Jurassic failure as Frankenstein ripoff and Harryhausen homage

Rating: 4/10 (14 August 1999)

I suspect that the makers of Jurassic Park inserted a subliminal message into the film like "YOU MUST LOVE THIS MOVIE." or "SHUT YOUR BRAIN OFF!" or "PLOT AND DIALOGUE DONT MATTER!" since so many people seem to be under the illusion that this is a good movie--when it has some of the worst dialogue and annoying characters I have ever had to endure, and a non-existant story structure.
Dinosaurs are cloned, but we get little sense of the moral issues surrounding this. We have no sympathy for the dinosaurs, nor do we have discernable villians to hate. Hammond is portrayed as a cruel industrialist one minute(when feeding the raptors), and a Daddy Warbucks the next(the hatching of the raptor). The scientists who did the sinful deeds are in the background, and we are left with a lawyer to hiss at! Some may say the Raptors are the villians, but this insults the Frankenstein mythos(since the raptors were created by humans). If there is any discernable moral to the story it is that Alan Grant goes from hating children to "kinda liking" them--which is amazing when considering the whiny brats he was stuck with.

But I could forgive the moral nihlism of the story if it wasnt for the hackneyed action of the narrative. A few humans running around for two hours, whining and gushing at the big dinos does not for great entertainment make. It lacked the imagination of King Kong, or the spectacle of Harryhausen's Gwangi effects work.