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Two best friends (practically brothers) end up fighting to save their village from a greedy bunch of criminals and a giant man-eating shark... well, one of ‘em does. The other gets eaten surprisingly quick... sorry... spoiler for a film that you probably couldn’t care less about. Based on what I can tell of the plot (the fact that the movie was randomly subtitled by some poor bastard in the final stages of dementia did very little to help), this bizarre take on Jaws is way more focused on the crime boss terrorizing a seaside village than any giant shark. There’s plenty of lovely musical interludes (I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I fucking love ‘em) to go with the evil shenanigans of the mustachioed villains and their gang of thugs but the cheap-ass giant shark takes forever to come into the picture. (Although, the first shark attack comes about an hour in and involves a new bride getting eaten during a song... which is just friggin’ fantastic.) There’s black pearls that have the crime boss seeing dollar signs, a hero out for revenge and waaaaaay too little shark action for a film just shy of two hours. We get enough high ridiculousness (especially in those poorly translated subtitles that show up whenever the hell they feel like it) to keep ya entertained but the focus on everything but the aquatic killer hinders what could have been a psychotronic classic... made all the more clear by just how much zero budget awesomeness plays out on screen when the damn shark is around. It’s also fascinating that the damn thing got completed (however haphazardly) anyways, as it remained unfinished for more than a decade and was finally wrapped up with several cast members no longer being amongst the living. Somehow, it’s all still above average.
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