No spoilers needed:
If you saw the previews on TV (especially Sat. night on NBC), you saw all
the important plot points. And I do mean _all_, including the climax. And
if you've seen more than two movies in your lifetime, you'll be able to
predict everything that's going to happen at least half an hour before it
comes on the screen. No surprises on who survives versus who is obviously
wearing a red shirt from the very beginning. And the "family values" theme
is only slightly more subtle than T�a Leoni's screaming. Where were
Spielberg and Crichton when we needed them? (OK, we know where Spielberg
was from another thread on this list . . . )
The good news:
The effects are wonderful, and that's really what you plan to go for, isn't
it? (Though, to be honest, I think after the first two I was just a little
jaded, so I didn't get quite so much thrill out of seeing even more
varieties of even bigger, meaner dinosaurs. Especially when the biggest
attraction of all was in the previews.) So go. Just don't expect any
surprises. (Everybody knows what's in Billy's "lucky bag", right? Both
what he picks up on the island and what he brought with him?)
The bad news:
So far, JP3 is the weakest of the series. I said "so far" because the
whole last five minutes are clearly a setup for _Jurassic Park 4_. (And
they had such a perfect opportunity for using the ending from Crichton's
original novel that wasn't in the first film, too, but I guess they were
too afraid of killing the cash cow. Though I suppose something could
survive . . . )
Blooper alert:
Right after they discover the parasail, it sounded to me as though T�a
Leoni seems to get the names of her son and her boyfriend mixed up. I
wonder why they left that in there, since it would seem to be something
they could have fixed in about five minutes in post by redubbing the line.
ok, one minor spoiler (something you'll probably think of like I did the
moment the scene on the riverbank starts) . . .
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How could they have failed to make the obvious reference to a scatphone . . . ?
-- Ronn! :)
