Wealthy entrepreneur John Hammond is about to open a theme park like none ever seen before. Named Jurassic Park (despite many of its inhabitants not being from the Jurassic period), Hammonds new attraction contains dinosaurs cloned from DNA from blood found in mosquitoes from the period which were encased in amber and remained intact to the present day. Among the dinosaurs are carnivores including velociraptor, and tyrannosaurus.
Now you may think that if you were going to start cloning dinosaurs you would start with the friendlier kinds first, and try out some more potentially person-eating varieties later on when you were sure it was safe. But one has to have exciting attractions to bring people out after all. Besides, all the dinosaurs are safely kept behind electrified metal fences.
At any rate, Hammond invites a lawyer (Gerrano), mathematician (Malcolm), dinosaur expert (Grant), palaeobotanist (Sattler), and his grandchildren (Tim & Lex) to come take a look at the park and its specimens before the grand opening. Things are going smoothly enough when one of Hammonds employee's, in the pay of a rival company, tries to steal samples of the dinosaur DNA and accidentally shuts down the parks security system in his effort to escape with the loot. Now the lot of them have to escape from the park while avoiding an array of hungry dinosaurs which are now essentially roaming free.
When Jurassic Park was released in 1993, it was a smash hit which was followed by an immense marketing campaign, a line of toys, two sequels, and a ride at Universal Studios. Based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel, to date it is the 15th highest grossing film ever. It stood much higher on that list before being pushed down the list by a number of recent films.
With really cool and realistic looking animatronic dinosaurs, memorable scenes like t-rex attacking the Jeep, the dilophosaurus attack, and the velociraptor chase, Jurassic Park earned its place as one of the greatest dinosaur movies ever made. The only question remaining is, have these guys seen it?
4.5 misguided trips to the outhouse out of 5
Rated PG-13 for intense science fiction terror.
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