Editorial Review:Amazon.com:Jurassic Park Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals
Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to
Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's
Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that the computer-generated technology has since been improved upon) and at times primeval, such as the sight of a herd of whatever-they-are scampering through a valley.
--Tom Keogh The Lost World - Jurassic Park In the low tradition of knockoff horror flicks best seen (or not seen) on a drive-in movie screen, Steven Spielberg's sequel to
Jurassic Park is a poorly conceived, ill-organized film that lacks story and logic. Screenwriter David Koepp strings along a number of loose ideas while Jeff Goldblum returns as Ian Malcolm, the quirky chaos theoretician who now reluctantly agrees to go to another island where cloned dinosaurs are roaming freely. Along with his girlfriend (Julianne Moore) and daughter, Malcolm has to deal with hunters, environmentalists, and corporate swine who stupidly bring back a big dino to Southern California, where it runs amok, of course. Spielberg doesn't seem to care that the pieces of this project don't add up to a real movie, so he hams it up with big, scary moments (with none of the artfulness of those in
Jurassic Park) and smart-aleck visual gags (a yapping dog in a suburb mysteriously disappears when a hungry T-rex stomps by). A complete bust.
--Tom Keogh Jurassic Park III Surpassing expectations to qualify as an above-average sequel,
Jurassic Park III is nothing more or less than a satisfying popcorn adventure. A little cheesier than the first two
Jurassic blockbusters, it's a big B movie with big B-list stars (including Laura Dern, briefly reprising her
Jurassic Park role), and eight years of advancing computer-generated-image technology give it a sharp edge over its predecessors. While adopting the jungle spirit of
King Kong, the movie refines Michael Crichton's original premise, and its dinosaurs are even more realistic, their behavior more detailed, and their variety--including flying pteranodons and a new villain, the spinosaurus--more dazzling and threatening than ever. These advancements justify the sequel, and its contrived plot is just clever enough to span 90 minutes without wearing out its welcome.
Posing as wealthy tourists, an adventurous couple (William H. Macy, Téa Leoni) convince paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his protégé (Allesandro Nivola) to act as tour guides on a flyover trip to Isla Sorna, the ill-fated 'Site B' where all hell broke loose in
The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In truth, they're on a search-and-rescue mission to find their missing son (Trevor Morgan), and their plane crash is just the first of several enjoyably suspenseful sequences. Director Joe Johnston (
October Sky) embraces the formulaic plot as a series of atmospheric set pieces, placing new and familiar dinosaurs in misty rainforests, fiery lakes, and mysterious valleys, turning
JP3 into a thrill ride with impressive highlights (including a T. rex versus spinosaurus smack-down), adequate doses of wry humor (from the cowriters of
Election), and an upbeat ending that's corny but appropriate, proving that the symptoms of sequelitis needn't be fatal.
--Jeff Shannon
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Jurassic Park Adventure Pack (Jurassic Park/ The Lost World: Jurassic Park/ Jurassic Park III)
It is an excellent movie I enjoyed the whole 3 movies..even my grand-daughter loved it.
Paul
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Jurassic Park Adventure Pack
I was very pleased with this movie pack. The price was affordable and
Amazon shipped right away. The movies are classics I had already seen
them but my 2 1/2 year old and my 8 year old had not seen them and when
they did see these movies they were thrilled. I highly recommend this
movie pack it is a great adventure and very entertaining.
Laura
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Great DVDs, odd case..
Jurassic Park was a great movie that still fill me with awe today. Those in the movie industry could learn a lot from just looking back to the first movie and seeing that CG is good, but sometimes a model or an animatronic works better if you want it to look real.
ANYWAY, with this DVD set, I was pleased to see if had a cool center-opening box that's meant to be like the gate in the movie. The box seems very sturdy, but I have my reservations about it since I'm not so sure the gates will hold up over a long period of time (hence the 4/5). The inside is a typical tri-folding cardboard setup, with one DVD per section.
Not a bad deal for 1 great movie, and 2 that were ok/sub-par...
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Great Movies
I have seen all three Jurassic Park movies and love them. Each of them has a new plot, but has the same characters. I love science fiction movies, so this is a keeper. The first one is how a Jurassic Park on an island crashes and how the dinosaurs roam free and terrize the people still on the island. The second movie is how the characters go to a second island where the cloning took place for the dinosaurs. The third movie is about Allen Grant getting tricked onto Isla Sorna (second island) to find a couple's missing son. All three movies are action packed and have excellent computer animation! I HIGHLY recommend the trilogy to any sci-fi or dinosaur fan.
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The dino-trilogy
These movies are classics. The pack gives you the choice of which classic you want to watch without shelling out fifteen dollars or more for each one by itself.