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It’s time to talk about a movie that I’ve been meaning to talk about for quite a while. It’s of course ‘Jaws 19’, the nineteenth instalment in the ‘Jaws’ film series. I’m afraid I’m not really into ‘Jaws’ as a film series. I haven’t even seen the first five movies yet. I have seen the sixth and seventh films though.

What did I think of ‘Jaws 19’? Well, to be honest, not a lot. I mean, the story isn’t very good, the characters are very lacklustre and the specials effects are rubbish. If this is how Max Spielberg, Steven Spielberg’s son, does things in terms of directing movies, then I feel very sorry for Hollywood.

This is meant to be a holofilm. By that, I mean the film actually has holograms in it. But to be bluntly honest with you, the holographic effects are in poor taste in this movie. Is this how far technology has come these days? I know this film was released in October 2015, but this is very embarrassing.

I was very disappointed that one of the ‘fake’ sharks didn’t eat up Marty McFly from ‘Back to the Future, Part II’ in the movie, like I hoped would happen. Michael J. Fox doesn’t even appear in ‘Jaws 19’. That’s so disappointing! Surely the filmmakers could have at least got him to do a cameo in this film.

Remember what the film’s trailer and the film’s poster said about it getting ‘really, really personal’ for Jaws? Well, guess what! I didn’t see one love scene between Jaws and any other shark that would fancy him. All that the main shark in this film seemed to do was go for the human characters.

And he didn’t have love scenes with the humans. Oh no! Jaws actually attacked the humans, biting their legs off, would you believe? That’s pretty horrible! I don’t want to see Jaws doing that! Why would he bite people’s legs off like that? And eat them? What is this supposed to be? A horror film?

I walked into the cinema expecting to see a romantic comedy! Not a horrid mess! Christmas is ruined! And the human characters in the film? Don’t bother caring about them! They’re so boring, I can’t recall what their names were in the film and I cannot recall the actors who played them either.

I’m sure I can look up the actors’ names on IMDb, but I just can’t be bothered at the moment. I’m so tired after watching this trainwreck of a movie. I hope it won’t get a proper DVD release. It might get shown on some streaming sites such as Disney+, Netflix and Britbox, but I won’t be seeing the film again.

I was annoyed with the sound quality being off at times in the film and one of the film shots was even flipped upside-down for some reason. I couldn’t hear what the actors playing their characters said half of the time. It’s like when that little black-and-white movie in ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ played up.

This is so frustrating for me. I’m sure it frustrated a lot of movie-goers who watched this film in 2015. I can imagine the outcry that ‘Jaws’ fans had from watching this film and it not being very good. You can tell this movie has not improved with age. It was awful in 2015 and it’s just as awful now in 2023.

If this is what Disney considers to be a great work of art, then I’m not impressed. If you want a better Disney movie than this, then check out ‘Ratatouille’, one of my favourite Disney/Pixar films. It’s one of Sarah Sutton’s (Nyssa in ‘Doctor Who’) favourites films too. I’m sure she’ll agree that ‘Ratatouille’ is better than ‘Jaws 19’.

Anyway, as you can tell, ‘Jaws 19’ is a stupid film. One of these days, I’m going to blow it to smithereens. I hope they’ll be better movies to check out later this year. As I said, I’m not into the ‘Jaws’ films, and ‘Jaws 19’ won’t persuade me to check out the rest of the ‘Jaws’ films anytime soon.

Thanks for reading and Happy April Fools! 🙂

Bye for now!

Tim 🙂