Finished Jaws 2. By the end of the movie I was rooting for the fucking shark.
You can't make up for the absence of Dreyfuss & Shaw with screaming teenagers and a duchebag deputy. The only good this about this was Roy & Murray Hamilton , but they didn't seem to be doing much other than crib noting their banter from the first movie.
obviously the flick was in trouble from the get-go. In Jaws, you don't see the shark really until the 3rd act. With the cat already out of the bag as to what the 'monster' is going to look like there is no shock to it in 2. No matter how many screaming bitches are on-screen it doesn't make it any scarier.
Credit where credit is due, though; the smoke coming out of the shark's eye sockets when he got toasted was kinda cool.
I'm going to pop on Jaws 3....
EDIT TO ADD: Jaws 2 does have a killer poster though.