It’s taken nearly 20 years but now with the arrival of Deep Blue Sea 2, LL Cool J’s awful line “My hat is a like a shark’s fin” means something again. Last summer we learned that a sequel to Renny Harlin’s campy shark flick was already shooting, and now we have the trailer. Jaws, your title as the king of all shark movies is safe for now, I think.
It only makes sense that Syfy would be all over this. Without Deep Blue Sea there would be no Sharknado, after all. The original movie had a fairly starry cast led by Samuel L. Jackson, and most of them ended up as food stuck between a Mako shark’s teeth. The sequel has considerably less going for it, with Michael Beach and somebody named Danielle Savre starring in a movie that appears to have remote-controlled sharks in it. Do they have freakin’ laser beams attached to their heads?
I love the passion with which Beach says “They’re problem solving, learning to learn…AND THEY LIKE IT!!!” Dude, settle down. It ain’t that serious. Synopsis for ya:
In Deep Blue Sea 2, shark conservationist Dr. Misty Calhoun (Danielle Savre) is invited to consult on a new, top secret project run by pharmaceutical billionaire Carl Durant (Michael Beach). When science meddles with the time-tested process of nature and nurture, the outcome can be deadly.
On the one hand it’s shocking that a Deep Blue Sea sequel hasn’t been tossed into the VOD/DVD market like chum long before now. On the other, I would have been perfectly fine if this weren’t happening except Beach’s death scene, and you know there will be one, is bound to be spectacular.
Dive into Deep Blue Sea 2 in July.
