‘Jurassic Park’ is one of the most beloved movies of the ‘90s and continues to resonate with today’s kids as well. Based on novels by Michael Crichton, the movies are made by Steven Spielberg. Two sequels and two decades later, the Jurassic World trilogy returned the franchise to relevance with three additional movies with USD 4 billion as its collective box office haul.
There are a total of six feature-length Jurassic movies, two short films, and an animated Netflix series. With both trilogies now complete, here’s a guide to help you navigate the series’ story.
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1. Jurassic Park
The release order of the ‘Jurassic Park’ films lines up with their chronological order. The first one was released in 1993, based on the Michael Chrichton novel of the same name. It formed the base for the movie narrative, wherein dinosaurs are shown to have been cloned by extracting DNA from prehistoric mosquitoes. An entrepreneur uses the clones to fill a theme park on Isla Nublar, a fictitious island.
The narrative gets a twist with a tropical storm, while a saboteur kills the power to steal corporate secrets and deactivates a security system. As the dinosaurs are left unrestrained, the island tour turns into a deadly escape mission.
The movie is available for streaming and renting on Amazon Prime Video
2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The second part was released four years after the first one. ‘The Lost World’ brings back Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm and Attenborough’s John Hammond in the lead roles alongside Julianne Moore’s paleontologist Sarah Harding.
The movie narrative is set on a second island, named Isla Sorna, where Hammond also clones dinosaurs. The abandoned island has dinosaurs that are left to fend for themselves. A power struggle for control of Hammnod’s company, InGen, sparks a war between two factions of Isla Sorna.
The movie is available for streaming and renting on Amazon Prime Video
3. Jurassic Park 3
Released in 2001, the third part has Sam Neill as Alan Grant, with Laura Dern’s Ellie Sattler also reprising her role. The story is set another four years after what happens in the last part. It is set on Isla Sorna, where a man and a boy have gone missing. Grant meanwhile needs money for his dinosaur research, and therefore accepts to give a helicopter tour of the island in exchange for funding. The tour ultimately turns out to be a rescue mission chartered by the missing boy’s parents.
The dinosaurs welcome the humans with hostility and there’s another nature-human conflict. The movie is available for streaming and renting on Amazon Prime Video
4. Jurassic World
Fast forward 22 years from the original ‘Jurassic Park‘, the fourth one was released in 2015. This part offers the audience a fully functional dinosaur theme park on Isla Nublar. The movie’s narrative offers a breed of genetically modified mega-dinosaur, along with a showdown that will leave the park in shambles.
The movie is available for streaming and renting on Amazon Prime Video, as well as on Peacock.
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5. Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (TV Series)
Released in 2020, Netflix released an extended part of the Jurassic universe in the form of a family-friendly animated series. ‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’ has six kids at the center of the storyline as they are a part of the camp on Isla Nublar during the events of the Jurassic World trilogy.
6. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
The 2018 movie features people facing the consequences of the fall of Jurassic World. The repercussions that Jurassic World is facing are because of the volcanic eruption that hit Isla Nublar’s dinosaurs. It eventually leads to a debate on survival and human-dinosaur coexistence.
7. Battle At Big Rock
This short film released in 2019 gives its audience a taste of the clash between dinosaurs and humans in ‘Battle at Big Rock’. Directed by Colin Trevorrow, the ‘Battle at Big Rock’ bridges the gap between Fallen Kingdom and Dominion. The way the movie has portrayed the aftermath of the clash is commendable.
8. Jurassic World Dominion: The Prologue
This short film released in 2021 explores the prehistoric past. The narrative of this story is set 65 million years ago as well as in the present day. The story revolves around the mysteries that connect the Cretaceous creatures to a T-Rex at a drive-in movie theater.
9. Jurassic World Dominion
The Jurassic World trilogy ends with ‘Dominion’, which is set four years after the ‘Fallen Kingdom’ storyline. The movie features the integration of dinosaurs into the world. Humans in the movie consequently face ethical dilemmas in this part.
While these are all the movies that Jurassic World has released so far, Netflix’s announcement of ‘Jurassic World: Chaos Theory’ comes as a hope for fans as they can expect more adventures in the dinosaur universe.
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