Movie Review: Jurassic Park 3D – a timeless epic adventure

1993..the first Jurassic Park came out in 1993. If I didn’t tell you that and showed you this movie today 20 years later, you’d have little trouble believing that this was a new movie. That’s testament to how ahead of its times, this masterpiece was when it was originally released

Released in 1993, Jurassic Park could have sufficed by just being the first of its kind dinosaur movie. However, Spielberg’s vision was much more grand and what he delivered to the silver screen was solid gold. A beautifully set up plot, near perfect build-up and action, suspense & effects that is the stuff of legends. Now you would already know this – question is, does the 3D add to the adventure?

While the answer to that isn’t a resounding yes, there are a few scenes that have certainly benefited with the extra dimension especially during the action sequences. The fact that the audio has been re-mastered as well, adds to the satisfaction and a new dimension of scariness when you hear the big creatures roar.

However, movie making today doesn’t even begin to match up to what Spielberg accomplished with Jurassic Park and for that alone, a visit to the Park is highly recommended. From the ripples of water in glasses and puddles to the tie-in with chaos theory and nature’s will – Jurassic Park seamlessly incorporates a philosophical, emotional and sentimental core into what is otherwise meant to be an epic action movie. In fact, Spielberg raised this movie to such levels, that making sequels was practically pointless – none could match up to what had already been accomplished.

The second half and climax of the movie bring special effects that would hardly have seemed possible in that day and age. Due credit for that and more goes to Stan Winston, a name that I regrettably recognized only very recently. For the uninitiated, Stan Winston was behind the animatronic dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and all high quality special effects in movies that you can relate to since then, right up to the iconic Avatar 3D – well, we have him to thank for it

Increasingly, when one watches such dated movies (especially true for the Bond films and such) one is forced to accept that these movies were made in a different time and may not seem as exciting while viewed in today’s context. For Jurassic Park, you need not make any such compromises. It is a timeless classic and 3D or not – you would not regret the time spent in watching this epic offering – for generations to come