Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic Park was an excellent work of fiction that spawned a successful movie franchise. However, subsequent sequels have been of varying quality, with the most recent installment, Jurassic World, being a reboot. ..
The new cast of Dominion returns for a return trip to the small screen, and with all of the new characters and lore, it’s important to get up to speed on everything that’s going on. This movie is packed with action, excitement and dinosaurs - all of which make for an amazing experience.
Although Camp Cretaceous is canon, we’re not including it in this recap. This is solely for the movie franchise as we doubt Dominion is going to include events from that Netflix series here! ..
The film of your choice:
- “The Revenant”
- “The Machinist”
- “Spotlight”
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic Park
In the opening sequence, we see a caged velociraptor being transported across to the main park by Ingen, a company responsible for creating genetically engineered dinosaurs. This is an important foreshadowing of the events that follow.
A raptor at a poultry farm in Oregon has killed one of the workers and injured another. The raptor has been contained, but the incident has raised concerns about the safety of the workers. ..
InGen, a Costa Rican theme park resort fronted by enigmatic CEO John Hammond, invites palaeontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), palaeobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) for a private tour one year before opening. The main attraction? Re-animated dinosaurs of course. ..
Thanks to a handy video from Mr. DNA midway through the first half of the picture, we learn that these scientists managed to clone dinosaurs by finding dino blood within mosquitos that had been fossilized in amber. They then used frog DNA to fill in the gaps and create the different breeds we see on the island. However, life does, in fact, find a way. ..
Malcolm’s scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. Dennis Nedry, a disgruntled computer programmer, committed corporate espionage, intending to take off with all the dinosaur embryos and handing them over to a rival company, Biosyn. The tour soon takes a turn for the worst when a disgruntled computer programmer, Dennis Nedry, commits corporate espionage, intending to take off with all the dinosaur embryos and handing them over to a rival company, Biosyn.
When the T-rex and the raptors escape, Alan Grant is forced to lead Hammond’s grandchildren, Lex (Ariana Richards) and Tim Murphy (Joe Mazzello), safely through the jungle. ..
As they make their way back to the main compound, the others manage to catch up to them but are quickly overcome by a nasty electric shock. Tim is the first to be hurt, tumbling down into Alan’s arms. But before long, everyone else is also injured. We’re getting ahead of ourselves here.
As the power is restored to the park, Ellie, Hammond and Malcolm try to figure out a way to call in help before they’re all eaten.
Ray Arnold was killed by raptors that escaped from the paddock. Ellie restores power and Tim flies backward off an electrified fence he’s climbing over. ..
The film’s climax then sees all of our characters together, with a particularly memorable and frightening sequence involving the velociraptors stalking Tim and Ellie in the visitor center’s kitchen.
A group of people are gathered around a raptor enclosure when they are saved by a T-Rex. The T-Rex kills the raptors, saving the group. ..
Hammond and the others slip out of the helicopter and leave the island.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Four years after the events of Jurassic Park, a new film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, shifts attention to Dr. Ian Malcolm. His career has been tarnished after going public about the incident on InGen’s private Costa Rican island. As evidenced from an obnoxious man on the subway, many people discredit Ian’s story and believe him to be a bit of a crackpot. ..
Hammond orders Ian to go to Site B and find out what’s going on. Ian is shocked when he learns that there’s a second island inhabited by dinosaurs called Site B. When he learns that his girlfriend Dr Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore) has head off alone to document these dinosaurs, he launches a rescue mission to bring her back.
While Hammond’s nephew and new Ingen CEO, Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard), heads to Site B with an army of game hunters to capture dinosaurs and bring them back to the ready-made “Jurassic Park”, the latest attraction in San Diego that’s a lot smaller than the park on Isla Nublar, Hammond is worried about what will happen to his park if it closes. ..
The newly captured dinosaurs are released on the island, and both teams must work together to prevent them from harming anyone. Ian and his group let the newly captured dinosaurs loose, destroying everything in their path. Meanwhile, Sarah took an injured baby T-Rex back to their camp, where she care for it until it can be healed. The T-Rex parents soon show up and angrily destroy the RV they’re in, with our motley band narrowly surviving in the process.
Roland Tembo, a big game hunter from Mombasa, Kenya, is leading the rescue operation for the stranded tourists in Mount Kilimanjaro. He is determined to capture a T-Rex to top off his impressive resume. He eventually succeeds in his endeavour and hangs his hat up to retire. ..
As the T-Rex kills everyone onboard the transport ship, it turns its attention to San Diego. The T-Rex then surprises everyone when it crashes into the mainland, killing most of the people on board.
Eventually, the T-Rex is returned, along with its baby, and they chomp down on Ludlow, who is killed while the animals are returned to Isla Sorna. John Hammond gives an impassioned speech on TV, telling everyone to leave these animals in peace.
Jurassic Park III
Eric Kirby, a stepfather and parasailing enthusiast, is stranded in the Jurassic Park III fly-zone after flying to Site B to parasail with his father. After spending four years trying to get back home, he finally arrives at Site B only to find that it’s now a restricted area. However, he’s not discouraged and decides to take on the challenge of getting home.
Dr. Alan Grant and Billy Brennan are on a desperate mission to secure funding for future digs when they run into trouble.
The raptors’ fascinating presentations to investors and the public about their intelligence and how they’re able to fly so fast are not doing well and are losing the public’s interest, which is quickly dwindling. They’re on the verge of being shut down.
Alan Grant is approached by a rich couple who offer a handsome fee in exchange for his services as an aerial tour guide of Site B. Eventually he agrees to go, albeit reluctantly, only to find himself thrown into another nightmare, one prefaced by a talking raptor shouting “Alan!”
It turns out that the tour was a fake and that Paul and Amanda are actually Eric’s parents. The plane crashed, Grant had to lead the survivors to safety, look for the Kirbys’ lost son, while also navigating the perils of the jungle.
In the film, the dinosaurs are stalked by a Spinosaurus and a pack of raptors. The Spinosaurus is actually after the group to retrieve stolen raptor eggs that Billy took earlier in the film. He intended to sell these on the black-market to fund future digs but Alan is disgusted by his protégé’s actions.
After days of searching, Eric is found alive and well by the dinosaurs, while Grant calls in a favor from Ellie Sattler to send the navy and the marines to rescue the party from the island. ..
Jurassic World
The Jurassic Park franchise has been a mainstay in movie theaters for over 14 years, and it seems that Universal is finally ready to reboot the series. This new Jurassic World is much more ambitious than the failed predecessor, and it’s open to the public! The Masrani Corporation is behind this new venture, and they are hoping that this new park will be a success.
Despite the low attendance, Dr. Henry Wu continues to create new hybrid dinosaurs in an effort to bring more people to the park. To make sure that visitors stay longer, he creates a new attraction known as the Indominus Rex.
In a nod to the earlier Jurassic Park films, Wu is actually one of the scientists from the original movie. Fans will recognize him as the one who engaged in a back and forth discourse with Ian Malcolm about the dinosaur breeding.
The Indominus rex, a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, goes missing from its containment unit at Jurassic World. Park operations manager Claire Dearing and animal behaviourist Owen Grady are called in to investigate. ..
Owen and his raptors are the only ones who can stop the Indominus from taking over the park. But they are not able to kill the creature on their own, and must enlist Blue to help them. The bird is reluctant at first, but eventually agrees to help out. However, they are not able to stop the hybrid from taking over the park, and all of Owen’s raptors are killed.
Claire releases the original T-Rex and, alongside surviving raptor Blue, the Indominus is killed… but not by either of them. In fact, it’s actually a giant Mosasaurus that shows up and kills the hybrid.
The humans are evacuated and the dinosaurs take over the island.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
In the four years since the events of Jurassic World, scientists and experts have been debating whether or not to let the dinosaurs live or let nature take its course and kill them all. With an impending volcanic eruption on the island, many people are torn on what to do. Some believe that it is important for the dinosaurs to survive in order to keep their legacy alive, while others believe that it is better for them to die so that nature can run its course. Regardless of what people think, this impending eruption could determine the fate of these prehistoric creatures. ..
Claire Dearing, fresh from outrunning a T-Rex while wearing high-heels, now fronts the Dinosaur Protection Agency. She visits Benjamin Lockwood in Northern California, a dying billionaire who helped John Hammond build Jurassic Park. Like Claire, he wants to save the dinosaurs from extinction. ..
Claire and Owen Grady join forces to relocate the dinosaurs to a new island sanctuary. Their plan is to reactivate the park’s tracking system to locate the animals while Owen’s stake here comes from finding Blue, the last surviving Velociraptor.
The mercenary team led by Blue is met with disaster when they attempt to capture a group of dinosaurs for a private auction. The dinosaurs on the island are left to die in the eruption, as Blue and his team flee with only a few of them back to safety.
Blue and the others are able to track down Mills and stop him from selling the dinosaurs on the black market. They learn that Mills was only working on a secret project to create a weaponized, transgenic dinosaur. Blue is excited to find out more about this project and her connection to it.
When the Indoraptor is let loose on the mansion, chaos ensues. In the chaos, we learn that Maisie, Lockwood’s granddaughter, is actually a human clone of Lockwood’s deceased daughter and the reason why Hammond ended their association. ..
After a lot of death, the Indoraptor is finally stopped by Blue, with the pair confronting one another atop a glass ceiling. The ceiling shatters, they both fall, and the Indoraptor dies while Blue survives.
Maisie decides to free the caged dinosaurs from the estate grounds, disregarding Owen’s objections. Blue and the other released dinosaurs flee the estate grounds.
As the movie comes to a close, a new U.S. Senate hearing sees Dr Ian Malcolm step up and declare the beginning of a neo-Jurassic Age, one where humans and dinosaurs coexist. As he says these words, we cut across to find dinosaurs roaming the wilderness and outer urban areas.
The Jurassic Park movie franchise is a long and complicated story, with a lot of different parts that work together to create a powerful and memorable experience. This article is about the main events in the series, from the first film back in 1992 through to Fallen Kingdom. If you want to know more about what’s going on, this is the perfect place to start!
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