What intrigues me about this thread - prior to the deterioration to male nonsense - is that no one has mentioned the aspect which upset me.

I did NOT want to see this movie. However, I was working at a detention center for girls at the time it came out and was ordered to take two of the girls to see it. I considered this a bad move for all of us but I did it. As we got into the taxi to go back to the center, one of the girls was saying, "Dorothy, calm down....."

The aspect which I found most disturbing was the attitude of the town merchants that it was more important to protect tourism - the almighty dollar - than to protect people by admitting there was a shark.

The shark part was, to me, pure sensationalism to sell the movie.