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film follows two dinosaur experts; Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and
Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) as they are invited by eccentric millionaire
John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to preview his new amusement park
on an island off the coast of Costa Rica. By cloning DNA harvested
from pre-historic
insects, Hammond has been able to create living dinosaurs for his
new Jurassic Park, an immense animal preserve housing real Brachiosaurs,
Dilophosaurs, Triceratops, Velociraptors, and a Tyrannosaur Rex. Accompanied
by cynical scientist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), they are sent on
a tour through Hammond's new resort in computer controlled touring
cars. But as a tropical storm hits the island, knocking out the power
supply, the park is sabotaged, and the dinosaurs start to rage out
of control. Grant then has to bring Hammond's grandchildren (Ariana
Richards and Joseph Mazzello) back to him safety as the group is pursued
by the gigantic man-eating beasts. --Steven Spielberg's phenomenally
successful sci-fi adventure thriller is graced by state-of-the-art
special effects from the team of Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael
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when you'd think that scientists would realize dinosaurs and humans
don't mix, along comes The Lost World: Jurassic Park to prove you
wrong. In this sequel, John Hammond
(Richard Attenborough) summons chaos theorist and onetime colleague
Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) to his home with some startling information,
while nearly everything at his Jurassic Park had been destroyed, engineers
were also operating a second site, where other dinosaurs had been
kept in hiding. Hammond has learned the dinosaurs on the second island
are alive and well and even breeding; Hammond wants Malcolm to observe
and document the reptiles before Hammond's financiers can get to them.
Malcolm declares he had enough of the dinosaurs the first time out,
but he ends up making the trip when he finds out that his girlfriend,
paleontologist Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore), is already there on
the island. However, Ian and Sarah aren't the only visitors expected
on the island; a camera crew led by ecological activist Nick Van Owen
(Vince Vaughn) is on the way, as is Roland Tembo (Pete Postlethwaite),
a world-class wild game hunter who is supposed to round up the dinosaurs
and who hopes to bag a T-Rex as a trophy for himself in the process.
--Steven Spielberg has done another outstanding job with this amazing
sequel to Jurassic Park that boasted
even more impressive special effects than the first film.
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their plane crash-lands, it's revealed that the Kirbys (William H.
Macy, Tea Leoni) are actually seeking their teenage son, lost on the
island after a paragliding accident. Trapped on Isla Sorna, Grant
(Sam Neill) and his companions discover some painful truths the hard
way. Among their discoveries: some of the scaly creatures possess
more advanced communicative abilities than previously believed, the
dreaded Tyrannosaurus Rex has a larger and more lethal competitor,
and flying Pteranodons pose an even graver threat than some of their
land-locked brethren. --Jurassic Park III is the first in the series
not to be based upon a novel by original author Michael Crichton and
is also the only one in the series not directed by Steven Spielberg.
Loaded with outstounding special effects, it one great ride.
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