Is Jaws3D the worst animal movie ever made?

DavidBrown

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In January 2019 all of the Jaws movies went up on Netflix.

I slogged my way through Jaws3D. It was released in 3D in 1983 during a short-lived revival of the gimmick.

The basic plot of the movie is that a 35-foot-long mother great white shark starts ripping apart Sea World Orlando because her baby was put on exhibit and died. Doing some basic fact-checking on shark parental care was obviously not on the movie makers' minds.

The 3D effects in the 2D film now make this movie look and feel like an Ed Wood movie. The highlight effect is supposed to be the shark ramming the Sea World control room window to eat everybody inside the room, but it looks like a toy shark floating towards the window.

I think that this could be the worst animal movie ever made. It may share the site with the other Jaws sequels which feature a high-speed chase of a speed boat by a shark at about 100 mph (Jaws 2) and a shark roaring like a lion (Jaws 4: The Revenge).

What candidates do other people have for the worst animal movie ever made?
 
DavidBrown said:
The 3D effects in the 2D film now make this movie look and feel like an Ed Wood movie. The highlight effect is supposed to be the shark ramming the Sea World control room window to eat everybody inside the room, but it looks like a toy shark floating towards the window.
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That effect was mind-bogglingly bad! The bit right at the very end where the jaws of the exploded shark loom into the camera (for the primitive 3D effects of the time) was also just awful. Even at the time the effects were terrible. There was another 3D movie sometime back around then about a murderous gorilla but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called and googling got me nowhere.

There was a 1977 movie called Orca which was a Jaws rip-off (but with a Killer Whale instead of a Great White Shark) which was pretty bad. Not as bad as Jaws 3D but definitely worth watching for bad-value. Bo Derek gets bitten in half.

Anaconda: hunt for the blood orchid from 2004 is terrible too.
 
Jaws3D can't be as bad as some of the Sci-Fi Channels output. I've seen films where a shark has three heads, and another where the sharks can swim from the sea and under the sand, I think it was called Sand Sharks surprisingly enough. Both films are ridiculous, and not even in a campy way. They make the Sharknado series look like Oscar worthy films in comparison! :p
 
An Elephant's Journey is really bad, although I don't think it quite claims the title. I would also suggest the Wild Kratts' Christmas Movie or whatever the heck it's called. I hated Zookeeper as well.

However, I think without a doubt the worst animal movie of all time is Blackfish.
 
I saw a version of 'The Jungle Book' years ago: The Jungle Book (1994 film) - Wikipedia.

John Cleese was taking some students through a forest.
"What monkeys are these?"
"They're macaque monkeys."
"Good. And what monkeys are these?"
"They're langur monkeys."
"Very good."

The second group of 'monkeys' were ring-tailed lemurs in a sandy environment.
 
DavidBrown said:
In January 2019 all of the Jaws movies went up on Netflix.

I slogged my way through Jaws3D. It was released in 3D in 1983 during a short-lived revival of the gimmick.

The basic plot of the movie is that a 35-foot-long mother great white shark starts ripping apart Sea World Orlando because her baby was put on exhibit and died. Doing some basic fact-checking on shark parental care was obviously not on the movie makers' minds.

The 3D effects in the 2D film now make this movie look and feel like an Ed Wood movie. The highlight effect is supposed to be the shark ramming the Sea World control room window to eat everybody inside the room, but it looks like a toy shark floating towards the window.

I think that this could be the worst animal movie ever made. It may share the site with the other Jaws sequels which feature a high-speed chase of a speed boat by a shark at about 100 mph (Jaws 2) and a shark roaring like a lion (Jaws 4: The Revenge).

What candidates do other people have for the worst animal movie ever made?
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What about Jaws 19? ;):p
 
Brum said:
Jaws3D can't be as bad as some of the Sci-Fi Channels output. I've seen films where a shark has three heads, and another where the sharks can swim from the sea and under the sand, I think it was called Sand Sharks surprisingly enough. Both films are ridiculous, and not even in a campy way. They make the Sharknado series look like Oscar worthy films in comparison! :p
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Those Sci-Fi movies are made for pocket change. Jaws 3D was a major studio movie with a multi-million dollar budget released at the same time as Return of the Jedi.
 
DavidBrown said:
Those Sci-Fi movies are made for pocket change.
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I just want to point out that these were films shown on the Sci-Fi/Sy-Fi channel but weren't made by them. They were atually made by proper film companies... :eek:
 
Brum said:
I just want to point out that these were films shown on the Sci-Fi/Sy-Fi channel but weren't made by them. They were atually made by proper film companies... :eek:
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A very loose version of "proper"...I think their main film content provider was The Asylum, a low budget movie company famous for the Sharknado series and for no-budget knock offs of popular films for the home video (or now streaming) market.
 
Besides the now defunct website tierhorror.de that used to give an overview about all the animal horror movies of varying quality, a German TV format called "SchleFaZ" (= Worst Movies of all Times) frequently sports atrocious animal horror movies (including radioactive sharks and pervert dinosaurs) that will give Jaws 3D a run for its money, major studio release or not. As aspirants for recent dumb animal horror movies released by major studios, I'd nominate JW2 and Rampage.
 
DavidBrown said:
A very loose version of "proper"...I think their main film content provider was The Asylum, a low budget movie company famous for the Sharknado series and for no-budget knock offs of popular films for the home video (or now streaming) market.
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I've just Googled Sand Sharks and it wasn't done by The Asylum, but it was done by a production company that has made a lot of terrible sounding movies!

Sand Sharks - Wikipedia
 
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