killed his character at the start of the movie. The end result has Scheider in this movie through archive footage from Jaws (1975) that was inserted during some scenes.

[brent]

According to director Joseph Sargent the film had gone through so many story pitches that once they were settled on the preposterous idea of the shark actually seeking revenge on the Brody family they were just so burned-out creatively that being given the go-ahead from Universal made everyone happy and excited. Everyone was aware of how ridiculous the concept was, but thought there was a fair chance of making it work for the screen.

[kenzi]

Final theatrical movie directed by Joseph Sargent. He went on to direct many successful television projects and movies.

[kenzi]

Mario Van Peebles wrote his own part.