Jurassic Park III (Widescreen Collector's Edition) | 
| Director: Joe Johnston
Actors: William H. Macy, Tea Leoni, Sam Neill, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  689 reviews
Sales Rank: 9669
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D21101D
UPC: 025192110122
EAN: 0025192110122
ASIN: B00003CXXS
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: December 11, 2001
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Surpassing expectations to qualify as an above-average sequel, Jurassic Park III is nothing more or less than a satisfying popcorn adventure. A little cheesier than the first two Jurassic blockbusters, it's a big B movie with big B-list stars (including Laura Dern, briefly reprising her Jurassic Park role), and eight years of advancing computer-generated-image technology give it a sharp edge over its predecessors. While adopting the jungle spirit of King Kong, the movie refines Michael Crichton's original premise, and its dinosaurs are even more realistic, their behavior more detailed, and their variety--including flying pteranodons and a new villain, the spinosaurus--more dazzling and threatening than ever. These advancements justify the sequel, and its contrived plot is just clever enough to span 90 minutes without wearing out its welcome. Posing as wealthy tourists, an adventurous couple (William H. Macy, Tea Leoni) convince paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his protege (Allesandro Nivola) to act as tour guides on a flyover trip to Isla Sorna, the ill-fated "Site B" where all hell broke loose in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In truth, they're on a search-and-rescue mission to find their missing son (Trevor Morgan), and their plane crash is just the first of several enjoyably suspenseful sequences. Director Joe Johnston (October Sky) embraces the formulaic plot as a series of atmospheric set pieces, placing new and familiar dinosaurs in misty rainforests, fiery lakes, and mysterious valleys, turning JP3 into a thrill ride with impressive highlights (including a T. rex versus spinosaurus smack-down), adequate doses of wry humor (from the cowriters of Election), and an upbeat ending that's corny but appropriate, proving that the symptoms of sequelitis needn't be fatal. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
Adventure runs wild when renowned paleontologist dr. Alan grant agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer and his wife on an aerial tour of isla sorna ingens former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures. But when theyre terrifyingly stranded dr. Grant discovers that his hosts are not what they seem. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/24/2004 Starring: Sam Neill Tea Leoni Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Joe Johnston
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As good as you could expect! June 19, 2009
JP (Springfield, Illinois USA)
This is my favorite of the Jurassic Park movies, which is unusual in that it is a sequel.
Great story line, great acting and believable characters with enough depth to keep you involved and in suspense... and the dinos are excellently done.
Spinosaurus is of course hands down the star of the show, and perhaps I'm a bit biased since its just a really cool animal to watch.
I'll give it five stars although I do have to wonder why this poor Spino animal is so bound and determined to get at these guys, who can't present much of a meal compared to the other fare on the island (not to mention still hungry after eating a 50 ton Tyrannosaurus early in the movie, being shot at, at and at one point even doused in alcohol and burned alive). But, hey.
I'm also slightly irritated by the fact that all the Jurassic Park dinos in all the movies have identical butts sticking way up in the air and synchronized twiddly tails, they look like computer point and click copies of each other in large groups.
I have to ask: Why are all the two legged dinosaurs always stooped so low, with their tails higher their heads?
Balance-schmalance. Surely if an animal learns to walk on two legs, its so that it can walk around with its head up high and have a good view around.....not much use walking on two legs and being stooped in the exact same four-leg position, way down at park human-grabbing height.
ah well. What do I know?
jurassic park 3 April 10, 2009
miss georgia
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Much Better Than Its Reputation; Short & Fun March 2, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This final episode in the Jurassic series did not deserve all the bad reviews it got when it was released. In fact, it was a lot more enjoyable than the stupid second JP. Did it equal the first? No, of course not. The original story was easily the best of the three, but I found this an enjoyable movie and far better than what I had been led to believe.
The filmmakers were smart in making this a short film. People had seen plenty of the dinosaurs by now so let's no overdo it...and they didn't with an film just under an hour-and-a-half (not including the final credits.).
That made this short-and-sweet. We saw some new reptiles, had a few scares, enjoyed the beautiful jungle scenery (filmed in Hawaii) and - bang - it's over. The characters were fine, nobody totally annoying as in the second film. The lulls featured a family getting back together and finding their missing teen. Nothing wrong with that.
A good story unfairly maligned and nice, short evening of entertainment.
 A Worthy Sequel To Jurassic Park October 8, 2008
Sir Moneybags McBigballs the 3rd (Oxfordvilletonshireburg)
Unlike the first sequel, which I prefer to call 'Jurassic Farce', the third installment in the Dino-Thriller Series actually earns the right to call itself 'Jurassic Park'.
Tight pacing and a few new dino's keep this film exciting even if some of the story is tad preposterous. The T-Rex and the Raptors return to menace Grant and his new friends but the real star of the show is an even bigger badder 'meat-a-saurus' with a name I can't pronounce.
Fans of the books will recognize some elements drawn from the novels but left out of the two previous films. The Aviary finally makes an appearance and the island where the film takes place seems to be modeled after 'Site B'. However ,the majority of the plot and all of the characters (with the exception of Grant) are new entries into the Jurassic Park saga.
A film that, in my opinion, replaces the disastrous first sequel and redeems the Jurassic Park brand. Unlike a lot of so called 'collectors editions' this DVD has lots of extras, behind the scenes, making of, commentary etc.
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