I thought this sequel was a bit better than the first film. A bit more action, lots more chomping and the girls were not as stupid. I mean, the first film, they purposely go in a rusty cage amid great white sharks. Here, they go to what is almost a lake with not a shark in sight, so they kind of got caught off guard more. Don't get me wrong, they were still stupid, just not as much so. With the budget they had, they did a fairly decent job too and the film actually turned a decent profit so I would not be surprised if they made a third, though not sure what they could do next.
The story in this one has two teens that are sisters by marriage and one of the girls seems to be ostracized at school. The dad wants the two to get along better, so he arranges for them to ride a glass bottom boat to see great whites, but two other girls show up and they say there are going to take them to a place no one knows about. Heard that one before, and when it is uttered in a film it usually means a fight for your life. Well, the place turns out to be a nice place and if the girls had stuck to just swimming we would not have a movie. No, the girls do not stick to swimming and go diving into the underwater city where they soon find out that there are blind highly aggressive great whites in the water.
The film is not without its flaws, first and foremost the sharks. If a shark has been in the city for a long time, they not only would be blind, but also have adapted so they do not need all that much food to survive so they would not go after someone to the point of causing the city to collapse. Then there is the collapsing, the place they are in has been around a long time, but when one of the girls bumps into something it causes things to come tumbling down! Seriously? That is as silly as when Chevy Chase knocked over Stonehenge with a car, more silly since it was a girl with very little weight.
So the film had its moments of tension and its moments of absurdity, made for a nice distracting viewing. It could have used a bit more believable plot or less believable such as mutant sharks or something. The film also showcases something seen in previous shark films, and that is the motivational speech. Do not make one in a shark movie, ever! Also, when swimming towards a boat, make sure it isn't a chum boat. Seriously, so many shark attacks in the last few minutes I was waiting for a Meglodon to show up and attack the boat at the end!
The story in this one has two teens that are sisters by marriage and one of the girls seems to be ostracized at school. The dad wants the two to get along better, so he arranges for them to ride a glass bottom boat to see great whites, but two other girls show up and they say there are going to take them to a place no one knows about. Heard that one before, and when it is uttered in a film it usually means a fight for your life. Well, the place turns out to be a nice place and if the girls had stuck to just swimming we would not have a movie. No, the girls do not stick to swimming and go diving into the underwater city where they soon find out that there are blind highly aggressive great whites in the water.
The film is not without its flaws, first and foremost the sharks. If a shark has been in the city for a long time, they not only would be blind, but also have adapted so they do not need all that much food to survive so they would not go after someone to the point of causing the city to collapse. Then there is the collapsing, the place they are in has been around a long time, but when one of the girls bumps into something it causes things to come tumbling down! Seriously? That is as silly as when Chevy Chase knocked over Stonehenge with a car, more silly since it was a girl with very little weight.
So the film had its moments of tension and its moments of absurdity, made for a nice distracting viewing. It could have used a bit more believable plot or less believable such as mutant sharks or something. The film also showcases something seen in previous shark films, and that is the motivational speech. Do not make one in a shark movie, ever! Also, when swimming towards a boat, make sure it isn't a chum boat. Seriously, so many shark attacks in the last few minutes I was waiting for a Meglodon to show up and attack the boat at the end!