Wednesday, July 18, 2018

"Jurassic Park III" released 2001


The third installment of Steven Spielberg's awesome dinosaur movies, Jurassic Park III opened in theaters July 18, 2001.  It seems to be universally considered to be the worst of all the Jurassic Park movies, but it still did well at the box office, being the eighth-highest-grossing movie of 2001.

I find it interesting that it was released on the anniversary of Aliens (1986) because to me JPIII had a  similar plot.  People going into a hostile environment to save a child. 

Sam Neill reprised his role as Dr. Alan Grant and Laura Dern as Ellie, even though she had little more than a cameo.  William H. Macy and Tea Leoni starred as the Kirbys (from Enid, Oklahoma!), whose son has gone missing on Isla Sorna.  Despite the lame story line, the dinosaurs are cool!  The Spinosaurus and the Pteranodon get their time in the limelight.


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