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Jurassic Park

What’s Aged the Worst?

The resurrection science and Wayne Knight’s broadly comic Dennis Nedry are the principal concerns, though neither breaks the movie.

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  • The amber-mosquito DNA premise no longer feels plausibly imminent, even though it became the public’s default explanation for reviving dinosaurs.
  • Dennis Nedry’s head bump, taunting delivery, and broad hacker stereotype are described as the one especially goofy element.
  • The lawyer is reconsidered as a reasonable board representative whose principal narrative sin is being a lawyer.
  • Nedry’s vague rival-company scheme is ridiculous but functions efficiently as the fuse for the plot, helped by the memorable Barbasol can.