Was It The Best

Rating: 2/10 (3 August 2001)

Jurassic Park was surely a tremendous ground breaking event. Spielberg is at his best here. The special effects are fantastic and each scene has a special tension and effect of its own. Spielberg weaves a magic web and pleases everyone in the process. He puts in a few things here and there to please the more liberal in the audience as well as the more traditional. He even sends messages to the critics with words such as sexism to try and appease the media critics.
Spielberg also has us rooting against every one who dies and for everyone who lives. He even gets the audience to laugh hysterically while a person is torn apart. In fact a number of people complained that there was not enough gore in Jurassic Park 3. If you are looking for gore than you will get much more with this film than with JP3. There was a more gritty tone with this film than with JP3. We got to see cows and other animals eaten alive in detail. But beyond the appeasement of those who need to be convinced of realism through gore and other methods, it is with action that Spielberg excels. Fantastic use of sound and special effects make this film a thrilling event. Spielberg has shown he is the king of action even on the small budget of Duel. I was reminded of the terror invoked through the shaking of the ground and the loud sounds of a dinosaur walking.

Jurassic Park was about terror and fear while JP3 was about adventure. JP3 was a thrll ride in which the audience wishes it was on the island while Jurassic Park we were more in a state of fear. JP3 was full of imagination and excitement and we really cared about the characters. The smart kid in JP1 was more enjoyable than the crying kids in JP1. Those who say he could not have survived because teenagers are dumb would probably be the same ones who at one time said women were unable to do anything. Anyway JP3 was just an adventure that really found redeeming value in every character where JP1 just killed off all the creeps. I was also reminded that Jurassic Park was a statement movie. The statement being that people should not clone creatures or try and create monsters similar to the ideas in Frankenstein. JP3 was more like Dracula in that it had no real statement. JP3 was really about whether or not the characters would escape with their son similar to whether or not one could survive a night in Dracula's castle. So JP3 was more of a good old fashioned scary adventure and about imagination. It really depends on what you like. JP3 also was at a disadvantage being the second sequel but was still very exciting. Personally, I give a slight edge to JP3 because I just enjoyed it more, though it definately could have been a little longer and would have been even better had Jeff Goldblum been in it.