Editing Jurassic Park (film) (section)

===Critical response===
{{Anchor|Critical reception|Critics}}Review aggregation website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] retrospectively reported an approval rating of 91% based on 141 reviews, with an average rating of 8.50/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "''Jurassic Park'' is a spectacle of special effects and lifelike animatronics, with some of Spielberg's best sequences of sustained awe and sheer terror since ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]''".<ref name=Rotten>{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jurassic_park/ |title=Jurassic Park (1993) |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media]] |access-date=May 7, 2025 |archive-date=July 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727065331/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jurassic_park/ |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Metacritic]] gave the film a [[Weighted mean|weighted average]] score of 68 out of 100, based on reviews from 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web |title=Jurassic Park Reviews |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/jurassic-park |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |work=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=April 8, 2013 |archive-date=September 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906222246/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/jurassic-park |url-status=live}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemascore.com|title=Find CinemaScore|format=Type "Jurassic Park" in the search box|publisher=[[CinemaScore]]|access-date=June 29, 2020|archive-date=January 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102130540/https://www.cinemascore.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Janet Maslin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called it "a true movie milestone, presenting awe- and fear-inspiring sights never before seen on the screen [...] On paper, this story is tailor-made for Mr. Spielberg's talents [but] [i]t becomes less crisp on screen than it was on the page, with much of the enjoyable jargon either mumbled confusingly or otherwise thrown away".<ref>{{cite news |author-link=Janet Maslin |last=Maslin |first=Janet |title=Screen Stars With Teeth To Spare |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 11, 1993 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/11/movies/review-film-screen-stars-with-teeth-to-spare.html |access-date=February 4, 2007 |archive-date=July 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729044330/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/11/movies/review-film-screen-stars-with-teeth-to-spare.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', [[Peter Travers]] called the film "colossal entertainment—the eye-popping, mind-bending, kick-out-the-jams thrill ride of summer and probably the year [...] Compared with the dinos, the characters are dry bones, indeed. Crichton and co-screenwriter David Koepp have flattened them into nonentities on the trip from page to screen".<ref>{{cite magazine |author-link=Peter Travers |last=Travers |first=Peter |title=Jurassic Park |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=June 1993 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5949029/review/5949030/jurassic_park |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824034910/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5949029/review/5949030/jurassic_park |archive-date=August 24, 2007 |access-date=February 4, 2007}}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film three stars out of four: "The movie delivers all too well on its promise to show us dinosaurs. We see them early and often, and they are indeed a triumph of special effects artistry, but the movie is lacking other qualities that it needs even more, such as a sense of awe and wonderment, and strong human story values".<ref>{{cite news |author-link=Roger Ebert |last=Ebert |first=Roger |title=Jurassic Park |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=June 11, 1993 |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jurassic-park-1993 |access-date=February 4, 2007 |archive-date=April 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413170606/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jurassic-park-1993 |url-status=live}}</ref> Henry Sheehan of ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' argued: "The complaints over ''Jurassic Park''{{'}}s lack of story and character sound a little off the point", noting the story arc of Grant learning to protect Hammond's grandchildren despite his initial dislike of them.{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=421–422}} Caroline Westbrook of ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' gave the film five stars, calling it "quite simply one of the greatest blockbusters of all time".<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Review of Jurassic Park |last=Westbrook |first=Caroline |magazine=Empire |url=http://www.empireonline.com/movies/jurassic-park/review/ |issue=50 |date=August 1993 |access-date=January 7, 2014 |archive-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117033510/http://www.empireonline.com/movies/jurassic-park/review/ |url-status=live}}</ref>