The lackluster reception to The Lost World didn't hit the brakes on the dino-franchise's momentum, but it did keep Spielberg -- and, for the most part, Crichton -- at arm's length from the third installment, Jurassic Park III. Note: Our refurbished grades - Pristine, Very Good and Good - are solely based on the cosmetic condition of the phone.

However, with help from a similar suspension of disbelief given to Jurassic Park III, what's underneath can be an amusing, thrilling adventure with similar emotional and thematic tones to the original. With identical bit-rates - both half-rate DTS - I expected the Region 1 DTS edition to sound identical, and before I go any further I should stress that my review copy is apparently the corrected DTS pressing (early versions of this disc had an incorrectly mastered DTS track, but I'm not sure how you can tell what's the corrected one and what isn't). It's interesting revisiting films that used CGI back in the 90s, since it really does show how far the medium has come. That said, there's probably less than 4 minutes of CGI in the whole film, and the shots go by so fast that you won't really notice unless you're actively looking for faults.

I was a Triceratops kid who binged "Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs" until the VHS tape fell apart and endlessly played with Dino-Riders toys. This will be a shocker, I'm sure, but something goes wrong with its paddock, exposing Jurassic World to its wrath. This 25th Anniversary Edition doesn't try to pull what other releases from Universal have done before: the whole "leaving an empty placeholder slot for the latest film" deal.

There are stages of the visuals leading up to the more visually appealing elements in the cinematography: the opening nighttime scene transferring a dinosaur showcases the disc's contrast capabilities, while the next shot of a jungle excavation site wrangles with tricky tan and terra-cotta hues. Details remain dark but discernible throughout the rustling leaves and hazy cage architecture of that dim opening sequence, while the harsh details and wishy-washy palette of the following scene at the dig site show refinement in both clarity and color solidity. The 2012 re-release made a bunch of digital alterations, removing various mistakes (things like visible wires, lighting equipment and somebody's hand) and changed the colour timing significantly to be overly warm, almost like it was tinted brown in places.

Naturally, the big boost here comes in high-definition clarity, bringing out elements in close-ups, in the digital textures of the dinosaurs' skin and the dense foliage of their surroundings. Jurassic Park takes you to a remote island where an amazing theme park with living dinosaurs is about to turn deadly, as five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators. Grant soon discovers that his hosts are not what they seem, and the island's native inhabitants are smarter and more brutal than he ever imagined.

Absolutely … but its new object-based strengths, presented here in stunning DTS-X heftiness, might not appear in ways one might imagine.

D. Wong, Dean Cundey, Steven Spielberg, Richard Attenborough, Sam Neill, Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R.

Even though none of the films that followed have been able to match the awe generated by the original, each one attempts something innovative while trying to find a way to keep the franchise alive, to … uh, mixed successes and failures. Flesh tones are natural, there's no colour wash across the entire frame, unlike what seemed to have been done with Jurassic Park 3D. The best way to describe this is that it sits between Dolby Digital and DTS in terms of volume, but clearly the Japanese Superbit edition wins hands down.Running for almost 50 minutes, this is a fascinating piece and essential viewing for Spielberg fans: covering Spielberg's influences and initial inspiration, and tracking the movie from pre-production through to it's opening, it contains a mass of information, and is narrated by none other than James Earl Jones.