Preview on Jurassic Park 3 - Reunion of Dinosaurs From Land, Underwater, and Air

While it has been only the ground battle so far, aerobatic and underwater battles are added in the new Jurassic Park 3. Jurassic Park 3, scheduled to open 20th in Korea, boasts intriguing scenes. It wipes out the concern of those asking ``Is it again Dinosaurs?``.

The Tyrannosaurus (T-Rex), the strongest dinosaurs in Jurassic Park 1 and 2 encounters the Spinosaurs, a mightier dinosaur than T-Rex, and it quietly submits to the Spinosaurs. The Spinosaurs, 20 meter longer than the T-Rex, easily killed the T-Rex with just one bite boasting its amphibious battling ability.

The Teranodon, a dinosaurs with wings that humbly appeared near end of the Jurassic Park 1 and 2, emerges as one of main characters showing off its graceful flight and merciless air-strike ability.

In the Jurassic Park 3, the special effect, with well-mixed humor and drama, escalates one`s pleasure to watch. Unlike the first and second episodes which were based on the original story by Michael Crichton, the third episode was produced without an original story. But the third episode exquisitely harmonizes the motherly love of dinosaurs, a cold-blood creature, with the motherly love of human being.

The Jurassic Park series is regularly released every four years after the first episode came out in 1993.

Tea Leoni, the heroin of the film, stressed with confidence that the Jurassic Park 3 is not just an episode of the series, but the best of the series.

In the third episode, Dr. Grant (Sam Neil), the hero of the first episode, reappears. He, who was invited to the Jurassic Park as a first visitor and barely secured his life, presents a new theory that a Raptor ( a small dinosaurs with height of about 2 meter that hunts in group) communicates with a special organ for vocalization, and is smarter than a dolphin or an ape.

Dr. Grant is asked by Paul Kirby (William H. Macy), a billionaire adventurer, and his wife Amanda (Tea Leoni) to guide a aerial tour of the Jurassic Park with a promise to offer research fund. Dr. Grant, who vulnerably accepted the suggestion with the condition that they were not going to land on the ground, goes through a cruel ordeal that he had experienced in the Jurassic Park 1.

Mr. and Mrs. Kirby, actually a divorced couple, deceives Dr. Grant to bring him over to a rescue mission plan for their 14 years old son lost on the shore of Isla Sorna Island where dinosaurs’ eggs were cultivated. Dr. Grant undergoes harsh attacks by the dinosaurs from the ground, underwater, and air.

Joe Johnston, the new director of the film who succeeded Spielberg, the director of episode 1 and 2, shows his fine workmanship on mixing magnificent special effects and warm familial love that was developed while he directed the `Jumanji` and `Honey, I Shrunk the Kids`. The scene of ringing cell-phone from the stomach of the ferocious Spinosaurs, motivated by a scene from the `Peter Pan` in which an alligator swallowed a watch, shows well a peculiar style of the director. Do you think that the third episode is going to be a failure? You don’t have to worry about it, because the Universal Studio has already contracted with Michael Crichton for the scenario of the fourth episode.

Kwon Chae-Hyun confetti@donga.com