1. Jurassic Park III (2001)
What Everyone Remembers: The second disappointing movie in the
Jurassic Park franchise, this one seemed to end before it even got started, and brought Dr. Alan Grant back into the fray with an incredibly shoe-horned and lazy plot. Nothing memorable about this one: stick to the original for all your dinosaur-based fun.
Why It's Nowhere Near As Bad: The biggest crime that
Jurassic Park III commits, really, is that it doesn't offer up fans of the first two movies anything different: it puts Alan Grant back on an island with dinosaurs, has him escape a few new types, and then he gets into a helicopter and goes home. It's all over before you've even had a chance to think about it. At least the second movie had enough foresight to include a scene where a T-Rex attacks suburbia, right? That said,
Jurassic Park III has a far worse reputation than it deserves, and is often banded about as the worst of the sequels: I wouldn't say it's the best, but it's certainly on par with the underwhelming second entry. Sam Neill falls right back into character as Alan Grant, and although the way in which he gets to the island feels somewhat contrived, what are you gonna do? We all wanted to this guy again, didn't we? Despite its short running time,
Jurassic Park III manages to fit in some cool set-pieces and is a generally enjoyable blockbuster. Was that enough to meet the hype at the time? Perhaps not. In retrospect, though, this is a cool little dinosaur movie.
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