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By Trent Drake

This Week: Jurass is grass! If you’re one of the people who didn’t watch Jurassic Park and thought you were making a bold statement of non-conformity, you’ve ob- viously got a fatally swelled ego and should watch out for sharp objects lest you pop like Roseanne’s last marriage. On the other hand, if you watched the movie more than three times, bought the playsets, comics, gummi dinosaurs (what a t.v. show that would make! Just think how well a T-Rex could bounce!!), cream cookies, t-shirts, posters and ‘‘dino- damage”’ brontosaurs, and started reading this column because of the nifty logo, there’s no hope for you. The men in white coats are coming to fit you for your very own Jurassic Park straitjacket (with optional velociraptor claws!).

But on the off chance that you spent the last two years in a sensory deprivation tank and missed all the hype, I’ll provide a quick plot

Richard Attenborough, the man who looks like everyone’s grandpa, plays a reclu- sive billionaire who builds gargantuan amuse- ment parks for fun. He invites two noble, respected paleontologists (Sam Neill, Laura Dern), aleather-bound chaotic mathematician (Jeff Goldblum), his two cute-as-buttons grandkids and a slimy lawyer to inspect his latest feat: a tropical island turned resort, populated by-- say it with me-- living, breath- ing dinosaurs. After they waste the first twenty minutes or so establishing the characters and debating whether man should be allowed this kind of god-like power, a potato-man named Nedry turns off the entire security system and accidently lets all the dinosaurs loose. Chaos, destruction, and lunch ensue.

Acting (or Lack Thereof): You don’t rent this movie for the actors, but there are some neat characters to fill in the space be- tween dino-scenes. The one you will probably likebest is the aforementioned chaotician (don’t ask, I don’t know what it means either). Goldblum’s performance is nervous, shaky, and cheerfully irritating as he gleefully pre- dicts the inevitable destruction of everything. He gets the greatest one-liners, as well as most of the swear words.

The rest of the characters are easily identifiable stereotypes and don’t really bear scrutiny. Sam Niell does have a few cute

moments with those darn spunky grandkids,

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though. Technical Stuff: Good dinosat good dinosaurs. But there are some t screw-ups along the way. Sharp-eyed should keep an eye out for rain-splatte (before the rain begins!), electric fi continue to turn when the power goes misspelled dinosaur names. Plus, ify real closely during the first tyrannosau you’ ll note that the jeep starts spinnin the t-rex head-butts it. The same so contains the film’s biggest plot hole: flips the jeep over the fence and dow dred-foot drop that wasn’t there when| broke the fence in the first place!

Stuff to Watch For: The di and some cute gags surrounding the sonal favourites include the sacrific the DNA lights reflecting off the veloc and the t-rex in the rear view mirt0 watch for the infamous lawyer-eatin And beware the cute grandkids!

Musically, pay attention to the hero theme that plays when the t-rex evil velociraptors.

Best Line: ‘‘If the Pirates of! ibbean breaks down, the pirates don! tourists!’’-- Malcolm the Chaotician

The Bottom Line: It’s bs nineties update of those old fifties ‘g! movies. It has all the trademarks Science opening the way to man’s des! Good Scientists providing the Voic* son; and Really Big Monsters Irony-Laden Acts of Blind Destructi is even a scene where the Smart Sci the Dumb Ones debate whether Man meant to wield this kind of power (al the best of my knowledge, this is the such a scene has taken place at a di Its onebig failing is that it can’t decid it’s a serious suspense flick or an The Nature of Things.. Too many “ nature’s beauty’’ scenes and not ¢ god, that thing ate Harry!’’ scenes watch the flick for scares, make suré some thirteen-year-old girls on hand

Not Available At: Off The W Every other place in Charlottetow® a hundred copies.

Next Week: Weclose out ter with one of the dumbest Japanes¢ movies ever: The Guyver!