Just when you thought it was safe to test genetically enhanced sharks in the water.
"You know the idea that Great Whites are these malicious killing machines, roving the shorelines looking for some swimmer to chomp is just pure fiction... You know, anytime there is a human attack, it's just a case of mistaken identity."
—Trailer for Deep Blue Sea 2
Deep Blue Sea 2 is a 2018 American shark horror film and a sequel to the 1999 film Deep Blue Sea. It is directed by Darin Scott, written by Hans Rodionoff, Jessica Scott, and Erik Patterson, and stars Danielle Savre, Michael Beach, and Rob Mayes.
A second sequel, Deep Blue Sea 3 was released in 2020.
Deep Blue Sea 2 provides examples of:
- All for Nothing: David had used Leslie's research behind her back to support Durant's research because he wants to use the money to support their future. Unfortunately, this led to a series of events that ended with both of them dead and the research facility is ultimately destroyed to kill the sharks.
- Ambiguous Situation: As Durant is engaged in his Motive Rant to his lawyer, who is expressly trying to tell Durant why the whole shark intelligence boosting experiment is a bad idea, Bella can be seen right outside Durant's under-water window watching very intently, even visibly reacting when Durant proclaims she's expendable. Then she puts killing Durant as a top priority at the climax. Does that mean she understood what he was saying?
- Asshole Victim: The shark-fin fishermen and Durant.
- Big Bad: Bella, the leader of the sharks.
- Bittersweet Ending: Only three of the cast manage to survive the movie (Misty, Trent, Aaron), but Bella and some of her pups managed to survive the explosion and will continue to roam free in the great blue sea up into the third movie.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Carl Durant.
- Devoured by the Horde: Daniel, Leslie, Burns, and Hooper meet this fate at the hands of the shark pups.
- Dwindling Party: Especially when the party is split up in the facility, though by then Craig and Mike were already killed by the sharks.
- Eye Awaken: Josh has his arm up one of the sharks' throats when he looks in her eye and sees the nictitating membrane move. He just barely manages to take his arm out before she chomps.
- Gone Horribly Right: They wanted to make a drug that could alter the brain to give it a permanent boost to intelligence and tested said drug on bull sharks. Unfortunately for them, it worked very well.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Nobody expected Bella to be pregnant until it's too late. This is because her genetic alterations hid any signs of pregnancy, though being a shark expert Misty immediately sees a knocked up shark.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Daniel has his body from the waist down devoured by the shark pups. And Durant gets bitten in half by Bella
- The Heavy: Bella's pups prove to be a much greater threat than the adult sharks due to their small size enabling them to attack in the narrow corridors of the sunken base. They also got the highest kill count in the film.
- It Can Think: Turns out, much like the original, increasing the intelligence of sharks turns out to not be the greatest idea in the world.
- Monster Is a Mommy: Bella, the leader of the sharks, turns out to be pregnant. And her pups prove to be just as dangerous.
- More Deadly Than the Male: Bella is the leader of the bull shark group and has the highest intelligence of all of them. Truth in Television in that female bull sharks, although not smarter, certainly grow bigger than the males.
- Off with His Head!: Mike
- Only Sane Man: Misty Calhoun is a shark conservationist who is hired by the pharmaceutical company doing the research, and she vehemently stands against the research they're doing when she learns about it.
- Trent manages to keep calm when shit hits the fan and notably many others refer to him when he has a plan in mind when Misty isn't around.
- Arguably Durant inverts this, and it's noticeable that he grows increasingly erratic and insane as the movie goes on.
Carl Durant: "Let me show you... we can all be gods."Misty Calhoun: "Or monsters." - Palate Propping: The researchers rely on an alarmingly flimsy-looking rectangular prop to hold Bella's jaw open while one of them reaches into her mouth to swab the inside of her throat. Why they didn't use a much longer throat-swab to further ameliorate the risk can only be chalked up to Too Dumb to Live.
- Professor Guinea Pig: Carl Durant turns out to have been testing his new drugs on himself.
- Redeeming Replacement: Compared to the original, where the heroine, Susan, was morally ambiguous and hated by the test audience to the point that the ending was re-shot with her being killed; this film's heroine, Misty, is a lot more level-headed and survives the story with no complains from the audience.
- Scale of Scientific Sins: About a 3. The movie trailer indicates that the film is the result of what happens when you take an apex predator and give it a drug that makes it smarter.
- Villain Ball: The shark-fin fishermen apparently only take one fin off each shark they catch, because it's ever so much more important for them to make themselves look like Asshole Victims than to actually, y'know, maximize their profits.
