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All 6 Jurassic Park movies ranked from worst to best

By Michael Patterson

JURASSIC PARK Ð Why celebrate the spookiest time of the year for only 13 nights when you can celebrate for 31!? Freeform has expanded their annual Halloween programming event to Ò31 Nights of HalloweenÓ bringing more thrills and chills to the entire month. From Oct. 1, the network will be invaded by everyoneÕs favorite witches, a murderous barber, out of control dinosaurs and everything else that goes bump in the night. (Universal & Amblin/Murray Close)ARIANA RICHARDS, JOSEPH MAZZELLO, SAM NEILL
JURASSIC PARK Ð Why celebrate the spookiest time of the year for only 13 nights when you can celebrate for 31!? Freeform has expanded their annual Halloween programming event to Ò31 Nights of HalloweenÓ bringing more thrills and chills to the entire month. From Oct. 1, the network will be invaded by everyoneÕs favorite witches, a murderous barber, out of control dinosaurs and everything else that goes bump in the night. (Universal & Amblin/Murray Close)ARIANA RICHARDS, JOSEPH MAZZELLO, SAM NEILL /
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3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Four years after Jurassic Park changed the world of movies, Steven Spielberg returned for a sequel. Like its predecessor, it was also based on a Michael Crichton novel of the same name. It didn’t quite hit the mark in the way that it was hoped it would, but it still provided plenty of thrills.

The special effects are even better than the first one, with the T-Rex’s rampage in San Francisco looking particularly stunning, and the decision to focus on Jeff Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm was also inspired.

While one of the film’s main criticisms is that it overlooks important character development in place of mindless fantasy, I would argue that Malcolm benefits from being center stage here as, through his troubled relationships with daughter Kelly and girlfriend Sarah, we actually get to see that there’s so much more to him than being a walking one-liner machine (albeit a very clever and cool one). And speaking of there being more to them, the T-Rex family storyline is as heartwarming as it is fantastical.

It was always going to be a tough task to match the highs of Jurassic Park, but The Lost World tried its best to do it. It didn’t quite get there, but it had a damn good time trying it. And I had a damn good time watching it (many, many times).

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