Jurassic Park Trilogy

Cast

Dr. Alan Grant                                     Sam Neill

Dr. Ellie Sattler                                     Laura Dern

Dr. Ian Malcolm                                   Jeff Goldblum

John Hammond                                    Richard Attenborough

Lex Murphy                                         Ariana Richards

Tim Murphy                                         Joseph Mazzello

Robert Muldoon                                   Bob Peck

Dennis Nedry                                       Wayne Knight

Ray Arnold                                           Samuel L. Jackson

Dr. Sarah Harding                                 Julianne Moore

Nick Van Owen                                   Vince Vaughn

Roland Tembo                                      Pete Postlethwaite

Kelly Curtis Malcolm                            Vanessa Lee Chester

Peter Ludlow                                        Arliss Howard

Billy Brennan                                        Slessandro Nivola

Paul Kirby                                            William H. Macy

Amanda Kirby                                      Tea Leoni

Eric Kirby                                             Trevor Morgan

Jurassic Park (1993)

            When two archeologist, Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler, are invited to a secret island to give a review on a Amusement park owned by John Hammond. When they arrive they find out that Hammond is able to recreate Dinosaurs using their blood found in mosquitos. They also meet up with Hammond’s two grandchildren, Lex and Tim Murphy, and Dr. Ian Malcolm, a chaos theory scientist. Hammond sends them on a tour of the park, but during the tour something goes terrible wrong and the dinosaurs become free and start attacking the group. They are forced to fight for their life as they seek safety.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

            This one starts out with John Hammond, who has now changed to an environmentalist, losing control of his company. He is wanting to capture the dinosaurs in their natural habitat (Which is on a different island then the first film) so that it can be preserved. So he hires a team including Ian Malcolm. At first Ian Malcolm is hesitant to go but when he finds out that one of the other people on the team is his current girlfriend, Sarah Harding, he sets out to save her. However once they get on the island they find out that there is another team there to capture dinosaurs. They sabotage this other group and as a result both groups become stuck on the island. The only way out is though using the phones at the center of the island which. And so both teams make their way together to the island, getting attacked along there way.

Jurassic Park 3 (2001)

            Jurassic Park 3 starts out with 2 rich people (The Kirby’s) hiring Dr. Alan Grant to give them a tour of the island from The Lost World. He agrees and him and his assistant, Billy Brennan, leave to give this couple a tour from the air. However they soon find out that the Kirby’s had lied to him and where really searching for their son who got stuck on the island a few months before. Once they land they are almost immediately attacked by a dinosaur and while they are try to take off crash. They then most make their way to a boat in order to get off the island. While trying to do this they run into the Kirby’s son and a more dinosaur’s. They are however rescued from the island in the end.

REVIEW

            This series has a great start in Jurassic park. The first movie starts out strong, leading you into this large fantasy world where dinosaurs exist. Then once you get into this world and start to feel connected to the characters everything starts to go wrong. You actually feel connected to the characters grasping the edge of your seat in fear for the characters. The movie ends and you feel satisfied with what you just saw. But that all ends soon enough.

            While the second movie tries to make you feel connected to the characters, you end up not caring that much about them. In fact if it wasn’t for Jeff Goldblum, who was in the first film, you wouldn’t care about them at all. When people start dying you just laugh because it’s so ridicules. So much that in one scene a person yells “Don’t go into the long grass”(ignore the end) after realizing its velociraptors territory, then immediately runs into the long grass. At this point I literally said out loud, “WHY?!” he could have easily turned around and went the other way.

            By the third movie, Jurassic Park 3, it seems the people and the plot didn’t even matter. After the first 15 minutes of the film it seems all that happens is the group of people being chased by some dinosaur. I can’t help but remember that Office episode where Michael talks about his improve and says “Think about this: what is the most excitingthing that can happen on TV or in movies, or in real life? Somebody has a gun.That's why I always start with a gun, because you can't top it. You just can't.” This must have been what the writers where thinking when the wrote the Jurassic Park 3, what is the most exciting thing that can happen on TV or in movies, or in real life? Somebody gets chased by a dinosaur. Let’s do that, let’s do a lot of that.

            Overall I give the serious as a whole 6 out of 10 for lazier and lazier writing. However on an individual scale the first would have received an 8, the second a 5.5, and the third a 5.