"Jurassic Park III": A Review

The group manages to escape from the Pterosaur aviary, and takes an abandoned boat down river. There is an incredibly brief encounter with a Ceratosaurus, but again Spinosaurus steals the show. One scene that had me laughing showed Spinosaurus stalking the group from the water with only its sail showing, a little homage to Spielberg's early movie "Jaws"?

After surviving the Spinosaurus encounter, the group finds themselves surrounded by the Raptor pack. The pack has been following the group because Billy is carrying two of their eggs in his camera bag, and the Raptors want the eggs back. The scene is used to show complex vocalizations and an advanced social structure in the pack; harkening back to Grant's comments earlier in the movie that Raptors were the smartest dinosaur, and if it had not been for the Cretaceous Extinction Event, they would have become the dominant species on Earth instead of humans.

After returning the eggs to the Raptor pack, and confusing them with sounds made by a replica of a Raptor resonating chamber that Billy has made from a Raptor skull early in the movie, the group is allowed to escape to the ocean, where they are rescued. As they fly over the ocean, they see that the Pterosaurs have escaped from the aviary - a hint as to what is in store for "Jurassic Park IV"?

In addition to the carnivorous dinosaurs that the group must escape from, we also get to see herds of Ankylosaurs, Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, Parasaurolophus, and Corythosaurus. As well as a brief cameo appearance by a pack of Compsognathus (the "Compys" from "The Lost World").

By and large, I really enjoyed "Jurassic Park III," it is a great action/adventure movie, and the special effects are very realistic. The dinosaurs and Pteranodon are created with both puppets and computer animation, making a very realistic effect.

My main paleontological complaint with "Jurassic Park III", in addition to the toothy Pteranodon, was a scene at the dinosaur dig site early in the movie. In "Jurassic Park," we see sand being brushed away from a perfectly preserved dinosaur skull, while in reality one would find a very crushed skull preserved in very hard rock. In "Jurassic Park III," although the dinosaurs are preserved in rock, we see students doing very intricate preparation on the fossils in the field. In reality the bones would be encased in

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