Did anybody actually see this in a theater?

I giess it must have been something of a flop as it killed the franchise (put it out of its misery night be a more appropriate phrase). I remember watching it on home video - it would have been about 1988 and I was about 16, old enough to recognise what a pile of sh** the thing was.

A friend and I in that period were always looking out for hilariously bad movies. He had seen this film in August of '87 and told me how bad it was, so the following day he went to it a second time to show it to me, and it gave us quite a few guffaws including the physical look of the shark. I remember some of the advance publicity talking about how the shark's skin this time would look closer to the coarse skin of actual Great Whites, but it looked more like the shark were made of concrete. Michael Caine was himself quite amusing to watch as he obviously had no conviction in what he was doing and it shows in the performance. In addition to having an ending in which Mario Van Peebles' character does NOT survive, it also contained a dream within a dream sequence that has now been cut down to only one dream. Whenever I see it, it can always get a few chuckles out of me.

I went to go see it around October of 87. I was 5 years old but remember the opening scene being pretty intense. My older brother, mother, and aunt all went to go see it. I just remember key points in the movie and then a few months later playing the NES game.

I think I did, I vaguely recall people loling at the scene where we first see the shark all angry looking swimming into view.. and maybe again at the end when we see Caine survived

I saw it in the theater and remember thinking the opening scenes were really great. *SPOILER ALERT* When Sean is attacked and first realizes his arm is gone is very powerful. The juxtaposition of that attack with the Christmas choir is very well done.

Unfortunately, from that point on the movie pretty quickly runs out of gas.

I was lucky enough to see this film's premiere at Cannes and let me tell you, I have never experienced anything so breathtaking in a cinema. The audience's tension was palpable throughout, and I feel like most of us sat motionless, too in awe to even dare speak. It only after the lights came up that I realized my popcorn and Milk Duds had gone untouched.

As true film aficionados no doubt already know, renowned director Ernst Lubitsch famously forced the projectionist to show the movie a second time immediately after the end of that Cannes showing, much to the chagrin of the theater owner who was supposed to show a different movie immediately after Jaws: The Revenge ended. We stood as one applauding until the theater owner bowed to his wishes and restarted the film. After watching the second time, Lubitsch remarked that he wished he'd made the film, for nothing in his oeuvre was on par.

Yes, I was probably 9. Even then, I knew the film was godawful. I didnt really notice the fake shark, but I thought the movie was insanely boring and was extremely frustrated by how little shark action there was in the movie. Every time it cut back to Brody and Michael Caine’s romance, I wanted to scream. At one point I went in the bathroom because I knew I wouldn’t miss anything, and I didn’t! The exploding shark was incredibly confusing because I thought it was the flashback of Chief Brody somehow shot the shark in the present day.