Jurassic Park
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
June 11, 1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg
What's been said
Viewers and critics broadly embraced Jurassic Park as a landmark blockbuster, with Metacritic recording 76% positive critic reviews and the film shattering box office records on its way to winning three Academy Awards. The groundbreaking special effects drew the most universal praise: Rotten Tomatoes describes it as 'a spectacle of special effects and life-like animatronics,' and original audiences reportedly applauded in theaters at its dinosaurs, which were widely called a revolution in moviemaking. The most consistent complaint, shared by critics from Variety to Roger Ebert, was that the human characters felt thinly written and underdeveloped, with one critic noting the film is 'one-dimensional and even clunky in story and characterization.' Worth knowing: the film's blend of practical animatronics and early CGI is frequently cited as holding up better than most digital effects of the era, a detail that keeps new viewers discovering it decades later.
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