2011 · documentary

Return to Jurassic Park

Directed by Laurent Bouzereau · 2h 9m · 2011

A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the making of part of one of the films, including the hurricane during the shooting of the first film, and how advances in CGI for Jurassic Park helped change the world of special effects forever. All interviews for these retrospective documentaries come with comments from Spielberg, Johnston, Neill, Dern, Goldblum, the effects crews, the child actors, and Peter Stormare. This documentary is broken into six parts: Dawn of a New Era (25 min), Making Prehistory (20 min), The Next Step in Evolution (15 min), Finding the Lost World (28 min), Something Survived (16 min), and The Third Adventure (25 min).

Our read: Return to Jurassic Park (2011) reads as a warm, steady, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.