Went to Target last night for cat food and dishwashing liquid, and passed the blu-ray section. Saw this beaut for $47 and caved. I was planning on getting it in a few months, but I just love the first film too much to wait. JP is probably one of my favorite movies, next to Batman (1989), Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Empire Strikes Back and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It's one of those movies I could watch in my head if I wanted to (and was crazy enough to). The six part documentary is pretty sweet, lots of early effects footage. Back in 1993/1994 a Jurassic Park exhibit was touring the country and hit our science museum. It had a TON of props from the film. I remember seeing the original banner and skeletons from the JP lobby, Mr. DNA animation cells and ID tags for Dennis and Sam Jackson. Oh yeah! And the Barbasol can, lol.
Shame parts 2 and 3 suffered from including only one main character from the original film in each. I'll bet JP2 would be way better had they included Dr. Grant and the kid Tim along with Jeff Goldblum's Malcolm. Have the other characters cameo in the beginning. JP2 is like if Empire Strikes Back only featured Han Solo and Chewie and had him going after a secret weapon created by the Empire, but you didn't see Vader or Luke or Leia. Instead you had all these new characters you didn't care about.
JP3 was a bit better in concept, but was WAY too short. Damn thing was 90 minutes! I hate when a third film in a series is much shorter than the others (see X-Men 3 as another example).
