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Jurassic Park III [Region 2] | ![Jurassic Park III [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aK3STODPL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Joe Johnston
Actors: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan
Category: DVD
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Rating:  696 reviews
Sales Rank: 259120
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 9022919
EAN: 3259190229198
ASIN: B00005NFLB
Theatrical Release Date: July 18, 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, Téa Leoni) convince paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his protégé (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
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 CG that has evolved into a B-list island horror movie... February 1, 2010
Nikki (USA)
Oh I bet I wasn't the only one that was looking forward to this when the trailer came out. Jurassic Park holds a special place in my heart. It terrorized me when I was little and now I absolutely adore it. The first two movies together are a suburb example of CG integrated into the realistic and gritty look of movies made in the mid-90's. Jurassic Park 3 apparently ignored what had made the first two so good and loses much of that movie magic.
So yes, we're going back to the island. Sam Neill makes a re-appearance as Alan Grant and is paid to go back to the islands in order to fund his research. Now first off on a personal note, I HATED how Alan and Ellie didn't end up together. Call me a snotty romantic, but I loved how in the first movie there wasn't an emphasis on their relationship. Instead they act like a real compatible couple, understanding each others actions without words or drawn-out speeches. Right from this first scene I knew the movie was in trouble.
Once at the island they go through the typical dinosaur chases as Alan is led by a married couple looking for their son. Here's the main problem with this plot line. There isn't anything particularly 'dinosaur' about these people. The other movies befitted from having experts as lead characters, allowing for the sorta believable accident of something going wrong. With normal people the whole affair comes off as a B-list island horror movie.
We see this heavily in the action sequences. In movies 1 and 2 everyone has at least some sense of what they are doing. Whether or not they make the right decision is par for the course, but at least the generally know how to the get out. In Jurassic Park 3 however each dinosaur chase is too-over blown with a de-emphasis on the whole human intelligence. For example in the kitchen scene of the first movie, everything slows down enough for the audience to grasp exactly how smart the velociraptors are so when Lex and Tim succeed in surviving we are genially moved. On the flip-side in the Jurassic Park 3, we don't really understand what the significance of that duck-billed T-rex really is. Alan only briefly mentions it and its action sequences are too fast for us to really get a sense of tension and danger.
So in summary I didn't really like this movie. Unlike Lost World, this sequel doesn't add anything new to the Jurassic Park universe and we would have been better without it. As a horror action-movie it was well done, but it just doesn't stand-up to its predecessors.
 great movie January 30, 2010
Vicki Stephens
i really like this one my daughter love this movie and even my nephew loves this movie, he loves to play with dinosaurs. he has two dinosaurs right now (toys) thanks amazon
Jurassic Park III (Widescreen Collector's Edition) January 28, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Anxious to fund research for his new theory of velociraptor intelligence, renowned paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant is persuaded by wealthy adventurer Paul Kirby and his wife Amanda to accompany them on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna. This infamous island, once InGen's site B, has become both a primordial breeding ground for John Hammond's magnificent creations and a magnet for thrill-seekers eager to encounter them. When a tragic accident maroons the party of seven, Grant discovers the true reason his deceptive hosts have invited him along. In their perilous attempt to escape, the dwindling group encounters terrifying new creatures undisclosed by InGen, and Grant is forced to learn the dreadful implications of his raptor intelligence theory firsthand. This movie is extremely fast paced and holds your attention throughout the entire movie. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Strongly recommended.
 Will Something Please Eat Tea Leoni? January 8, 2010
The JuRK (Our Vast, Cultural Desert)
One of the things that drove me up the wall about JURASSIC PARK III was the script's insistence that families--no matter how selfish, stupid and ill-equipped they may be--will always survive. And because of that dogma, the script loses me and the dinosaurs are not a threat at all.
I could accept the son surviving 8 weeks on the Site B island...but the parents were just useless. If anyone should've been eaten by the big dinosaurs, it was the obnoxious mother yelling her son's name all over an island crawling with prehistoric predators (shouting with a bullhorn at one point!). Does she get killed? Not a chance! The heavily-armed mercenaries get it one by one...but not the loud mother crashing through the brush. You just know that no harm will ever come to certain characters in this movie...so the dinosaurs don't become a threat after the last mercenary is killed and eaten.
Everything is perfunctory. And harmless.
If they're going to bother to continue this series...please...let dinosaurs be dinosaurs.
Mediocrity in movie form January 6, 2010
M. B. Vrba
This movie is terrible plain and simple. Essentially all the characters from this movie are completely ridiculous, unlikeable, and unrealistic. It would be difficult to make a more unimaginative and stupid plot. I was thoroughly and utterly dissapointed by this film and can comfortably say without hyperbole that it is the worst sequel I have ever seen. Stay away if you have even a slightly sophisticated palate.
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