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Summary: Snackage.
Review: Critic-proof monster movie featuring those hungry creations of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg. Only this time, the dinosaurs are shorn of their pretentiousness, their T-Rex-sized budget . . . and their human prey are shorn of their sentimentality. (Spielberg didn't direct this one.) *JP3* is at least the equal of the first in this series -- in fact, if you're a dinosaur fan you can buy parts One and Three and call it a day. Did I say critic-proof? Maybe not. Here's a few thoughts: if they wanted to make a movie simply showing dinosaurs crunchin' down on some femurs, why did they feel they had to make it under the *Jurassic Park* umbrella? A whole new narrative background could've staved off some boredom, at least. (I'm really sick of that island.) Predictability could've been staved off by not so clearly telegraphing who's going to end up as dinosaur-snackage and who isn't. (The resourceful 12-year-old, it can be safely said, won't join the former.) Still, the movie, dumb as it is, exerts an undeniably primal appeal: it's about big animals with big teeth who eat people. Forget about the plot contrivances; they're standard in fun movies like these. Just appreciate the fact that the script is admirably free of B.S. -- it GETS. TO. THE. POINT. (It's only 90 minutes long . . . no wonder why Spielberg turned down the opportunity to direct.)
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Summary: Blood and guts
Review: If you like blood and guts, this is the movie for you. Its the same story you've heard twice before, only you groan...aloud...thinking "HOW DID YOU GET YOURSELF IN THIS MESS AGAIN??"
Its not bad brain candy, though.
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Summary: Jurassic Park III
Review: Proving that bigger doesn't always mean better, you have Jurassic Park 3 as the perfect example. While not a bad film, and certainly entertaining, don't go looking for character developement, intricate plot, or any of that truly special stuff. Instead, you get big budget special effects, big bad dinos with an attitude, somewhat campy acting, and the perfect thrill ride for kids 12 and under. Another of the film's problems is the fact that this movie is WAY too short. It seems that the filmmakers said: "OK, we have 90 minutes of footage, let's just tack on an ending and get it over with as soon as possible." The abrupt ending felt odd and out of place. All that taken together makes JP3 the weakest entry in the entire Jurassic Park series. It's missing the magic touch that Spielberg gave to Jurassic park and The Lost World. So all in all, not a bad movie, just don't expect too much.After their son, Eric, (Trevor Morgan) has had a parasailing accident on Isla Sorna a divorced couple, Amanda (Tea Leoni) and Paul (William H. Macy) Kirby kidnap Dr. Alan Grant into taking them to Isla Sorna to find their son. But, the plane crashes, and now they're stranded. Worst of all, they have a big bad dino called Spinosaurus coming after them. Will the group be able to make it off the island before they become the Spinosaurus' next meal? Overall Grade: B+ (9++++)
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Summary: Deserves The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Treatment.
Review: This Movie is so bad that it even makes the fans of this once promising series look stupid. First off, it does not even follow the same premise of the other two movies, which explains the lack of any real depth, and characterization found here. Second, Not only does the special effect look cheap, but they look like they were bad, abandon prototypes from the first two movies. And last and not least, the acting is just too laughable to even comprehend. All the actors in this film phone in their performance, and lose their dignity in the process with this atrocity of film making. . I wish that Mike and the bots were still around, because they would give the poor people who had to sit though this film the justice they deserve. If you loved the first two movies, do yourself a favor and skip this one. It will destroy any hope you had for this series.
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Summary: Jaws of the jungle!
Review: Joe Johnston, taking over the reigns from Spielberg, has created an adventure that starts off quickly and hardly ever lets up. Sam Neill, returning to the role which made him famous in the original, is a stronger presence than in the first Jurassic, and the suppourting cast of William H. Macy, Alessandro Nivola and Tea Leoni manage not to get lost amidst the barrage of CGI dinosaurs. The special effects are, of course the main stars, with Stan Winston's excellent dinosaurs surpass the ones for the original. And the plot (a bunch of people get stuck on an island with dangerous dinosaurs) provides plenty of great scares (a scene with nasty pterodactyls is the high-point) and fast-paced action to satisfy audiences. Great fun.
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Summary: Terrifically Amazing!!!!!
Review: Just 5 stars???? Go WAY AND WAY BEYOND!!!!!!! This was one of the best, absolutely best films I've ever seen in my whole entire life!!! Every single part of this movie is fantastic. I had loved dinosaurs since I was a very little kid. I'm not planning to be a paleontologist or something but I think dinosaurs are fascinating since they're animals. And I love all animals!!! I respect them a lot, and had studied about them for more than 8 years (I'm 14 right now). This movie is like a true science, especially biology and paleontology. And I love to study those stuff. When I began to get glimpses of this movie, I was gasped, thinking how could Joe Johnston could make such a film that could entertain so many people? The dinosaurs are so realistic, that I'm imagining if they're still existing somewhere around this planet. And I'm sure that Sam Neill was glad to be in this film. He looked like a true paleontologist. This movie isn't just amazing, but it's also hilarious in some parts. Such as when this pilot name Nash sprays some paints on a old plane to resemble a shark, and then Cooper blows it up. I cracked up so much on that!! The music is great. John Williams is a true maestro. What about dinosaurs?? They looked like truly real animals. It seems like there are more variety of dinosaurs than other two films. The Spinosaurus was great, terrific, I'd say. It's very good that the director put a larger carnivore than t-rex, because although rex is a symbol for jurassic park, it also tells that carnivores larger than rex did existed. Both rex and Spinosaurus were amazing. The battle between those two carnivores were great. Boy, Stan Winston sounded like if he's a dinosaur cloner, since he made them look like so realistic. Raptors were fantastic. The way they acted, the way they talked, the way they kill, etc. It seems like their coloration is changed little more than in two previous movies, which was pretty cool. It also looked like they were recieving feathers. Compys were little too short, but ok. The part where all these Corytosaurus and paras run in herds was magnificent, as they thundered the earth. For rest of herbivores, Brachiosaurs were astonishing. I knew that they were huge, more than 20 m. long, but I never thought they could be that huge!!! For ankylosaurs, it was pretty cool, watching them crunching on leaves. Man, I don't think adult ankylosaurs have any enemies. Their entire body is armored, including spikes on eyelids!!!!! Stegosaurus and other herbivores were little disappointing. They were too little shown. And that ceratosaurus, it was so funny!! The dinosaur ran away just because that the excrements stunk, instead of attacking people. The pterosaur was incredible. Although they aren't dinos, they still lived with dinosaurs. Pteranodons were third largest of pterosaurs, and that's the one shown in this movie. Quetzalcoatlus is the largest, then ornithocheirus. Watching them snatching people out of ground just amazed me. They were lot more vicious than I thought!! Everyone in the cast seems like did an excellent job, especially Sam Neill. That boy Trevor Morgan was so funny when he answers "you don't want to know" to Grant's question, and Grant had asked him how had he got t-rex's urine. Few parts were disappointing and could be little better. They could show more of the herbivorous dinosaurs, more compys, and the most strange thing is that I didn't saw triceratops!!!...It seemed like the producers spent too much time on vicious carnivores, rather than herbivores. But that's that, and it doesn't really matter. This movie is truly exciting, edge-of-the-seat plot...It's a one heck of a amazing film...
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Summary: Should they have stopped at "Lost World"?
Review: This is a fairly decent film. Dinosaurs, mayhem, and action are all abundant but . . .. The reasons for the continued contact with the dinosaurs is especially thin in this movie. Not only that, they've stretched the believability factor too much when it comes to the intelligence of the Raptors. It was bordered on laughable. Also stretching the imagination and the plot is one large dino that follows the stranded characters everywhere. Amazing how a dino as big as two buildings could sneak up on you repeatedly with success. He even manages to hide in some rather shallow water. There are so many inconceivable occurrences in the movie that I can give it only 3 stars. It's a very disappointing contribution to the series. Watch only when there is nothing else on television.
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Summary: The best Jurassic Park movie yet
Review: ...The thing I liked about Jurassic Park 3 is that they chose a different dinosaur to be the villian and not just T Rex and Velociraptor. Maybe in the first movie they looked scary but after a while they get kind of boring. That's what it is in every dinosaur movie the villian is always T Rex infact their are so many T Rex movies I almost get sick of watching them. So when I found out that they had a Spinosaurus (which was ctually bigger than T Rex) I wanted to rent it. In Jurassic Park 3 The Spinosaurus looks alot scarier than T Rex especially with it's huge mouth and it's gigantic sail on it's back. My advice if you sick and tired of T Rex than this is the movie for you.
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Summary: Jurassic What??????????????????
Review: Well Here is what I'm going to say These are the wrongs 1. In the lost world they said there was no Fences.
2. The pterandons was already out.
3. Spinosaurus is a little sorter than the real t-rex.
4. Spinosaurus don't look like that.
5. It a Baronix with a Slik on the Back.
6. The writers of the Films haven't been doing there home work on Michal Chriton Books This was a Made up storie and it deserve to be on a low down theing. Read the books and call it Part 3 becasue this movie was a NO NO.
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Summary: What effects? Are you all blind?
Review: First a confession: I watched this with the preconception that sequels, ESPECIALLY the third of a series, are nonsense. So far only Back to the Future 3, Last Crusade and Return of the Jedi have disproved the rule. But JP3 does not. I will be brief, as was the film.
The plot is typically brainless for a sequel, and even with a story it feels as though we're just wandering from one contrived action sequence to the next. The other two films set up conventions (ie these characters die, these don't) and now we know what to expect... so when half the plane crew get eaten, it comes as no surprise.
The cast are passable. Niell and Nivola are excellent, but much as they appear as the only dinosaur experts in the story, they also seem to be the only credible actors. They are surrounded by William H. Macy, doing that-nice-American-guy he does in every film, and Tia Lioni, loud, annoying... B-List! Alan's loathing of being involved is more than felt by us.
And the effects... Personally, I've heard a lot of praise. But why? The computer-dinosaurs really LOOK like computer-dinosaurs, in all their out of place glory. And the model dinosaurs have such slow, jerky movements that make them reminiscent of the stop motion Harryhausen movies that paved the way for Jurassic Park. These effects are awful!
And the Spinosaurus. Included purely for the sake of having another dinosaur, with no explanation (even Niell points out that Spinosaurus shouldn't be there), it is a strange creature, and if it weren't the main monster, we would wonder why it follows the cast throughout. The fight with the T-rex is disconcerting... at this point, I realised I was rooting for the T-rex! It's death more than symbolised the direction this film was taking Jurassic Park.
And the hideously under-developed raptor idea... what was that again? They're intelligent? Clearly forgotten during script-writing, the idea is picked up again at the end for a last minute confrontation. And then a rushed end, everyone is happy, the dinosaurs are back in the jungle where they can't hurt anyone... and we're left wondering what the point was.
Perhaps it's thankful that it was only 90/100 minutes. It was stretched at that, too.
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