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In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the weather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure. Written by Erwin van Moll {max404@hotmail.com}

Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? Fearful, the women wait. Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

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The Movie:
The Perfect Storm is one of those "ripped from the headlines" quasi-disaster flicks that simultaneously attempts to iconize a particular segment of the working stiff public (in this case Gloucester fishermen) while providing a special effects laden trip into the belly of the hurricane beast. If it comes up a bit short in the former enterprise, it more than succeeds in the latter, providing one of the most rip-roaring storm sequences ever caught on film, one that is immeasurably augmented in this new Blu-Ray edition's True HD 5.1 sound mix, one of the most immersive (literally--you'll feel like you're underwater at times) in recent memory.

Sebastian Junger, author of the book on which this fact-culled film was based, worked in Gloucester himself and was there in 1991 when "the storm of the century" hit. As he describes in his excellent commentary track, he had been working on a book about dangerous jobs, and was planning on devoting one chapter to the fishermen of Gloucester, with an emphasis on the Andrea Gail, which was lost at sea during this incredible convergence of "weather events." The more he looked into the story, and the better he got to know some of the relatives and friends of the men lost in the tragedy, the more he realized that the story deserved a book of its own. The rest, as they say, is history.

The film follows the travails of Captain Billy Tyne (George Clooney), a shark boat skipper caught in a bad slump who makes a fateful decision to return to sea, despite weather issues, in order to prove he's still got the goods, fish-catching wise. Along for the ride are his working class crew made up of some great character bits by such notables as Mark Wahlberg (surprisingly effective), the great John C. Reilly, and William Fichtner. The crew ventures further east than they really should, managing to overcome several omens of bad luck (a shark brought aboard by mistake which bites one of the crew, a rogue wave which almost washes several men overboard, and a near drowning of one crewman) to bring in a record catch when their onboard ice machine gives up the ghost. In order to save their catch, they decide to hightail it back to Gloucester despite the looming weather systems which will be, to state it mildly, a challenge to overcome. That's really the gist of the film in a nutshell, though there are a number of subplots, including a friendly rivalry cum romance between Tyne and an attractive female skipper (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), the trials of three people in a sailboat (including the wonderful Karen Allen) caught in the storm, and the real heroics of the Coast Guard crew sent to rescue everyone.

While the film, at least in its depiction of the storm elements, in inescapably visceral and at times overwhelming, it never quite achieves its main aim of lionizing the fishermen. In fact in an early scene, when the Andrea Gail's crew walks in tandem down the dock toward the boat to James Horner's elegiac music, it seems like a fishy version of The Right Stuff, and is almost laughable. When the true heroes of the piece finally show up (the Coast Guard), the entire focus shifts and the crew of the Andrea Gail seem foolhardy at best, downright stupid at worst, and that fractious perspective persists for the rest of the film, depriving it of some the emotional heft it strives so incessantly to attain. The bulk of the emotional pull is placed on the actually quite able shoulders of Wahlberg and his girlfriend (Diane Lane), who are able to wring three hankies worth of tragedy out of about a half hankies' worth of actually scripted material.

If the film suffers in the plot department (and also to a certain extent from Clooney who just is too suave to effectively portray a blue-collar working stiff), it is a roller coaster ride par excellence in the actual film technique department. Director Wolfgang Petersen mounts an impressive production with seamless integration of CGI (state of the art in its day, and still looking pretty impressive eight years on). The half hour or so storm sequence which is the climax of the film is a stunning recreation of what it must be like to be on open seas in the midst of furious wind and waves and will leave most viewers breathless and dripping adrenaline. Horner's gorgeous anthemic score is also one of his best, solidly in the Copland and Bernstein Americana idiom (though Broadway fans may notice an odd similarity of Horner's main theme to the opening triadic phrase of "It's Gonna Be Another Hot Day" from the musical 110 in the Shade). The sound design is certainly one of the finest in the past quarter century or so, with simply unmatched water effects that will have you checking regularly to make sure you're not getting wet.

The DVD

Video:
A lot of fans were disappointed with the HD-DVD release of The Perfect Storm. I'm not sure they'll be completely satisfied with this Blu-Ray release either, but for the most part, this 1080p VC-1 transfer looks sharp and well detailed, with good clarity and contrast and no noticeable artifacts. If there's little of the three dimensionality that highlights the best Blu-Ray transfers, there's similarly nothing too horrible to complain about. A solid, if not overwhelming, job.

Sound:
The sound upgrade from SD on this DVD is where this Blu-Ray release really shines. The True HD 5.1 mix is unbelievably good, with state of the art fidelity and separation and a completely immersive experience. There are also DD 5.1 EX mixes available in English, German, French, Italian and Japanese. The available subtitles are unbelievable and include virtually every language known to man with the possible exception of Esperanto. OK, I kid. They're available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese and Swedish. Maybe I wasn't kidding.

Extras:
All of the SD extras from previous releases have been ported over, including three commentaries by Petersen, Junger and the special effects team. I personally like Junger's best as he concentrates on the genesis of the book and his relationships with various people involved in the real story. Petersen's is good, if not quite as involving as Junger's. The special effects commentary is best, as might be expected, during the CGI segments, but is otherwise a little flip at times as they attempt to fill two hours-plus with appropriate verbiage. There's also a fairly worthless HBO preview, a much better (though way too short) interview piece with survivors of the actual 1991 storm, another stupidly short featurette on James Horner, a photo gallery and the theatrical trailer.

Final Thoughts:
The Perfect Storm probably fails as a "great American heroes" tale (unless one chooses to think of the Coast Guard as the real heroes of the piece, probably not what was intended). If you can get past that caveat, however, you're in for an unmatched thrill ride during the climactic storm sequence, still one of the most impressive water-based segments ever caught on celluloid (and/or a hard drive). Overall, The Perfect Storm is Recommended.

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After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive. Written by Anonymous

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"The Strangers" answers the question: could a movie be made where nothing actually happens? A breathtakingly boring motion picture, "Strangers" proves a filmmaker needs more than spooky masked killers and brain-dead protagonists to craft a successful suspense offering.

Returning home late one night after some painful relationship matters are revealed at a wedding, Kristen (Liv Tyler) and James (Scott Speedman) quietly go about their business as emotional ice forms between them. When three masked strangers arrive at the home, they begin to psychologically terrorize the couple, who search for areas to hide from the torment. When the acts soon become violent, Kristen and James find there's no escape from these faceless aggressors and fear what anguish the morning will bring.

"Strangers" is 80 minutes of screen stillness; a suspense picture powered by directorial incompetence and behavioral idiocy. Filmmaker Bryan Bertino seems determined to evoke John Carpenter's "Halloween" with this riff on a Mansonesque home invasion, and he hands himself some powerful visual tools by placing unsettling masks on the killers and playing with shadowy composition. However, these are only fragments of "Strangers," with the rest of the picture lost to pure absurdity.

Even for a pseudo-horror film, "Strangers" has little regard for logic. I can swallow massive acts of stupidity as long as the nonsense is pulled off with some juicy confidence. "Strangers" lacks a crucial genre grace, asking the audience to sit through 80 minutes of two actors frantic to make a lousy script feel realistic. Kristen and James don't appear to truly panic, call the cops, or run like hell out of the house and never look back. No, they would rather spend time staring into the darkness with evil around every corner, reenter previously established hives of doom like total boobs, and bumble every chance for survival by simply allowing the villains free reign around their wide open property. Bertino doesn't possess the skill to fashion a suffocating bubble of tension that would magically erase this buffet of pure illogic, which makes "Strangers" a maddening movie to consume.

"Strangers" is meant to toy with the audience, baiting them with continuous scenes of glacial stalking and Liv Tyler bursting into quivering hysterics. The picture is mean and violent, but it's oddly harmless; a sensation crystallized by Bertino's annoying employment of jump scares and deafening sound effects. The filmmaker routinely picks insulting, tiresome genre mechanics over anything remotely creative, blowing through any hint of suspense in the first five minutes of the movie. The rest of the picture falls asleep, failing to stir up any excitement or sympathy for these one-note victim puppets and their pea-brained ideas for survival.

I suppose what's most insulting about this wretched picture isn't the overall repetition (masked killer enters room, Tyler cries: lather, rinse, repeat), the awe-inspiring creative bankruptcy, or the "shocker" ending that screams absolute filmmaking desperation; the real crime committed here is how Bertino wants the audience to buy this tale as fact, opening the movie with a short title crawl explaining the "history" of the crime we're about to witness. Reality? Really? In the same film where every horror cliché is present and accounted for? I think a devastating, real-world crime spree deserves more respect than this pile of tasteless genre garbage is capable of producing.

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Dr. Alan Grant is now a happy man with the previous incidents of Jurassic Park now behind him. Grant is that happy that he announce in public, that nothing on Earth can persuade him back onto the islands. Maybe nothing, except Paul Kirby. Kirby and his wife, Amanda want a plane to fly them over Isla Sorna, with Dr. Grant as their guide. But not everything Kirby says is true. When the plane lands, Dr. Grant realizes that there is another reason why they are there, that he doesn't know of. Now, Dr. Grant is stuck on an island he has never been on before, with what was a plane journey now turned into a search party. Written by Film_Fan

Eight years after the InGen incident, Dr. Alan Grant is happy with his life far from any dinosaurs other than fossilized. Unfortunately, he is extremely short in research money, and therefore accepts the offer of wealthy businessman Paul Kirby: A low flight over isolated Isla Sorna, where InGen's second research site was located, and Dr. Grant can fund his future research for a long time. What Dr. Grant didn't know is that Kirby just needs a dinosaur expert to help him and his wife find their 14-year-old son Eric, who crashed on the island while paragliding. What he did suspect, but never wanted to witness, is that the Velociraptors have evolved into a communicating species (and seemingly all along had the capability to do so), now being smarter than primates. Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}

Anxious to fund research for his new theory of velociraptor intelligence, renowned paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant is persuaded by wealthy adventurer Paul Kirby and his wife Amanda to accompany them on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna. This infamous island, once InGen's site B, has become both a primordial breeding ground for John Hammond's magnificent creations and a magnet for thrill-seekers eager to encounter them. When a tragic accident maroons the party of seven, Grant discovers the true reason his deceptive hosts have invited him along. In their perilous attempt to escape, the dwindling group encounters terrifying new creatures undisclosed by InGen, and Grant is forced to learn the dreadful implications of his raptor intelligence theory firsthand. Written by Sujit R. Varma

Adventure runs wild when renowned paleontologist DR. Alan Grant agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer and his wife on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures. But when they're terrifyingly stranded, Dr. Grant discovers that his hosts are not what they seem, and the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more brutal than he ever imagined. Written by Robert Lynch {docrlynch@yahoo.com}

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Folks love to get all snooty about Jurassic Park. They breathlessly tout Stevie Speilberg's genius for hiring a bunch of computer geeks to bring the wonder of seemingly living dinosaurs back from oblivion. They stutter a bit when it comes to Part 2, especially when the golden director has Japanese tourists fleeing a T-Rex on city streets. And they turn absolutely pasty when it comes to Jurassic Park III (2001, 93 minutes), which is danged peculiar, because with its toothy disregard for human life, lack of yip-yap kiddies and cute-cuddly critters -- it's the best ride of 'em all.

The movie: It's tough being mom's boyfriend. Especially when she's got a teenage son who secretly wishes you'd spontaneously combust. That's probably why the fella in this picture agreed to go tandem parasailing with the kid off the coast of JURASSIC PARK -- and the inevitable happens. Didn't this yahoo see the first two movies? While in Paleontologist Park, Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) has rejoined the franchise so he can make faces mimicking constipation and yammer about how scary and really MEAN raptors are. Grant's cut a monstrous check to haul a pair of adrenaline junkies (William H. Macy and Tea Leoni) for a dino safari at the hap-happiest place on Earth. Incidentally, the sum of the check was precisely the amount it took for Mr. Neill to agree to appear in this sequel. This aerial tour foolishly opts to LAND among the not-so-kindly lizards with glandular problems who greet the human invaders with their typical inhospitality. T-Rex is yesterday's news with this new bully on the block who has a crocodile's snout the size of a Datsun and a big curvey sharkish fin on its back. So it's up to Dr. Grant to keep his own kind off the menu by evading one genuinely thrilling close call after another -- including an assault by winged flesh-eating beasties. CineSchlockers will be amused to know that spunky Jurassic castaway Trevor Morgan faced the big guy himself in Barney's Great Adventure.

Notables: No breasts. Seven corpses. Jurassic pan flute. Dino stampede. T-Rex pee. Jingle bell dino. Gratuitous urination. Excrement digging. All-American breaststroke. Gratuitous independent film actor starring in a blockbuster so his kiddos will think he's a really cool guy.

Quotables: Dr. Grant might as well give up on earning the Dr. Sunshine nickname, "Reverse Darwinism. Survival of the most idiotic!" and "You probably won't get off this island ALIVE!"

Time codes: Gee whiz CGI moment as low-flying plane scatters hundreds of frolicking dinosaurs (18:38). The big boys tangle in an old school street fight with ferocious fervor (26:50). Someone forgot to change the newspaper in this value-sized bird cage (1:01:45). Behold the true horror of this flick (1:13:36).

Audio/Video: Pristine widescreen (1.85:1) transfer that could have easily buckled during some of the darker scenes with rain, but doesn't. A separate fullframe release is also available for the narrow minded. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 audio goodness that expertly puts viewers in the center of the action.

Extras: It'd be easier to list what it DOESN'T have. There's a commentary by FX gurus Michael Lantieri, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor, and CineSchlocker fave Stan Winston in which the fellas dish about their fiendish creations. Typical "making of" featurette (23 mins). A look at the new dinosaurs (7 mins). A nifty paleontologist tag-along to find fossils in Montana (5 mins). Various behind the scenes bits (5 mins). Storyboard-to-film comparisons (6 mins). Photo montage with music (3 mins). The visit to Winston's workshop is disappointing as it features only video with no explanatory voiceover -- had this been the CGI section, there'd be 15 guys telling you how they do everything and why it's so freakin' COOL (3 mins). And believe me, they do that on this disc, there's even a section to peep at individual dinos as they spin like tops on various backdrops. Poster gallery including many generations of concepts. Trailers for all three flicks. DVD-ROM doodads. The usual Universal promos. Animated menus with audio. Printed insert with Jurassic police lineup.

Final thought: Never foolish enough to presume it's more than it is and delivers every gargantuan Spinosaurus step of the way. Also a prime example of how CGI and practical FX can work in tandem to create a superior level of realism. Highly Recommended.

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After a small girl is attacked by a small group of compsognathus, Ian Malcolm discovers that there is a second island full of a variety of dinosaurs. Dr. John Hammond decides to send four adventure to monitor the dinosaur's lifestyle before INGEN move forward in controlling the island. Ian Malcolm doesn't like the idea and wants to contact the other three members, but before he can contact them, he finds out that his girlfriend, Sarah Harding is already on the island. Now, what was supposed to be a natural viewing of the incredible creatures in their habitats, has turned into a rescue mission with everyones life at danger. Written by Film_Fan

Four years after the failure of Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, John Hammond reveals to Ian Malcolm that there was another island ("Site B") on which dinosaurs were bred before being transported to Isla Nublar. Left alone since the disaster, the dinosaurs have flourished, and Hammond is anxious that the world see them in their "natural" environment before they are exploited. Written by Murray Chapman {muzzle@imdb.com}

Ian Malcolm is recruited by John Hammond to lead a research team to Isla Sorna, an island 87 miles to the south of Isla Nublar (the site of the original Jurassic Park). Here, InGen Bioengineering had constructed the secret "Site B", where the dinosaurs were actually bred and then transported to the park. Hammond's nephew, who has taken control of InGen, leads his own team to the island to capture the dinos and bring them back to the U.S. to become attractions at a "dino park" in San Diego. The dinos cause havoc and have a field day with the movable "feast." Written by John Deming {jfdeming@sprynet.com}

With the apparent public discovery of the 'Site B' production island full of dinosaurs, John Hammond assembles a team to visit and document the area before it is exploited by others. Included in the four man team are Dr. Ian Malcolm and his girlfriend, Dr. Sarah Harding. When the team reaches the island, they soon discover the presence of another group of people. This new group however are not there for biological data but instead have something more sinister in mind. After a series of events, both groups become stranded when all their communication equipment is lost. It is then that the terror really begins as both groups scramble for their lives. Written by P. Wong {pwong@nt.net}

The film picks up four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park. On a nearby island, dinosaurs have secretly survived and been allowed to roam free but now there is a more ominous threat--a plan to capture and bring the dinosaurs to the mainland. John Hammond, who has lost control of his InGen company, sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition led by Ian Malcolm to reach the island before the mercenary team gets there. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and must team up for their own survival in a race against time. Written by Robert Lynch {docrlynch@yahoo.com}

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THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK

Synopsis:

At the conclusion of Jurassic Park everyone got off the island safely and returned to relatively normal lives in the states. The lysine contingency would prove to be the fatal answer to the dinosaur problem encountered within Jurassic Park.(just in case you wondered what happened to the dinos once our band of heroes left the island.) John Hammond however, had other plans for his creations. Jurassic Park it seems was not his first attempt at bringing dinosaurs back to life. Site B was an island Hammond tested the dinos on initially. When the project took flight, Jurassic Park was born. Subsequent to the destruction of Jurassic Park, Hammond fell back on Site B for the fulfillment of his plans for the "perfect biological preserve and theme-park", only this time "all would be in perfect readiness". This time his idea is for scientists to observe the animals in their native habitats. As there were no paddocks established on Site B, the Dinosaurs have been roaming freely throughout the island. Each staying within its own group. It's Hammond's belief that if the animals can be documented in their habitats, humanitarian efforts will prevail and they will be safe from those who would plunder his latest attempt at perfection.

Here's the problem. Jurassic Park and Site B were funded by profits from INGEN, his conglomerate. With the lawsuits piling up from their first foray into the bio-engineering field, the stockholders have submitted a vote of no confidence in Hammond and have turned over control of the Corporation to Hammond's greedy nephew. His nephew's concept on Site B is one of exploitation. His plan is to remove the animals from the island and bring them to a location stateside where, Jurassic Park can be maintained, controlled and most importantly marketed.

Fearing the total loss of his creations, Hammond enlists Ian Malcolm, Ian's scientist girlfriend and a "naturalist" intent on saving the lives of the animals. His nephew on the other hand has enlisted the best big game hunters money can buy and has set them loose on the island to catch what they can for shipment to San Diego, California. The newest site for Jurassic Park.

With screams and thrills galore, JP: The lost world is a pretty decent return to the land of "living" dinosaurs

Audio/Video:

The audio much like JP is thunderous in it's presentation. The center is perfectly delineated and the fronts/rears generate tremendous surround effects. Additionally, the LFE/Sub Woofer is generously used throughout the whole of the film. There are certain standouts in this one as well and they are, the Rex on board the vessel, The dual Rexi with the Mercedes, and the ship running aground just to name a couple of the instances.

The video seems a little cleaner in it's presentation than JP. I found the colors to be rich and full, the fleshtones accurate and not even a hint of pixealltion in the print. The blacks were incredibly deep and the picture on the whole is very impressive.

Extras:

Here again, Universal pulled all the stops and put together a #1 effort for this disc. The extras are:

The Making of The Lost World

This may have been the best part of the extras in that this material to my knowledge was never before released. It runs about 45 minutes and goes over all of the pre/post production problems/situations that arose in the making of the film. It's very well done and full of really interesting material.

Deleted Scenes

There were no deleted scenes included on the JP disc however, for The Lost Word, there are a fair amount included. Actually included as part of the "Making-of" segment, these scenes involve a stockholders meeting at INGEN and background information on The Game Hunter's leader. The scenes play one after the other and are very well done. IMHO, they could have been made a part of the film very easily. They added a fair amount of information and were actually interesting as opposed to the usual boring deleted scenes that deserved to be cut from the film.

Storyboards, Production Photos, Design Sketches and Conceptual Paintings

Very self-explanatory. Essentially, these are preliminary designs and sketches as well as the publicity materials and set/creature designs established for The Lost World. Nothing fancy just scrolling through the information. Neat to have but, nothing really different in the way of presentation from the JP disc.

Theatrical Trailers

Here, the trailers for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III are included. Again, the same trailers that were on the JP disc. Full frame presented in Dolby 2.0 and all but the third were compiled from scenes in the films. Jurassic Park III has had no principal photography shot as yet so in it's place, they use island shots, thunder and lightening and dino growls to whet your appetite.

Dinosaur Encyclopedia

Again, it's the same as the information on the JP disc. Six dinosaurs from the Compys to the Rex are included. Information on their habitats as well as where they lived and died is included. Additionally, the roars/growls/sounds created for them for the feature are used when a particular Dino is selected.

Production notes, Cast and Filmmakers info and DVD ROM features

Lastly, these features including a live link to the Jurassic Park online event are included. The production notes, cast and filmmaker information is general static information as always.

Overall:

There are elements of this film that are great however on the whole, the picture never lived up to the awesomeness of the original. And really, how could it? JP2 has it's moments but for the most part it seems somewhat rushed. Whether that's true or not, it definately seems as though the filmmakers wanted to cash in on the tremendous success of the first film by bringing about a sequel intended to engender the same response. However, without the first film's "groundbreaking" intensity and scripting, JP2 had mediocre written all over it. I do like JP2 very much but, it's just not as good as the first. It's definately not a bad film it's merely a not quite what was expected. All in all though, I think you have to have both of the films to re-create the full effect and impact they offer. For the content and the audio/video it's easily collector's edition material. The one thing that both films are missing however is, Steven Speilberg's commentary. It would have been really neat to have his thoughts on the scenes as they unfolded. Maybe in the next "definitive edition" we can look to hear the maestro describe his Directorial considerations, while shedding light on JP, JP2 and JP3 from his POV(point of view)! Collector's Edition

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Huge advancements in scientific technology have been able to create an island full of living dinosaurs. John Hammond have invited four individuals, plus his two grandchildren to join him at Jurassic Park. But will everything go to plan? Especially when one of the parks own workers attempt to steal the dinosaurs embryos, and have to shut down all the electricity in the process. It's now a race for survival with everyone located all over the island. Written by Film_Fan

Scientists develop a means of bringing dinosaurs to life using DNA taken from dino' blood, which has been preserved inside insects encased in amber. Whilst Hammond is showing off his dinosaur 'theme park' to a selected audience [a lawyer (Gerrano), mathematician (Malcolm), dino' expert (Grant), palaeobotanist (Sattler) and his grandchildren (Tim & Lex)], Nedry (computer expert) disables the security system so that he can make his escape with some stolen embryos. This enables all the dinosaurs to escape their enclosures... Look out the dinosaurs are coming ! Written by Rob Hartill

On a remote island, a wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening the attraction to the public, he invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park -- and help calm anxious investors. However, their park visit is anything but tranquil as the park's security system breaks down, the prehistoric creatures break out, and the excitement builds to surprising results. Based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel. Written by Robert Lynch {docrlynch@yahoo.com}

John Hammond has developed a dinosaur park (in a very remote Island) using a DNA of a prehistoric dinosaur taken from an ancient insect. In a tour that Hammond makes to a selected audience which suppose to decide whether the park is safe or not safe for public, the security system collapsed, and the dinosaurs set themselves free. Now the selected audience, in the leadership of Doctor Grant and include Doctor Malcolm, Doctor Sattler, Hammond's grandchildren, and some more has to survive in the Island. Written by rsilberman

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Synopsis:

For the two of you who haven't seen the film yet, here's the story: Multibillionaire John Hammond (Sir Richard Attenborough) has genetically engineered Living breathing dinosaurs from ancient Dino DNA found in the stomachs of petrified mosquitoes. Built on the order of an amusement park, "Jurassic Park" has to have the approval of several learned scientists and an attorney representing the stockholders before it will be allowed to open. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) (Sam Neill) and (Laura Dern) are the assembled experts with the blood-sucking lawyer rounding out the bunch. Unbeknownst to them Dennis Nedry (Neumann, er Wayne Knight) has plans of his own. Desperate for cash, he plans to steal the embryos Hammond has created only to sell them to the highest competitor/bidder. In order for him to obtain the embryos however, Nedry, will have to disable the security systems throughout the compound to gain access to the refrigerated units where the embryos are housed. Once disabled however, all of the fences that enclose the animals will be deactivated and they will be able to roam freely from paddock to paddock. Everything and everyone will be fair game, including the experts and anyone else on the Island.

There is no defense against these creatures of the antediluvian world, which our band of scientists quickly finds out. Their only hope is to try and outrun them and get to safety off of the island. With Dinosaurs roaming just about everywhere, this will prove to be most dangerous. Jurassic Park is without a doubt a must-see! If you've never seen it on DVD, you've never seen this movie!

Audio/Video:

There are two versions of JP available one with Dolby digital and one with DTS encoding. I recently upgraded to a DTS ready receiver however, my player is still only Dolby Digital. The Dolby Digital version however is INCREDIBLE! If you don't already know chapter 11 is the Rex's entrance and man does he enter! I kept the volume between 45 and 50 and my whole house shook tremendously. The DD is extremely well done. In one review I read for the film, it mentioned something of a tinny quality to the vocals/dialogue on the center channel. I listened quite intently and found no problems with the audio whatsoever. The bass/LFE was rich and full. The rears and fronts were seemingly constantly in use and the sub was in a word…thunderous! During the rainy scenes in JP the rears do such an awesome job in conveying that effect, it really sounds as though it's raining outside. I really can't say enough about the audio for this feature. Without hearing the DTS version, I can say that the DD stands on it's own and really rocks! The video is fairly excellent. Not nearly as stellar as the audio it still shines though not as brightly. The images were not as stark as I would have liked. While they were very good and well presented, they were a little soft for my tastes. The overall presentation was very good however, I was definitely expecting excellent! There was only a hint of pixellation in one of the darker scenes but other than that I didn't recognize any chroma noise. The fleshtones appeared true and the blacks were very deep. Good video presentation, just not the great one I was expecting.

Extras:

Where do you start? The Making of Jurassic park

This was televised a couple of years ago on the Sci-Fi Channel. It's hosted by James Earl Jones and is presented in 2.0 full frame. The video quality of the presentation runs from fair to good. It covers everything from pre-production to post-production and runs about 30 minutes in length. It's got behind the scenes footage as well as the final product. Very interesting information and you really couldn't ask for a better host than the voice of Darth Vader himself!

Early Pre-production Meetings

These are also presented in 2.0 full frame and run from poor to fair in overall quality. The coolest portion of these meetings is watching as they scouted out locations in Hawaii and then watching those same scenes with all the effects included. Another really neat aspect of these meetings is seeing and hearing Steven Speilberg discuss his thoughts on the movements and characteristics of the animals in how he wanted them to move and emote. Everybody in the meeting was literally hanging on his every word! Had he been anyone else, it might have been a little silly but it's Spielberg for crying out loud!

Storyboards, production photographs, design sketches, and conceptual drawings.

This is pretty much matter of fact. The storyboarding is great and dead-on! The production photos are basically advance publicity materials for the film and the design sketches, primarily early concepts on the look and texture of the animals and locations and vehicles. The Conceptual drawings are just that.

Phil Tippett Animatics: Raptors in the kitchen

Animatics are akin to stop motion animation wherein the proposed CGI scene is put together using clay puppets to make a moving storyboard if you will. Here, the entire scene with the Raptors and the kids in the kitchen is rendered and it moves just like the finished product.

Theatrical trailers

There are three trailers presented. All in 2.0 Jurassic Park all I can say is looking back on the trailer, I'm surprised I went to see the film. It's very lack luster and does nothing for the movie. The Lost World: Jurassic Park I remember seeing this during the SuperBowl and loved it right away! In many ways it's better than the film! Jurassic Park III As there has been no principal photography for the film, a collage of island type vistas and animal sounds are the trailer in total. It does a decent job in whetting your appetite but there's no meat here.

Dinosaur Encyclopedia

The encyclopedia includes information on six of the park's residents including the Rex. Factual information regarding their habitats and regions in which they lived and when they lived is included. Additionally, the sounds created for the dinosaurs in the film accompany each of the animals.

Production Notes, cast & filmmakers bios and DVD ROM features round out the extras

The best portion of these extras is the DVD ROM live event for Jurassic Park III. If you log onto the film's website while engaging the DVD ROM content you'll be treated to their live web event regarding the new film's release.

Overall:

When Jurassic Park hit the scene in 1993, it broke all the rules. CGI was never before put to the test of creating imagery so real. However, Speilberg, and ILM created the benchmark in cinema in JP. Here we are seven years later and the effects are still just as impressive. The Rex who I'm sure is everyone's favorite is just awesome. From the first moment we are introduced to him to the last reel of the film he's definitely one of the better aspects of the film. Every special effects/CGI laden motion picture produced after JP benefited by the inroads made by Speilberg and ILM. To date, the effects have been tremendously improved and are even better but none can equal the sheer intensity that JP brought to the screen. If you've seen it on VHS, Cable, Pay-per-view, or Network TV, you've never seen this film until you've seen the version on DVD! Collector's Edition

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When Sex and the City went off the air in 2004 after six seasons, a feature film follow-up was immediately put in the offing. Several years of contract negotiations and the biggest marketing blitz this side of Indiana Jones later, and that film is finally here. All that anticipation, all that excitement, and at long last, the climax. Get it, girl!

The good news is that the Sex and the City movie is like an extended episode of the show. That's also the bad news. Basically, devotees of the randy romantic comedy will get plenty of everything they liked about the series in one complete package, but at the same time, it's not nearly the event that the producers have made it out to be.

This is a tough review to write, because chances are most people's minds are made up by their previous history with the show, and any fence sitters are just waiting to hear if it's worth their time. So, yes, there you have it, Sex and the City is worth your time. All the girls are back, as are their problems. Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) is still with Big (Chris Noth), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Steve (David Eigenberg) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Harry (Evan Handler) are still married, and Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is out in Hollywood, having spent the last three years making her beau Smith (Jason Lewis) into the hunkiest doctor on TV. There will be break-ups, there will be make-ups, and every emotional state in between. The women will talk about sex in frank ways, there will be some bad puns, and we'll get plenty of eye candy for the men and the women alike to chew on when we've had enough of our popcorn. There is also a quick dose of puerile humor involving Charlotte and some pudding that, if this were a boy's movie, every critic would call adolescent. I laughed a lot during that scene, and so did all the women in the theatre--so we now know once and for all that poop jokes have no gender.

I'm loath to get into the plot any deeper than that. Security around the actual storyline has been tighter than Jason Lewis' abs. I knew way more ahead of time about the aforementioned Dr. Jones and his tussle with the Crystal Skull than I knew about what was going to happen to Carrie and crew. There aren't a ton of surprises--really, I'd argue that the movie is like the entire series compressed into one chunk--but who am I to give away the gold?

For as much as there is to enjoy in Sex and the City, there is also plenty to complain about. For one, at over two hours, the movie is way too long, and it sags deeply in its melancholy middle. Likewise, while the old shtick works very well, the lone attempt to inject something new into the story gets short shrift. Jennifer Hudson signed on to the cast as Carrie Bradshaw's new personal assistant, and her scenes all fizzle. She's there to serve as Carrie's reminder of her younger, more innocent days, and really, who cares? The girl doesn't even get to dish any salacious dirt.

Bottom line: if you like the show, you're going to like the movie. You'll laugh, you'll get angry, you'll occasionally feel dirty, you'll marvel at the ridiculous clothes, and you may even tear up a little--the gamut that kept us all sticking around all those years. If you hate Sex and the City, I doubt the movie will change your mind (the way, say, I enjoyed Serenity but didn't care for Firefly). If you've never seen Sex and the City before, then this isn't the best place to start. Go rent season 1 on DVD. By the time you work your way through all the season sets, this flick will likely be ready for you to rent next.

The slogan for the movie is a pun worthy of Carrie herself: "Get Carried Away." Well, I wouldn't go as all out as that might suggest as far as your expectations, but if you just miss the gals and have been itching for another night on the town, then by all means, have fun.

Jamie S. Rich is a novelist and comic book writer. His current novel is entitled Have You Seen the Horizon Lately? and was released by Oni Press in the summer of 2007. It follows up on both of his successful books from 2006, the pop-culture hit The Everlasting, and his original graphic novel with Joëlle Jones, 12 Reasons Why I Love Her. Rich is currently writing the ongoing independent comic book series Love the Way You Love.

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The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so as Hellboy and his team returns they must save the world from the rebellious creatures. Now, as the creatures who inhabit the spiritual realm gear-up for an all out attack on the human plane, the only one capable of saving the Earth is a tough-talking hellspawn rejected by both worlds. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

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2004's "Hellboy" was a sprawling, mysterious, comical, slimy, and idiosyncratic monster movie. "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" has all of those qualities and one more: restraint. Well, at least a newfound sense of limitation; this sequel overdoses in a big way on fantasy tangents, yet, unlike the earlier picture, it clicks together with a greater, more direct geek panache.

On orders to keep his crimson mug out of the public eye, facing the domestic wrath of pyro-ready girlfriend Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), and trying to console amphibious friend Abe Sapien (Doug Jones, in both body and voice this time out) as he explores love for the first time, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) has a full dance card of problems. When ancient royalty Prince Nuada (Luke Goss) rises up to seize control of a magical crown that controls the all-powerful robotic Golden Army, it's up to Hellboy and the BPRD to stop him. However, as the human-friendly demon gets closer to killing Nuada, he's forced to reconsider his place in the world, and where his allegiance truly lies.

It goes without saying these days that writer/director Guillermo del Toro has one of the most powerfully erect imaginations in the entertainment business. His insatiable desire for all things supernatural is a stunning obsession, leading to a career slanted toward the continual evocation of the unreal. The effective "Blade II" aside, "Hellboy" was truly del Toro playing in a conventional Hollywood sandbox, and it seemed to wear him down. For a film sporadically delightful and containing unforgettable characterization, "Hellboy" felt hopelessly immobile, losing itself entirely to the excesses of genre requirements in the final reel, stealing the small handfuls of glee almost accidently left behind.

It's interesting to note that "Golden Army" is del Toro's first film since his 2006 triumph "Pan's Labyrinth," and a familiar fantastical blood still courses through his veins. The new Hellboy adventure plays as though it was made by a man emboldened by his recent directorial choices, taking a beloved franchise and embracing it with every bit of love and newfound power he could muster. "Golden Army" is an uninhibited snapshot of del Toro's gummy ambitions, now allowed a proper big-ticket budget to imagine worlds beyond our own, creatures of every possible angle and temperament, and a threat worth summoning building-smashing bravery to fend off.

However, as boundless as del Toro's gusto is, he's still short a certain ability to rein all of his ideas in and sharpen his storytelling skills to a fine, effective point.

"Golden Army" loves its monsters: there are creatures stomping over nearly every frame of the film, filling this expanded world with a community of hostile outcasts to find a more suitable context for our hornless hero. The make-up and CG work in the film are outstanding, but it comes at a crushing price: it distracts del Toro. With a veritable "Muppet Show" of goblins and assorted blobs running around, the director becomes enamored with every Forrest Ackerman detour, often applying brakes to the film to monitor the horror, which effectively loosens the already threadbare tension of the film (the Nuada subplot is a dud). There's little doubt del Toro puts on one helluva show, but he's a kid in a candy store in every release, absent a specific discipline that could merge wondrous beastly expressions with a rigid pacing and exhaustive dramatics.

Could you imagine "A New Hope" set entirely inside the Mos Eisely cantina? "Golden Army" comes dangerously close to that unpleasant aesthetic too many times.

Once del Toro is pried away from his fiendish vices, "Golden Army" reveals itself to be a wonderfully touching character odyssey for Hellboy, as he struggles with his place among the humans, not to mention his difficulty expressing love for Liz. Perlman is just so positively perfect in this role that every scene with Hellboy that doesn't involve things going kablooey is a delight, furthering the soul-searching needed to temper the outrageousness of his exterior. The director even manages to sneak in magnificent, beer-fueled bonding time between Hellboy and Abe, refreshing the friendship between "Red" and "Blue," while also giving the fish-man a little more to do with a bizarre, yet quite fruitful romantic subplot. There's also a new boss for the BPRD in Johann Kraus, a steampunk-inspired creation who looks like a robot and speaks with a goofy "Hogan's Heroes" German accent (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), who brings fresh energy into the film. An energy that takes a good half of the movie to compute, but eventually falls into line with del Toro's exaggerated comedic beats.

I enjoyed "Golden Army" much more than the original "Hellboy," but the concept still needs a fixation outside of ghouls and goblins. The moments that light up this sequel are the personal asides, infusing resplendent warmth that del Toro could manipulate even further for maximum investment. Surely "Golden Army" fulfills every sci-fi fantasy around, but watching Hellboy find his purpose, contemplate his newly complicated future, or recall his past (a lovely prologue shows the character a curious boy in a veritable Jean Shepherd Christmas card) is where the real awe of the premise is found, not by dancing the "Monster Mash" until your eyes bleed.

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In DISASTER MOVIE, the filmmaking team behind the hits "Scary Movie," "Date Movie," "Epic Movie" and "Meet The Spartans" this time puts its unique, inimitable stamp on one of the biggest and most bloated movie genres of all time -- the disaster film. DISASTER MOVIE follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty-somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event -- asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works -- hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of mysteries to end the rampant destruction. Taking aim at everything and everyone, from "Indiana Jones" and "Iron Man" to Amy Winehouse and "High School Musical," DISASTER MOVIE lampoons the blockbuster movie, pop culture icons and public figures along the way as Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer satirize everything as only they can.

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After "Date Movie," "Epic Movie," and January's "Meet the Spartans," writer/directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have willingly positioned themselves as artistic pariahs. They abuse the art of parody to craft wickedly loathsome pop culture spoofs, forging actual effort to razz their subjects, only reiterating absurdity. And man oh man, do teenagers ever flock to these vile, willfully unfunny concoctions. But how can you blame them? I'm sure a night ignoring the screen to text-message friends and giggle at fart jokes is far more appealing than Scrabble with mom and dad.

For their latest romp, the doofy duo have been stripped of the 20th Century Fox home, lurching over to Lionsgate, because, let's be honest here, the studio that gifted the world "Saw" and Tyler Perry isn't all that concerned with churning out quality product. So, it's a new beginning for Seltzer and Friedman; a chance to transform their low-budget, throwaway cinema habits and attempt to give birth to something that enriches the human experience, or, at the very least, demonstrates that these guys might have a ounce of artistic aptitude to go with their enormous bank accounts. I mean, come on! It couldn't get any worse, right?

Heavens, it can get worse. It can get worse.

Shoved through a blitzkrieg production process over the last few months, "Disaster Movie" intends to capitalize on the late-summer moviegoing blues. With audiences up to their eyeballs in overblown blockbusters, Friedberg and Seltzer have arrived to send-up the obvious, taking potshots at popular movies, singers, and actors, arranging the nonsense in a short (75 minutes) burst of idiocy and borderline-illiterate filmmaking. I'm not sure if "Disaster" is the worst movie the boys have churned out, but, at this point, that's like asking if a bullet hurts more than a knife. At this stage of the game, excellence isn't a concern for these scoundrels, just continued delivery of contemptible humor.

The targets for "Disaster" hold little surprise: "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," "Sex and the City," "Juno" (I thought that was already a lampoon), "Step Up 2 the Streets," "Enchanted," "Twister" (yeah, take that 1996!), "Beowulf," "Speed Racer," "The Love Guru," "Hellboy II," "Hancock," and "Get Smart." If you've seen the other installments of this gratuitous franchise, you already know the delivery process: make a joke, explain the joke to the audience through close-ups and ADR clarification, and then kick a character in the balls. The filmmakers cling to that simplicity for dear life, assembling a horrifically slapdash production that looks as though it was filmed inside a vacated condo and around their neighbor's backyard.

Actually, the only fascinating element of "Disaster Movie" is watching how much Friedberg and Seltzer avoid paying for production value. The picture looks enormously amateurish, and the ocular offense extends to the cartoon send-ups, where the cracked-out "Alvin and the Chipmunks" are turned into dime-store hand puppets and "Kung Fu Panda" is represented with a Disneyesque costumed character. Huh? There's also a discernable allergy to special effects, leaving inert takes on "Night at the Museum" and "10,000 B.C." a little bizarre and conceptually embarrassing.

Complaining about visual gloss is perhaps a wee bit silly on my part. There's just so much more to loathe here than the evident lack of coin. For example: there's an extended take on the branding whoredom of Miley Cyrus, a bit where the film paints Jessica Simpson as a moron (zing!), various smutty music numbers brought to the screen through "High School Musical" and "Enchanted" riffs, and a well-stocked buffet of fecal-based humor. Add to the mix a miserable cast made up of complete unknowns, don't-want-to-knowns (Vanessa Minnillo, Tad Hilgenbrink), and a good chunk of "MADtv" castaways (yes, that show still airs) in multiple roles. Oh, how they mug.

In short: when Carmen Electra and Kim Kardashian are the thespian highlights of your movie, it's time to start reading a filmmaking manual of some sort.

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A guy (Seeley) who danced with what could be the girl (Gomez) of his dreams at a costume ball only has one hint at her identity: the Zune she left behind as she rushed home in order to make her curfew. And with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him, he sets out to find his masked beauty. Written by anonymous

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Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough ... After learning from the steely head of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive's well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby's arrival. And in the middle of this tug-of-war, they'll discover two kinds of family: the one you're born to and the one you make. Written by Universal Pictures

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If there's one thing to be learned from the "Baby Mama" experience, it's that Tina Fey is a movie star. Effortlessly charming and genuine in front of a camera, she carries the film with a special poise in this, her first starring role. The rest of the movie can't possibly keep up with her, and often doesn't even try.

Kate (Tina Fey) is a business woman trying to pull together the opening of an organic food store and fulfill her lifelong wish to have a baby. With her own reproductive system in disarray, Kate turns to a surrogate named Angie (Amy Poehler) for help. A trashy, childlike imp, Angie is the exact opposite of Kate, which horrifies the eager mom-to-be. As the pregnancy starts to ramp up, the two bond in unique ways, starting a friendship that is put to the test when Kate finds an unexpected romance (Greg Kinnear) and Angie reveals a demoralizing secret.

I laughed a lot at "Baby Mama," because, really, how could I not? With two of today's brightest comedy stars firmly planted in the lead roles, the picture is assured at least some level of hilarity, and writer/director Michael McCullers is wise to step aside and let the ladies lead the laughs with ideal execution and friendly interaction.

The plot is strong enough to let the actresses play around with their broad opposite roles, with Fey getting the uptight neat freak end of the stick and Poehler playing dumb, or at least unmotivated. These are two wonderful performances that drip with comedic chemistry, bolstered by some fine additions of absurdity and improvisation into the film. Clearly these two are comfortable working together (the years of "SNL" camaraderie show) and remain the bright spots of the movie, which, towards the midsection, doesn't need any melodrama to remain a successful and fluffy charmer. However, McCullers disagrees.

With paternity issues creeping into the plot, along with a cold fish romance between Fey and Kinnear, "Mama" starts to slow down, padding itself with dramatic nonsense to get the film to a contractual running time. This is McCullers's first feature directing gig, which shows when film drops dead in the final act, looking for a heart when all it needed was a laugh. The performances stand their ground, but the film quickly becomes labored and needlessly complex, letting the jokes disappear while McCullers robotically tries to pluck heartstrings. Syrupy sentiment and Fey just aren't an easygoing couple yet.

"Baby Mama" is a funny comedy and absolute catnip for those in the market for a child of their own. I liked its spirit and occasional desire to treat stupidity as a gift, not a crutch. It's not a perfect film by any means, but as a debutante ball for Fey and Poehler as big screen leading ladies, it's a dream. Hopefully these two are embarking on a long career as a comedy pair. "Baby Mama" would be nothing without them.

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