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Summary: Fair, but 100% Trite
Review: ....Jurassic Park was a fantastic book and a fine, if lightweight, movie. The Lost World was not quite as good a book, and the movie was pretty outrageous. JP3 was not a book, and it is an average movie. Why? you might ask. Well, aside from the breathtaking cat-and-mouse sequences, the fast-paced action, the dinosaurs themselves looking better than ever, this movie just doesn't seem new. It seems like both of the preceding two films rolled into one. Dinosaurs range from the familiar, the T-Rex and Raptors, to the Pteradon (a good new feature, one that was supposed to be implemented in TLW but wasn't) and the whatsitcalled, the thing that goes under water and above it and is supposed to make the T-Rex seem weak. This movie suffers from several things: first it has very little new material, second it has a weak scientific base ...and finally, the acting is pretty weak. It works as a turn-off-your-brain visceral thriller, though, and will be talked about forever by those Jurassic-park addicts for years.
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Summary: woohee!
Review: What an exciting movie! Shrieks and covered eyes throughout, but tame enough for the kids. Not much of an in depth story line, but the excitement and thrills more than made up for that. Definately worth the time and money.
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Summary: 3 is much better than 2
Review: JP3 is so much better then Lost World, that it almost makes me forget how bad Lost World was. This new installment is right up there with the original. Scary, suspensful, fun!!! I loved it and can not wait to buy it on video. Sam Neil is great once again, and the supporting actors shine also. The dinos are even better then before, esp. the raptors.
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Summary: In some ways, the best of the three
Review: Let's not even let The Lost World enter the equation: that movie was the cinematic equivalent of excrement. About a year before Lost World hit the screens Spielberg received some kind of award for something and he proceeded to thank the myriad of writers he has worked with. The main thing he said was "If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage". That means if the script isn't up to snuff then it is darn near impossible for the movie to be much good. Then, Spielberg turns around and releases The Lost World, a movie which didn't even have a completed script or third act when they started filming. Apparently he didn't take too much stock in his own acceptance speech. Maybe someone else wrote it for him. JP3, on the other hand, at least has a coherent script. There are dashes of humor, suspense, and a degree of violence and carnage that the situation demands. The movie isn't perfect, but at least it wasn't layered with the same degrees of schmaltz that tainted LW and (in spots) JP. JP3 is a more straightforward adventure yarn, simultaneously fun and scary. The ending could have used some punch, however. Also of note: earlier reports (and not by me) have indicated that chronologically this story takes place before the events in THE LOST WORLD. Not true. In fact, the events in THE LOST WORLD are referred to in JP3 by Sam Neill's character. So the chronology of the trilogy is indeed linear. And the dinosaurs in JP3 do look fantastic, too. The only gripe about special effects that I have are the process shots during the parasailing scenes early in the film. Well, at least the close-ups and medium shots. They look like they were shot on a stage. And they were, of course, but it looks so obvious to the audience.
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Summary: Best one yet
Review: Went opening day, took my 13 year old son and my 6 year old daughter. I think I wanted to see it more than my kids! Opens a little slow, but soon your at the island and the fun begins! I felt it was better than the best rollercoaster ride, although the ending seemed a little abrubt, I would still recommend it. Not for the faint of heart or kids under 6. Definetly better than JP2-had some elements from the book(a great read!) that was left out of the first movie. Go see it!!!
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Summary: Geriatric Park
Review: OK, maybe I'm being a bit harsh. The movie isn't "bad", but it really wasn't good either. My 8 year-old boy, who's a dinosaur freak, was bored. My 2 teenage girls, who love to be scared from a movie, weren't. I had the whole plot and ending figured out within the first half hour, down the the exact survivors. Go see another movie and wait til this comes out on video.
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Summary: VERY SHORT!
Review: Their were quite a bit of things that I didn't like about this movie... 1)Dr. Grant and Dr. Sadler don't end up married, as the first movie forshadows. 2)The main focus was on two dinosaurs the whole time! The velociraptor and the spiked Dinosaur. It got old after a while. 3)At the end of the other Jurassic Park movies their is always a big grand finale escape ending, I feel that this movie didn't even come close to that. 4)I thought that the young boy they were searching for and Tea Leoni became quite annoying after just a few minutes. 5)I also was disappointed that Dr. Sadler wasn't on the island but she still "saved the day". 6)I thought that the main pretator with the ringing cell phone in him was horribly animated. He walked and acted more like Godzilla than a Dinosaur. 7)Many things were very unrealistic, ie. The young boy couldn't have stayed alive on the island for 8 weeks alive and by himself. 8)Don't even ask about the Pterodactal. 9)Just as you think the movie may be getting a little better, it ENDS! 10)You can assume from the ending of this movie that there will be another sequel, and it will probably be worse than this!!!In one sentence how I would sum up this review is as follows: IT'S A WASTE OF TIME AND A WASTE OF MONEY!
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Summary: Not a bad ride
Review: One thing I can say about this movie, it is never boring and it's over before you know it. There are some great action pieces especially an attack on a crashed plane that is very intense and an attack on a suspension bridge that is fairly scary.The characters are pretty wooden but all in all it was great mindless entertainment.
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Summary: Godzilla vs Mothra, anyone?
Review: Campy tripe. I can't tell if the moviemakers are being ironic, or just stupid. To its credit, this episode from the Jurassic Park Franchise tries a new schtick: GODZILLA VERSUS MOTHRA! That's right! Hot dino-on-dino gore action! But honestly, the end seems to be seguing into "Jurassic Park IV: Lost in New York." I guess that's fine with me; somehow, the evil pterodactyls, with screaming humans in their talony clutches, seem better suited to perching on the Empire State Building than they do the jungles of Costa Rica. Sam Neill, however, may be the Indiana Jones we never knew we had. Pulling his indestructible paleontologist's hat tightly onto his head and giving us a quirky grin, we wonder: does he know this was all the equivalent of a dime-store pulp novel? Could Dr. Grant possibly be mocking us? Does he get a joke we all missed? And, while we're at it, did William H. Macy get bodysnatched? because I don't think he's been struck yet by the fact he was in this movie.
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Summary: Great movie, only slightly irritated.
Review: JP3 was a great film. Excellent action sequences and mostly good acting. The only reason that I didn't rate it five stars is for the following two reasons: 1) there was some cheesy humor that didn't fit well into the film (some of it did, though). 2) The filmmakers are inaccurate in the size of the Spinosaursus, it is actually smaller than the T-Rex. Even though that's really no big deal, it just kind of irritates me. But all in all, the movie is about as good as the first, a little better than the second, and lives up to the original.
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