I recommend watching "JP3" during a night of heavy drinking, otherwise you'll keep asking too many questions, too many logical questions. This movie certainly won't be able to answer any of them for you. Except for maybe one: Yes, at least it's better than "The Lost World." Ooh, and maybe another one: "So this is what happens when you shoot a movie without a finished script."
If you knew that big, man-eating reptiles inhabited a certain spot in a certain place in the world, wouldn't you have the common sense to stay as far away from that place as possible? OK, well, neither did anyone in this movie, namely Eric Kirby (Trevor Morgan), who decides to go
PARASAILING within close proximity to Isla Sorna, the *other* island where genetically revived dinosaurs are running around. Eric is then inexplicably surprised when he's attacked by some big scary flying creatures and must make an emergency landing. His parents, Paul and Amanda (played by the always brilliant Bill H. Macy and the consistently irritating Tea Leoni), decide to go to Isla Sorna to rescue their son.
At least those two show some semblance of brain power and realize they'll need help, so under false pretenses they lure Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and one of his students, Billy (Alessandro Nivola), away from yet another under-funded dig in Montana, to help them in their search. The Kirby's also hire some extraneous folks from Rent-a-Mercenary.com, because the dinosaurs have to eat someone.
If you can sit through the boring first half hour of this movie you're golden. Once everyone gets to the island things start to heat up and at least there are some pretty-looking CG animals to keep you occupied. Another thing that may help ease the pain: leave your sense of logic at home. At no time did I ever believe the public at large would allow an island like this to exist, especially since there are dinosaurs living there that can FLY AWAY if they want to.
Anyway, back to the effects. Since that T-Rex is just *SO* '93, we now have a Spinosaurus, which resembles a giant duck. However, the Tyrannasaurus does end up making an appearance, during which it has a pretty intense fight with Dino-Mallard.
Also making another go at stardom are those super-brained Raptors, now enabled with the gift of squawk-speak (oh, right, that whole bird theory again). In addition, for those disappointed with their absence in the first movie, there are plenty of winged Pteranodons, a glimpse of what happens when good pelicans go bad. Actually, most of this movie *looks* good, that is if it relates to the dinosaurs. Industrial Light & Magic couldn't be bothered with the other effects, so they were probably done by "the new kid", who worked on them at home using his Macintosh G4 and a flatbed scanner.
The weak side of this movie (well, one of the weak sides) lies in the lack of real story: "Kid crashes on island, parents crash on island, parents try to find kid on island. Chaos ensues." Wasn't that kind of like the first two movies? Dr. Grant is too busy lecturing everyone on the evils of making giant ducks to leave any breath for constructive thinking, and Billy is too preoccupied with the "wow" factor that made the first "JP" so magical. The others in the group are just a little too dumb to do much of anything at all.
So the film rambles along its little road of action sequences followed by more action sequences (but they're at least good sequences), until it ends up running on vapors for the last 15 minutes. At this point, all the effects have outstayed their welcome, and we all just want to go home.
My grades for "Jurassic Park 3" (New grading system! So exciting!):
action: A- plot: C- acting: C special effects: B average overall grade: C+
If you knew that big, man-eating reptiles inhabited a certain spot in a certain place in the world, wouldn't you have the common sense to stay as far away from that place as possible? OK, well, neither did anyone in this movie, namely Eric Kirby (Trevor Morgan), who decides to go
PARASAILING within close proximity to Isla Sorna, the *other* island where genetically revived dinosaurs are running around. Eric is then inexplicably surprised when he's attacked by some big scary flying creatures and must make an emergency landing. His parents, Paul and Amanda (played by the always brilliant Bill H. Macy and the consistently irritating Tea Leoni), decide to go to Isla Sorna to rescue their son.
At least those two show some semblance of brain power and realize they'll need help, so under false pretenses they lure Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and one of his students, Billy (Alessandro Nivola), away from yet another under-funded dig in Montana, to help them in their search. The Kirby's also hire some extraneous folks from Rent-a-Mercenary.com, because the dinosaurs have to eat someone.
If you can sit through the boring first half hour of this movie you're golden. Once everyone gets to the island things start to heat up and at least there are some pretty-looking CG animals to keep you occupied. Another thing that may help ease the pain: leave your sense of logic at home. At no time did I ever believe the public at large would allow an island like this to exist, especially since there are dinosaurs living there that can FLY AWAY if they want to.
Anyway, back to the effects. Since that T-Rex is just *SO* '93, we now have a Spinosaurus, which resembles a giant duck. However, the Tyrannasaurus does end up making an appearance, during which it has a pretty intense fight with Dino-Mallard.
Also making another go at stardom are those super-brained Raptors, now enabled with the gift of squawk-speak (oh, right, that whole bird theory again). In addition, for those disappointed with their absence in the first movie, there are plenty of winged Pteranodons, a glimpse of what happens when good pelicans go bad. Actually, most of this movie *looks* good, that is if it relates to the dinosaurs. Industrial Light & Magic couldn't be bothered with the other effects, so they were probably done by "the new kid", who worked on them at home using his Macintosh G4 and a flatbed scanner.
The weak side of this movie (well, one of the weak sides) lies in the lack of real story: "Kid crashes on island, parents crash on island, parents try to find kid on island. Chaos ensues." Wasn't that kind of like the first two movies? Dr. Grant is too busy lecturing everyone on the evils of making giant ducks to leave any breath for constructive thinking, and Billy is too preoccupied with the "wow" factor that made the first "JP" so magical. The others in the group are just a little too dumb to do much of anything at all.
So the film rambles along its little road of action sequences followed by more action sequences (but they're at least good sequences), until it ends up running on vapors for the last 15 minutes. At this point, all the effects have outstayed their welcome, and we all just want to go home.
My grades for "Jurassic Park 3" (New grading system! So exciting!):
action: A- plot: C- acting: C special effects: B average overall grade: C+
Tell Your Friends