Jurassic Park / Jurassic World - Watch Order: Jurassic Park Only

1993 - 20013 Films5h 48m4 Average

This watch order represents the original Jurassic Park trilogy that started it all, showcasing Steven Spielberg's vision of humans versus dinosaurs with groundbreaking effects and suspenseful storytelling. These films focus on smaller-scale encounters that emphasize wonder, terror, and the consequences of genetic engineering, featuring a blend of practical and digital effects that still hold up today.

The trilogy captures the franchise at its most intimate and suspenseful, where every dinosaur encounter feels genuinely dangerous and awe-inspiring rather than part of large-scale action sequences.

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Jurassic Park

19932h 7m4.8
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park

19972h 9m3.7
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Richard Attenborough

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

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Jurassic Park III

20011h 32m3.4
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan

In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.

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