Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Yes, as others have noted, Jabberjaw was simply a clone or ripoff of Scooby Doo and Josie & the Pussycats.Tho Josie was largely influenced by Scooby Doo as well, I include Josie as a comparison because Jabberjaw was in a traveling band, the Neptunes, like the Pussycats.But even more than that, Jabberjaw ripped endless plots from Josie as well; mixed up packages, boarding the wrong trains.Truthfully, many of these themes are found in Scooby episodes as well, such as Mystery Mask Mix Up.But even worse, Jabberjaw would attempt to clone jokes and setups from Scooby Doo.One was in "Jeepers, It's The Creeper" where Scooby must contend with a baby chick who thinks Scooby is his mother.In The Fast-Paced Great Chase, or whatever it was called, Jabberjaw would do this as well, posing as a tuna nesting (on a chicken nest, no less, and alongside other tunas sitting on these nests as well) and apparently some of the tuna eggs hatched.At the end of the episode, Clamhead would bring a fishbowl up to Jabberjaw with two little tunas in it, who are going 'mama, mama, no respect, no respect, nyok, nyok, nyok.' WEll, it hardly carries over as cartoonically well as did Scooby's baby chick.The aquatic theme is a head-scratcher as well. One minute they are in the water, the next they are in a domed city or dwelling.That the show made continuous efforts to maintain that diving helmets or something should be shown shows someone was exercising thought.One episode has the gang camping. Not only do we see the tent, but we also have OUTSIDE the tent, but they are still in a see thru tent underwater.In fact, the camping episode, with the villain called the Octopus, we get a medallion (that is a map) which is pressed too hard upon Jabberjaw's person, leaving an impression. Strange that this would be played out five years later in "Raider of the Lost Ark".And why do all their bad-punned dwellings seem to be Mexican in origin? The songs were beyond forgettable, tho one is "You gotta Believe In Love" which Elton John would have a 'hit song' with a similar theme about twenty years later "I Believe In Love." Did he watch Jabberjaw?

An example of a low point in Saturday morning cartoons, this particular series lumped together several concepts into a mess of show. Jabberjaw (capitalizing on the popularity of the movie "Jaws") is a talking shark who sounds like Curly Howard (leading the way for other insipid Three Stooges-inspired cartoons, including "The Three Robotic Stooges") and who mutters "I get no respect" (a nod to Rodney Dangerfield?). He travels with a band "The Neptunes" (like "Josie and the Pussycats" and countless other H-B cartoons) in a futuristic undersea realm (Sealab 2020) taking on various villains' nefarious schemes ("Scooby Doo, Where Are You", etc.).Thanks to Turner's Boomerang channel for reminding me how much I hated this cartoon as a kid. It was around this time that I realized that my favorite cartoons were "Looney Tunes" and "Rocky and Bullwinkle" - cartoons that were made in previous decades aimed at general audiences and not patronizing to kids.

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.

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.