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Mike Brody: White sharks are dangerous. I know 'em. My father, my brother, myself. They're murders.

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At some of the theaters showing this film, when the shark explodes, the "guts" are actually E.T. dolls that were being sold. See more...

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Jaws 3-D (1983) - 32 mistakes

Directed by Joe Alves, starring Bess Armstrong, Dennis Quaid, Lea Thompson, Louis Gossett Jr., Simon MacCorkindale (add more)

Genres: Horror, Thriller

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Visible crew/equipment: After Calvin Bouchard makes the announcement to tourists visiting the Undersea Kingdom to evacuate, we see the tour guide lead the crowd through the tunnels. The green screen backdrop is still in the final cut. They forgot to add in the underwater effect.

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Factual error: When the shark is chasing Mike and his girlfriend near the end you can see air bubbles coming out of the fin (obviously a hole in the puppet). Real sharks do not blow bubbles from their fins.

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Continuity: When Dan walks down to a podium and looks over to see the dolphin knocking at the gate, the tee-shirt he is wearing changes from being plain white with a tag badge on his left, to a white shirt with a large blue stripe across it, with a tag badge being on the right.

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Factual error: The window in the underwater control room has to be made from some thick material such as plexiglas to stand the pressure. Yet the shark simply lifts its snout a little and sends thin pieces of glass shattering everywhere.

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Revealing: The shark attacks a little wooden platform in the water which 3 men then fall through. You can see this is made from a lightweight wood such as balsa so that it will break apart easily, and it's not the sort of wood such a thing should be made of.

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Continuity: When two divers emerge from the water, one pulls their goggles up onto their forehead and the other pulls his goggles down to round his neck. Then the divers and Mike start talking about 'no overtime', and between shots the goggles around the divers neck vanish.

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Visible crew/equipment: In the opening credits we see shots of water skiers climbing on top of each other to try and form a human pyramid. In one long shot you can see the side of the wake which the crew's speedboat is making.

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Factual error: When the shark swims towards the glass, it doesn't move its tail. Sharks have to swing their tail in order to swim. There is no way this shark could be moving.

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Continuity: When Mike answers the call from Calvin the phone cord goes over his shoulder. When it cuts it's gone.

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Audio problem: Near the end of the film when the shark is in the control room he eats a man underwater. The man is heard to scream and cry out, and you can hear him taking breaths in between screams despite being underwater with no breathing equipment.

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Continuity: In the beginning when the water skiers are practicing, in one shot they are skiing right next to land and trees, in the next shot they are way out in the ocean near the ports.

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Revealing: Matte lines are visible on the submarine as Mike and his girlfriend drive it through the reef.

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Revealing: When Jaws breaks the glass in the control room, it shatters and flies everywhere, but the water doesn't even move or give any indication of flooding the compartment.

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Continuity: In the opening credits, there are eleven skiers in the pyramid. However when they fall in the water, and then all get up and ski off again, there are only ten skiers now.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Mike fires the harpoon at the shark, the wire the arrow is attached to is visible.

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Revealing: When the shark crashes in the control room and eats Fred, "Fred" is a dummy. His hand moves around in the water in an unnatural manner.

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Revealing: Matte lines are visible around Jaws when he crashes into the window of the control room.

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Continuity: When Mike has the harpoon pointed for the sharks dorsal fin, there is white rope wound around the length of the metal harpoon. In the shot just before he shots the harpoon, there isn't.

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Continuity: At the beginning of the movie with the scene of the water skiers, the amount of boats on the water goes from hardly any, to suddenly being loads.

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Continuity: In the breakfast scene with Mike and Sean, the angle of the Tropicana juice carton keeps changing.

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