Jaws 2 is the second installment of the Jaws franchise.
Summary
In the film and novelization, the original shark has supposedly been killed, and people are now heading to Amity Island once more. However, several people go missing, and a partially eaten Killer Whale is found on the shore.
As a result Chief Brody begins to believe that yet another shark is lurking off the shores of Amity.
The Second Amity Incident
During the years following the first 'Amity Incident', Martin Brody's eldest son, Michael, developed a keen interest in sailing hoping to inspire his father to return to the water.
In the summer of 1976, Brody began to feel another shark was responsible for a number of boating "accidents" in Amity, but as with the first Amity incident, once again his shark attack theory was dismissed by the re-elected mayor, Larry Vaughn and the town council.
Brody's refusal to ignore the problem finally leads them to dismiss him from the police force as acting chief. In an off the record interview with the NY times, Brody cites a cover-up due to mafia and real estate developer interests in turning Amity into a more commercial region. Brody had hoped the article would expose the long running underground corruption on Amity and lead to Vaughn's immediate impeachment. Unfortunately, the article was never printed, and the editor of the paper was replaced for unknown reasons.
Trouble on the water
Martin learns that Michael and his brother, Sean Brody, along with his girlfriend Marge, are amongst a small group of teenagers on an unauthorized sailing trip. They are later eventually trapped out at sea after being attacked by the very shark Brody had once again warned the mayor about. A rescue is ordered, and a helicopter search finds the teens frightened and huddled on their small sail boats tied together floating towards Cuba. A futile attempt by the chopper to tow the boats leads to the shark violently attacking the chopper and sinking it instantaneously, all hope is nearly lost.
Brody however, later eventually locates the marooned group near a power station built on a rocky outcropping in the center of the ocean which locals had nicknamed 'Cable Junction'. After a short battle with the shark Brody is able to subdue the shark by electrocuting it with a loose power cable. In appreciation of Brody's efforts he is subsequently re-instated as Amity Police Chief, but nevertheless, is described by close friends as being a shell of his former self due to the ongoing ordeal with both political red tape and the shark(s).
Motion picture adaption
The film, Jaws 2, produced by Universal Pictures in 1977, and released in 1978 portrays the real-life incidents that took place during the Second Amity Incident. To this day some visitors to the island are unable to draw the distinction between fact and fiction or whether the Island of Martha's Vineyard is in reality called Amity.
Fact and fiction
Following the 'Second Amity Incident', in or around 1978, the real Martin Brody which the character in the film was based on, was said to have last been seen at a lower Manhattan theater watching the film 'Jaws 2' in the back row during a midnight screening, and has not been seen or heard from since. It was purported that Brody had gone into hiding following threats thought to be from organized crime syndicates unhappy with the real estate deals gone sour due to dwindling tourism business.
The 'Second Amity Incident' continues to be the subject of discussion and controversy among occultists, conspiracy theorists, and historians. Many are unable to draw the distinction between the film Jaws 2, and the reality based 'Second Amity Incident'.
Film Reception
Jaws 2 did fairly well at the box office. It received mostly positive reviews, but the audience eventually panned it expecting a more substantial follow-up to the original film, Jaws. The film was criticized in part for exposing the shark in too many scenes, in contrast to the original film which had kept it more mysterious to the viewer and hence more subliminally frightening.