Is the shark in Jaws 2 bigger?

Jaws The Revenge: 'Vengeance' shark length 28 ft / 8.5 m
For the first time in the Jaws franchise, the shark in a sequel is smaller than its predecessor. Coming in at 28ft (8.5m), 'Vengeance' is 7ft shorter than 'Brucetta', star of Jaws 3-D
Jaws 3-D
Jaws 3-D (stylized on-screen as Jaws III) is a 1983 American thriller film directed by Joe Alves and starring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Lea Thompson and Louis Gossett, Jr. It is the second sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws and the third installment in the Jaws franchise.
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making her the third largest 'Jaws' shark.
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Is the shark in Jaws 2 the same shark?

It's left ambiguous if this shark is simply a coincidence or if it has ties with Bruce from the original. In the novelization of the film, it is suggested that the shark in Jaws 2 is the mate of Bruce. While sharks do not have mates in the real world, they are not ruthless killing machines either.
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Did they use a real shark in Jaws 2?

5 Real Footage Of Sharks Was Used For The Film

As with the original film, mechanical sharks were used for many of the movie's nail-biting scenes. However, some movement shots could not be convincingly achieved using the makeshift models, so real-footage had to be used.
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How big was the shark in the Jaws movies?

At a whopping 25 feet long, Bruce would have weighed 4.9 tons in real life, higher than Quint's estimation of 3 tons.
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How big was the shark in Jaws 3?

The shark is said to be 35 feet long (despite budgetary restraint keeping the film from providing a true sense of scale for the creature), ten feet longer than previous films.
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The Shark in Jaws 2



Which Jaws shark was the biggest?

When it comes to the last two Jaws movies, bigger is proved not to be better. The shark in Jaws 3-D is the largest. At 35ft, 'Brucetta' is ten feet longer than the 1975 original Bruce.
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How big was the shark in Jaws 4?

Reaching enormous lengths of up to approximately 28 feet in the novel (25 foot long in the film, due to it using the same chassis as the original shark prop), although a tad smaller than Brucette, and much smaller than Brucetta, who reached 35 feet in length.
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Is Deep Blue bigger than Jaws?

If Quint is right, then the shark in Jaws is five feet – say, one Danny DeVito – longer than Deep Blue. No offence to Mr DeVito, but not a huge difference. But what about weight? Quint reckons his shark weighs three tons – and in 1975 in the US a ton means 2,000 pounds (lbs).
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Is the Jaws shark size realistic?

The shark spotted 100 yards offshore at Marino Rocks was said to measure 7 meters, or nearly 23 feet, making it about the size of the fictional shark in the 1975 thriller Jaws.
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Is the dead tiger shark in Jaws real?

The first shark killed on the docks, which is supposed to be the "man-eater" in the movie, was actually a real shark killed in Florida since there was not a big enough one in Martha's Vineyard.
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Is Jaws 3 Based on a true story?

No. Jaws is not a true story. It is based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name.
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Was Jaws a Megalodon?

A new study from the University of Bristol and Swansea University has calculated the total body size of the Otodus megalodon - the distant ancestor of the great white shark depicted in hit blockbuster, Jaws, in 1975.
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Was Jaws bigger than a great white?

On January 17, patrol helicopters off the coast of southern Australia reported seeing a great white shark “nearly as big as Jaws.” In fact, it was estimated to be up to 23ft long, only marginally smaller than the infamous movie killer — and it came to within just 100 metres of the shore.
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Are sharks getting bigger?

"But even though they're big, they're growing very, very slowly. It's only about 20cm or 30cm a year." The incredible findings come after years of debate over which was bigger: whale shark males or females. According to the new study, female sharks outgrow males to reach average lengths of 45.9ft (14m).
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How big is the Meg?

The film stars Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, and Cliff Curtis. A group of scientists encounters a 75-foot-long (23 m) megalodon shark while on a rescue mission on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
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How big is the largest shark?

The largest is the whale shark, which has been known to get as large as 18 meters (60 feet).
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Which is the biggest shark ever?

megalodon was not only the biggest shark in the world, but one of the largest fish ever to exist. Estimates suggest it grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark.
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What was the biggest Megalodon?

The Otodus megalodon, commonly called the megalodon, is famous for its massive size. Weighing up to 50 tons and measuring up to about 60 feet in length, the meg was the largest shark ever to exist.
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Does Jaws 4 ignore Jaws 3?

Jaws: The Revenge is a 1987 American horror film produced and directed by Joseph Sargent. It is a direct sequel to Jaws 2, ignoring the events of Jaws 3-D, and is the fourth installment in the Jaws franchise and the final installment in the original series.
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Why is Chief Brody not in Jaws 3?

Roy Schneider Didn't Want To Return in Jaws 3 As Chief Brody

The only reason he did is that due to him exiting The Deer Hunter, he owed Universal two more films under a contractual agreement. Universal then said if Schieder returned for Jaws 2, it would be counted as both.
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Is there a Jaws 6?

And it sounds like that won't be changing anytime soon. So if you're worried about a Jaws remake bringing new versions of Brody, Hooper and Quint to the big screen, you can cast those worries out to sea. For now, it's just not happening.
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Is Jaws bigger than megalodon?

REAL ancient mega-shark the megalodon that was three times bigger than Jaws with teeth as 'big as a hand' is brought back to life in action film The Meg. IT was the mega-shark three times the size of a great white, with each of its 270 teeth as big as a hand.
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How big is Jaws vs megalodon?

The Megalodon is estimated to have been around 15-24 meters long (50-78 ft., compared to a typical adult Great White Shark which is only 6m or 20 ft long). It is also estimated that the bite force the Megalodon's jaws could generate was somewhere in the vicinity of 108,514 N – 182,201 N (11-18 tons of force).
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