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A boy named Eric Kirby ([[Trevor Morgan (actor)|Trevor Morgan]]) and his soon-to-be stepfather, Ben Hildebrand ([[Mark Harelik]]), go on a para-sailing trip off the coast of Isla Sorna. Shortly afterwards, the boat a cloud of fog and something yanks hard on their tether. The fog clears and the two see that the men have dissapeared (there is blood smeared on the boat and the canopy is torn) and the boat is seconds from crashing into rocks. At the last second Ben and Eric free themselves and crash on the island. Scientists Alan Grant ([[Sam Neill]]) and Ellie Sattler ([[Laura Dern]]) have continued their [[paleontological]] careers but are working independently. Ellie is married and has two children while Grant is still digging with his [[protégé]] Billy Brennan ([[Alessandro Nivola]]). While at the dig site, Billy reveals a resonating chamber that he prototyped using a computer program to scan the skull of a velociraptor. Grant is approached by Paul ([[William H. Macy]]) and Amanda Kirby ([[Téa Leoni]]) a wealthy couple who ask Dr. Grant to escort them on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna. Grant initially turns them down, but changes his mind once the Kirby's offer to fund his dig.
A boy named Eric Kirby ([[Trevor Morgan (actor)|Trevor Morgan]]) and his soon-to-be stepfather, Ben Hildebrand ([[Mark Harelik]]), go on a para-sailing trip off the coast of Isla Sorna. Shortly afterwards, with the boat covered in fog, something yanks hard on their tether. The fog clears and the two see that the men have dissapeared (there is blood smeared on the boat and the canopy is torn) and the boat is seconds from crashing into rocks. At the last second Ben and Eric free themselves and crash on the island. Scientists Alan Grant ([[Sam Neill]]) and Ellie Sattler ([[Laura Dern]]) have continued their [[paleontological]] careers but are working independently. Ellie is married and has two children while Grant is still digging with his [[protégé]] Billy Brennan ([[Alessandro Nivola]]). While at the dig site, Billy reveals a resonating chamber that he prototyped using a computer program to scan the skull of a velociraptor. Grant is approached by Paul ([[William H. Macy]]) and Amanda Kirby ([[Téa Leoni]]) a wealthy couple who ask Dr. Grant to escort them on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna. Grant initially turns them down, but changes his mind once the Kirby's offer to fund his dig.


Once over the island, an awestruck Grant (who admitted to having forgot the wonders of seeing live dinosaurs) begins to point out several dinosaurs below when the pilots ask Mr. Kirby about where to land. Alarmed, Dr. Grant protests, but is knocked unconscious by Cooper([[John Diehl (actor)|John Diehl]]), one of the passengers the Kirby's brought along. Dr. Grant wakes when Amanda uses a megaphone to call out to somebody in the jungle, and a roar is heard followed by several gunshots. Nash and Udesky emerge shouting they have to leave. The plane starts down the runway when Cooper suddenly appears, crying for them to stop. Suddenly, a [[Spinosaurus]] dashes in front of the plane, seizing Cooper in its jaws and killing him. As it leaves the ground, the plane grazes the Spinosaurus, sending it out of control into the jungle and stranded up a tree. The Spinosaurus attacks again, tearing off the front of the cockpit, seizing Nash and drops him by accident. Nash tries to crawl away, but the Spinosaurus spots him, crushes him under its foot, killing him, and then devours him. The plane remnant falls to the ground where Grant, Billy, Paul, Amanda, and Udesky are once again assaulted by the dinosaur but they finally escape when it gets its head stuck between two trees. Their luck sours again as they blunder into a [[Tyrannosaurus]] scavenging for food. The tyrannosaur pursues them back into the jungle where the Spinosaurus suddenly reappears. The two dinosaurs engage in territorial battle, with the Spinosaurus emerging victorious having snapped the tyrannosaur's neck. After the group escapes, Grant learns that the Kirby's, who are divorced, are actually searching for their son Eric who was stranded on the island along with Amanda's fiancé, Ben. They dissapeared after a para-sailing accident eight weeks prior and the Costa Rican government nor the U.S. Embassy would help rescue him. Grant decides to leave the Kirby's and head toward the coast in hopes of being rescued. The Kirby's follow, while constantly arguing along the way. They discover the parasail and the video camera containing footage of Ben and Eric's last moments together as well as Ben's remains. Billy salvages the parasail, and the Kirby's discover several nearby [[velociraptor]]s nests.
Once over the island, an awestruck Grant (who admitted to having forgot the wonders of seeing live dinosaurs) begins to point out several dinosaurs below when the pilots ask Mr. Kirby about where to land. Alarmed, Dr. Grant protests, but is knocked unconscious by Cooper([[John Diehl (actor)|John Diehl]]), one of the passengers the Kirby's brought along. Dr. Grant wakes when Amanda uses a megaphone to call out to somebody in the jungle, and a roar is heard followed by several gunshots. Nash and Udesky emerge shouting they have to leave. The plane starts down the runway when Cooper suddenly appears, crying for them to stop. Suddenly, a [[Spinosaurus]] dashes in front of the plane, seizing Cooper in its jaws and killing him. As it leaves the ground, the plane grazes the Spinosaurus, sending it out of control into the jungle and stranded up a tree. The Spinosaurus attacks again, tearing off the front of the cockpit, seizing Nash and drops him by accident. Nash tries to crawl away, but the Spinosaurus spots him, crushes him under its foot, killing him, and then devours him. The plane remnant falls to the ground where Grant, Billy, Paul, Amanda, and Udesky are once again assaulted by the dinosaur but they finally escape when it gets its head stuck between two trees. Their luck sours again as they blunder into a [[Tyrannosaurus]] scavenging for food. The tyrannosaur pursues them back into the jungle where the Spinosaurus suddenly reappears. The two dinosaurs engage in territorial battle, with the Spinosaurus emerging victorious having snapped the tyrannosaur's neck. After the group escapes, Grant learns that the Kirby's, who are divorced, are actually searching for their son Eric who was stranded on the island along with Amanda's fiancé, Ben. They dissapeared after a para-sailing accident eight weeks prior and the Costa Rican government nor the U.S. Embassy would help rescue him. They explain they brought Grant along because of his experence, only to learn he had never been on the island before. Grant decides to leave the Kirby's and head toward the coast in hopes of being rescued. The Kirby's follow, while constantly arguing along the way. They discover the parasail and the video camera containing footage of Ben and Eric's last moments together as well as Ben's remains. Billy salvages the parasail, and the Kirby's discover several nearby [[velociraptor]]s nests.


The group comes across the abandoned InGen compound. They explore the compound and find one of the labs where the dinosaurs were originally created and grown before being shipped off to Isla Nublar. They find artifical hatcheries with shards of eggshells still inside as well as small tanks with the preserved remains of dead infant dinosaurs inside. Amanda is attacked by a male Velociraptor, who had been waiting in ambush behind a vat, appearing to be inside. As they flee, the rest of the raptor pack joins in the pursuit. Udesky gets separated from the others and is attacked by the alpha female Velociraptor, who stabs him with her toe claw. The rest of the group take refuge in a large tree. Amanda tries to help Udesky but nearly falls from the tree. The hidden raptors ambush her, revealing a trap. Failing at their attack, a male raptor snaps Udesky's neck, killing him.
The group comes across the abandoned InGen compound. They explore the compound and find one of the labs where the dinosaurs were originally created and grown before being shipped off to Isla Nublar. They find artifical hatcheries with shards of eggshells still inside as well as small tanks with the preserved remains of dead infant dinosaurs inside. Amanda is attacked by a male Velociraptor, who had been waiting in ambush behind a vat, appearing to be inside. As they flee, the rest of the raptor pack joins in the pursuit. Udesky gets separated from the others and is attacked by the alpha female Velociraptor, who stabs him with her toe claw. The rest of the group take refuge in a large tree. Amanda tries to help Udesky but nearly falls from the tree. The hidden raptors ambush her, revealing it to be a trap. Failing at their attack, a male raptor snaps Udesky's neck, killing him.


Grant is separated and becomes surrounded by four raptors when Eric arrives in the nick of time to rescues him with gas grenades. He has survived on the island since the accident, living in an abandoned water truck. The following morning while trekking through the jungle, Eric recognizes the ringtone of his father's satellite phone. The groups reunite, separated by a high, spiked barrier fence. Paul, puzzled at Eric's explanation as to how he detected them, points out the cell phone was lost when he gave it to Nash. The phone's ringing is heard again, and the group spots the Spinosaurus nearby with the ringing coming from inside its belly. The dinosaur is on Eric and Alan's side of the fence, so the two run in panic and by a stroke of luck, find a hole in the fence which they dive through. The group is reunited, but the Spinosaurus rams through the fence and chases them until they find shelter in another building. Inside, Grant finds out that Billy took two eggs from the raptor nest in hopes of using them to fund their digging. Grant berates Billy, saying that he is "no better than the people who built this place." On the verge of dropping them in the river, Grant hesitates, and replaces the eggs in his backpack. Stunned, Paul Kirby asked "What if they catch us with them?" Grant responds, "What if they catch us without them?"
Grant is separated and becomes surrounded by four raptors, when Eric arrives in the nick of time to rescues him with gas grenades. He has survived on the island since the accident, living in an abandoned water truck. The following morning while trekking through the jungle, Eric recognizes the ringtone of his father's satellite phone. The groups reunite, separated by a high, spiked barrier fence. Paul, puzzled at Eric's explanation as to how he detected them, points out the cell phone was lost when he gave it to Nash. The phone's ringing is heard again, and the group spots the Spinosaurus nearby with the ringing coming from inside its belly. The dinosaur is on Eric and Alan's side of the fence, so the two run in panic and by a stroke of luck, find a hole in the fence which they dive through. The group is reunited, but the Spinosaurus rams through the fence and chases them until they find shelter in another building. Inside, Grant finds out that Billy took two eggs from the raptor nest in hopes of using them to fund their digging. Grant berates Billy, saying that he is "no better than the people who built this place." On the verge of dropping them in the river, Grant hesitates, and replaces the eggs in his backpack. Stunned, Paul Kirby asked "What if they catch us with them?" to which Grant responds, "What if they catch us without them?"


To reach a boat docked in a nearby river, the group must pass through a massive aviary dome. They are attacked by [[Pteranodon]]s, one of which flies away with Eric in its claws. Using the parasail he salvaged, Billy rescues Eric from a nest of Pteranodon infants, but is attacked and overwhelmed by several adults when he gets trapped on a cliff. Billy is attacked into the river, Paul and Alan try to save him but are too late as Billy is carried away to be continuously attacked and presumably killed. The group escapes, but the dome's door is left ajar. The party finds the boat and while navigating down the river hear a phone ringing. This leads them to a dung pile containing the [[satellite phone]] the Spinosaurus had eaten from the plane, which they are forced to sift through by hand in order to recover it. A [[Ceratosaurus]] appears and nearly attacks, but backs off at the last moment upon smelling the dung which it knows marks the territory of the Spinosaurus.
To reach a boat docked in a nearby river, the group must pass through a massive aviary dome. They are attacked by [[Pteranodon]]s, one of which flies away with Eric in its claws. Using the parasail he salvaged, Billy rescues Eric from a nest of Pteranodon infants, but is attacked and overwhelmed by several adults when he gets trapped on a cliff. Billy is attacked into the river, Paul and Alan try to save him but are too late as Billy is carried away to be continuously attacked and presumably killed. The group escapes, but the dome's door is left ajar. The party finds the boat and while navigating down the river hear a phone ringing. This leads them to a dung pile containing the [[satellite phone]] the Spinosaurus had eaten from the plane, which they are forced to sift through by hand in order to recover it. A [[Ceratosaurus]] appears and nearly attacks, but backs off at the last moment upon smelling the dung which it knows marks the territory of the Spinosaurus (as well as stinks like hell).


As the survivors travel down the river, the Spinosaurus emerges from the water and attacks them. Grant attempts to call Dr. Sattler on the satellite phone, but is dragged beneath the surface and can only yell "The river! Site B! The river!". Paul climbs to the top of a nearby crane to distract the monster, and Grant shoots a flare which ignites the oil that has spilled from the boat, scaring away the dinosaur.
As the survivors travel down the river, the Spinosaurus emerges from the water and attacks them. Grant attempts to call Dr. Sattler on the satellite phone, but is dragged beneath the surface and can only yell "The river! Site B! The river!". Paul climbs to the top of a nearby crane to distract the monster, and Grant shoots a flare which ignites the oil that has spilled from the boat, scaring away the dinosaur.

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Jurassic Park III
Movie poster with a logo at center of a skeleton of a Spinosaurus, with its mouth agape and hands lifted up. The background of the logo is red, and right below it is the film's title. A shadow covers a large portion of the movie poster in the shape of a flying Pteranodon. At the bottom of the image are the credits and release date.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJoe Johnston
Screenplay byPeter Buchman
Alexander Payne
Jim Taylor
Produced byLarry J. Franco
Kathleen Kennedy
Steven Spielberg
StarringSam Neill
William H. Macy
Tea Leoni
Alessandro Nivola
Trevor Morgan
Michael Jeter
John Diehl
Bruce A. Young
CinematographyShelly Johnson
Edited byRobert Dalva
Music byDon Davis
Themes:
John Williams
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • July 18, 2001 (2001-07-18)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$93 million[1]
Box office$368,780,809[2]

Jurassic Park III is a 2001 American science fiction film and the third of the Jurassic Park franchise. It is the only film in the series that is neither directed by Steven Spielberg nor based on a book by Michael Crichton, though numerous scenes in the movie were taken from Crichton's two books, Jurassic Park and The Lost World. The film takes place on Isla Sorna in the Central American pacific coast, the island from the second film, after a divorced couple tricks Dr. Alan Grant into helping them find their son.

After the success of Jurassic Park, Joe Johnston asked Steven Spielberg if he could direct the film adaptation of The Lost World, the sequel to Jurassic Park. While Spielberg wanted to do the project, he promised to give the helm of the second sequel to Johnston. Spielberg stayed involved with the film by becoming the executive producer. Three years after the release of The Lost World, production of the third film began in August 2000. Although a commercial success, the film was released to mixed reviews.

Plot

A boy named Eric Kirby (Trevor Morgan) and his soon-to-be stepfather, Ben Hildebrand (Mark Harelik), go on a para-sailing trip off the coast of Isla Sorna. Shortly afterwards, with the boat covered in fog, something yanks hard on their tether. The fog clears and the two see that the men have dissapeared (there is blood smeared on the boat and the canopy is torn) and the boat is seconds from crashing into rocks. At the last second Ben and Eric free themselves and crash on the island. Scientists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) have continued their paleontological careers but are working independently. Ellie is married and has two children while Grant is still digging with his protégé Billy Brennan (Alessandro Nivola). While at the dig site, Billy reveals a resonating chamber that he prototyped using a computer program to scan the skull of a velociraptor. Grant is approached by Paul (William H. Macy) and Amanda Kirby (Téa Leoni) a wealthy couple who ask Dr. Grant to escort them on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna. Grant initially turns them down, but changes his mind once the Kirby's offer to fund his dig.

Once over the island, an awestruck Grant (who admitted to having forgot the wonders of seeing live dinosaurs) begins to point out several dinosaurs below when the pilots ask Mr. Kirby about where to land. Alarmed, Dr. Grant protests, but is knocked unconscious by Cooper(John Diehl), one of the passengers the Kirby's brought along. Dr. Grant wakes when Amanda uses a megaphone to call out to somebody in the jungle, and a roar is heard followed by several gunshots. Nash and Udesky emerge shouting they have to leave. The plane starts down the runway when Cooper suddenly appears, crying for them to stop. Suddenly, a Spinosaurus dashes in front of the plane, seizing Cooper in its jaws and killing him. As it leaves the ground, the plane grazes the Spinosaurus, sending it out of control into the jungle and stranded up a tree. The Spinosaurus attacks again, tearing off the front of the cockpit, seizing Nash and drops him by accident. Nash tries to crawl away, but the Spinosaurus spots him, crushes him under its foot, killing him, and then devours him. The plane remnant falls to the ground where Grant, Billy, Paul, Amanda, and Udesky are once again assaulted by the dinosaur but they finally escape when it gets its head stuck between two trees. Their luck sours again as they blunder into a Tyrannosaurus scavenging for food. The tyrannosaur pursues them back into the jungle where the Spinosaurus suddenly reappears. The two dinosaurs engage in territorial battle, with the Spinosaurus emerging victorious having snapped the tyrannosaur's neck. After the group escapes, Grant learns that the Kirby's, who are divorced, are actually searching for their son Eric who was stranded on the island along with Amanda's fiancé, Ben. They dissapeared after a para-sailing accident eight weeks prior and the Costa Rican government nor the U.S. Embassy would help rescue him. They explain they brought Grant along because of his experence, only to learn he had never been on the island before. Grant decides to leave the Kirby's and head toward the coast in hopes of being rescued. The Kirby's follow, while constantly arguing along the way. They discover the parasail and the video camera containing footage of Ben and Eric's last moments together as well as Ben's remains. Billy salvages the parasail, and the Kirby's discover several nearby velociraptors nests.

The group comes across the abandoned InGen compound. They explore the compound and find one of the labs where the dinosaurs were originally created and grown before being shipped off to Isla Nublar. They find artifical hatcheries with shards of eggshells still inside as well as small tanks with the preserved remains of dead infant dinosaurs inside. Amanda is attacked by a male Velociraptor, who had been waiting in ambush behind a vat, appearing to be inside. As they flee, the rest of the raptor pack joins in the pursuit. Udesky gets separated from the others and is attacked by the alpha female Velociraptor, who stabs him with her toe claw. The rest of the group take refuge in a large tree. Amanda tries to help Udesky but nearly falls from the tree. The hidden raptors ambush her, revealing it to be a trap. Failing at their attack, a male raptor snaps Udesky's neck, killing him.

Grant is separated and becomes surrounded by four raptors, when Eric arrives in the nick of time to rescues him with gas grenades. He has survived on the island since the accident, living in an abandoned water truck. The following morning while trekking through the jungle, Eric recognizes the ringtone of his father's satellite phone. The groups reunite, separated by a high, spiked barrier fence. Paul, puzzled at Eric's explanation as to how he detected them, points out the cell phone was lost when he gave it to Nash. The phone's ringing is heard again, and the group spots the Spinosaurus nearby with the ringing coming from inside its belly. The dinosaur is on Eric and Alan's side of the fence, so the two run in panic and by a stroke of luck, find a hole in the fence which they dive through. The group is reunited, but the Spinosaurus rams through the fence and chases them until they find shelter in another building. Inside, Grant finds out that Billy took two eggs from the raptor nest in hopes of using them to fund their digging. Grant berates Billy, saying that he is "no better than the people who built this place." On the verge of dropping them in the river, Grant hesitates, and replaces the eggs in his backpack. Stunned, Paul Kirby asked "What if they catch us with them?" to which Grant responds, "What if they catch us without them?"

To reach a boat docked in a nearby river, the group must pass through a massive aviary dome. They are attacked by Pteranodons, one of which flies away with Eric in its claws. Using the parasail he salvaged, Billy rescues Eric from a nest of Pteranodon infants, but is attacked and overwhelmed by several adults when he gets trapped on a cliff. Billy is attacked into the river, Paul and Alan try to save him but are too late as Billy is carried away to be continuously attacked and presumably killed. The group escapes, but the dome's door is left ajar. The party finds the boat and while navigating down the river hear a phone ringing. This leads them to a dung pile containing the satellite phone the Spinosaurus had eaten from the plane, which they are forced to sift through by hand in order to recover it. A Ceratosaurus appears and nearly attacks, but backs off at the last moment upon smelling the dung which it knows marks the territory of the Spinosaurus (as well as stinks like hell).

As the survivors travel down the river, the Spinosaurus emerges from the water and attacks them. Grant attempts to call Dr. Sattler on the satellite phone, but is dragged beneath the surface and can only yell "The river! Site B! The river!". Paul climbs to the top of a nearby crane to distract the monster, and Grant shoots a flare which ignites the oil that has spilled from the boat, scaring away the dinosaur.

The next morning, the group is close to shore when the Velociraptor pack reappears, wanting their eggs back. Avoiding any sudden movement, Grant tells the group to get on their knees. He then pulls out the eggs and notices in Billy's bag the raptor's resonating chamber prototype Billy made earlier. Grant imitates a Velociraptor call on the special pipe, which startles the pack. Then, the blades of a helicopter are heard and, disconcerted, the raptors retreat, taking the eggs with them. At the beach, United States Marine Corps helicopters and infantry arrive. The party boards a helicopter where they are reunited with Billy, who was shockingly not killed, only injured, during the Pteranodon attack. As the helicopter departs, three Pteranodons are seen flying off in the distance. Eric asks Grant where they might be going and Grant speculates they are searching for new nesting grounds. The film then ends as the Pteranodons fly off into the clouds.

Cast

Main article: List of Jurassic Park characters
  • Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant: World-famous paleontologist who survived the incident on Isla Nublar and has since developed an extensive and groundbreaking theory concerning raptor intelligence.
  • William H. Macy as Paul Kirby: The owner of a hardware store who poses as a wealthy businessman in order to lure Grant onto Isla Sorna to help search for their son.
  • Téa Leoni as Amanda Kirby: Paul's ex-wife who accompanies the group to Site B, feeling guilty for having lost Eric.
  • Alessandro Nivola as Billy Brennan: A young and overly enthusiastic graduate student from Grant's digsite.
  • Trevor Morgan as Eric Kirby: The 12-year-old son of Paul and Amanda who ends up stranded on Site B for eight weeks, and must fend for himself without Ben Hildebrand.
  • Michael Jeter as Udesky: A meek but sardonic mercenary "booking agent" who travels with his two associates to the island.
  • Bruce A. Young as M.B. Nash: The mercenary pilot.
  • John Diehl as Cooper: A tough mercenary.
  • Laura Dern as Dr. Ellie Sattler: A paleobotanist who also survived Isla Nublar.
  • Taylor Nichols as Mark Degler: Ellie's husband and an expert in treaty law at the US State Department.
  • Mark Harelik as Ben Hildebrand: Amanda's reckless boyfriend.
  • Julio Oscar Mechoso as Enrique Cardoso: The owner and operator of the illegal "Dino-Soar" para-sailing service, which offers to take tourists close to Site B so they can see the dinosaurs.
  • Blake Michael Bryan as Charlie Degler: The three-year-old son of Ellie and Mark, who thinks of Alan Grant as "The Dinosaur Man".
  • Sarah Danielle Madison as Cheryl Logan: A graduate student who flirts with Billy at Grant's dig site in Montana.
  • Linda Park as Hannah: Ellie's assistant whose duties include dealing with Tom, Ellie's editor.

Production

Joe Johnston had been interested in directing the sequel to Jurassic Park and approached friend Steven Spielberg about the project. While Spielberg wanted to direct the first sequel, he agreed that if there was ever a third film, Johnston could direct.[3] The third film was greenlit in August 1999 and was based on a story by Steven Spielberg, featuring Alan Grant after having lived in a tree on one of the islands and studied the dinosaur population. Johnston never had any concrete concept for the third installment, other than stating the film would be "more stand-alone" and feature a lot of flying reptiles.[4]

New writers were brought in to scribe a story involving Pteranodon escaping from Site B and causing a rash of mysterious killings on the mainland, which was to be investigated by Alan Grant and a number of other characters including wealthy Paul Roby and his teenage son Miles, Paul's love interest, Billy Brennan, a naturalist named Simone, and a tough Military Attache. Grant's group was to track the Pterosaurs back to Site B and crash on the island, while a parallel investigation was carried out on the mainland. Supposedly, the aviary sequence and laboratory set piece were much longer and more complex, including raptors stealthily entering the hatchery while the team spent the night. Sets, costumes, and props were built for this version, before Johnston threw out the completed script five weeks before filming in order to pursue the "rescue mission" plot, which was suggested by David Koepp.[3] Also during the pre-production phase, concept artists created advertising for the film using a number of working titles including Jurassic Park: Extinction and Jurassic Park: Breakout.[5]

Production began on August 30, 2000[6] without a finished script, with filming in California, Oahu, and Molokai.[7] Although it is an original story, not based on a Michael Crichton novel, it does contain minor scenes from Crichton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World novels that were not featured in the film versions, such as the Pteranodon aviary and the use of the boat. In a change from the first two films, Spinosaurus replaced T. Rex as the main antagonist.[8] As to why Spinosaurus was chosen for such a role, Johnston stated, "A lot of dinosaurs have a very similar silhouette to the T-Rex... and we wanted the audience to instantly recognize this as something else."[9] Baryonyx was originally considered to be the "big bad" before Spinosaurus was chosen. Within film dialog, Billy interprets the animal encountered as a Baryonyx or Suchomimus, but Dr. Grant corrects his analysis based on its sail.[3] The Spinosaurus in the film however is slightly inaccurate, particularly in the structure of its head and dentition, which more closely match that of Suchomimus than Spinosaurus. Additionally, the film perpetuates the error of its two predecessors with regards to the size of its Velociraptors, which are roughly two to three times the size of velociraptor and much closer in size to Deinonychus.[citation needed]

The special effects used for the dinosaurs are a mixture of animatronics and CGI. The portrayal of several dinosaurs differs from that of the previous two films. Due to new discoveries and theories in the field of paleontology suggesting that Velociraptors were feathered, the male Velociraptors in the film have quill-like structures on the head and neck. "We've found evidence that Velociraptors had feathers, or feather-like structures, and we've incorporated that into the new look of the raptor," said paleontologist Jack Horner, technical adviser on the film.[9]

It has also been rumoured that Joe Johnston had planned on creating a much more action packed ending which involved a big fight on the beach where the characters were rescued, this was said to have been blocked by Universal Studios on the grounds of cost, and so the ending had to be changed to what it is now. The score was composed by Don Davis, who was recommended by John Williams who was busy with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone which was released later the same year. Williams also contributed new themes to the score.

Release

The film earned $181,171,875 in the United States and $368,780,809 worldwide and was the eighth highest grossing film of the year worldwide,[2] but still earned less than either of its predecessors. As with the other films in the franchise, there was a large marketing push, including seven video games[10] and a novelization aimed at young children.[11] The film made its VHS and DVD debut on December 11, 2001.[12] The DVD has also been re-released with both sequels on December 11, 2001[13] as the Jurassic Park Trilogy, and as the Jurassic Park Adventure Pack on November 29, 2005.[14] The film has also been released alongside Hulk.[15] The soundtrack was released on July 10, 2001.[16] A blu-ray release of the film will only be available via the Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy (blu-ray and DVD) which is planned to be released on October 25, 2011 by Universal Studios in North America.

Scott Ciencin wrote three children's books to tie-in with the film; the first detailed the eight weeks Eric spent alone on Isla Sorna;[17] the second had Eric and Alan returning to Isla Sorna to rescue a group of teenage filmmakers;[18] and the last involved Eric and Alan leading the Pteranodons home after they nest in a Universal theme park.[19]

Reception

Jurassic Park III received mixed reviews from critics. It is currently ranked with a 50% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 156 reviews counted.[20] Worse yet it has a 29% rating among their Top Critics.[21] It also has a 42% on Metacritic.[22] Empire magazine gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, commenting that it was "Short, scrappy and intermittently scary, this sequel skews young. It lacks the scale, the chills and the wonder of the original, but is more fun as a thrill ride than its sequel predecessor..."[23] Other critics were split over whether the third installment of the series was better or worse than the second. Jeffrey Westhoff of the Northwest Herald felt that it was worse, remarking that "Johnston inherits the series one film too late."[24] However, Ben Varkontine called it "not as good a ride as the first", but "better than the second."[25] Much of the criticism was leveled at the plot as simply a chase movie with no character development, with some going so far as to say it was "almost the same as the first movie" with "no need for new ideas or even a script".[26] There were also complaints about its short length and small cast. On Ebert and Roeper, Richard Roeper gave it Thumbs Down while Roger Ebert awarded a Thumbs Up.[27] In a subsequent review, Ebert called it "the best blockbuster of the Summer".[28]

The movie was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film and Best Special Effects.[29] For its shortcomings, it was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for "Worst Remake or Sequel".[30]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jurassicpark3.htm
  2. ^ a b "Jurassic Park III (2001)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2009-03-05.
  3. ^ a b c The Making of Jurassic Park III. Universal Pictures. 2005. {{cite AV media}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  4. ^ "Spielberg dodges directing 'Jurassic 3'". CNN. Archived from the original on December 6, 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
  5. ^ Jurassic Park III (DVD). 2001.
  6. ^ "Jurassic Park III". British Film Institute. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
  7. ^ "Jurassic Park III". Hollywood.com. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
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