Jurassic Park Adventure Pack (Jurassic Park / The Lost World: Jurassic Park / Jurassic Park III)
by Joe Johnston
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Actor: Blake Michael Bryan, Bruce French, John Diehl, Laura Dern, Rona BensonDirector: Joe Johnston
Brand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Dubbed)
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 349 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-29
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Jurassic Park Adventure Pack (Jurassic Park / The Lost World: Jurassic Park / Jurassic Park III)
Movie Review: Kids Love these movies and they are even tolerable for adults
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know if there are actually people who have not seen these movies but if your one of them, you should check them out, especially if you have kids.
I originally purchased this set as an addition to my husband's HUGE DVD collection. However, before he had a chance to watch them my nephews then 4 and 6 borrowed them, loved them, watched them repeatedly (without adult supervision, I might add) and when we got them back the box was crushed, the DVD's themselves were scratched and had lots of little candy coated fingerprints on them. So... we gave that set to the older boy who was the most interested in them at the time. I then replaced the set for my husband, who maybe watched it once. Now my nephews are 7 and 10 and come here after school everyday. The younger boy is nuts about the Jurassic Park movies and begs to watch them at least three times a week. So he has been watching them repeatedly and always with my supervision and help in getting the DVD's into and out of the player, my husband is really fanatical about his DVD's he makes sure everyone knows the proper way to hold them (by the sides with fingers not touching the bottom or top. My nephew gets stuck on certain one's, for a month he will want to watch only the first one, then he changes and wants to watch only the second one, he isn't all that crazy about the third one at all but will watch it, if I won't let him watch the other two. The reason I don't want him watching the same one's over and over is because it seems that DVD's have a "shelf-life" for want of a better word. They begin to skip if watched too many times and this isn't just with the Jurassic Park movies, there are many DVD's in our collection that the boy's have fallen in love with and wanted to watch every day or all day over and over and those movies all begin to skip. I never noticed this until I had kid's around alot and they watched movies repeatedly and I will reiterate, I do not let them handle the DVD's themselves and it isn't the DVD player because we have three and I have at times let them watch the same movie repeatedly on the same DVD player and on different one's. So I hope that the Blu-ray DVD's are made better or that they start making regular DVD's better because I just had to buy my husband a THIRD set of Jurassic Park movies and gave the old set to my youngest nephew. He will of course not be allowed to watch the new set, but I fear one of these days the old set will not only skip but stop working all together, hopefully he will have moved on to a new movie by then because I can't replace this set too many more times or I am going to go broke. Although, the price on this set is very good, I think I paid $60 for the set the first time I bought it and around $40 the second, so $14.99 this time was a real blessing and it's even widescreen.
Of all of the movies that my nephews get enamored with, the Jurassic Park set is one of my favorites because not only are they appropriate for the kid's and even somewhat educational but they are also quite tolerable for adults, even entertaining. I often find myself sitting down and watching them with them, for the 100th time. I am trying at this point to get them to listen to me read them the books. I read Jurassic Park and The Lost World (only two books, not three) years ago and loved them, so now that my nephews love the movies so much and I am trying to instill a love of books in them, I thought this would be one of those opportune times to slip a book in and show them how much fun reading can be. So if you have kids and they like dinosaurs and/or action movies then try these out, but make sure they don't handle the DVD's or if they do, that they know the proper way to hold them.
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Summary of Jurassic Park Adventure Pack (Jurassic Park / The Lost World: Jurassic Park / Jurassic Park III)
JURASSIC PARK ADVENTURE PACK - DVD MovieJurassic Park
Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that the computer-generated technology has since been improved upon) and at times primeval, such as the sight of a herd of whatever-they-are scampering through a valley. --Tom Keogh
The Lost World - Jurassic Park
In the low tradition of knockoff horror flicks best seen (or not seen) on a drive-in movie screen, Steven Spielberg's sequel to Jurassic Park is a poorly conceived, ill-organized film that lacks story and logic. Screenwriter David Koepp strings along a number of loose ideas while Jeff Goldblum returns as Ian Malcolm, the quirky chaos theoretician who now reluctantly agrees to go to another island where cloned dinosaurs are roaming freely. Along with his girlfriend (Julianne Moore) and daughter, Malcolm has to deal with hunters, environmentalists, and corporate swine who stupidly bring back a big dino to Southern California, where it runs amok, of course. Spielberg doesn't seem to care that the pieces of this project don't add up to a real movie, so he hams it up with big, scary moments (with none of the artfulness of those in Jurassic Park) and smart-aleck visual gags (a yapping dog in a suburb mysteriously disappears when a hungry T-rex stomps by). A complete bust.--Tom Keogh
Jurassic Park III
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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