Jurassic Park Adventure Pack Jurassic Park/ The Lost World. Jurassic Park/ Jurassic Park III

Editorial Review
Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that the computer-generated technology has since been improved upon) and at times primeval, such as the sight of a herd of whatever-they-are scampering through a valley. --Tom Keogh

The Lost World - Jurassic Park
In the low tradition of knockoff horror flicks best seen (or not seen) on a drive-in movie screen, Steven Spielberg's sequel to Jurassic Park is a poorly conceived, ill-organized film that lacks story and logic. Screenwriter David Koepp strings along a number of loose ideas while Jeff Goldblum returns as Ian Malcolm, the quirky chaos theoretician who now reluctantly agrees to go to another island where cloned dinosaurs are roaming freely. Along with his girlfriend (Julianne Moore) and daughter, Malcolm has to deal with hunters, environmentalists, and corporate swine who stupidly bring back a big dino to Southern California, where it runs amok, of course. Spielberg doesn't seem to care that the pieces of this project don't add up to a real movie, so he hams it up with big, scary moments (with none of the artfulness of those in Jurassic Park) and smart-aleck visual gags (a yapping dog in a suburb mysteriously disappears when a hungry T-rex stomps by). A complete bust.--Tom Keogh

Jurassic Park III
Surpassing expectations to qualify as an above-average sequel, Jurassic Park III is nothing more or less than a satisfying popcorn adventure. A little cheesier than the first two Jurassic blockbusters, it's a big B movie with big B-list stars (including Laura Dern, briefly reprising her Jurassic Park role), and eight years of advancing computer-generated-image technology give it a sharp edge over its predecessors. While adopting the jungle spirit of King Kong, the movie refines Michael Crichton's original premise, and its dinosaurs are even more realistic, their behavior more detailed, and their variety--including flying pteranodons and a new villain, the spinosaurus--more dazzling and threatening than ever. These advancements justify the sequel, and its contrived plot is just clever enough to span 90 minutes without wearing out its welcome.

Customer Reviews

Great DVDs, odd case..

2008-07-06
Jurassic Park was a great movie that still fill me with awe today. Those in the movie industry could learn a lot from just looking back to the first movie and seeing that CG is good, but sometimes a model or an animatronic works better if you want it to look real.

ANYWAY, with this DVD set, I was pleased to see if had a cool center-opening box that's meant to be like the gate in the movie. The box seems very sturdy, but I have my reservations about it since I'm not so sure the gates will hold up over a long period of time (hence the 4/5). The inside is a typical tri-folding cardboard setup, with one DVD per section.

Not a bad deal for 1 great movie, and 2 that were ok/sub-par...

Great Movies

2008-06-17
I have seen all three Jurassic Park movies and love them. Each of them has a new plot, but has the same characters. I love science fiction movies, so this is a keeper. The first one is how a Jurassic Park on an island crashes and how the dinosaurs roam free and terrize the people still on the island. The second movie is how the characters go to a second island where the cloning took place for the dinosaurs. The third movie is about Allen Grant getting tricked onto Isla Sorna (second island) to find a couple's missing son. All three movies are action packed and have excellent computer animation! I HIGHLY recommend the trilogy to any sci-fi or dinosaur fan.

The dino-trilogy

2008-06-14
These movies are classics. The pack gives you the choice of which classic you want to watch without shelling out fifteen dollars or more for each one by itself.

Great Series

2008-05-15
Each movies has its own appeal, but mostly their just fun to watch. Plus i had to get them before the forth edition comes out.

Wise choice

2008-05-11
Jurassic Park Adventure Pack (Jurassic Park/ The Lost World: Jurassic Park/ Jurassic Park III)
This is great purchase. I have priced around and this was a deal.

Great Entertainment

2008-04-11
Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that the computer-generated technology has since been improved upon) and at times primeval, such as the sight of a herd of whatever-they-are scampering through a valley. --Tom Keogh

Posing as wealthy tourists, an adventurous couple (William H. Macy, Téa Leoni) convince paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his protégé (Allesandro Nivola) to act as tour guides on a flyover trip to Isla Sorna, the ill-fated "Site B" where all hell broke loose in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In truth, they're on a search-and-rescue mission to find their missing son (Trevor Morgan), and their plane crash is just the first of several enjoyably suspenseful sequences. Director Joe Johnston (October Sky) embraces the formulaic plot as a series of atmospheric set pieces, placing new and familiar dinosaurs in misty rainforests, fiery lakes, and mysterious valleys, turning JP3 into a thrill ride with impressive highlights (including a T. rex versus spinosaurus smack-down), adequate doses of wry humor (from the cowriters of Election), and an upbeat ending that's corny but appropriate, proving that the symptoms of sequelitis needn't be fatal. --Jeff Shannon

WooHoo! 2008-04-07
Me and my boys LOVE these movies! We've seen them,
literally, hundreds of times. We wore them out on VHS
before we got them on DVD.

Great Value Perfect product 2008-03-29
This is definitely a collector's item, especially for Dinosaur fans, large or small! Great value for money.

Wrong Slipcase/Cover 2008-03-27
I ordered this great collection, thinking that I was going to receive the elaborate tri-fold cardboard case (as shown in all the customer images). Instead I received (twice--because I returned it) a cheesy paper slipsleeve. One of the main reasons why I bought the DVD set was because of the case, as it folds out as if to resemble the actual gates of jurassic park. This is a great movie trilogy and should be owned by all movie lovers, but I am very displeased with Amazon's service and false advertising (in a sense)...

The Jurassics Collection 2008-02-28
I have an extensive DVD collection. The Jurassic Park Trilogy is not my absolute most favorite of this genre... but... it needed to be in the collection. So for those of you that want all three in a nice tight bundle, this is a good buy. If you are looking for the trilogy because you just LOVE Jurassic Park... you should probably spend a little more for a better package deal. The front of the box opens like two swinging doors... only these doors don't close and fasten in any way, which is the only thing I would change.