Aww, who's a cute little Stegosaurus?
- While it quickly turns into Nightmare Fuel, Cathy Bowman's initial reaction to the Compsognathus could qualify.
- Thankfully, she at least survived the encounter. As Hammond explains to Malcom during their meeting later.
- The moment where we saw Stegosaurus on the big screen alive and moving can made some people feel utter awe and amazement.
- The fact that the baby actually allowed Sarah to get up close and interact with it. Well, until it got scared by her camera, anyways.
- Not to mention the ending, where a herd of Stegosaurus are migrating together with their young — right next to a pair of T. rexes playing with their young.
- Despite the fact that it later led to disaster, Nick freeing and later helping to heal the injured baby T. rex counts.
- And just to clarify, no, Roland probably didn't break the baby's leg. In a filmed deleted scene that sadly didn't make it to the TV version, a drunk Ludlow stepped on him and got chewed out for it by Roland.
- At the end of the film the male T. rex helps his kid get its first kill. See it here.
It's so adorable that you almost forget about the Asshole Victim they're snacking on.- He even gently nudges his head forward when his kid looks back at him, as if encouraging him with "don't be afraid, go ahead", and watches as his son kills Ludlow, even looking like he's thinking "That's my boy!"
- And later the entire Tyranno family is seen happily minding their own business back on the island.
- The fact that much of the plot is driven by the simple fact that the rexes care for their young. They are a mated pair, both care for the baby, will rarely leave it alone, and when their chick is taken they rush out to find it.
- Malcolm meeting Tim and Lex again. Even if it was only for a brief moment, he was happy to see them and they were just as happy to see him. Especially since he and Grant saved them from Rexy in the first movie. It also shows that whatever problems he may have with Hammond, he doesn't take it out on the grandkids.
- Even better is that they got Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazello to come back, even for such a quick cameo.
- Malcolm also goes Papa Wolf to protect them when Ludlow tries to drag them into the argument regarding the Isla Nublar incident they were involved in by snarling back at Ludlow, "Leave them out of this!"
- Roland has a small moment where, when leaving with a small team to go and find Dieter, he insists to Sarah that no one tell Kelly that someone might have died.
- Shortly before this, while they're hiking, he notices that Sarah has left a smear of blood on a fern she walked past and, when they stop to rest, immediately walks over to her to ask if she's been injured. If nothing else, this establishes that he's just a Punch-Clock Villain, as opposed to Jerkass Dieter Stark and Corrupt Corporate Executive Ludlow.
- After Ajay dies, Roland gives up on capturing the Tyrannosaurus. The loss of lives is just not worth it anymore. The man didn't come to take them home — he came to say "I fought a Tyrannosaurus and lived".
- The mere fact that Tembo and the hunters come to Ian's camp and help Sarah, Ian and Nick to get on the cliff. They could have left them to die; hell, they could have cut the line and killed them in revenge. But other than a few punches being thrown because Nick mouths off, Tembo and the hunters put aside any anger that Ian's team has got them into this situation and agree to work with them.
- The last moments of The Climax feature Ian and Sarah returning to the ship to tranquillize the adult rex and trap it back safely in the cargo hold, thereby saving its life from the authorities and InGen mercs who have been ordered to kill it. Granted, this may have been what they intended from the start why they planned to lure it back on the Venture, but that's the thing there. They could have chosen to let the authorities handle it, since the police are shown arriving en masse at the dock, but they chose to finish things by coming back and performing the more humane way of capturing a dangerous animal.
- The final scene where, over a montage of the Tyrannosaurus family reunited, a herd of Stegosaurus ambling past and a flock of Pteranodon soaring majestically overhead, John Hammond, quoting Malcolm, advocates that Isla Sorna be turned into a wildlife preserve so that the dinosaurs can live in peace without human interference.John Hammond: These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help, and if we can only step aside, and trust in nature, life will find a way.
- There's also the shot of Ian and Sarah asleep on a couch, having drifted off watching the news coverage of the T. rexes being returned, with a still-awake Kelly sitting alongside them. Two family units are together as they should be.
- Nick and Sarah caring for Kelly during Ian's absence while they flee from the T-rex in camp. When she falls, they both stop to help her up and when they witness a man getting eaten by the t-rex, Nick, while clearly horrified himself, holds her and tries to comfort her.
- Ian thanking Nick when he finds them. Not to mention how Kelly jumps into his arms.
- Despite hanging over the edge of a cliff, Ian makes sure to ask Eddie if Kelly is okay on her own.
