Feel The Magic

Rating: 10/10 (15 August 2001)

This movie made me feel like a kid again. I loved dinosaurs as a kid and knew everything about them, but as I grew up my interests strayed to mythology and ghosts. This movie returned me to my youth by reminding me of the sheer awesome splendor of these extinct beasts. Joseph Mazzello plays what could me me as a child while Jeff Goldblum could be me as an adult, wise-cracking and one-lining myself in the face of danger. Sam Neil and Laura Dern are a wonderful couple, but the real stars of course are the dinosaurs. The explanation of their cloning is told very convincingly, albeit not without some infallibles. Am I to believe that the DNAs from the fifty odd dinosaurs that appear in the whole trilogy all came from one drop of blood in one mosquito ? That was one very busy little bug to hit that many creatures in one day. Maybe it had a preminition that the dinosaurs were about to die and that someday they would be cloned. Pretty convenient to say the least.