Time to Settle This: Ranking All 7 JURASSIC PARK Movies
From REBIRTH to JP III, where do your top picks (and least favorites) land on the list?
Picking the best Jurassic Park movie is, admittedly, a fairly easy task. Everyone agrees it’s Jurassic Park III, right? Kidding aside, Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking, record-breaking, Oscar-winning 1993 adaptation of Michael Crichton’s best-seller feels so embedded in popular culture after 32 years that picking anything other than it at the top would feel like heresy.
Not to mention that almost everything Jurassic-related that followed has in some way borrowed from its T-Rex-sized footprint, whether thematically (man vs. nature), narratively (the legacy of the Park) or technically (trying to approximate, or even just mimic, Spielberg’s virtuosity). Not since Halloween has a movie supplied filmmakers with so much inspiration for stories while still wildly overshadowing every subsequent attempt.
Even so, ranking the films takes a bit more work than lining up the sequels behind Spielberg’s original on the runway: there’s the original trilogy, the Jurassic World trilogy, and then the new film Jurassic World Rebirth, which one presumes is designed to kick off a third trilogy, or at least a few more follow-ups. As that latest chapter arrives in theaters, FANGORIA attempts to take on this task as dispassionately as possible — or, at least, without allowing our Gen-X moviegoer bona fides to weigh too heavily upon the scales.