Sometimes One Forgets How Good A Film Is.

Rating: 9/10 (23 July 2000)

It's been a while since I've watched the original "Jaws", and then I decided to it up on DVD.
It just goes to show how such a simple premise can make a great film.
Genuinely scary for its time (and still remarkably effective today), "Jaws" has a 26-foot great white shark terrorize a small resort community. Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw all make good as the group set on destroying the dreaded killer fish, and the supporting roles do a nice job of fleshing out the citizens of Amity.
The end result are some tense and mildly gory frights, another classic John Williams score, and a thoroughly entertaining movie. The 25th anniversary re-release is worth getting, especially if you don't own the movie already. The film has been nicely restored, with an informative "making of" documentary, theatrical trailers, deleted scenes (see Quint terrorize oboe playing children!) and a few extras give this package some real (forgive the pun) meat.
A fun classic film, although its sequels are absolutely ridiculous. (Come on, when do sharks really take things "personal"?)