The greatest movie ever!

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

WE DO RECALL catching some of the episodes of this short lived HANNA BARBERA Catoon series. There seemed to be some similarities to others in their stable, done up in combination.IN MUCH THE same mode as H & B's MOBY DICK, the action and adventure takes place in "Davy Jones' Locker" (that's underwater, Schultz!). From the highly successful SCOOBY DOO Franchise, we get the idea of an intelligent animal getting in on the action and dialog.INSTEAD OF MAKING use of "Man's Best Friend", the series opted for exploiting all of the hysteria and publicity generated by JAWS (Universal, 1975), we got JABBERJAW, a Great White Shark with the voice and mannerisms of THE 3 STOOGES' Curly Howard! AS GREAT OF a stretch as this is, we thought it to be an extremely, outrageously funny concept. Why in addition to the voice and various 'screams' and 'nyuks', Jabberjaw would use his front fins in the same manner as would Curly do his arms.BUT EVEN THOUGH JJ had the facial appearance and rotund physique of the admittedly funniest of the Stooges, the series bit the dust and had a short life.

All through the 70s Hanna-Barbera released cartoons with the same format(adventure,music,and mysteries). Jabberjaw lasted only a year (1976-1977) and aired reruns the following year. This cartoon was like Scooby Doo except it is set to be underwater and they are a musical band which the star of the show is the drummer. I don't know what Bill and Joe were thinking when they created this cartoon but it sucks. It's strictly a copycat of Josie & The Pussycats and Scooby doo. A guy that's the leader,two girls,and the star's sidekick buddy. Not only Jabber there was the Amazing Chan Clan,Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kids,the Partridge family A.D. bulls*** etc. These cartoons didn't last long and wasn't original. Hanna-Barbera most successful mystery,adventure,music cartoon will always be Josie & The Pussycats.

This show really sucked. It was another horrible "Scooby-Doo" ripoff show (something Hanna-Barbera did A LOT in the 1970's), execpt instead of a Great Dane for a title character, we have a Shark (but a really lame shark at that) who is protecting a band called "The Neptunes" (They do have a bit in common to our well known sleuths on "Scooby-Doo"), and in the process, they all solve mysteries. But the worst thing about this show is how Jabberjaw uses Rodney Dangerfield's signature "No Respect!" line, and Curly Howard's signature "Nyuk-Nyuk" line. What is up with that? Why didn't Dangerfield sue? Why didn't the Howard family sue (If these were my lines, I'd be taking Hanna-Barbera to court)? I guess that's a question for another time.Bottom line: This show sucks.

Throughout the mid to late 1970's,producers William Hanna and Joesph Barbera were the forefront of children's programming and had some of most successful shows ever devised for Saturday Mornings. Unlike their counterparts over at Filmation,they were ahead of the competition bringing a variety of shows that were especially designed for children as well as adults to enjoy. There were some that were very interesting to watch and for one "Jabberjaw" is one of them. On the same premise as another Hanna-Barbera cartoon about a talking car like "Speed Buggy", this premise consisted of a talking great white shark who could walk upright and was always getting into mischief. If you listen to the voice of Jabber it sounds just like Curly of "The Three Stooges",but it was really Frank Welker who did numerous voiceovers for various characters including Dino,and Scooby Doo. He always protected a bunch of kids called "The Neptunes" who were the equals of Scooby Doo but had a rock and roll band under the sea. I watch this show tremendously and the reruns can be seen on Cartoon Network. I really love the person who did the voice of Shelly,but if you looked closely,it does looked like Seinfeld's Julia-Louis Dreyfuss(as a teenager) in an animated cartoon.