More Velociraptors!!! More Tyrannosaurus rex!!!!!

Rating: 8/10 (3 September 2006)

This is probably the best all-around dinosaur movie ever made. Yet I somehow feel the need to write about its flaws more than what was great about it. FLAWS: 1) You'd think a movie that invests so much into dinosaurs would get some basic facts straight. It's "StegOsaurus," not "StegAsaurus" as it says on one of the DNA vials. And the Velociraptors are way bigger than they would have been in real life, the creatures in question are probably the much bigger Deinonychus, not Velociprator. Conversely, the Dilophosaurus is much smaller than it would have been in real life. If they had shown it real size, they wouldn't have had to concoct the "spit-kill" scene. 2) The movie drags at times. Just stick with the dinosaurs-run-amok theme. We don't care about all the peripheral dinosaurs they show from time to time that have nothing to do with the movie. Great, there's a sick Triceratops lying in its own dung. You won't see him again, so why bother showing him in the first place? 3) When Dr. Neill, Jeff Goldblum and the kids are in their Jurassic Park-mobiles, they can sense the T-Rex coming from the vibrations and sounds of his footprints for about five minutes. Yet, when they're being attacked by the "Velociraptors," the T-Rex all of a sudden appears out of nowhere to save their a**. You couldn't hear T-Rex coming then? I would have liked to see a pack of five or six Velociraptors battle the T-Rex, just to make it more interesting. That said, this really is an entertaining movie. Among the characteristics that make this movie so good are: 1) The dinosaurs are first-rate, the best and most realistic ever. 2) Laura Dern's backside. We get to see her scale up and down walls to run away from dinosaurs all throughout the movie, and it's a wonderful sight. 3) All the lawyers get it in the end. Overall, they finally made a dinosaur movie that actually could receive critical acclaim. I give it an 8 out of 10.