Cert PG
128 mins
BBFC advice: Contains moderate threat and violence
Wow, wow and thrice wow! This is one of the cinema experiences of the year.
I have seen Jurassic Park seven or eight times in the last 20 years but never like this. It was as if I was part of the film.
The combination of 3D and IMAX makes it as fresh as it was two decades ago.
Indeed, I am so familiar with the film that I can remember lines of dialogue but it still made me jump like a salmon three times.
And I ought to give a warning to families who are proposing to take small children and plonk them in the front row. Don't.
The PG certificate is misleading - Jurassic Park would be a scary ride for the under 10s.
This was evidenced by the family at the front of the auditorium at Birmingham Cineworld yesterday.
The dad was bobbing his head around like a jack in the box throughout the movie because he was attempting to comfort his offspring.
The last time we saw Jurassic Park at the cinema was only two years ago when the 3D version was released.
Here's section from my review then. I gave it 9/10 and wrote:
It is still absolutely superb.
Yes, I know that Sir Dickie Attenborough's Scottish accent is rubbish and that Sam Neill is about as low-key as action heroes come.
And it's taken me until now to realise the movie's greatest flaw - where do all of the island's staff go? There's a last call for the boat but there is no mention of them all leaving and there is definitely one still around - he was treating the dinosaur with food poisoning.
I pointed this out and Mrs W's reaction was simple. "You really are being picky, aren't you?''
She reckons I should have just sat back and enjoyed which, for 99 per cent of the time, I did.
This is from an era when Steven Spielberg was at the peak of his powers.
With Jurassic Park he created a monster of a movie which still required the jumpometer six times, even though I've seen it at least half a dozen times.
For those of you who have been asleep for two decades, Dickie Attenborough plays the billionaire who has created an island park of dinosaurs, bred from DNA found in amber.
Playing with nature is a risky business, however, as others on the island find out when systems, and, consequently, the security on the island, fail.
Thus, we have a T-Rex and those ever-so-nasty velociraptors on the loose and thrills abound (I'm still not sure how it was rated at PG - I would have thought it would scar young children for life).
It was great to see Jurassic Park at the cinema. It looks and, as importantly sounds, as good as ever and is still worth 9/10.
The only changes I would make for my review of the IMAX version are that it is worth 10/10!
Laughs: none
Jumps: Three good ones and quite a few minor ones.
Vomit: Talk of it but not seen
Nudity: Only the dinosaurs are without clothes
Overall rating: 10/10