Jurassic Park 3D has just hit theatres, restored and re-released on the big screen 20 years after its original run. For many, it's a chance to revisit a familiar friend, and all the warming pop-culture nudges that go with it; the 'clever girls' and the 'uh uh uh, you didn't say the magic words.' For others, it might be their introduction to the film; perhaps they grew up on a diet of Shrek and Pixar and their parents might have been wary of introducing them to Samuel L Jackson's severed arm.
Whatever camp you might fit into, I want to spend some time extolling some of Jurassic Park's virtues, for there are many. For some of us – particularly those of us born in the '80s – seeing Jurassic Park in the theatres in 1993 was a seminal moment in our lives; in the same way it was for those kids in the '70s who sat down to watch a movie called Star Wars. For me, a kid who grew up in the ass-end of the world (New Zealand, it's a nice ass) and was 9 in 1993, Jurassic Park is my Star Wars.
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