Rank The Jurassic Park Films

I really just want you all angry and confused the whole time.

Ranked in release order with the first being a while the other three are varying levels of .

Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
The Lost World
Jurassic World

Jurassic Park (A-)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (B-)
Jurassic Park III (B-)
Jurassic World (D)

That's how I'd rank them and grade them. I like the second and third ones for what they are, but I intensely dislike Jurassic World. As far as I'm concerned the franchise is dead barring a total rethinking of where these movies should go and what they hope to achieve with them.

I did see the Jurassic World sequel only because my five-year-old daughter loves dinosaurs and has seen the Jurassic Park movies, so I know she can handle it, and I will say I liked it better than the first Jurassic World movie, even accounting for the circumstances of how I saw it. Yeah, it's still hung up on the incredibly stupid idea of a 20 million dollar warrior dinosaur that could be felled by a $20 shell, and I still want to see dinosaurs with feathers, but apparently any sort of accuracy in that way is beyond their ambitions, and I'm also still annoyed by the hybrid dinosaurs, but anyhow as a summer popcorn movie, it's all right. I'd rate it a C+.

Did your daughter get scared? I saw it with my partner and her nephews one of which is 10 and he was visibly scared. Thought it wasn’t a good movie for younger children. Pretty tense and chaotic even for me.

JP
JP2
JP3
JW


I thought Jurassic World was pretty good tbh. Nice throwback to the original.
Too much CGI though.


There's an interesting theory behind Jurassic Park 3 that actually makes it better
The Spinosaur was shown in JP3 as walking on its hind legs... which according to scientific data, was true at the time.
In JP3, Grant and Billy are talking about the Spino... and Billy says "I don't remember seeing that on Ingen's list".
Grants reaction is "That's because it wasn't on their list... which makes you wonder what else they were up to."

Well, the simple reason... it's not a Spinosaur.


It's been uncovered recently, causing a bit of upset in palaeontology circles, that Spinosaurs were possibly 4 legged animals, like a crocodilians.


Within the Jurassic canon now, is that Ingen messing with DNA and stuff since the 1980s, the Spino is in fact a "prototype Indominus Rex". Like, a test for crossing actual Dinosaur DNA to create new animals, rather than just crossing it with frogs and stuff to fill in sequence gaps.
It also explains why the Spinosaur was so tough when it came up against the T-Rex.