I went on a helicopter ride over the area where this was filmed in Hawaii.

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2005)

Everyone knows what happens in "Jurassic Park", so I'll just talk about a few aspects. I think that it's fitting that the movie was released in 1993. With baby boomer Bill Clinton now in the White House, it was clearly a new era, and this movie looked like it was representing a new era - think of it as being 1961, with young John Kennedy as the new president (which it would have been for my parents)*. The fact that Steven Spielberg also released "Schindler's List" that year and won two Oscars for it backs up this aspect.
Unfortunately, "The Lost World" was beyond pathetic. It was just a repeat of the first one and was totally predictable. So avoid that one and stick with this one. I never saw "Jurassic Park III". While in Maui during spring break, 2003, I went on a helicopter ride and we flew over the area where parts of "Jurassic Park" were filmed.
*As it was, Rob and Laura Petrie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" were loosely based on the Kennedys. I don't know of any characters based on the Clintons.