Like you, I already own the original Jaws on blu-ray, and like you, I'll only go as high as Jaws 2. Jaws 3, which had a monster Great White loose in Sea World, except for its 3D and that it stars Dennis Quaid, I found it fairly forgettable. Jaws 4 (The Revenge) brought back Lorraine Gary as Chief Brody's wife Ellen (Chief Brody died of a heart attack, from fear, according to Ellen), which was good. It was nice to see her again and have some continuation to the Brody family story. Michael Caine is Ellen's new love interest, and two talented young actors star as the Brody kids, now grown up, Mike and Sean (Sean was the shark's first victim), but the story, about a Great White shark specifically targetting the Brody family as revenge for the deaths of its predecessors, was absolutely silly, and the shark looked like total foam rubber.
Universal's Airport movies, which they also just released together as a "Terminal Pack" on blu-ray, also experience varying degrees of quality in terms of story and visual FX. My personal favorite in that series is Airport '77, because I found the story, about a mid-air art heist gone wrong in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, the most intriguing and suspenseful, and because the visual FX with miniatures are the most convincing, hold up really well even to this day.
I like how the blu-rays use the ORIGINAL movie poster artwork.
For other excellent shark movies, Amazon user reviews say The Reef is very good.
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