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* ShownTheirWork: The movie is notable for portraying ''Spinosaurus'' as a close relative of ''Baryonyx'' and ''Suchomimus'', to the point of sharing their crocodile-like heads. This would cement future depictions of ''Spinosaurus'' and finally put the old "sail-backed carnosaur" portrait to rest (although the film's depiction would also become outdated when later discoveries show that ''Spinosaurus'' also had shorter hindlegs, a dip in the sail, and a finned tail).
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* AmicableExes: Grant and Sattler have split up since the first film but are still very close friends. And apart from a few barbs traded early on, Paul and Amanda are actually pretty cordial with one another, though that's justified as they're working together to get their son back alive.
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* AmicableExes: AmicableExes:
** [[spoiler:Paul and Amanda Kirby]] are very caring and friendly with each other. Granted, they [[spoiler:initially pose as a couple]] and they do have an important common purpose, but given the stressful circumstances, one would expect them to get on each other's nerves at some point and show some signs of resentment. Instead, there are strong hints that they will [[DivorceIsTemporary get back together]].
** Grant and Sattler have split up since the first film but are still very close friends. And apart from a few barbs traded early on, Paul and Amanda are actually pretty cordial with one another, though that's justified as they're working together to get their son back alive.
** [[spoiler:Paul and Amanda Kirby]] are very caring and friendly with each other. Granted, they [[spoiler:initially pose as a couple]] and they do have an important common purpose, but given the stressful circumstances, one would expect them to get on each other's nerves at some point and show some signs of resentment. Instead, there are strong hints that they will [[DivorceIsTemporary get back together]].
** Grant and Sattler have split up since the first film but are still very close friends. And apart from a few barbs traded early on, Paul and Amanda are actually pretty cordial with one another, though that's justified as they're working together to get their son back alive.
* AnkleDrag: Nash the pilot gets dragged out of the crashed plane by his leg by the ''Spinosaurus'' before being thrown to the ground, stomped on, and decapitated.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Eric has a flask of ''Tyrannosaurus'' urine, which helps ward off smaller predators. The urine is yellow and watery like mammalian urine, but, as reptiles, dinosaurs probably did not have liquid urine, more likely secreting a whitish uric paste like modern birds and most reptiles do.
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** This can be HandWaved by assuming it was just really cloudy, and not actually night. Especially since it's late afternoon and the sun is setting in the scenes not long after.
* BarrierBustingBlow: There's one that doesn't end with the heroes captured: the humans go through a hole in a fence, and then the Spinosaurus [[RammingAlwaysWorks just smashes through it]]. And yet once the heroes close a laboratory door on him, it surprisingly withstands the enormous dino charging at it.
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* BiggerIsBetter[=/=]EvilIsBigger: ''Spinosaurus'' is made into one of the main threats in the film thanks to its size -- larger than the ''T. rex''.
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* BiggerIsBetter[=/=]EvilIsBigger: BiggerIsBetter: ''Spinosaurus'' is made into one of the main threats in the film thanks to its size -- larger than the ''T. rex''.rex''.
* BloodlessCarnage:
** The infamous fight between the ''Spinosaurus'' and the ''Tyrannosaurus''. Despite being a vicious battle to the death between two massive carnivores biting at each other, there's hardly any blood, and the ''Spinosaurus'' kills the ''T. rex'' simply by snapping its neck rather than actually causing any wounds.
** [[spoiler:Udesky]] is brutally mauled near-death by a ''Velociraptor''. It uses ''both'' this and GoryDiscretionShot, and in the end he looks no more injured than he did before the attack. Then the raptor kills him by snapping his neck, which, again, is an easy way to kill something without any actual blood.
* BloodlessCarnage:
** The infamous fight between the ''Spinosaurus'' and the ''Tyrannosaurus''. Despite being a vicious battle to the death between two massive carnivores biting at each other, there's hardly any blood, and the ''Spinosaurus'' kills the ''T. rex'' simply by snapping its neck rather than actually causing any wounds.
** [[spoiler:Udesky]] is brutally mauled near-death by a ''Velociraptor''. It uses ''both'' this and GoryDiscretionShot, and in the end he looks no more injured than he did before the attack. Then the raptor kills him by snapping his neck, which, again, is an easy way to kill something without any actual blood.
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Averted. The protagonists spend a good deal of time chasing after a satellite phone instead. Any cell phones that they might have had would have been useless; they were on an island far from any towers. This is mixed with a BehindTheBlack moment, when they hear the sound of the phone but not the freaking huge dinosaur approaching in whose stomach the phone is. Clearly, the phone is quite louder than the dinosaur itself!
* CreatingLifeIsBad: Compared to previous films (which already endorsed this trope to a major extent) this one drives the point home even farther, with Alan Grant having transformed into a sarcastic, somewhat bitter man due to his prior experience in the Park. He calls the dinosaurs [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke "genetically engineered theme-park monsters"]] and calls the scientists out for playing God.
-->'''Amanda Kirby:''' This is how you make dinosaurs?\\
'''Dr. Alan Grant:''' No. This is how you play God.
-->'''Amanda Kirby:''' This is how you make dinosaurs?\\
'''Dr. Alan Grant:''' No. This is how you play God.
* CurbStompCushion: During the infamous T. Rex vs. Spinosaurus fight, the T. Rex actually manages to knock the Spinosaurus back at first and even bites down on into the Spinosaurus's neck before getting its own neck snapped.
* EmergingFromTheShadows: A variant. A ''Pteranodon'' approaches Eric Kirby whilst surrounded by OminousFog.
* EscapedAnimalRampage: A flock of ''Pteranodons'' escapes from their cage and are shown [[RidingIntoTheSunset flying into the sunset]] at the end. The promotional material for the next film reveals that they were shot down over Canada, presumably due to this trope.
* EveryManHasHisPrice: Like in the first film, Alan Grant can accept a job if the offered money makes it worthy. In this case, Paul Kirby basically offers him a blank check to be his tour guide on a flight over Isla Sorna. There's a contrast from the first film, however: While Hammond's offer back then is apparently sincere, [[spoiler:Kirby is actually scamming Grant in a desperate attempt to find his missing son.]]
* EscapedAnimalRampage: A flock of ''Pteranodons'' escapes from their cage and are shown [[RidingIntoTheSunset flying into the sunset]] at the end. The promotional material for the next film reveals that they were shot down over Canada, presumably due to this trope.
* EveryManHasHisPrice: Like in the first film, Alan Grant can accept a job if the offered money makes it worthy. In this case, Paul Kirby basically offers him a blank check to be his tour guide on a flight over Isla Sorna. There's a contrast from the first film, however: While Hammond's offer back then is apparently sincere, [[spoiler:Kirby is actually scamming Grant in a desperate attempt to find his missing son.]]
* ExtraLongEpisode: Inverted. The previous two movies, as well as the subsequent three, last 120 minutes on average. This one only lasts 92.
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** Of course, it also cuts both ways. After all, Grant and Billy ''didn't'' do any background research on Paul Kirby and Kirby Enterprises before or after their first meeting. If they had, the jig would've been up far sooner.
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--> '''Grant:''' Nobody...move...a muscle.\\
''(the rex roars; everybody else runs)''
* FoodChainOfEvil: Displayed with the notorious scene of the ''Spinosaurus'' killing the juvenile ''Tyrannosaurus''.
* GiantEyeOfDoom: The reflection of the Spinosaur's eye appears in the cockpit window of a plane
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* HandWave: All of the issues with dinosaurs are handwaved by Grant who says that these creatures are mutants, not dinosaurs. Echoed in ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame''.
** ... and confirmed in ''Film/JurassicWorld''.
** ... and confirmed in ''Film/JurassicWorld''.
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** When this film ran in theaters, it was not uncommon for [[AudienceParticipation the actual audience to put their hands up, and then down at the appropriate moments during this scene.]]
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* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: The real ''Spinosaurus'', despite being huge and powerful, was probably quite slow on land. Also, while it was bigger (at least in terms of length, and probably weight and height) than ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''T. rex'' was likely much faster on foot, had a stronger bite, and can tear apart flesh. Here, it's depicted as the ultimate superpredator who eats ''T. rexes'' for breakfast. They also enhanced ''Spinosaurus'' in terms of durability; it [[NoSell easily breaks out of]] a ''T. rex'' bite to the neck in the opening moments of their fight, and is not in the least hampered by the wound. In reality, such a bite would've been crippling, if not fatal to pretty much ''anything''.
** A case of AuthorOnBoard, as the paleontological consultant was rather contemptuous of the popular notion of the ''T. rex'' as the apex predator of dinosaurs, and used the film in part to advance his own pick for that slot.
** And thanks to certain revelations in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', it's possible that this was {{invoked}} by [=InGen=] if they made ''Spinosaurus'' as [[spoiler:an early version of the ''IndominusRex'']].
** A case of AuthorOnBoard, as the paleontological consultant was rather contemptuous of the popular notion of the ''T. rex'' as the apex predator of dinosaurs, and used the film in part to advance his own pick for that slot.
** And thanks to certain revelations in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', it's possible that this was {{invoked}} by [=InGen=] if they made ''Spinosaurus'' as [[spoiler:an early version of the ''IndominusRex'']].
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* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: The real ''Spinosaurus'', despite being huge and powerful, was probably quite slow on land. Also, while it was bigger (at least in terms of length, and probably weight and height) than ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''T. rex'' was likely much faster on foot, had a stronger bite, and can tear apart flesh. Here, it's depicted as the ultimate superpredator who eats ''T. rexes'' for breakfast. They also enhanced ''Spinosaurus'' in terms of durability; it [[NoSell easily breaks out of]] a ''T. rex'' bite to the neck in the opening moments of their fight, and is not in the least hampered by the wound. In reality, such a bite would've been crippling, if not fatal to pretty much ''anything''.
** A case of AuthorOnBoard, as the paleontological consultant was rather contemptuous of the popular notion of the ''T. rex'' as the apex predator of dinosaurs, and used the film in part to advance his own pick for that slot.
** And thanks to certain revelations in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', it's possible that this was {{invoked}} by [=InGen=] if they made ''Spinosaurus'' as [[spoiler:an early version of the ''IndominusRex'']].''anything''.
** A case of AuthorOnBoard, as the paleontological consultant was rather contemptuous of the popular notion of the ''T. rex'' as the apex predator of dinosaurs, and used the film in part to advance his own pick for that slot.
** And thanks to certain revelations in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', it's possible that this was {{invoked}} by [=InGen=] if they made ''Spinosaurus'' as [[spoiler:an early version of the ''IndominusRex'']].
* IfIWantedYouDead: In the climax of the movie, the group gets [[spoiler: ambushed by a pack of [[RaptorAttack Velociraptors]] who [[MamaBear want their]] [[PapaWolf stolen eggs back]]]]. Alan Grant points out that [[spoiler: the raptors would've killed them outright if they'd wanted]].
* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: A ''Pteranodon'' carries off a human boy.
* LiveActionEscortMission: More so in this film than in the previous two, complete with one of the people being escorted getting upset over having to listen to the dinosaur expert - [[TooDumbToLive on an island filled with dinosaurs]].
--> '''Alan Grant:''' ''(to his protégé, Billy)'' If I lose you, it's just me and the damn tourists.
--> '''Alan Grant:''' ''(to his protégé, Billy)'' If I lose you, it's just me and the damn tourists.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: [[SpinosaurusVersusTRex the Spinosaurus kills a T. rex]] for no reason other than [[TheWorfEffect to announce how much more powerful and mean she is than the last big evil dinosaur]].
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* MauveShirt: Udesky.
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* MonsterDelay: While a talking [[AllJustADream dream]] version of a raptor appears on the plane ride to Isla Sorna, real raptors don't show up until about the midpoint of its runtime, and this trope is actually uncharacteristically averted with both the ''Spinosaurus'' and the ''T. rex'' as they come pretty abruptly onto the scene during the frantic first few scenes on the island, but the ''Spinosaurus'' at the very least is only given brief glimpses at first until it rises up to roar at the survivors in the airplane after eating Nash.
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* NoOSHACompliance: Actually averted, as there are said to be strong restrictions on visits to Isla Sorna (with good reason). Things only go wrong because the Kirbys ignore those rules and visit the island anyway.
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* NoOSHACompliance: Actually averted, as there are said NobodyHereButUsStatues: A ''Velociraptor'' briefly manages to pull off this trick by pretending to be strong restrictions on visits to Isla Sorna (with good reason). Things only go wrong because a preserved dinosaur head in a vat. Amanda goes in for a closer look and notices its eyeball twitch, at which point the Kirbys ignore those rules raptor jumps out from behind and visit attacks. Fortunately, the island anyway. gaps between the vats are too narrow for it to fit, so it gives her a chance to get away.
* NoOSHACompliance: Actually averted, as there are said to be strong restrictions on visits to Isla Sorna (with good reason). Things only go wrong because the Kirbys ignore those rules and visit the island anyway.
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* OddballInTheSeries: It's the only film in the franchise made without either David Koepp or Colin Trevorrow on the scripting duties, the only one not to have a soundtrack by either Music/JohnWilliams or Creator/MichaelGiacchino (Don Davis does the job instead), and the only one not to feature the ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the film's logo (which instead features the ''Spinosaurus'').
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* OddballInTheSeries: It's the only film in the franchise made without either David Koepp or Colin Trevorrow on the scripting duties, the only one not to have a soundtrack by either Music/JohnWilliams or Creator/MichaelGiacchino (Don Davis does the job instead), and the only one not to feature the ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the film's logo (which instead features the ''Spinosaurus''). It is also the shortest film in the saga by a wide margin, lasting only 92 minutes instead of sometime around 120 like the other films.
* OffWithHisHead: The ''Spinosaurus'' appears to bite Nash's head off the second after its foot instantly crushes him to death.
* OffWithHisHead: The ''Spinosaurus'' appears to bite Nash's head off the second after its foot instantly crushes him to death.
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** Ben Hildebrand falls victim to this and is later found half-eaten and still dangling from the canopy.
** Billy gets caught on a cliff face while trying to escape from the ''Pteranodons''.
** Billy gets caught on a cliff face while trying to escape from the ''Pteranodons''.
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** In the prologue, Ben Hildebrand falls victim to this and Eric are parasailing[[note]]a parasail looks like a rectangular parachute, but the canopy is later found half-eaten wider and still gives more lift, allowing it to be steered better and stay aloft longer[[/note]] near Isla Sorna when they lose their towboat and have to land on the island. Later when the main group arrives on the island, they find the parasail dangling from the canopy.
a tree with Ben's half-eaten body still attached to it.
** The parasail is more or less intact, so Billy packs it up and [[ChekhovsGun takes it with him]]. Billy later uses it to rescue Eric from a flock of ''Pteranodons,'' and gets caught on acliff face while trying cliffside for his trouble. He manages to escape from cut himself down and fall into the ''Pteranodons''.river, but can't make it to shore before being [[spoiler:[[DisneyDeath nearly]]]] eaten.
** The parasail is more or less intact, so Billy packs it up and [[ChekhovsGun takes it with him]]. Billy later uses it to rescue Eric from a flock of ''Pteranodons,'' and gets caught on a
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* PostClimaxConfrontation: [[spoiler: After Alan and Paul successfully scare off the ''Spinosaurus'' for good by lighting their boat's fuel on fire, the next day as the group is about to escape, they are confronted by a few raptors, until Alan confuses them and Amanda surrenders the stolen eggs to them.]]
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* PostClimaxConfrontation: [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After Alan and Paul successfully scare off the ''Spinosaurus'' for good by lighting their boat's fuel on fire, the next day as the group is about to escape, they are confronted by a few raptors, until Alan confuses them and Amanda surrenders the stolen eggs to them.]]
* RaptorAttack: The movie gives raptors some color -- to the male raptors, anyway. Somewhat justified, in that the first and [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark second]] films' raptors were female, or, thanks to faulty DNA hybridization to fill in the damaged strands, changed to males.
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** Later on, however, it turns into PartingWordsRegret.
* RotatingProtagonist: After his absence in ''The Lost World'', Grant is the main character again, Ellie has a minor role, and there is yet another new set of supporting characters.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After learning that Eric Kirby been lost on Isla Sorna for eight weeks, Grant pretty much sees this as a lost cause and decides to escape the island.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After learning that Eric Kirby been lost on Isla Sorna for eight weeks, Grant pretty much sees this as a lost cause and decides to escape the island.
* SickeningCrunch:
** After the ''Spinosaurus'' drags Nash from the plane and stomps on him, it bends down and closes its jaws over his head. The scene then cuts back to Grant and the others' horrified reactions, along with a wet splurching sound, followed by a close-up of the Spino's open, bloody jaws from their point of view.
** Both of the NeckSnap deaths ( a T. rex by the Spinosaurus and Udesky by a Velociraptor) are shown onscreen and accompanied by a loudly audible snap.
** After the ''Spinosaurus'' drags Nash from the plane and stomps on him, it bends down and closes its jaws over his head. The scene then cuts back to Grant and the others' horrified reactions, along with a wet splurching sound, followed by a close-up of the Spino's open, bloody jaws from their point of view.
** Both of the NeckSnap deaths ( a T. rex by the Spinosaurus and Udesky by a Velociraptor) are shown onscreen and accompanied by a loudly audible snap.
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* SpinosaurusVersusTRex: The iconic fight between the two superpredators is the TropeMaker.
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* SpinosaurusVersusTRex: The iconic fight between the two superpredators is the TropeMaker. Shortly after their arrival on Isla Sorna, the ''Spinosaurus'' attacks the plane of Dr. Allan Grant and his group, and then starts pursuing them through the jungle. Dr. Grant and the others eventually bump into a ''Tyrannosaurus'', which decides to chase them as well. When the two gigantic theropods are brought face to face, they roar defiantly and charge at each other to have a fight. The ''T. rex'' is the first to strike, biting its opponent's neck and putting it to the ground. However, after a brief struggle the ''Spino'' manages to get up and free itself, knocking down a few trees in the process, and snaps at its adversary. Then, the two dinosaurs try to bite eack other's flanks, and the Spino strikes the ''T. rex''[='=]s leg with its claws. The ''Tyrannosaurus'' retaliates by [[UseYourHead headbutting]] the Spino, pushing it forward, but the ''Spinosaurus'' takes the opportunity to out-maneuver the ''T. rex'' and bite its neck. It proceeds to use its jaws and arms to [[NeckSnap twist its rival's neck]], killing it instantly. The dead body of the ''Tyrannosaurus'' tumbles to the ground, and the ''Spinosaurus'' places its hands on it before making a [[VictoriousRoar triumphant roar]].
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-->'''Eric:''' Mom, I've been in the jungle by myself for eight weeks. I think I can survive the next few minutes without you.
-->''[cue a ''Pteranodon'' [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey snatching him up]]]''
-->''[cue a ''Pteranodon'' [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey snatching him up]]]''
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--->'''Eric:''' Mom, I've been in the jungle by myself for eight weeks. I think I can survive the next few minutes without you.
* TimeSkip: The movie is not given a set time period, but it happens after ''The Lost World''. Ellie Sattler has been married for some time and has two children.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Dr. Grant's assistant, Billy Brennan, steals ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]'' eggs, planning to sell them on the mainland in the hopes of getting funding to keep his and Alan's dig site going. He even admits he took the eggs on an impulse; as a result, the raptors end up chasing the group down and killing Udesky. When Alan finds out, he wastes no time giving Billy a WhatTheHellHero, especially after he claims he did it "[[WellIntentionedExtremist with the best intentions]]."
-->'''Alan''': Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions. You know what, Billy? As far as I'm concerned, you're no better than the people that built this place.
-->'''Alan''': Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions. You know what, Billy? As far as I'm concerned, you're no better than the people that built this place.
* UnpleasantAnimalCounterpart: This movie is responsible for portraying ''Spinosaurus'' in a villainous light, [[SpinosaurusVersusTRex in contrast to]] the more noble portrayed ''Tyrannosaurus''.
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* TheWorfEffect: The ''T. rex'' suffers from this. Its species were portrayed as the biggest and baddest creatures, and now one is easily defeated by the ''Spinosaurus''. Of course, there's a ''lot'' of debate about how this scenario would play out in RealLife, though. Pretty much everybody agrees that ''Spinosaurus'' would need to ''dodge'' when ''T. rex'' went for its neck rather than just {{no sell}}ing, though. This is partly RealLifeWritesThePlot, as the fight was intended to be much longer and more even, but the ''Spinosaurus'' animatronic was a newer model than the ''T. rex'' one and far stronger than expected, resulting in it literally ripping the ''T. rex'' animatronic's head off in a single swipe. So ironically, TheWorfEffect was due to a real life example of this trope happening with the animatronics.
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* WhyIsntItAttacking: Near the end of the movie, Grant and the others are surrounded by ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptors]]'' who, as Grant points out, aren't tearing anybody limb-from-limb. [[spoiler: It turns out they're just after the eggs that Billy stole earlier in the movie.]]
* TheWorfEffect: The ''T. rex'' suffers from this. Its species were portrayed as the biggest and baddest creatures, and now one is easily defeated by the ''Spinosaurus''. Of course, there's a ''lot'' of debate about how this scenario would play out in RealLife, though.Pretty much Nearly everybody agrees that ''Spinosaurus'' would need to ''dodge'' when ''T. rex'' went for its neck rather than just {{no sell}}ing, though. This is partly RealLifeWritesThePlot, as the fight was intended to be much longer and more even, but the ''Spinosaurus'' animatronic was a newer model than the ''T. rex'' one and far stronger than expected, resulting in it literally ripping the ''T. rex'' animatronic's head off in a single swipe. So ironically, TheWorfEffect was due to a real life example of this trope happening with the animatronics.animatronics.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Paul and Amanda Kirby are a divorced couple who work with Dr. Grant to rescue their son from a dinosaur-infested island. It's implied by the end of the film that they will [[RelationshipSalvagingDisaster get back together]].
* TheWorfEffect: The ''T. rex'' suffers from this. Its species were portrayed as the biggest and baddest creatures, and now one is easily defeated by the ''Spinosaurus''. Of course, there's a ''lot'' of debate about how this scenario would play out in RealLife, though.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Paul and Amanda Kirby are a divorced couple who work with Dr. Grant to rescue their son from a dinosaur-infested island. It's implied by the end of the film that they will [[RelationshipSalvagingDisaster get back together]].
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** One big mistake that stands out when it comes to dinosaur inaccuracies? ''Pteranodons'' didn't eat red meat (they didn't have the teeth for it). The ''Pteranodons'' '''do''' have teeth in this movie despite the fact that ''Pteranodon'' means "Toothless wing."
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** One big mistake that stands out when it comes to dinosaur inaccuracies? ''Pteranodons'' didn't eat red meat (they didn't have the teeth for it). The ''Pteranodons'' '''do''' have teeth in this movie despite the fact that ''Pteranodon'' means "Toothless wing."" Also, they lack the pycnofibres that real pterosaurs are covered with.
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** During the above mentioned battle, the ''T.rex'' manages to get in the first blow by biting the ''Spinosaurus'' neck and dragging it to the ground. Not only would the bite have been fatal in real life (the T.rex had one of, if not the strongest bite force of any known animal), but since a ''Spinosaurus'' sail was an extension of its spine, falling over would have bent it, snapping its spine and paralyzing it.
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** During the above mentioned battle, the ''T. rex'' manages to get in the first blow by biting the ''Spinosaurus'' neck and dragging it to the ground. Not only would the bite have been fatal in real life (the T.rex ''T. rex'' had one of, if not the strongest bite force of any known animal), but since a ''Spinosaurus'' sail was an extension of its spine, falling over would have bent it, snapping its spine and paralyzing it. it.
** The ''Ankylosaurus'' has big spikes protruding from its sides, a feature that was discredited by that time.
** The hadrosaurs are now upright and bipedal, which is jarring given the first film got it right.
** The ''Ankylosaurus'' has big spikes protruding from its sides, a feature that was discredited by that time.
** The hadrosaurs are now upright and bipedal, which is jarring given the first film got it right.
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-->'''Udesky:''' '[surprised]'' You mean there are two islands with dinosaurs on them?
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-->'''Udesky:''' '[surprised]'' ''[surprised]'' You mean there are two islands with dinosaurs on them?
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* StupidQuestionBait: At the start of the movie, Alan Grant has just finished giving a talk about prehistoric Raptors to an audience, and asks if anyone has any questions. Hands go up all over the room. Grant adds that he means any questions that aren't about the events of ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', and most of the HandsGoDown. When he further specifies that he doesn't want questions about the events of ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' [[note]] specfically the Buck's rampage through San Diego, when he did not witness[[/note]] either, there are hardly any hands left.
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* StupidQuestionBait: At the start of the movie, Alan Grant has just finished giving a talk about prehistoric Raptors to an audience, and asks if anyone has any questions. Hands go up all over the room. Grant adds that he means any questions that aren't about the events of ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', and most of the HandsGoDown. When he further specifies that he doesn't want questions about the events of ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' [[note]] specfically the Buck's rampage through San Diego, when which he did not witness[[/note]] either, there are hardly any hands left.
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* StupidQuestionBait: At the start of the movie, Alan Grant has just finished giving a talk about prehistoric Raptors to an audience, and asks if anyone has any questions. Hands go up all over the room. Grant adds that he means any questions that aren't about the events of ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', and most of the HandsGoDown. When he further specifies that he doesn't want questions about the events of ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' either, there are hardly any hands left.
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* StupidQuestionBait: At the start of the movie, Alan Grant has just finished giving a talk about prehistoric Raptors to an audience, and asks if anyone has any questions. Hands go up all over the room. Grant adds that he means any questions that aren't about the events of ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', and most of the HandsGoDown. When he further specifies that he doesn't want questions about the events of ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' [[note]] specfically the Buck's rampage through San Diego, when he did not witness[[/note]] either, there are hardly any hands left.
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** Udesky, the only surviving mercenary on the team, is not really a mercenary, more like a booking agent who only came because the actual third guy came up sick.
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* {{BFG}}: Ironhorn 20mm anti-material rifle with a magazine holding ten high-explosive incendiary rounds. ''It's not enough!''
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* InNameOnly: During his lecture, Grant insists that the creatures on Isla Sorna are just "genetically-engineered theme park monsters" rather than true dinosaurs while trying to defend paleontology from accusations of obsolescence.
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*** On the other hand, it's been pointed out multiple times that the dinosaurs in Hammond's parks were very different to real dinosaurs -- Grant even points out in ''this movie'' that they are "Genetically engineered theme park monsters" and that true dinosaurs are in the fossils. Which gives some inaccuracies such as pivotal palms something of a HandWave. Ha ha.
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* InNameOnly: During his lecture, Grant insists that the creatures on Isla Sorna are just "genetically-engineered theme park monsters" rather than true dinosaurs while trying to defend paleontology from accusations of obsolescence.
** In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', [[spoiler: it's revealed that the [=InGen=] created dinosaurs differ from how real dinosaurs looked because they were supposed to look cooler and more menacing. Which means Dr. Grant is actually at least partially right.]]
** Even in ''Jurassic Park'', it was acknowledged that they were not pure dinosaurs, as the gaps in their DNA had been filled in with genes from other creatures such as frogs.
** In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', [[spoiler: it's revealed that the [=InGen=] created dinosaurs differ from how real dinosaurs looked because they were supposed to look cooler and more menacing. Which means Dr. Grant is actually at least partially right.]]
** Even in ''Jurassic Park'', it was acknowledged that they were not pure dinosaurs, as the gaps in their DNA had been filled in with genes from other creatures such as frogs.
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* EverythingIs3DPrintedInTheFuture: Early at the dig site, Billy prints the resonating chamber of a ''Velociraptor'' and shows it to Dr. Grant. He[[ChekhovsGun later]] uses it to confuse a pack of ''Velociraptors'' in order for the group to escape. It's notable for the fact that the characters refer to the printer as a rapid prototyper, as 3D printers were not commonly known by the average person when the movie was released in 2001.
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** A subtle one on Paul's face when Billy asks him how high up he camped on K2, realizing that his lie is about to be exposed.
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** Everyone has one when the ''Ceratosaurus'' shows up. {{Subverted}} when it smells them covered in dung and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaves]]. The ''Ceratosaurus'', meanwhile is having [[JustForPun a more literal]] OhCrap moment of its own, because the crap the humans are covered in belongs to a ''much'' more dangerous and aggressive predator, which is probably still in the area. It quickly departs the scene.
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** Everyone has one when the ''Ceratosaurus'' shows up. {{Subverted}} when it smells them covered in dung and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaves]]. The ''Ceratosaurus'', meanwhile is having [[JustForPun a more literal]] literal OhCrap moment of its own, because the crap the humans are covered in belongs to a ''much'' more dangerous and aggressive predator, which is probably still in the area. It quickly departs the scene.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: What are the odds that Grant would get chased by the raptors into the area near where Eric has been hiding out?
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* MortonsFork: When Grant finds that Billy has [[spoiler: stolen raptor eggs, which is why the raptors are hunting them]], he threatens to drop them in the river, but decides against it.
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* MortonsFork: When Grant finds that Billy has [[spoiler: stolen raptor eggs, which is why the raptors are hunting them]], he threatens to drop them in the river, but decides against it. Paul asks why in the world they're keeping the eggs when they're the reason the raptors are trying to kill them. Grant reasons that the raptors are hunting them either way, better they catch them with the eggs intact (thereby giving them the slim change to return the eggs to the raptors and survive) than without the eggs (at which point the raptors will just kill them all).
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* MortonsFork: After discovering Billy stole two raptor eggs, Grant prepares to chuck them, only to change his mind and keep them. Paul asks why in the world they're keeping the eggs when they're the reason the raptors are trying to kill them. Grant reasons that the raptors are hunting them either way, better they catch them with the eggs intact (thereby giving them the slim change to return the eggs to the raptors and survive) than without the eggs (at which point the raptors will just kill them all).
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* TakeThat: Grant and the others are being attacked by the ''Spinosaurus'', so Grant uses the satellite phone to call Ellie for help. Her toddler son picks it up, and he would have gotten it to his mother a lot quicker were he not distracted by [[Series/BarneyAndFriends another dinosaur]]....
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** Grant and the others are being attacked by the ''Spinosaurus'', so Grant uses the satellite phone to call Ellie for help. Her toddler son picks it up, and he would have gotten it to his mother a lot quicker were he not distracted by [[Series/BarneyAndFriends another dinosaur]]....
** Grant and the others are being attacked by the ''Spinosaurus'', so Grant uses the satellite phone to call Ellie for help. Her toddler son picks it up, and he would have gotten it to his mother a lot quicker were he not distracted by [[Series/BarneyAndFriends another dinosaur]]....
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'''Eric:''' ''[nods]'' I don't know. It was [[{{Anvilicious}} kinda preachy]]. And too much Chaos. Everything Chaos. It just seemed like the guy was [[InsufferableGenius high on himself]].\\
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'''Eric:''' ''[nods]'' [[invoked]] I don't know. It was [[{{Anvilicious}} kinda preachy]]. And too much Chaos. Everything Chaos. It just seemed like the guy was [[InsufferableGenius high on himself]].\\
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The infamous ''Spinosaurus'' vs ''T. rex'' fight was intended to be much longer and more even than it ultimately was, but had to be cut short to its current length and quick end when the ''Spinosaurus'' animatronic, a newer model than the ''T. rex'' (which was repurposed from the previous film), turned out to be much stronger than anticipated. As a result, it ended up ''decapitating the T. rex animatronic in one swipe''[[note]] This is the DeletedScene from the trailer that shows the Spino dealing a hefty BitchSlap to the Rex, in case you're wondering. [[/note]], forcing the fight to be massively shortened.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The infamous ''Spinosaurus'' vs ''T. rex'' fight was intended to be much longer and more even than it ultimately was, but had to be cut short to its current length and quick end when the ''Spinosaurus'' animatronic, a newer model than the ''T. rex'' (which was repurposed from the previous film), turned out to be much stronger than anticipated. As a result, it ended up ''decapitating the T. rex animatronic in one swipe''[[note]] This [[invoked]]This is the DeletedScene from the trailer that shows the Spino dealing a hefty BitchSlap to the Rex, in case you're wondering. [[/note]], forcing the fight to be massively shortened.
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* OminousWalk: The first ''Pteranodon'' pulls a brief one at the beginning of the sequence it appears in. Simply put, the creature is surrounded by fog when it does this, and is slowly striding its way toward a thirteen-year-old boy. [[NightmareFuel No one can blame said boy for screaming]]. Bonus points for the fact that an animal known for its ''flying'' prowess is introduced by ''walking'' menacingly.
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* OminousWalk: The first ''Pteranodon'' pulls a brief one at the beginning of the sequence it appears in. Simply put, the creature is surrounded by fog when it does this, and is slowly striding its way toward a thirteen-year-old boy. [[NightmareFuel No one can blame said boy for screaming]]. Bonus points for the fact that an animal known for its ''flying'' prowess is introduced by ''walking'' menacingly.
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** The plan to use the riverboat to navigate to the coast and possibly the mainland is how Malcolm, Thorne, and company escaped from Isla Sorna at the end of ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995''. Likewise, Billy swiping dinosaur eggs to take to the mainland for study and funding is a whole plot reference to Dodgson's plan in the same novel.
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* EvolutionaryRetCon: The raptors are brightly colored and frilled as a nod to the [[ScienceMarchesOn then-recent discovery that they had feathers]].
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* EvolutionaryRetCon: [[invoked]] The raptors are brightly colored and frilled as a nod to the [[ScienceMarchesOn then-recent discovery that they had feathers]].
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* TheCrocIsTicking: The ''Spinosaurus'' eats Paul's satellite phone, and its ringing continues in its stomach. [[GeniusBonus Bonus points]] since the ''Spinosaurus'' might have actually been the dinosaur equivalent of a crocodile.
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* TheCrocIsTicking: The ''Spinosaurus'' eats Paul's satellite phone, and its ringing continues in its stomach. [[GeniusBonus Bonus points]] points since the ''Spinosaurus'' might have actually been the dinosaur equivalent of a crocodile.
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** Eric when he hears compies gathering outside his hideout. It's more InformedAbility since we don't see them attack anyone like they did in the previous film.
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** Access to Isla Sorna has been restricted by the American and Costa Rican governments in the interim since ''The Lost World''. Considering what happened in San Diego [[CallForward or what takes place the world over]] [[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom two]]-[[JurassicWorldDominion 3]] films later, you can't blame them for trying to prevent any more dinosaurs from getting off the island (or to prevent anyone from trying to sneak back in and acquire more specimens).
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** Access to Isla Sorna has been restricted by the American and Costa Rican governments in the interim since ''The Lost World''. Considering what happened in San Diego [[CallForward or what takes place the world over]] [[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom two]]-[[JurassicWorldDominion 3]] two]]-[[Film/JurassicWorldDominion three]] films later, you can't blame them for trying to prevent any more dinosaurs from getting off the island (or to prevent anyone from trying to sneak back in and acquire more specimens).
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** Access to Isla Sorna has been restricted by the American and Costa Rican governments in the interim since ''The Lost World''. Considering what happened in San Diego, you can't blame them for trying to prevent any more dinsosaurs from getting off the island (or to prevent anyone from trying to sneak back in and acquire more specimens).
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** Access to Isla Sorna has been restricted by the American and Costa Rican governments in the interim since ''The Lost World''. Considering what happened in San Diego, Diego [[CallForward or what takes place the world over]] [[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom two]]-[[JurassicWorldDominion 3]] films later, you can't blame them for trying to prevent any more dinsosaurs dinosaurs from getting off the island (or to prevent anyone from trying to sneak back in and acquire more specimens).
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** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Grant finds out that Paul lied about being a millionaire, and that the check he gave him was a fake]].
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** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Grant finds out that Paul lied about being a millionaire, and that the check he gave him was a fake]]. Meaning that he's risking his life for literally nothing and even if he survives, his work back home probably won't.
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** It's implied that one of the reasons the ''Pteranodons'' attacked the group was to protect their young.
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* CelebrityParadox: During the film’s climax, Ellie’s son Charlie is watching [[{{Series/Barney&Friends}} Barney the Dinosaur]]. Eric’s actor, Creator/TrevorMorgan, had a leading role in Film/BarneysGreatAdventure.
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* CelebrityParadox: During the film’s climax, Ellie’s son Charlie is watching [[{{Series/Barney&Friends}} [[{{Series/BarneyAndFriends}} Barney the Dinosaur]]. Eric’s actor, Creator/TrevorMorgan, had a leading role in Film/BarneysGreatAdventure.the Barney film, ''Film/BarneysGreatAdventure''.
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* CelebrityParadox: During the film’s climax, Ellie’s son Charlie is watching [[{{Series/Barney&Friends}} Barney the Dinosaur]]. Eric’s actor, Creator/TrevorMorgan, had a leading role in Film/BarneysGreatAdventure.
* CerebusRetcon: Possibly done to the ''Spinosaurus'' in supplementary material to ''Film/JurassicWorld''. When it appeared in ''III'', it was thought of as just another one of [=InGen=]'s cloned dinosaurs that went loose after the abandonment of the breeding facility, deadlier yes, but still a normal dinosaur (relatively speaking). However, the official website of ''World'' implies it to be [[spoiler: one of the hybrid projects that Dr. Wu created in cooperation with Hoskins, and with the ''Spinosaurus'' being a prototype of sorts for the ''Indominus rex''. Specifically, hybrids that are designed to be much more powerful and intelligent than normal dinosaurs. This is probably why it goes through so much trouble in hunting the humans, and why that poor ''Tyrannosaurus'' gets killed so easily. As shown in ''World'', it takes six dinosaurs in total to bring a hybrid down]].
* CerebusRetcon: Possibly done to the ''Spinosaurus'' in supplementary material to ''Film/JurassicWorld''. When it appeared in ''III'', it was thought of as just another one of [=InGen=]'s cloned dinosaurs that went loose after the abandonment of the breeding facility, deadlier yes, but still a normal dinosaur (relatively speaking). However, the official website of ''World'' implies it to be [[spoiler: one of the hybrid projects that Dr. Wu created in cooperation with Hoskins, and with the ''Spinosaurus'' being a prototype of sorts for the ''Indominus rex''. Specifically, hybrids that are designed to be much more powerful and intelligent than normal dinosaurs. This is probably why it goes through so much trouble in hunting the humans, and why that poor ''Tyrannosaurus'' gets killed so easily. As shown in ''World'', it takes six dinosaurs in total to bring a hybrid down]].
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* CerebusRetcon: Possibly done to the ''Spinosaurus'' in supplementary material to ''Film/JurassicWorld''. When it appeared in ''III'', it was thought of as just another one of [=InGen=]'s cloned dinosaurs that went loose after the abandonment of the breeding facility, deadlier yes, but still a normal dinosaur (relatively speaking). However, the official website of ''World'' implies it to be [[spoiler: one of the hybrid projects that Dr. Wu created in cooperation with Hoskins, and with the ''Spinosaurus'' being a prototype of sorts for the ''Indominus rex''. Specifically, hybrids that are designed to be much more powerful and intelligent than normal dinosaurs. This is probably why it goes through so much trouble in hunting the humans, and why that poor ''Tyrannosaurus'' gets killed so easily. As shown in ''World'', it takes six dinosaurs in total to bring a hybrid down]].
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** The UnmasquedWorld has also kneecappped the Palentology field and funding for Grant and other diggers. After all, with actual ressurected and living dinosurs now living on Sorna, who needs to go digging for fossils anymore?
** On the flip side of this, it could be argued tha the reason paleontology hasn't been completely nixed already and Grant still even has a job is because just enough people realize how utterly dangerous it would be to study live dinosaurs, ones that were genetically recreated and might not even be behaving accurately to their forerunners at that. Especially after what happened in [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark San Diego]] four years ago.
** On the flip side of this, it could be argued tha the reason paleontology hasn't been completely nixed already and Grant still even has a job is because just enough people realize how utterly dangerous it would be to study live dinosaurs, ones that were genetically recreated and might not even be behaving accurately to their forerunners at that. Especially after what happened in [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark San Diego]] four years ago.
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** On the flip side of this, it could be arguedtha that the reason paleontology hasn't been completely nixed already and Grant still even has a job is because just enough people realize how utterly dangerous it would be to study live dinosaurs, ones that were genetically recreated cloned and might not even be behaving accurately to their forerunners at that. Especially after what happened in [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark San Diego]] four years ago.
** On the flip side of this, it could be argued
