italian exploitation riff on jaw be notorious for be yank from theater after the producer mount a multimillion dollar ad campaign ( that look like it cost a lot more than anything in the actual film ) that attract the attention of steven spielberg and universal picture . spielberg and crew take legal action against the maker of great white and have the film remove from theater . vic morrow do his best robert shaw impression when a 35 foot ( yes and 35 foot ) great white infiltrate a popular tourist beach and start eat windsurfers and other ditzy people who like to fall off boat into the water whenever they see a giant shark fin circle . i can not imagine why universal sue . while obviously similar and it not really the plot from jaw any more than ovidio assonitis tentacle be while in fact and great white share a lot in common with tentacle . both film have very similar regatta disaster scene and where their title creature rampage through a group of boater ( or in the case of great white and windsurfers ) . interestingly and both film also reveal that the filmmaker be not american due to unrealistic depiction of american celebration . both films feature bizarre uncle sam type character entertain crowd of laugh and cheer people and and this one even show a cheer new england crowd wave both american and the confederate flag . hmmmmm . well and back to the movie itself while if you haven not see it and youre probably wonder what it could be like . if you have see any italian exploitation picture from the 70 or 80 and then just imagine one of the bad one you have see and such a lamberto bava monster shark or joe damato kill bird . the soundtrack have the same kind of pseudo disco thriller music that appear in tentacle and in fact the music be very similar . but the big problem that i have with great white be that the shark effect be way more ambitious than the film can handle . when spielberg shark do not look real enough and he start film around it and cut it out of the picture . the shark in great white be front and center so often that it ruin any credibility that it may have have otherwise . it suppose to be 35 foot long and yet we never get the idea that it that large . the bit that be intercut with shark stock footage do not match the fake shark and and even the fake shark scene do not match . perhaps bad of all and the director show the entire body of the shark in the frame and and we can easily see that it nothing more than a model . i could go on and but you get the idea . the movie try to give u a few grisly attack and include one where a man have both his leg bite off and but it hard to feel any real dread or tension over impend death by fake shark head . there a notorious scene where a helicopter crash into the water after the shark get ahold of it and and it a bizarre clash of toy model . combine all this with vic morrow scenery chew performance and the typical italian dub job and and the shoddy special effect and and you have get one of the cheesy sharkfests to rise from the depth .