History Film / Jaws2

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: The shark itself, after being tricked into biting an undersea power cable, is violently and brutally electrocuted to death, including catching on fire from the ''inside out'', leaving just a charred body that sinks beneath the waves]].

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Although the film starts off with a dead, beached orca (killer whale), in real life, killer whales have been known to kill great white sharks and eat their livers.

Four years after the events of the first film, another shark swims to the Amity Island waters to munch on its inhabitants. Sheriff Brody desperately seeks to find a way to stop it, especially when it makes the annual regatta which his sons are attending as its primary target.

* InfantImmortality: Averted, when regarding the teens. Well, except [[spoiler: Eddie, Tina's boyfriend, and the girl who was eaten while [[BigBrotherInstinct saving Sean.]]]]

* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler:Brody kills the shark by duping it into biting an electrical cable. The shark is electrocuted, and bursts into flames.]]

* AngerBornOfWorry: When Michael's friends are trying to tether Sean's capsized boat to theirs, the thing that snaps Sean out of his HeroicBSOD is one of the friends viciously threatening to beat him if he doesn't snap out of it. As soon as Sean is with them, however, said friend immediately starts to comfort him and reassure him they'll be okay, so it seems this trope was in effect.

* {{Callback}}: A subtle one -- the barrels that Brody and Hooper swam back into shore on in the first movie? One of them is now a planter outside of the Brody home.
** The divers at the beginning find the wreckage of the Orca.

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Any time the movie shifts focus from Chief Brody and Amity's officials to the kids, this kicks in. Interestingly, this film came out four months before trope-codifer [[{{Film/Halloween1978}} Halloween]] (and years before all the [[FollowTheLeader other copycats]]), but has [[UnbuiltTrope a lot of the same components]].

* CoversAlwaysLie: The young woman featured on the VHS cover looks nothing like (and is dressed differently from) the unfortunate water-skier killed in the movie.

* SuitWithVestedInterests: The Mayor, again.

* SuitWithVestedInterests: It becomes a bit ridiculous at this point when the mayor and the city council ''still'' refuse to believe Brody's claim that another shark is on the loose and fire him for his refusal to hush it up after the events of the previous film. Possibly they were hoping that the "lightning never strikes twice" principle would hold true.

* DeletedScene: As with any film, some scenes didn't make the final cut, but two in particular stand out:
** At the city council meeting where they councilors vote on whether to fire Brody, Vaughn is the only one who votes against firing him, showing that, shortsighted as he can be, he still believes Brody is a good chief.
** The ultimate fate of the helicopter pilot, attacked by the shark in his sinking craft.

* Fanservice: 38 minutes through the film, Chief Brody has his entire uniform unbuttoned, showing chest. When he gets back to the house, he only buttoned it up partially, still exposing his chest in a deep V. Makes this even more eye candy since in the original film he typically wore a shirt underneath his uniform but in this sequel, he flies solo, his Chief Badge probably digging into his skin. Yum.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: It is foreshadowed on two separate occasions how the shark is killed in the end. [[spoiler:The marine biologist investigating the orca carcass killed by the shark mentions how sharks are attracted to rhythmic underwater sounds. When Brody's deputy and another assistant are searching for bodies on the sea floor, they find an electrical cable, and quickly drop it back to the bottom. At the end, Brody finds another electrical cable, and attracts the shark by bashing the cable with a bat, causing the sounds. The shark bites the cable, and gets electrocuted.]]

* DrowningYourSorrows: Brody's slurred speech, and the pile of beer cans found outside his truck the next morning imply that the night he was fired, he had more than a few to "celebrate" his termination.

* MonsterIsAMommy: In the novelization (based on an early script), the shark is a female who was impregnated by the shark from the first novel/film which is terrorizing Amity due to her ravenous hunger and later territoriality to protect her almost-to-term young, and during the climax she gives birth to a single baby before she gets electrocuted. The baby later grows up to be the shark from ''[[Film/JawsTheRevenge]]''.

* RecycledScript: The plot is largely a retread of the first film's, with the addition of a group of teenagers.