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Films: A Just when you thought it was sate to go back to the movies, “Jaws 2” erupts like a broken pimple Now at Cinema 1 & 2, this sequel to the suspense-thriller “Jaws” leaves a taste in your ‘mouth something like seaweed, but with a lot less. flavor. The fictitious resort town, of Amity Island is once again main course for a monstrous great: white shark. Roy Scheider returns as Brody, the police chief who cannot convince his politician bosses of the imminent danger — curious, since the original attacks must have made headlines from Amity to Antarctica, But no matter: We need to know who the villains are and since the shark provides the laughs, it can’t be him. Industry word has it a marketing survey was run before Universal gave the go-ahead for “Jaws 2.” Judging from the main cast, they must figure their audiences to consist of sex- starved teenagers who believe in Pepsi commercials. Not only do we get the young beauty queen and her beau, the chief's rebellious son, the skinny kid with glasses and the fat ‘ERTS! ‘ecord Mart: 1a (sold out) ieatre Theatre olidge: Civic Arena Rainbow/Eddie Money: Stanley eatre /Little Anthony: Stanley Theatre eatre nley Theatre in Marshall Records n Taylor 7 about one-half straight soloing. couple of di one with the heart of gold, but they’re all too young to die = that’s perfect! The script by veteran screenwriter Me Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler, . ord based’on Peter Benchley ce, don) ma Lit seems a healthy retease a personality out from a f thousands and watch what t happen to us under extra: ifcumstances. “The Pose- al is, $0 forced andicontrive # al joyebl at Brody's house sound Vwi ai ir credit. laws 2” the evocative cereal commercials. Director py Szwarc is no help either, Where in “Jaws,” Steven Spiek berg graphed the suspense is if with an BKG, Scware'seffortis more like |) @ pap test. He generates about as much suspense as waiting for your | pizza. ave been completely - | Jaugh when you're hse to be horrified. And if the producers ac intend for you to t blowing up with id, that’s really is assured in the jon’t take things #s good. If they ble for this classic Whenever the plot runs thin, | Seware reverts to a sharks-eye view. Watching legs under water gets as tedious after awhile as the uneon- vincing close-ups of the shark. Then again, I've never seen a shark up close, so maybe I shouldn't gri Pve never seen munchkins o buming of Atlanta. up close though. y One might judge from my tone that I may be anti-disaster movie. Not so. In this decade of fashionable ,” now. at the theaters, an ICBM and a group of ited against vast bees. The insects, Bithe th ovigen

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