Unlike the MPAA we do not assign
one
inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE
and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest,
depending on quantity and context.
Director Steven Spielberg's latest special effects
extravaganza about a group of scientists -- and two cute kids -- who visit the ultimate
theme park: it's complete with genetically engineered dinosaurs, who get loose and start
dining on the tourists. With Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard
Attenborough.
SEX/NUDITY 0 - None, just some innocuous flirting.
VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - Five people are eaten by dinosaurs: the movie starts off
with a worker being dragged inside a cage by a dino. There's a lot of growling and
crunching, but nothing is shown. Next, an enormous Tyrannosaurus rex grabs a man sitting
on a toilet, and devours him, while the man's legs are dangling from the T-rex's toothy
mouth. Another man is tackled by a dinosaur and there's a lot of screaming before he's
presumably eaten. And, one man gets killed by a dinosaur who was hiding inside his jeep.
The jeep wobbles and there's the requisite screaming, but nothing is shown. A couple of
animals are also killed: a bull is lowered into a dino cage, and then the shredded harness
is pulled up. The bloody limb of a goat, who's had an unfortunate, off screen encounter
with the T-rex, drops on the roof of a car. Said T-rex also dispatches a couple of smaller
dinos. In one scene, bloody flesh hangs from his mouth. A number of very close calls may
also prove disturbing: the T-rex goes after two kids in a car, he breaks in the roof,
tries to eat them, and eventually flips the car over, stomps on it and pushes it over a
sheer wall. Also, Sam Neill, Laura Dern and the kids are chased inside a building by three
smaller -- but lethal, nevertheless -- dinos, and a boy on an electrified fence is shocked
and is shown lying motionless on the ground. We also see a man's severed, bloody arm and
there's a very graphic description of how a certain predatory dinosaur will kill by
slicing through one's abdomen.
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