Jurassic Park III (Widescreen Collectors Edition) starring William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Sam Neill, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan
As Good As You Could Expect!
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, its 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 Crichtons 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, theyre on a searchand-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 thats corny but appropriate, proving that the symptoms of sequelitis neednt be fatal. --Jeff Shannon
Personal Review: Jurassic Park III (Widescreen Collectors Edition) starring William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Sam Neill, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan
This is my favorite of the Jurassic Park movies, which is unusual in that it is a sequel. Great story line, great acting and believable characters with enough depth to keep you involved and in suspense... and the dinos are excellently done. Spinosaurus is of course hands down the star of the show, and perhaps I'm a bit biased since its just a really cool animal to watch. I'll give it five stars although I do have to wonder why this poor Spino animal is so bound and determined to get at these guys, who can't present much of a meal compared to the other fare on the island (not to mention still hungry after eating a 50 ton Tyrannosaurus early in the movie, being shot at, at and at one point even doused in alcohol and burned alive). But, hey. I'm also slightly irritated by the fact that all the Jurassic Park dinos in all the movies have identical butts sticking way up in the air and synchronized twiddly tails, they look like computer point and click copies of each other in large groups. I have to ask: Why are all the two legged dinosaurs always stooped so low, with their tails higher their heads? Balance-schmalance. Surely if an animal learns to walk on two legs, its so that it can walk around with its head up high and have a good view around.....not much use walking on two legs and being stooped in the exact same four-leg position, way down at park human-grabbing height. ah well. What do I know?
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