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For while it all seems very nice to be able to wander through
fields filled with vegetarian dinosaurs, it would come as
a hell of a shock to be skipping along through the daisies
only to run smack into a pack of brutes that would munch you
in two before you could blink.
It's pretty scary stuff and master film-maker Steven Spielberg
doesn't pull punches when it comes to showing you what would
happen if man and dinosaur were to be on the same world at
the same time.
If you haven't heard the plot you must have been trapped
in amber for some time but, basically, it is about a man's
dream to build a giant dinosaur theme park where people can
view the brought-back-from-being-extinct creatures.
Of course, despite the best laid plans, things go wrong and
a group of scientists, staff and youngsters is trapped with
the monsters free to make a meal of them. Jurassic Park
is the first hi-tech movie that completely depends upon computers
and the exceptional talents of Industrial Light and Magic.
The bridge from clay-model animation, even of an extremely
sophisticated sort, to that of computer-generated dinosaurs,
is a leap beyond what had been the cutting edge of film-making.
In fact, when history views this movie, it will be seen
as the un-missing link of film evolution. As you watch the
characters play out their parts, the seamless interaction
between humans and computer-generated dinosaurs will have
you spellbound.
This is because the melding of the two is so well done that
you think you are in the middle of a stampeding horde of quicklyrunningosauruses,
avoiding the jaws of terriblelizardosauruses, the ambushes
of i'mnotraptoredbytheseosaureses and even ohopetheydidntsauruses.
Whatever the situation, Jurassic Park is a really
enjoyable and exciting scientific what-if, where the plausibility
levels are low, but the what-the-heck-let's-get-into-this
levels are high.
The believability of the plot is aided by the use of top-rate
actors, but not your high-profile Tom Pitts, Brad Cruises,
Gwyneth Kidmans or Nicole Paltrows. No, in this box-office
smash the leads are the most excellent Sam Neill, Laura Dern,
Jeff Goldblum and the highly non-animal Attenborough - Richard.
This is a DVD worthy of any collection.
Conclusion: Movie 85%, Extras 85%
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