

It would be a horrible shock for these kids.” “But we don’t really go into what their behavior would be like if they were here today. “We teach dinosaurs as extinct animals and how much fun it would be if they were alive,” one elementary-school teacher told The Times. Just remember: TRY NOT TO GET REXY UPSET.) In fact, “Jurassic Park” presents such an daunting, unpretty portrait of dino life that some commentators believe the movie does a disservice. (And OK, so most dinosaurs actually lived during the Cretaceous, not Jurassic, era.


“Jurassic Park” may be one terrific suspense flick, but it’s not a pretty picture of dino life. GGGRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!! (an actual quote, not a reconstruction) says that cute, cuddly Tyrannosaurus Rex as he smashes the car that the lunches-I mean actors-are riding in during the rainstorm when the power to the electric fences that are supposed to contain the resurrected thunder lizards fails just when, conveniently, everyone is most vulnerable in the new movie “Jurassic Park.” Cute little Rexy proceeds to attempt to devour just about everybody on the menu-I mean in the cast: to snarf up one of the equally antisocial but smaller velociraptor dinosaurs, munching away on his reptilian cousin as the terrified lunches-I mean actors-look on.
