Jurassic Park Review

Jurassic Park

Release Date: 2nd September 1993 - Australia

Production Companies
Universal Pictures (presents)
Amblin Entertainment

Distribution
Universal Pictures Australia

Genre: Sci-Fi

Rating: PG

Runtime: 127 minutes


Budget: $63,000,000

Box Office Gross: $1,058,454,230 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

A wealthy entrepreneur named John Hammond secretly builds a theme park on an island with living dinosaurs that got cloned straight out of their prehistoric DNA. Before unveiling the attraction, he invites a paleontologist, a botanist, and a mathematician with his two grandkids to visit the park and help calm the investors. However, just as their park experience is seemingly going pleasant, its security system gets shut down by a disgruntled employee, releasing the dinosaurs from their cages and allowing them to hunt down the tourists. Can they survive and escape Jurassic Park without getting eaten?

Cast

Sam Neill - Dr. Alan Grant
Laura Dern - Dr. Ellie Sattler
Jeff Goldblum - Dr. Ian Malcolm
Richard Attenborough - John Hammond
Ariana Richards - Lex Murphy
Joseph Mazzello - Tim Murphy
Wayne Knight - Dennis Nedry
Bob Peck - Robert Muldoon
Martin Ferrero - Donald Gennaro
Samuel L. Jackson - Ray Arnold
BD Wong - Dr. Henry Wu

Gerald R. Molen - Dr. Harding

(Cameo)

Miguel Sandoval - Juanito

Rostagno
Cameron Thor - Lewis Dodgson

Christopher John Fields - Volunteer #1

Whit Hertford - Volunteer Boy

Dean Cundey - Mate

Jophery C. Brown - Worker in Raptor Pen

Tom Mishler - Helicopter Pilot

Greg Burson - Mr. D.N.A. (Voice)

Adrian Escober - Worker at Amber Mine

Richard Kiley - Jurassic Park Tour Voice (Voice)

Crew
Director - Steven Spielberg
Based on the Novel/

Screenplay - Michael Crichton
Screenplay - David Koepp

Script Supervisor - Ana Maria Quintana

Associate Producers - Lata Ryan and Colin Wilson
Producers - Kathleen Kennedy and

Gerald R. Molen

Consultant: Paleontology - Jack Horner

Casting Directors - Janet Hirshenson

and Jane Jenkins

Animal Trainer - Jules Sylvester
Production Designer - Rick Carter

Concept Artist: Stan Winston Studio/Puppeteer -

Mark 'Crash' McCreery

Illustrators - Tom Cranham

and David Lowery

Art Directors - John Bell and

William James Teegarden

Set Decorator - Jackie Carr

Property Master - Jerry Moss

Makeup Supervisor - Christina Smith
Director of Photography - Dean Cundey

Additional Photographer - Lloyd Ahern II

Camera Operator - Raymond Stella

Unit Production Manager - Paul Deason

Second Assistant Director - Michele Panelli-Venetis
Second Unit Director (Uncredited)/Stunt

Coordinator - Gary Hymes

Aerial Unit Director - David B. Nowell

Live-Action Dinosaurs - Stan Winston

Special Dinosaur Effects - Michael Lantieri

Art Department Coordinators: Stan Winston

Studio/Puppeteers - Shane Mahan and

John Rosengrant

Mechanical Designers: Stan Winston Studio/

Puppeteers - Evan Brainard, Jon Dawe,

Jeff Edwards, Rick Galinson, Richard Haugen,

Frank Charles Lutkus III, Tim Nordella,

J. Alan Scott, Patrick Shearn and Alfred Sousa

Mechanical Department Coordinators: Stan

Winston Studio/Puppeteers - Richard J. Landon

and Craig Caton

Dinosaur Supervisor - Phil Tippett

Full Motion Dinosaurs/Visual Effects Supervisor:

ILM (Uncredited) - Dennis Muren
Co-Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM - Mark A.Z. Dippé
Visual Effects Producer: ILM - Janet Healy

Visual Effects Art Director: ILM - TyRuben Ellingson
Lead Computer Graphics Supervisor: ILM -

Stefen Fangmeier

Computer Graphics Supervisors: ILM -

Alex Seiden and George Murphy

CG Department Operations Manager: ILM -

John Andrew Berton

General Manager: ILM - Jim Morris

Computer Graphics Animators: ILM -

Eric Armstrong, James Straus,

Steve 'Spaz' Williams, Geoff Campbell,

Stephen L. Price and Don Waller

Computer Graphics Camera Matchmovers: ILM -

Patrick T. Myers and Charlie Clavadetscher

Plate Producer: ILM - Mark S. Miller

Additional Plate Photographer - Scott Farrar
Senior Animator: Tippett Studio - Randal M. Dutra

Animator: Tippett Studio - Tom St. Amand

Computer Systems: Tippett Studio - Adam Valdez

Computer Interface Engineer: Tippett Studio -

Craig Hayes

Engineers: Tippett Studio - Nicholas Blake,

Bart Trickel, Conrad Bonderson, Stuart Ziff

and Gary Platek

Animatics: Tippett Studio - Eric Swenson,

Mike Bienstock, Kim Blanchette and

Peter Konig

Chief Model Makers: ILM - Barbara Affonso,

Steve Gawley, Ira Keeler, Lorne Peterson and

Christopher Reed
Movement Designer: 'Mr D.N.A.' Animation -

Bob Kurtz
Sound Designer/Re-Recording Mixer -

Gary Rydstrom

Assistant Sound Designer/Foley Recordist -

Christopher Boyes

Supervising Sound Editor - Richard Hymns

Sound Effects Editors - Teresa Eckton,

Ken Fischer and Tim Holland

Sound Mixer - Ron Judkins

Re-Recording/Music Scoring Mixer -

Shawn Murphy

Re-Recording Mixer - Gary Summers

Foley Artists - Marnie Moore and

Dennie Thorpe

Film Editor - Michael Kahn
Music - John Williams

Music Editor - Kenneth Wannberg


Awards

1994 Academy Awards
Best Sound Effects - Gary Rydstrom,

Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy and Ron Judkins (Won)

Best Sound Editing - Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns (Won)

Best Visual Effects - Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett,

Michael Lantieri and Stan Winston (Won)

Review

JURASSIC PARK is a dino-sized blockbuster by director Steven Spielberg. The first and possibly best movie in the series, JURASSIC PARK, has a brilliant storyline set in a theme park where live dinosaurs roam free. What drew me to the film was JURASSIC PARK's frighteningly realistic scenes. I was on the edge of my seat, wondering whether the characters would survive or become dinosaurs' dinners.

The feature has its most terrifying scenes involving the Raptors and outstanding acting performances, such as Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum. Best of all, it has computer-generated effects by Industrial Light & Magic. Those visuals bring back the extinct prehistoric creatures to life, including the fiercest of them all, the Tyrannosaurus Rex. I liked the scene involving the lawyer where. Oops, he has a slight accident. John Williams's memorable music score adds to the whole experience of this sci-fi adventure.

JURASSIC PARK was a terrific groundbreaking film and is my third favourite Spielberg movie, with Raiders of the Lost Ark going into second place and Jaws first. It's a definite must-see.

Star rating: (5/5) Best Movie Ever

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