It’s the 25 year anniversary of “Jurassic Park.” And “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” has lumbered into theaters. But before hunkering down to revisit the original, or heading off to the theaters to marvel at the pure spectacle of the fifth installment, let’s revisit 2001’s “Jurassic Park III.”
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Honest Trailers went to the lab and cooked up their take on the final film of the original trilogy. The film is one of the least successful of the “Jurassic Park/World” films. And, honestly, it feels like the franchise burned out nearly to extinction until bringing the films back to life with “Jurassic World” in 2015. The trailer highlights some of the more obnoxious and least effective parts of the third installment. There’s a buffet of moments from the film to poke fun at, including but not limited to: the visual effects, Téa Leoni‘s incessant screaming, and “Alan!”
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“Jurassic Park III” really throws caution to the wind. When you have a film where the human characters can outsmart the most clever dinosaur, velociraptor, and deter the predators attack, your film has gone too far. When we go back and look at the original trilogy, everything that follows the original wonder and horror of “Jurassic Park” is mostly tolerable, but rarely as enjoyable. Harkening back to the words of Jeff Goldblum‘s Dr. Ian Malcolm, “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Keeping the “Jurassic Park” films alive is an admirable gesture to the original. But if you keep bringing the dinosaurs back, and they keep eating you, then maybe it’s time to stop.
